Welcome

In keeping with recent tradition, ACI-NA will again provide live coverage of the 20th Annual Conference and Exhibition. This newsletter web site, Centerlines on the Scene, will be updated throughout the day – Saturday through Wednesday. A daily e-blast will be sent to the membership with a link to that day’s edition.

We are expanding the coverage this year with two new venues. In addition to posting stories covering the event on this website, ACI-NA will also be posting items to a mobile website for easy viewing on a Blackberry, iPhone or Android smartphone. We will notify attendees using the Twitter account (@airportscouncil #aci20) with hyperlinks to the new postings.

• Details to access the ACI-NA mobile site.

The second new venue will be video. This year ACI-NA will be producing daily 2-minute newscasts summarizing each day’s events. These newscasts will be posted on the conference website each evening. And, of course, we will be tweeting when the newscasts are posted along with a link.

Centerlines on the Scene via Social Media

In addition, to Twitter, ACI-NA will be using our blogs, Centerlines Blog and Greg’s Blog, throughout the event. The tweets and blogs will also be available on Facebook. Look for conference updates and reminders on Twitter as well as commentary on the pre-conference seminars and our educational sessions. Please join in on the conversation – send our Twitter followers a tweet!

foursquare

ACI-NA is now on foursquare. Be sure to friend us and check in at the ACI-NA 20th Annual Conference & Exhibition using foursquare. With foursquare, members can check out a colleague’s location or even stay up to date on the various events and sessions going on in the San Diego Convention Center throughout the conference.
 

Take the ACI-NA Conference SCVNGR Challenge!

Try something new at the ACI-NA Conference by taking our SCVNGR challenge! If you have an iPhone or Android smartphoen, you can follow the fun-filled “ACI-NA Flight Path,” which explores the conference and includes a number of fun challenges. The creative folks at San Diego International Airport organized this venture for us. Complete the Flight Path, and win a prize! Download the free application from your device or online and get ready for an adventure!

Speakers

Monday

10:15  a.m. Welcome & Keynote Address, Room 6AB

Keynote: Kimberly Dozier

Translating The Impact of Global Events
The ever-changing political, economic and international climate makes it difficult to determine in what direction the world is headed. With high-level sources from Washington to Langley to Kabul, Kimberly Dozier, Associated Press correspondent and author of Breathing the Fire: Fighting to Report and Get Back to the Fight, can provide an insider’s perspective on how a key part of that uncertainty -- the continuing war against global terrorism and extremism -- affects the global transportation industry. Drawing on her on personal experiences, Dozier also offers a unique insight about how to develop that key survival tool for uncertain times: resilience.

Tuesday

9 a.m. General Session II:Room 6AB

Garry Ridge,  CEO of WD-40 Company

• Full Schedule

Hotels

San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina

333 West Harbor Drive
San Diego, California 92101
1-800-266-9432

Residence Inn San Diego Downtown/Gaslamp Quarter

356 6th Avenue
San Diego, California 92101
619-487-1200 or toll free 800-228-9290

Did You Know . . .

San Diego in history:

San Diego, the oldest continuously lived in city on the West Coast, was first discovered by Europeans on Sept. 28, 1542, when Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo set anchor in San Diego Bay while searching for a northwest passage to the Atlantic. Sixty years late, explorer Sebastián Viscaíno arrived and renamed the area "San Diego de Alcalá," after the patron saint of his flagship.

Aviation in San Diego:

In 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh electrified the world when he made San Diego the starting point for the first-ever solo, nonstop transatlantic flight. In his Spirit of St. Louis, Lindbergh took off from Dutch Flat bound for St. Louis, New York and Paris, France. Lindbergh later agreed to lend his name to a proposed new airport: San Diego Municipal Airport - Lindbergh Field.