The slow-down from the beginning of the term can mean only one thing – spring show season is here. It’s not as good as spring itself arriving, but it does give us some of the same warm feelings; we’re excited to be back in person to see you at 3 more shows this spring!

We’ve already had a successful journey to upstate New York where I joined the New York State Auxiliary Services Association conference at the beginning of January where we had the opportunity to network with some of the greatest Auxiliary Services minds in the industry. There were a lot of fantastic conversations about how CampusCloud and SmartLockers can integrate into current service models as well as lead the transition to new and exciting service models as the campus store, campus retail, and Auxiliary Services, as a whole, continue to evolve.

Next up you can see us (Lara Konick in particular) at the ICBA conference in Las Vegas; we’ll be in the Specialty Zone at Table #1 on the 7^th and 8^th of February. We know that the ICBA team keeps you busy during the conference with a packed schedule of learning sessions and business meetings, but we’d love to see you stop by – don’t be a sucker!! Also, we’ll have some super awesome suckers to give you too. Even if you just have a second to stop by after a coffee break, between meetings, we can hook you up with a sucker, some tchotchkes, and great reference material to review the benefits of CampusCloud and SmartLockers.

After ICBA, we'll see you at CAMEX 100 in New Orleans where you’ll be able to find us in in a number of different areas of the show; and you’ll get to see me in addition to Lara for this one! First up we’ll be part of the Campus Retail Systems discussion during the Campus Store Dialogues session on March 6; we’ll have a short presentation about the benefits of CampusCloud and SmartLockers after which we’ll stick around to participate in a roundtable. During the trade show on March 7 & 8, you will find us in Booth 372 where we’ll have CampusCloud and SmartLockers set up and can highlight the super sweet seamless integration between systems; BOPIL anybody?! (Buy Online Pick Up In Locker for the uninitiated). As always, we’ll have swag and some marketing materials to hand out in the booth, and new this year, SUCKERS!!!! (not calling you a sucker…or us suckers…but we’ll have lollipops). Lastly, on March 9 at 9:30am you can hear Lara moderate a panel discussion about the Keys to Successful System Migration with your peers Kim Madden and Steven Westenbroek…and probably snag some more lollipops too.

The last show we’ll be attending the spring is the NEBC trade show on March 16 & 17 at the Marriott Hartford Windsor Airport Hotel; more details to come as the show schedule is finalized. Join Lara and our traveling band of suckers along with 150 of your closest friends in Windsor, CT for the “speed dating” presentation and table-top trade show.