SAVE THE DATE! October 9 - 11, 2012 I Earle Brown Heritage Center | Brooklyn Center, Minnesota
Pre-Conference Workshop October 9
Annual Conference October 10 - 11
JUST TO BE CLEAR:
The conference is being held at Earle Brown Heritage Center, however, the hotel that attendees will be staying in is the Embassy Suites just right next door. There is an enclosed walkway that connects the hotel to the conference center.
Wireless access is available…so when you’re attending the conference,
you don’t have to be fully away from your office. Access your e-mail and
up-to-date conference handouts and information when you’re at the conference.
Please take a minute to review and download the "Call for Proposal" and return your submission by Monday, June 4, 2012. Presenters will be notified of the status of their proposal by Monday, July 23, 2012.
Whether your budget is tight or your team's resources are slim, you need help convincing your manager that your attendance at Navigating Payments is absolutely worth it. That's why we've written a letter that you can personalize to match your unique circumstances and hand directly to your boss for approval.
Simply download the "Justify Your Trip" Word document below, edit as you see fit, and submit to your manager. Then, watch with amazement when your boss says, "Yes, you can absolutely attend Navigating Payments." But be prepared: after reading all the reasons to attend UMACHA's 2012 Navigating Payments Conference, your manager might want to attend as well!
Paul Douglas (aka Douglas Paul Kruhoeffer) is a nationally respected meteorologist with 28 years of broadcast television and 32 years of radio experience. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Meteorology from Pennsylvania State University in 1980.
From 1983 to 1994, Douglas was employed by KARE-TV in Minneapolis. While there, he began a daily weather column in the Star Tribune newspaper. He wrote Prairie Skies: The Minnesota Weather Book and taught a broadcast meteorology class at Saint Cloud State University in 1992-93.
From 1994 to 1997, Douglas was employed by WBBM-TV in Chicago, where he anchored the weather and contributed special reports on such topics as global warming and tornado research. While there, he appeared on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather as a weather consultant. Douglas was awarded an Associated Press Award for a 10-part series on nuclear energy he produced in the wake of the Three Mile Island accident in 1979.
In 1989, Douglas founded a software venture called EarthWatch Communications. Hundreds of television stations in the United States and 20 other countries licensed EarthWatch’s 3-Dweather graphics technology. In addition to applications for television, Steven Spielberg employed the special 3-D effects in the movies "Jurassic Park" and "Twister."
Focusing on new media and almost limitless Internet opportunities, Douglas is currently director of meteorology for La Crosse Technology, producing daily weather video reports for their website. As founder and CEO of Broadcast Weather, Douglas and a team of ten on-air meteorologists are producing and disseminating daily weather reports for websites, cable channels and TV broadcasters looking to cut costs without sacrificing quality. Broadcast Weather is also the sole content provider of a new national weather channel called WeatherNation TV, which was the first national channel to launch on Facebook.
He is also Founder of Singular Logic LLC, a separate technology and patent-holding company attempting to reinvent advertising by allowing consumers to choose the categories of ads they have to watch on their PCs, TV sets and cable systems. In 2009, Douglas co-founded a new company, Smart Energy LLC, focusing on high-resolution weather forecasts and visualization systems for wind farms, utilities and energy traders across North America.
2012 SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Rich Oliver
Rich Oliver, now retired, was formerly the Executive Vice President and director of the Retail Payments Risk Forum at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and was with the Bank since 1973. In this role, he worked in collaboration with industry participants, regulators and law enforcement to identify, understand and mitigate emerging risks in retail electronic payments systems. He was also responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships with industry executives and organizations involved in the retail payments arena specifically with regard to retail payments risk issues. From 1998 to 2009, he served as retail payments product manager for the Federal Reserve System, where he was responsible for managing the Fed's check and ACH businesses nationwide.
Earlier in his career, Rich served as Planning Analyst, Administrator of the Automated Clearing House, Chairman of the Federal Reserve's Electronic Payments Implementation Task Force, Manager and Officer in charge of software development, Vice President in charge of automation services, the Federal Reserve System’s Product Manager for Electronic Payments Services, Officer in charge of business development and check software and Staff Director for the Federal Reserve System’s Policy Committee for Financial Services, where he was responsible for coordinating integrated financial management, project management and strategic planning for all the Federal Reserve’s payments services nationwide.
Rich holds a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Nevada, an M.S. in information and computer science from Georgia Tech and an M.B.A. in management from Georgia State University. He has also completed executive development programs at Harvard University and the University of Tennessee.
In an effort to reduce waste and decrease the use of paper products at the meeting, there will be no paper copies of session presentations or handouts at the event.
One week before the start of the conference attendees will be provided a web link to the handouts available at that time. We hope you will take a minute to review the handouts and print any you would like to review. Notebooks will be provided at the event for taking notes. The handouts will be available electronically for 6 months after the conference.
Embassy Suites Minneapolis - North
6300 Earle Brown Drive
Minneapolis, MN 55430
Phone: 1 (763) 560-2700
Room rates are $119 per night (plus tax), single or double. Mention the UMACHA Comference for this special rate. Reservations may also be made online by clicking here and entering the group code UMACHA. From the homepage, go to the "Accomodations" section, then "Check Room Availability" on the right side, and enter UMACHA in the "group code" box under "Special Accounts and Rates."
27th Annual Electronic Payments Conference October 10 -11, 2012 I Earle Brown Heritage Center| Brooklyn Center, Minnesota October 9, 2012 I Pre-conference Workshop | Earle Brown Heritage Center
Brooklyn Center, Minnesota
