Meeting/Event Information

Building Bridges to the Future

The SMPS Pacific Regional Conference (PRC) offers three days of professional growth and networking in an energizing format for professional marketers and business developers in the A/E/C industry across the Pacific Region. PRC is an engaging forum filled with learning sessions, dynamic keynote and endnote speakers, and a wealth of networking opportunities perfect for connecting with 250-350 owners, marketing, and business development professionals from Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Washington, and Oregon. Earn more than 10 Continuing Education Credits (CEUs) just by attending!

We have a Justification letter template available to you if you need help getting approval to attend this exciting event!

Registration

Conference registration is full! Please use the "Register Now" button to join our Waitlist, should spots become available. Please do consider joining us for our other PRC events:

• Wednesday Workshop
• Wednesday Welcome to PRC-Portland
• Thursday Night Celebration: Night at the Museum

For questions about registration, please refer to our Registration FAQs, or contact us via email to [email protected].

Accommodations

Please visit our Accommodations page for availability at the Hyatt Regency Portland at the Oregon Convention Center. Here are some additional hotel alternatives within walking distance of PRC Portland 2024: 

• Hotel Eastlund - Hotel in Portland Oregon | Hotel Eastlund
• Inn at the Convention Center - Inn at the Convention Center | Portland Convention Center Hotel (innatcc.com)
• Courtyard by Marriott Portland – Downtown/Convention Center - Portland Hotels | Courtyard by Marriott Portland/Downtown Convention Center
• DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Portland - DoubleTree Hotel Portland - Hotels in Portland Oregon (hilton.com)
• And actually a very reasonable rate if you don’t mind some of the options and a few more blocks is the Kex Hotel that we are having our Wednesday night event at - KEX (kexhotels.com)

Opening Keynote Speakers

The Future of YOU! 

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Love: No Ego - Attain the pillars, principles, and strategies to live your best life

When it comes to having a thriving business, it’s important that the individuals, team members, and employees representing that business have an established foundation rooted in integrity, uncolored opportunity, and positive support and direction. Whether they recognize it or not, people crave for purpose. Despite challenges, companies and organizations should, to everyone’s benefit, want to make the environment a special and awesome place to be for everyone involved.

 “Love...No Ego (LNE) Heart-Led Engagement and Leadership” can help capture, create, and promote such an environment, an environment in which the human intuition and spirit is pushed into greatness. Greatness is a space where collaboration, creativity, and clarity naturally flows. Imagine a culture of individuals who are able to live and function from a conscious and well-respected space of diversity, equity, and inclusion, while having a self and community practice that promotes the awareness of, and then the diminishing of, biases, judgment, and fear. The result is optimal performance!

 “Love...No Ego (LNE) Heart-Led Engagement and Leadership” shares pillars (4) and principles (3) that promotes individual and community growth, long-term happiness and success, and resiliency. Let’s learn and implement the LNE pillars and principles, and live on the frequency of Miracles!

Wednesday Keynote Speaker: Freddy Jackson

Freddy is an inspirational and transformational speaker, mentor, personal trainer, educator, author, and founder of The Love No Ego Foundation, located in Charlottesville, Virginia. Freddy's  Love...No Ego philosophy serves as the foundation for pushing the human spirit into greatness. He helps clients to remove biases, fear, and judgement, while simultaneously igniting their intuition to produce monumental results! Approaching a decade of experience, Freddy has delivered powerful, engaging, and relevant presentations, mentored, consulted, and conducted workshops for individuals, teams, and organizations nationally and internationally. Freddy utilizes and demonstrates his pillars and  principles to enable participants to grow and perform better than their everyday pressures and gain optimal performance, personally as well as professionally. His approach improves their overall awareness and sustainability, promotes self and team development, helps them to notice the ego and where the limitations are, and gets committed to living a life of resiliency! Freddy currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with his wife of three years, Emily. He loves being a dedicated husband and bonus Dad to his step-son, Jaxson! 

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Staying relevant AND authentic: how to make the latest online marketing trends work for your company

Thursday Keynote Speaker: Marlynn Schotland

Author and food, wine, and travel blogger Marlynn Jayme Schotland will travel almost anywhere at a moment’s notice, will eat/try almost anything once, and embodies the LIVE LOUDLY philosophy every day. A first-generation Filipino-American, she enjoys sharing her passion for home cooking with fresh, simple ingredients, and share family favorite recipes and recipes inspired by her travels. She travels as often as possible around the world with her husband and their two children. Passionate about the wine industry, Marlynn also holds a WSET 2 Award with Distinction wine certification. Currently she is a member of the Society of American Travel Writers and the International Food, Wine, Travel Writers Association. Before launching Urban Bliss Life, Marlynn worked as a communications executive, including work as a public relations director. Her career started as a broadcast journalist after earning her Bachelor of Science in Mass Communications: Broadcast Journalism from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. Currently, Marlynn lives and works in the Portland, Oregon area with her husband, two children, and their lovable Lab Retriever.

Friday, March 15, 2024

PSM Show Presents: Just Show Up, Building the Life you Want with Discipline, a Live Podcast Event 

Manifesting change in our lives isn't as difficult as we often make it seem. In fact, Ryn says they have found that the most successful athletes in strongman, and the most successful professionals they have ever met, are those who simply show up and put in the time. There's no substitute for attempting, experimenting, and failing. In this interview, Ryn will share with the live audience and podcast listeners how to build discipline that lasts, not just motivation that gets them started. We need to stop making success seem like some large, pie-in-the-sky idea, and instead distill it down to its simplest element: 

Friday Keynote Speaker: Ryn (Kathryn) Bennett, CPSM

Ryn (Kathryn) Bennett, MPH, is a non-binary 40 under 40 award winner, world-record-holding strongman competitor, celebrated TEDx and Ignite speaker, and advocate for developing mental toughness. They are the author of Productive Pain, a personal memoir and inspirational guide. With a background in social and behavioral health and process improvement, Ryn's professional career spans industries including tech, healthcare, and engineering/construction. Ryn used the mental fortitude and tenacity they learned in the gym to advance their career and overcome burnout, working from an entry-level process improvement role into a director position. Ryn is a Certified Professional Services Marketer and is nationally ranked as a strongman competitor. They are passionate about helping others develop the mental tenacity and internal strength they need to succeed, no matter the adversity they're facing.

Live Podcast brought to you by the PSM Show with hosts Kathryn Ness and Diedra Booth.

Fellows Forum

Bridging the Gap Between Booms and Busts

 Join three resilient fellows who have endured industry volatility, personal and professional maelstroms, and guided their firms through economic and organizational challenges. We will discuss strategies used during tough economic times, the highs and lows of leading and being a team through turbulence, and share candid stories of career failures and resets. Everything from staying on trend through multiple decades, enduring lay-offs, maintaining mental health and self-care practices for longevity will be discussed in this highly interactive fireside chat. There will be ample time for attendees to ask burning questions about the strategies and tactics they used to guide themselves and their firms through technological changes, cultural shifts, and reorganizations.

For detailed bios and more information about our Fellows, visit our Future of You information page.