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                              | T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
                                Expands Agenda and Adds 2nd Keynote Speaker for
                                This Month's Conference in Las Vegas 
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                                          | We
                                            published
                                            an in-depth T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
                                            West preview
                                            interview with
                                            conference Co-Founders Rick
                                            Schwartz and Howard Neu
                                            last week but since then, Schwartz,
                                            who assembles the program, has added
                                            some new elements, including a
                                            second keynote speaker. With the
                                            show at the Bellagio Hotel in
                                            Las Vegas just two weeks
                                            away, Schwartz announced today that
                                            the former President and CEO of Vegas.com,
                                            Howard Lefkowitz, would join
                                            previously announced keynoter, Dwayne
                                            Forrester, the Senior Product
                                            Manager at Bing.com,
                                            at the top of the marquee, With
                                            respect to Lefkowitz, Schwartz said,
                                            "Besides being brilliant,
                                            Howard is quite entertaining and he
                                            will tell you things you may not
                                            want to hear. It won't be
                                            politically correct either. So come
                                            with an open mind and leave with a
                                            truck full of ideas!"
                                            
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 Howard
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 | Schwartz,
                                                  who has historically worked on
                                                  the T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
                                                  agenda almost up to
                                                  opening day in an effort to
                                                  present the most currently
                                                  relevant program possible,
                                                  added "we still have two additional sessions that will be
                                                  announced next week that just
                                                  may shake things up even
                                                  further. We don't shy away
                                                  from the big issues, we tackle
                                                  them head on and the chips
                                                  will fall where they may." Schwartz
                                                  said he expected to make his
                                                  final decisions on the program
                                                  by this time next week. The
                                                  event runs from Wednesday
                                                  evening, May 28,
                                                  through 
                                                  
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                                                | Saturday
                                                  morning, May 31, but
                                                  many will come early for the
                                                  pre-show Cabana Networking that
                                                  starts May 27 (the day
                                                  after Memorial Day).
                                                  Though he is still putting the
                                                  finishing touches on the
                                                  agenda Schwartz said, "the focus of the show is taking a domain and making a business out
                                                  of it. We will have at least three
                                                  sessions just focusing on
                                                  that." There
                                                  was another  intriguing bit of
                                                  information
                                                  in an email Schwartz sent to
                                                  everyone on the T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
                                                  mailing list this morning. He
                                                  wrote, "this will be our last show in Las Vegas as we prepare to move
                                                  operations to the west coast
                                                  (more about that some other
                                                  time). That is news to me and
                                                  since it seems unlikely that
                                                  longtime South Florida
                                                  residents Schwartz and Neu
                                                  will personally be moving
                                                  west, it will be interesting
                                                  to see what this new location
                                                  for "operations"
                                                  entails.
                                                  
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                              | (Posted
                              May 12, 2014)  
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