BusCon 2018 Call for Papers Deadline 3/16

Topics can be related to delivering superior customer service, employee training & retention, solving operational challenges and ideas for cost-cutting, technology and data best practice, revenue generation, and business-building.

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March 12, 2018

BusCon 2018 Call for Papers Deadline 3/16

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METRO Magazine extended the call for papers deadline for its 2018 BusCon event, which returns to the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis Oct. 1 to 3. The new deadline is Friday, March 16.

If you consider yourself to be an expert in a particular topic that addresses the spirit of the conference and would like to share your wisdom with this group by presenting at the event, we invite you to submit a proposal for consideration. Topics can be related to delivering superior customer service, employee training & retention, solving operational challenges and ideas for cost-cutting, technology and data best practices, revenue generation, and business-building.

Proposals should be submitted in the body of an email to Amy Lanphear, Conference Manager, at amy.lanphear@bobit.com.

The deadline to submit your proposal is March 16, 2018.

Your proposal should include:

Title of suggested presentation
Three sentence summary of an unbiased session idea
Presenter(s) name, title and organization
Presenter(s) contact information

Once you submit a session idea, you will receive an email confirming its receipt. When the schedule has been finalized, we will let you know if you have been chosen and send you any additional details at that time.

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