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**MEETING OF THE MINDS 2018 TICKETS ON SALE NOW!** **Eventbrite password: 2018sdmotm** **7th Annual Meeting of The Minds 2018 Collaboration - More Minds Are Better Than One** Join us in sunny San Diego California for the event of the year March 1, 2 and 3, 2018. We have two pre-conference this year, optional purchase, covering technical and business development, followed by two full days of mind-expanding sessions from our members and insights and highlights from our Affiliates. Preconferences _(optional purchase)_ Thursday March 1, 9:30 am to 4:30 pm Pacific Time 1. **SQL Beyond the Basics features 90 Minds member Steve Iwanowski**, Partner NextStep Technology Advisors. Starting with a SQL installation and setup, well dive-in to learn how to access data, use SQL Management Studio, create queries, backups, best practices and more! Steve is a frequent contributor to 90 Minds Socialcast and his easy-going style will have you humming along in SQL in no time! 2. **Recurring Revenue The Elegant Transition features Geoff Ashley** VP Partner Strategy & Programs for Acumatica. Geoff is a known thought leader in the ERP industry and frequent consultant to ERP Publishers. This preconference leads you through the steps to recurring revenue while protecting your cash flow! Learn how selling has changed, how to educate your staff, and create the business you'll need to reach the cloud and go vertical. This builds upon the value pricing proposition taking a practical approach in a how-to fashion. A must for business owners and managers! _(Sponsored by Acumatica)_ The Meeting & Greet launches the regular conference at 5:30 pm Thursday, March 1, 2018. Sessions are 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Pacific time Friday and Saturday. Friday's lavish dinner is an evening at the RH Fleet Science Center, including access to the hands-on exhibits. Saturday's scrumptious dinner is on the San Diego bay and is rumored to conclude by bringing out the singer in all of us. Sessions topics include, Sage Payroll 2.0, Dashing Analytics in Acumatica, Job Cost in the Framework, Websites - Getting Rated, Alerts & Workflows, Power BI Data Visualization, CRM Dreams vs. Reality, Top 10 SQL Tips for Sage 100 Premium, Multi-Bin Best Practices, Sage 100 v. 2018 Issues and Resolutions, Code Strokes of Genius Breath Taking Mods, and much more! Keep in mind, early-bird pricing ends December 25, 2017. Discounted hotel rooms available until sold out! **Edit - link has been updated** https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meeting-of-the-minds-2018-tickets-39964288262?discount=2018sdmotm

Post the MOTM Eventbrite passsword here please!

It is already posted. Look under ""On Sale Now"" it's the second sentence of this post.

How do I book a discounted hotel room. I dont see a link.

@DougHiggs go to the Eventbrite and at the very bottom is the hotel section and a link to make reservations

Got it. Thanks @MelissaSecody

Question about preconf session on recurring revenue: will it be relevant to 1-2 person companies or is it focused on larger firms with employee sales staff?

@PhilMcIntosh it's relevant to firms small, medium, and large, including 1-2 person size.

YEAH....so looking forward to booking this trip....

@LourdesSobrino - Still in Dallas?

Got back Nov 5th... blessed to have power, internet and cable up at home!!!!

The Early Registration discount ends 12/25/2017. The price increase $300 after 12/25 and if you wait until after February 2, it goes up again. Please register early.

Is the Pre-Conference SQL a hands-on or listen-and-learn session? (I'm hoping to not need more than a tablet with me).

We had considered hands-on but determined that we didn't have enough time for all the material and installs too. It will be listen and learn style.

Reminder and thanks to @BrettPensinger from prompting it - any **employee** of a **member firm** is allowed to purchase tickets and attend Meeting of The Minds even if they are not a member in Socialcast. We are pretty confident that Sage will not have a Summit this year and no one quite knows what a Summit Tour will be or where/when they'll show up. MOTM may be the only event with the variety of sessions and topics our members need. Please let your co-workers and managers know, this is **the** event for their education budget. (And we have a lot fun too!)

OK, the booking screen is confusing me. It gives options of the two pre-conference sessions, and a third option for dinner only on Fri / Sat... but nothing specifically for the main sessions. If I book one of the pre-conference options does that include the main sessions? (And I assume the dinner option would have to be added on top of that if I wanted to attend those as well)?

We did an update from the first post on Nov. 17, the link above is current. Please try it again, and under the green Tickets button you should see early discount, pre-conference and guest tickets. The password is built into the link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meeting-of-the-minds-2018-tickets-39964288262?discount=2018sdmotm

Thanks! That did it. (I had opened the link from the announcement email, which was missing the main event ticket).

Just a heads up that I found out about after booking the hotel. Since this is a group event, the hotel will charge you $212.99 now. If you cancel, you must do so at least 1 week in advance or you will get charged the full amount.

And a second heads up. I needed to reserve 2 hotel rooms, however the reservation link within the event invite had the room quantity grayed out so I had to do it via telephone.

All just checked the hotel reservation site and be aware that on the first page you only see February. Once you choose the first date you need to scroll to the month of March for the final date. There are plenty of rooms but don't wait to long.

Is there a group rate/price if we have multiple members of our company attend the conference? (Especially since we missed the early bird discount)

We have confirmation that our keynote will include: Jennifer Warawa, Executive Vice President - Partners, Accountants & Alliances, Sage Matt Muldoon, VP, Product Management, Sage

Gotta like that! Nice work Moira et al.

Update - Matt Muldoon's trip to the US was cancelled, we may have Mike Ritchie instead, waiting on confirm.

Mike Ritchie, confirmed.