Last Updated on October 8, 2009

NAMIC's 114th Annual Convention Wrap-up

NAMIC recently concluded it's 114th Annual Convention in Atlanta, Georgia, receiving great reviews on the educational content, opportunities for peer networking, and industry updates. If you missed it, you can see some of the highlights below, or link to the full Agenda to the left.

Also, we encourage you to take a few minutes to browse through our Virtual Exhibit Show, and visit the many vendors that were in attendance in Atlanta.

Convention Highlights

“Where the Industry Comes Together”
NAMIC’s 114th Annual Convention
Atlanta, Georgia

The Convention Experience
Convention is a BIG event: general sessions with well-known speakers, an exhibit show with more than 100 booths and a grand prize drawing, an agenda chock-full of concurrent sessions and networking opportunities, headliner entertainment at the closing banquet…and that’s just what’s scheduled on the agenda. Add in networking time, reinsurance meetings, sightseeing, and it is like no other event hosted by NAMIC all year long.

Average attendance at NAMIC’s convention exceeds 1,700, including more than 1,100 senior executives from nearly 300 different companies. It is NAMIC’s largest gathering of member-company representatives from various size companies illustrating the very diverse membership.

Monday Featured Speaker

Bob Woodward – Legendary Political Investigative Journalist
With more #1 best-sellers than any other non-fiction author, Bob Woodward has a reputation for uncovering Washington’s untold truths.Woodward has won every journalism prize imaginable, including the Pulitzer for his report on the Watergate scandal. Assistant managing editor of The Washington Post, he earned a second Pulitzer as lead reporter for the team that reported on the aftermath of September 11th. Woodward's latest book is titled The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008.

Wednesday Featured Speakers

Dana Perino versus Donna Brazile - Political Point/Counterpoint Duo
Former White House Press Secretary and FOX Analyst, Dana Perino and CNN political analyst and former Presidential Campaign Manager, Donna Brazile discuss the current state of politics, the media, and the messages and policies coming out of the Obama Administration and the Congress.

Banquet Entertainment

Come to Atlanta and see a Country Music legend! Vince Gill, winner of 18 CMA awards, and 19 Grammys, will be the highlight of Wednesday evening’s closing banquet. Gill was elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2007.