San Diego, CA (November 9, 2007) – The Large Show Roundtable – an exclusive meeting of top industry professionals responsible for many of the nation’s largest exhibitions  – will convene in San Diego for the first time ever January  23-24, 2008.  The event is being sponsored by the San Diego Convention Center Corporation with hotel accommodations hosted by the San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina.

“I am very excited that the first West Coast Large Show Roundtable will be in San Diego and the Platinum Sponsor is the San Diego Convention Center,” said Sam Lippman, producer of the Large Show Roundtable and the Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum (ECEF). “My attendees – the executives that run the largest shows in the United States – are looking forward to experiencing the incomparable hotel and convention center package right on the waterfront that San Diego offers, especially in January!”

The two-day event will begin with a welcoming dinner on Wednesday, January 23 followed by a meeting from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, January 24 at the Convention Center. Topics addressed during these meetings will be at the discretion of the participants and will include strategic methods for tackling the challenges of producing and marketing mega-shows.  Held semi-annually, the invitation only forum is tailored specifically to show producers who utilize 140,000 net square feet of space or more in their exhibitions. Ten forums have been held to date, involving more than half of the Tradeshow 200, the managers of the nation’s top 200 trade shows. Additionally, a limited number of vendors are included as sponsors of the meeting, which is positioned as an industry networking event.

“We are extremely pleased to have this unique and wonderful opportunity to welcome the Large Show Roundtable and its elite group of exhibition industry veterans to our beautiful destination and to our award-winning convention center,” said San Diego Convention Center Corporation President and CEO Carol Wallace. “The Large Show Roundtable is what the convention and tradeshow industry is all about – business professionals meeting face to face to exchange ideas and share their latest products, services and innovations.”

The San Diego Convention Center Corporation is a public benefit corporation created by the City of San Diego. The Corporation is exclusively responsible for marketing, managing and operating the Convention Center. In its 18-year history, the Center has generated nearly $13 billion in economic impact, over $270 million in tax revenues and continues to serve as San Diego’s premier gathering place.

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