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Continental Breakfast - Sapphire Foyer

General Session - Sapphire Ballroom 2/3

Industry Disruptors: Friend or Foe

Leslie Appleton Young/Panel, CAR® Senior Vice President and Chief Economist

In this session, C.A.R.’s Chief Economist Leslie Appleton-Young will have a conversation with representatives from 3 firms that embody what we think of as disruptors: firms that change the traditional way an industry operates. Redfin (salaried agents), Purple Bricks (flat fee) and eXp Realty (agent-owned cloud-based brokerage) are three companies that are doing things differently in the real estate brokerage space. What do they see that the traditional models don’t? How do they see their potential for growth? What agents are most successful in their model? What can we learn from them? Let’s find out. 
 

3 Breakout Sessions (Choose a Session)

Session I - Sapphire Ballroom 1

Redefining Member Engagement and Experiences

Nobu Hata, NAR® Director of Member Engagement

Connecting association offerings to what your members really want and need is key to engagement online and actionable experiences offline for you and them. Learn what your members really mean when they tell you what they want, how to deliver what they need in social media and other messaging channels to earn mindshare and how to effectively engage with them once there.
 

Session II - Emerald Cove

Managing the Politics of Your Association: Essential Elements of Politically Savvy Leadership

Jeff Wilcox, President & CEO, Third Sector Company, LLC

How positions of power choose to manage the political situations that arise within their organization can make the difference between success or failure in any leadership career.  In this fast-paced overview, participants will discuss the attributes of the politically-savvy leader, how political situations develop within organizations, and the three most common types of political behavior. Participants will be given two tools to use as a resource in helping to create a positive political climate in their organizations and advance their careers as politically-astute leaders.
 

Session III - Two Harbors A

Using NAR’s NEW Advocacy Everywhere Call- for-Action Platform

Melissa Horn, NAR® Online Advocacy Manager

What’s the Legislative Issue? Why do REALTORS® Care? When is the vote? Who do we need to mobilize? And, most importantly, HOW are we going to get them to click, call and post to take action on our time-sensitive advocacy campaign?! Deep breaths! Archive serenity by reducing your Association advocacy stress level by learning about NAR’s NEW Advocacy Everywhere call-for-action platform to quickly engage your members on legislative campaigns through email, phone calls, social media and more! To showcase these new tools, this session will review a snapshot campaign on what you could do to drive REALTOR® actions on a short-term rental call-for-action campaign.
 

3 Breakout Sessions (Choose a Session)
Session I - Sapphire Ballroom 1

FBI Tells About Cybersecurity: How it's Hitting the Real Estate Industry and What You Can Do About It

Michael Sohn, Supervisory Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Phishing, ransomware, malware, social engineering – oh my! The process of keeping up with new technologies, security trends and threat intelligence is an overwhelming task. But it's necessary in order to protect your association’s information and other assets from cyberthreats that can take many forms. This session will give you a unique look at the effects of cyber and the impact it can have on your association. Understand how hackers rely on social engineering – the non-technical intrusion that relies heavily on human interaction and tricking people - to break normal security procedures and what you can do to prevent and mitigate attacks. Learn how to protect yourself and your association in this highly informative and eye-opening session.
 

Session II - Two Harbors A

But wait, there's more... zipForm®, Education & Legal Tools

Laura Miraglio, REBS Education Services Director

Julie Jaross, REBS REALTOR® Training and Business Services Manager

It’s about more than products and services for members. In this session, you’ll learn how to create value at your Association with zipForm® Plus training opportunities and tools; the variety of learning programs offered by C.A.R. Education that help your members grow while you earn non-dues revenue; and how C.A.R.’s Legal Tools will keep you and your members out of trouble and in-the-know, offering a wide variety of legal subjects in an engaging format. Don’t miss this opportunity to be your members’ primary resource for everything they need to gain a competitive edge.
 

Session III - Emerald Cove

State Legislative and Political Update: Key State Legislative Issues & Statewide Candidate Campaigns Affecting REALTORS® and Housing in 2018

Alex Creel, CAR® Senior Vice President and Chief Lobbyist

Laiza Negrete, CAR® PAC Director

Politics are never dull in California.  2018 and 2019 will be no exception. In the upcoming legislative session, the State Legislature will consider numerous bills that will impact our industry.  Meanwhile, votes will go to the polls this November and cast their ballots for statewide office and on a several ballot initiatives.  Creel and Negrette will discuss these issues and the impact they will have on local association advocacy programs.
 

IMPAC Luncheon - Sapphire Ballroom 2/3

Speaker: Michael Ramirez, America’s Premier Editorial Cartoonist, Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner

(Sponsored by IMPAC)
 

3 Breakout Sessions (Choose a Session)

Session I - Emerald Cove

Reconnecting with Your Purpose and Choosing to Lead in a Changing World

Sara Thompson, Ph.D., Executive Coach and Leadership Consultant

Leading change in today’s society is challenging. This interactive session will help you as a leader understand why change is hard for organization’s members and constituents.  You will reflect on your purpose and discuss any limiting beliefs that are getting in the way of you being at your best.  Simultaneously, you will hone your listening skills by learning perception checking -- one of the most valuable tools for a leader and one that is most often overlooked.  Leave the session with renewed insights into your purpose and a new skill to use when connecting with your members.
 

Session II - Sapphire Ballroom 1

MLS CEO Panel: Making Sense of it All

Art Carter, CEO, CRMLS

Annie Ives, CEO, CLAW

Rebecca Jensen, CEO, MRED (Midwest Real Estate Data, LLC)

Moderator: Denee Evans, CEO, Council of MLS

Curious how the future of the MLS will affect your AOR and members? Want behind the scenes information from top MLS minds?  Need help making sense of it all? This high-powered panel of top MLS CEO’s will challenge each other as well as your conventional thinking of what an MLS is and what it should be. This promises to be a no-holds-barred session you won’t want to miss!     
 

Session III - Two Harbors A

Californians for Housing: CAR®’s New Legal Foundation

June Barlow, CAR® Senior Vice President and General Counsel

Californians for Homeownership, C.A.R.’s newly formed nonprofit legal foundation, will proactively bring lawsuits to help the affordable housing supply and ownership issues through the courts. Learn how this foundation can augment local governmental advocacy and pro-supply housing priorities. The foundation has hired an in-house litigator to champion the cause and hold local cities, counties and other entities accountable when they get in the way of, instead of supporting, housing that is in such dire need. This interactive session will include many opportunities to give input and share local issues that may be ripe for this approach.
 

2 Breakout Sessions (Choose a Session)

Session I - Sapphire Ballroom 1

Hot Employment Law Issues

Richard J. Simmons, Partner in the law firm of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

In the past 12 months, the California Supreme Court has issued landmark decisions on overtime, bonuses, independent contractors, the Labor Code, the day-of-rest rules and other topics while placing more wage-hour cases in the que for decision. The California Legislature has passed new rules relating to the use of prior salaries, pay equity and the ability to seek information about criminal convictions, even as the state and federal governments battle over an employer’s role in immigration law enforcement. In California we wake up each morning knowing everything could change. This one-hour session will survey the new terrain resulting from developments on the judicial, regulatory and legislative fronts.
 

Session II - Emerald Cove

RPR® Resources: Game Changing Tools for GADs and AEs*

Karen France, Senior Vice President, REALTORS® Property Resource, LLC

*working session - bring your laptop/tablet

Up your game and learn how RPR’s Dashboard equips AEs and GADS with Advocacy tools to be The Voice for Real Estate® and meet Core Standards requirements through key features including Market Data and Economic Area Reports. We’ll show you the unique ways AEs and GADs are using this exclusive member benefit to get a seat at the table for economic development activities in their communities. Learn how to leverage the RPR tools designed just for AEs and GADs and act as the trusted source of real estate information in your marketplace.
 

Afternoon Break - Sapphire Foyer

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2 Breakout Sessions (Choose a Session)

Session I - Sapphire Ballroom 1

Reducing Legal Risks for Employment Law Decisions

Richard J. Simmons, Partner in the law firm of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

Trending cases and legislation reveal an anticipated uptick in class action lawsuits, wage-hour litigation, harassment claims, personnel policy challenges, discrimination and wrongful discharge cases. The plaintiff’s bar has increased its mass to prey upon unprepared and uninformed employers. This session will identify recurring areas of legal risks and exposure, challenges that employers face, and selected compliance strategies designed to mitigate and avoid risk.
 

Session II - Emerald Cove

Lessons in Leadership: From the Situation Room to the Board Room

Sean “Metro” Fellows, Senior Vice President, Operations & Public Affairs, National Security Technology Accelerator (NSTXL)

Major Sean Fellows has over 15 years of executive experience working in the Federal Government. Sean was even fortunate to be personally mentored by two former Presidents of the United States on leadership. From the halls of the Pentagon and across the Potomac River to the halls of the White House, he will share firsthand accounts of lessons in leadership.  In this conversation, Sean will not only share stories of success, but those of failure to help others learn from the examples set by some of our nation’s most pivotal leaders.

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Dinner at Leisure