Class Act

Each year, ISSA continues its work to improve and expand the numerous educational opportunities it provides its members. This year’s list of speeches, workshops and seminars demonstrates that commitment to learning.

Key topics at ISSA/INTERCLEAN^® New Orleans 2004 include increasing profits, dealing with competition and improving leadership skills. Popular speakers at this year’s show include Dr. Al Bates, Bill McCleave, Doug Levin and Mike Jones. ISSA will also feature panel discussions with industry experts, and it is bringing back its popular Women’s Forum, which will feature author Sara Laschever.

For more information and to create a personalized schedule, go to ISSA’s Agenda Builder.

On November 2, 2004, Americans will vote to elect — or re-elect — the next president of the United States. Only a few days later, former President George H.W. Bush will address ISSA/INTERCLEAN^® 2004 attendees and offer his views on today’s economy and political environment.

In 1988, Bush was elected the 41st president of the United States, defeating Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. During his one term in office, Bush saw the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Persian Gulf War, the Lebanese hostage crisis and the Tiananmen Square massacre. On the domestic side, some very significant legislation was passed during Bush’s administration, including the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Clean Air Act. Despite much public support for his foreign policy, his popularity faded due to the shaky economy and Bush lost his 1992 re-election bid.

Born in Milton, Mass., in 1924, Bush enlisted in the military on his 18th birthday in 1942. By 1943, he became the youngest pilot in the Navy and flew 58 missions over the Pacific during World War II. In 1944, his plane was shot down while he was bombing an island off the coast of Japan.

After the war, Bush graduated from Yale University and moved to Texas, where he began a successful career in the oil industry. During the 1960s, Bush entered national politics, serving two terms in the House of Representatives. President Richard Nixon later appointed him Ambassador to the United Nations. Before becoming Ronald Reagan’s running mate in 1980, Bush also served as Chairman of the Republican National Committee, headed the U.S. Liaison Office in Beijing, China, and was director of the CIA.

Currently, Bush serves on the Board of Visitors of M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and is honorary chairman of the Points of Light Foundation. The former president has also written two books since leaving office: All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings, and A World Transformed, co-written with former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft.

1. Registration of individuals may only include a firm's full time employees.
   
   Penalties: Confiscation of badge(s), removal from the trade show floor, forfeiture of registration fees. The first violation may include at the sole discretion of ISSA staff and/or Board: $500 fine, suspension of membership and show participation of one year. The second violation will include $1,000 fine, suspension of membership and show participation for at least one year.
   
   
2. During official exhibiting hours all firms and individuals of those firms are not permitted to open a hospitality suite, schedule a meeting, a meal function, or any other event away from the trade show floor.
   
   Penalties: Confiscation of badge(s), removal from the trade show floor, forfeiture of registration fees. The first violation may include at the sole discretion of ISSA staff and/or Board: $500 fine, suspension of membership and show participation of one year. The second violation will include $1,000 fine, suspension of membership and show participation for at least one year.
   
   
3. Video or still photography of an exhibitor's booth is not allowed. Exceptions are the press, the official Show Photographer, or as approved by ISSA Show Management.
   
   
4. Product solicitation on the exhibition show floor is permitted only by representatives of exhibiting firms. The penalty may include forfeiture of fees and removal from the show floor as well as membership and show suspension of a maximum of one year at the sole discretion of ISSA management.
   
   
5. The minimum age for admittance to the show floor is 12 years.
   
   
6. The ISSA Convention is subject to acts of God, acts of war, terrorism, government regulation, disaster, fire, strikes, civil disorder, curtailment of transportation facilities preventing or unreasonably delaying attendees and guests from appearing at the ISSA Convention, or other similar cause beyond the control of ISSA making it inadvisable, illegal, or impossible to hold the ISSA Convention. ISSA reserves the right to cancel the Convention for any one or more of such reasons without penalty.

Registration Policies
Name Changes and Registration Cancellation/ Lost Badges

• Name changes on a "pre-registration" badge can be done on-site for a fee of $25. The original badge must be presented. All changes must be made no later than Wednesday, November 17.
  
  
• There will be a $40 fee for lost badges.

Registration Fees