Thursday, September 18, 2008

9:30 - 11:30

Opening Session

Featuring Keynote Speaker Stefan Swanepoel

Get an objective evaluation of the market with highlights of the key players and facts that will impact tomorrow.

11:30 - 1:30

Opening of the Tradeshow with lunch

An opportune time to network — that's what it is all about.

1:30 - 4:45

New NAR Course

Risk Reduction: International Business Factors Affecting Your Local Markets

•Tony Macaluso, CIPS Instructor

1:30 - 5:00

Instructors Development Workshop

IDW approved by the Real Estate Commission for all pre-licensing and CE instructors.

•Doug Devitre

1:30 - 3:00

Professional Development Sessions

Rental Management Asset of Liability — It's Up to You

•Bill Ramsey, CPM

Understand the Characteristics of Four Generations and How to Market to Each One

•Carolyn D'Agosta

3:15 - 4:45

Professional Development Sessions

Are You Using Technology to Its Full Potential or Still Trying to Keep Up

•Saul Klein

Updates from Hawaii's Real Estate Commission

•Real Estate Commissioners and Staff

5:00 - 6:00

A Pau Hana Get Together

Meet you again in the tradeshow!

Friday, September 19, 2008

8:30 - 9:00

Starting the Day on the Wave of Success

Continental breakfast in the tradeshow.

9:00 - 10:15

Power Session

Economic Update from Bank of Hawaii's Chief Economist Paul Brewbaker

10:30 - 12:00

Professional Development Sessions

Creating An International Business Plan

•Tony Macaluso, CIPS

Utilizing Social Media: The Power of Blogging

•Bob Stewart, Community Evangelist for ActiveRain, real estate's leading online community

Using Feng Shui to Help Avoid Obstacles

•Peter Lung

12:00 - 1:30

Meet in the Tradeshow for Lunch

1:30 - 2:30

Keeping on Top the Wave of Success

Take the Tyrannosaurus Out of Technology

•Doug Devitre

Stefan is widely recognized as the leading visionary on trends and has penned 13 Books, Whitepapers, and Reports including Real Estate Confronts Reality (1997), its sequel Real Estate Confronts the Future (2004), and of course the Swanepoel Trends Report (2008).

No one researches more about change and trends impacting the residential real estate industry than Stefan Swanepoel. He always provides a balanced and objective evaluation of the market, highlighting the key players and facts of tomorrow. He is knows to be one of the most accurate visionaries on real estate trends.

This will be an exceptional session you cannot afford to miss!

Tony will teach NAR’s “Risk Reduction: International Business Factors Affecting Your Local Markets.” He will also do a professional development session on building your international business. Tony is an instructor for NAR's Certified International Property Specialist course, and has taught internationally in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Asia with business contacts in these countries.

International real estate is the future, so start building your international business connection!

As a REALTOR® and a nationally recognized speaker and consultant, Saul has spent more than 15,000 hours in front of real estate professionals, consumers, association staffs and volunteers. Over the last 16 years, he has travelled over 1,000,000 air miles delivering a message on technology and its role in the future of the real estate industry.

Are you using technology to its full potentials or are you still trying to keep up? Discover the full potential of technology in today's real estate market!

After his standing room only session in 2006, Peter will be back to talk about another aspect on Feng Shui. He will tell you how to overcome obstacles.

In today's market, we can all welcome information on feng shui.

Rental Management: Liability or Asset – It's Your Choice.

This session is geared for brokers to be sure you understand your liabilities in rental management.

Bob is the Chief Evangelist for ActiveRain, which is real estate's leading online community. Bob will show you how to participate in this new medium of social networking with other real estate professionals and consumers. The future is here with real estate professionals who are already incorporating this new way of communicating and doing business.

Here's an opportunity to learn what to do and how to be a part of this new social network!

Doug is a REALTOR® and instructor who is on the leading edge of today's technology. He understands technology tools and how you can apply these tools into your business. Doug is on of the few Gen X trainers in the country who understands the demands of his generation and expectations of today's consumers.

He has a wealth of up-to-date and leading-edge information to share with you - you must be at the conference to hear what he has to say!

Today's market is more complex with the different generations you need to service. Carolyn will share the characteristics of the four different generations and how to market to each one.

Learn how to adapt to a changing market to survive!

The Chief Economist of Bank of Hawaii has provided his economic update for all of our Pacific Rim Conferences, and he will at this year's event for a snapshot of what's going on and what to expect.

You can always count on Paul to give you the very latest updates.