SMTC's Culinary Arts students will provide an excellent buffet lunch which is included in the conference price. This will also be a great time to network with other access producers and managers and view vendor exhibits

Following lunch, we'll return to the auditorium to hear our keynote speaker Dirk Koning, Executive Director of the Community Media Center of Grand Rapids, MI.  Dirk, who has guided GRCMC from a $50,000 a year public access cable television station to a $2 million per year operation including two television stations, a radio station, a computer center, civic network, media archive center and research institute, lectures extensively around the world on community media issues, serves on several national boards and edits Community Media Review magazine.  In his keynote address, he will look back at the roots of community media in the early 70's and share his vision for community media of the future.