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August 2008 Chicago Conference - Business Focus

Posted June 12th, 2008 by madams

RESO/RETS Conference

Business Focus Agenda (tentative)

August 6th - 7th, 2008

430 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL

RESO/RETS Conference Registration

General Information

Breakfast

Breakfast will be provided on Thursday and Friday.

Lunch

Lunch will be provided all three days of the meetings.

Dinner

Attendees are responsible for their own dinner arrangements. Typically, attendees gather in the hotel and groups head out to try the various restaurants in the host city. Don’t be shy.

Accommodations

NAR negotiated a group discount rate for a block of hotel rooms. Attendees are responsible for the cost of the hotel room and any other costs.

Travel

Attendees are responsible for their own travel arrangements.

Reception

NAR will again host a Welcome Reception on Wednesday night for the attendees to the RESO/RETS Conference. It is an excellent opportunity to meet new people in the community as well as put a face to the email name that you may be working with.

Day 1, Wednesday, August 6th

10:30 - 12:00

  • New to RETS - A session where people, especially MLS staff learn about the meeting and RETS in general from peers. The second half of the session will be a working session to improve the introductory session.

12:00 - 1:00 - Lunch

1:00 - 2:30

  • Implementation Forum - An open discussion where MLS operators, Associations, Brokers and Vendors talk about business processes, procedures, and practices in implementing and supporting RETS.

2:30 - 2:45 - Break

2:45 - 4:15

  • RETS Solutions - A session to provide attendees with presentations and information on interesting and current RETS solutions in production now. Invited Speakers TBD.

4:15 - 5:15 - All

  • RETS Exhibition/Developers are given the opportunity to provide a short demonstration and talk about applications related to RETS. Unlike previous years, this session will be the elimination round to narrow the field to two or three interesting applications that will be presented to the entire RETS-WG meeting for final voting for the most interesting application.

5:30 - 7:00 - Wecome Reception

  • An open Reception will be hosted by NAR for all attendees of the RESO/RETS Conference.


Day 2, Thursday, August 7th

8:00 - 8:30 - Breakfast 

8:30 - 8:45 - All

  • Opening Remarks, Agenda Review, and Board of Directors' Report

8:45 - 10:15 -All

  • Keynote Speaker(s) - Invited speakers will be addressing the division of responsibilities between RESO and NAR and will be discussing the recent decision of the MLS Policy Group to make a RETS service a policy item for REALTOR® owned Multiple Listing Services.
  • Policy Q & A - An open question and answer session about the MLS Policy Committee change.
  • Report from Workgroups - The workgroup chairs will provide a short summary of the work that they have completed and the plan for work for this meeting and the coming trimester.
  • Intellectual Property Statement Work - A report on work to provide an intellectual property rights statement for RESO.

10:15 - 10:30 -Break

10:30 - 12:00

Business Track 1

  • Certification Workgroup - Attendees will participate in defining the RETS Certification process and receive an update from the Workgroup regarding the progress the group has made in supporting the June 2009 NAR MLS Policy change.

Business Track 2

  • RETS.ORG website - The re-engineered http://www.rets.org site will be discussed. Active participation is desired to provide feedback to the changes and what additional features would be useful.

12:00 - 1:00 - Lunch

1:00 - 2:30

  • RETS Perspectives - A session to provide attendees with different perspectives on current industry trends and needs. Audience participation will be encouraged.

2:30 - 2:45 - Break

2:45 - 4:00

  • Marketing Workgroup - An open forum to discuss ideas to promote RETS in the industry.

4:00 - 5:30 - All

  • Change proposal voting
  • Acceptance voting - Property Schema
  • Acceptance voting - RETS 1.7.1 document
  • Summaries and Day 2 Wrap-up
  • Next meeting announcement and December 2009 location.
  • Interesting Applications Presentation

5:30 - Adjourn