Boston Conference Registrations Surpass All Previous Records!
The Boston conference figures are in. Attendance this year shattered the record held by 2005 New York conference. Indeed, the total number of registrations greatly surpassed New York's 2,306 registrations. Of ICA's 4,357 members, 2,507 registrants attended the 5-day conference. ICA proved once again to be a very dedicated and active group: More than 50 percent of our membership came to Boston!
Regionally, the United States had the most registrants with 1,592, followed by Europe with 565. East Asian registrants totaled 84, non-U.S. Americas 37, Africa and Oceania 53, and West Asia 85. See the chart below for a breakdown by country.
Virtually, we had processed 88 registrations as we traveled to Boston. The total after conference is 119. Wiley Blackwell has provided metrics on the virtual conference website; ICA President Larry Gross reports on some of those statistics in his article this issue.
This year we continued using recyclable materials for the conference. Numbers there are shifting as well. In Boston, 1,380 opted for the printed program and 990 opted for the flash drive. We continue to look for ways to move towards less printed programs. The Task Force on the Greening of ICA recommended the establishment of an interest group dedicated to environmental concerns. The ICA Board approved the Environmental Communication Interest Group at the Boston conference.
We would like to know what you thought. The annual conference survey is now online and open to all who attended. President-elect Cynthia Stohl, who will compile the survey data, will then consider those results as she plans for next year's conference in Phoenix. We will post the survey results on the ICA conference web site, and analysis of those results will appear in the ICA Newsletter. Click this link if you would like to take it now: http://www.icahdq.org/cgi-shl/TWServer.exe?Run:CONFSURV11.
A reminder to all who attended at Boston: The papers will be available online only through July.
One final note: Our autumn membership drive will soon begin. Renewal reminders will go out at the beginning of August to allow members a 60-day period in which to renew their memberships.
Registrations by country
| ARGENTINA |
1 |
MALAYSIA |
3 |
| AUSTRALIA |
36 |
MEXICO |
14 |
| AUSTRIA |
19 |
NEW ZEALAND |
10 |
| BELGIUM |
23 |
NIGERIA |
2 |
| BRAZIL |
9 |
NORWAY |
18 |
| CANADA |
64 |
PHILIPPINES |
1 |
| CHILE |
2 |
POLAND |
4 |
| PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA |
12 |
PORTUGAL |
10 |
| COLOMBIA |
3 |
ROMANIA |
1 |
| COSTA RICA |
1 |
RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
5 |
| DENMARK |
29 |
SAUDI ARABIA |
1 |
| ESTONIA |
1 |
SINGAPORE |
26 |
| ETHIOPIA |
1 |
SLOVENIA |
2 |
| FINLAND |
21 |
SOUTH AFRICA |
3 |
| FRANCE |
11 |
SPAIN |
21 |
| GERMANY |
152 |
SRI LANKA |
2 |
| GREECE |
1 |
SWEDEN |
49 |
| HONG KONG |
20 |
SWITZERLAND |
31 |
| INDIA |
4 |
TAIWAN |
6 |
| IRELAND |
2 |
THE NETHERLANDS |
78 |
| ISRAEL |
45 |
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO |
2 |
| ITALY |
9 |
TURKEY |
1 |
| JAPAN |
9 |
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES |
1 |
| REPUBLIC OF KOREA |
16 |
UNITED KINGDOM |
79 |
| KUWAIT |
1 |
USA |
1634 |
| LEBANON |
2 |
ICA President-elect Cynthia Stohl speaking with a colleague in Boston.
photo, Sam Luna