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Chef Dan Barber Keynotes Summer Fancy Food Show

Details: Parent Category: Expos and Conventions; Category: Previews; Published on Wednesday, 17 March 2010 11:10; Written by Brad Balfour

Of the many events I have attended at the Javits Center, the one that really stirs the juices is the Fancy Food Show. A phantasmagoria of every style of condiment, sauce, chocolate bars and various packaged smoked salmons among the many foods sampled there, the Summer Fancy Food Show provides an incredible education for any journ Pic Taken at Last Year's Awards alist or professional foodie in the edible delights of a region or a country. The show takes over the NYC's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center June 27 – 29, 2010.

On the primary show floor, pavilions from countries such as France or Spain, or international distributors dominate and one can taste every variety of olive oil or pasta possible while sampling some new soda concoction or organic food phenomenon.

As the largest marketplace for specialty food in North America, this event showcases food trends as they become packaged, frozen or dried, this show reflects also the growing inclination towards the organic and sustainable -- all a good thing in this word of the artificial and chemicalized. This show is for those who want the best and the brightest and can get a chance to taste it.

To quote their own literature: "Since 1955, the Fancy Food Shows have been North America’s largest specialty food and beverage marketplace. Between the Winter Show in San Francisco and the Summer Show in New York City, the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade events bring in more than 40,000 attendees from more than 80 countries to see 260,000 innovative specialty food products, such as confections, cheese, coffee, snacks, spices, ethnic, natural, organic and more.

The NASFT is a not-for-profit trade association established in 1952 to foster commerce and interest in the specialty food industry. Today there are more than 2,900 member companies in the U.S. and abroad.

Only NASFT Members can exhibit at the Shows, where retailers, restaurateurs, distributors and others discover innovative, new food and beverage products. The Shows are attended by every major food buying channel, influential members of the trade and consumer press and other related businesses."

In addition to the two show floors, NASFT has scheduled the gala sofi™ Awards ceremony to take place tonight at the 56th Summer Show with internationally recognized executive chef Dan Barber to keynote

The sofi Awards recognize excellence in specialty foods and beverages in 33 categories and are considered the top honor in the $60 billion specialty food industry. “sofi” stands for Specialty Outstanding Food Innovation.

The awards are the highlight of the Show, and Barber, a prominent figure in the artisan and local food movement, was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2009. He co-owns the restaurants Blue Hill in New York City and Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Pocantico Hills, N.Y., and is a board member of the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture.

In honor of Barber's appearance at the sofi Awards, NASFT will donate his speaking fee to City Harvest, New York’s only food rescue program and the Fancy Food Show’s charity of choice for the past 20 years, and to the Stone Barns Center.  

Barber is a member of City Harvest’s Food Council. Since 2007 alone, exhibitors at the Summer Fancy Food Show have donated more than half a million pounds of high-quality food to City Harvest, enough to fill 13 tractor trailers. The show donation has long been the largest single donation of perishable food to City Harvest each year. 

The sofi Awards will be presented June 28, 2010, at 5 p.m. at the Javits Center.

For more information and to purchase tickets, go to: www.fancyfoodshows.com/attend

The Fancy Food Show is a trade event open to members of the specialty food trade only.

For more information on the NASFT and its Fancy Food Shows, go to: www.specialtyfood.com

Go Green Expo - Gotham Edition

Details: Parent Category: Expos and Conventions; Category: Previews; Published on Monday, 15 March 2010 01:23; Written by Lynne Shannon

Go Green Expo returns to New York City on March 19-21, 2010 at Pier 92. One of the nation’s premier Hydro Flask eco-friendly trade shows offers visitors an in-depth look at the growing green revolution, from the brand new to time-tested favorites in eco-friendly products and services to renewable energy sources.

Go Green Expo touches on every aspect of eco-living and sustainable business with nearly 200 exhibits crossing all themes from energy, transportation, food, health & beauty, home & building, business & electronics and fashion.

Keynote Speakers are:

Ed Begley Jr., “Live Simply So That Others Can Simply Live”

Mariel Hemingway with Bobby Williams, “How to Green Your Life”

Robin Wilson, “Eco-Interior Design,” with signing of her new book, Kennedy Green House: Designing an Eco-Healthy Home from Foundation to Furniture.

A special presentation at this year’s Go Green Expo:

Earth Day’s 40th Anniversary & Unveiling of “The E Campaign”
Matthew Modine is one of the faces of the E Campaign, an environmental awareness, education and action campaign developed by Earth Day New York. The E Campaign will be Mariel Hemingway unveiled during Matthew’s presentation as the founder of Bicycle For A Day Everyday (BFAD), an initiative focused on promoting the use of bicycles for transportation.

Several panels and seminars are also being held, including:

"Greening Your Business"

"Living Eco-logically"

"Young People & the Environment"

For more information, please visit www.gogreenexpo.com.

About Go Green Expo Robin Wilson

Launched by Bradford Rand and his team at Expo International, Go Green Expo was conceived as a result of the 2007 movie An Inconvenient Truth. As a producer of over 800 shows and job fairs since 1993, Rand felt creating a business and consumer event that showcased eco-friendly products and innovations was a logical and timely next step in show offerings. Go Green Expo also practices a zero carbon footprint and reduced waste approach to event production throughout all its shows.

Shows take place each year in Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and Atlanta. Expo international is the producer of Eco-Luxe, a media event for sustainable luxury brands as well as Eco Forum, a networking reception for sustainability executives.

Go Green Expo New York
March 19-21, 2010

Pier 92
12th Avenue & W 55th Street
New York City

Architectural Digest Home Design Show

Details: Parent Category: Expos and Conventions; Category: Previews; Published on Monday, 15 March 2010 01:22; Written by Lynne Shannon

The 9th annual Architectural Digest Home Design Show is running March 18-21, 2010 at Pier 94 in Bellagio by Morgan-Brown New York City. This event features the best in home products from nearly 300 established and up-and-coming brands, showcasing the latest ideas and products for the home, from furniture and lighting to kitchens and baths.

“Home design continues to be an investment for consumers,” said Giulio Capua, Vice President and Publisher of Architectural Digest. “Our latest subscriber study shows that 56% of our readers are planning to spend an average of $43,000 on home renovation projects in the next 12 months. The Show is an important resource to connect the design community with these shopping-minded homeowners.”

The Show includes such features as:

Curated tours of the floor with members of the American Society of Interior Designers

Antiques and mid-century section, presented by 1stdibs.com, the most powerful online marketplace for antiques and mid-century design. Water Drop Curtain by Andreas Roessner, Valuz

MADE section, where visitors can browse a juried selection of limited-edition and one-of-a-kind art objects and furnishings. The section has more than doubled in size from last year to include 80 artisans.

Complimentary one-on-one consultations with such design professionals as:

Betty Wasserman Art & Interiors
David Estreich Architects
DW Design & Décor LLC
Encore Décor Interior Design
Gleicher Design Group
Hanna Weyrick Design, Inc. Monaco by Brown-Jordan
JMA Architecture Interior Design
Joseph A. Berkowitz Interiors Inc.
Leslie Christian Designs
Margaret Wilson & Company Inc.
Nugent Designs, Inc.
P. Balsar Kitchen Design
Phillip Ceradini, Architect
Sally Humphreys LLC
Spector DeSouza Architects PC
Valerie Onor Ltd.

Special Events include:

Cooking demonstrations and tastings by such celebrity chefs as:

Chef Julie Taras Wallach, Tipsy Parson, with a selection of dishes showing the best of Southern cuisine.

Chef Yoel Cruz, North Square, preparing a fresh corn blini with home cured salmon, crème fraiche, caviar and chervil. Viking

Chef Aliyyah Baylor, Make My Cake Bakery, sharing her tips on how to prepare a beautiful cake and delicious frosting with items in anyone’s pantry.

Chef Damien Brassel, Knife + Fork, preparing an Irish cured salmon with an Irish stout glaze, accompanied with sun dried tea and homemade soda bread.

Chef Kurt Gutenbrunner, Wallsé, Café Sabarsky, Blaue Gans and The Upholstery Store, preparing potato crusted scallops for the audience.

In addition, Dining by Design Table Hop & Taste Event features wine tastings paired with food from some of New York’s top restaurants.

Design seminars:

Eco-friendly Decorating
Small Spaces
The Zen Home
Fusing Two Worlds: Mixing Antiques with Contemporary Objects

Architecture & Design Film Festival Preview

Six Pound Chair, directed by Eames Demetrious
An American Synagogue: Frank Lloyd Wright, Mortimer Cohen and The Making of Beth Sholom, directed by James Sanders
Calatrava: God Does Not Throw Dice, directed by Catherine Adda

There is also a panel, "Architecture & Film: From Sketches to Celluloid".

New Features this year:

The Essential Home – Visitors can get ideas to transform their own urban digs at the 1,600-square-foot model apartment inside the Show. The home presents a “real-life environment” that displays the best in contemporary design from a variety of manufacturers.

Shop the Show with a Professional – Visitors can also tour the Show floor with an industry insider. Design professionals from the American Society of Interior Design (ASID) will be available for group tours every afternoon.

Mark Levinson Mobile Showroom – The finest in residential electronics and home theater spaces are on display inside Mark Levinson’s 1,000-square-foot traveling exhibit.

National Treasures: History in the Making Exhibit – This unique exhibition of sculptural objects and functional art created from "trees with a past," some dating to the birth of our nation, lets visitors take a journey through American history, providing a tangible connection between our nation's outdoor past and its artistic future.

Whether starting from scratch or searching for that one "something" to finish a room, the Show promises to introduce visitors to something they simply have to bring home, no matter what the budget.

For more information, visit www.archdigesthomeshow.com.

Architectural Digest Home Design Show
March 18-21, 2010

Pier 94
55th Street at Westside Highway, NYC

TechMentor - In-Depth Training for IT Pros

Details: Parent Category: Expos and Conventions; Category: Previews; Published on Tuesday, 09 March 2010 01:19; Written by L E Shannon

TechMentor Orlando 2010 is being held March 8-12, 2010 at the Hilton Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. This is the only IT conference that focuses on real-world solutions that can be used now, for the technologies we already have as well as for those that are just around the corner.

There are no corporate shills trying to sell products that aren’t available, and no time is spent "teaching" technologies that don't exist yet. Attendees learn from the real gurus who are in the trenches, the authors, columnists, bloggers, and instructors that continue to make TechMentor one of the most technically powerful IT events on the planet.

At TechMentor Orlando, attendees learn:

how to use today’s server technology

At TechMentor Orlando, attendees learn:

how to use today’s server technology
how Microsoft’s R2 technology really works for your environment
advanced virtualization topics, without the vendor bias
how to prevent a major disaster with one’s Active Directory
enhancing automation skills with PowerShell as well as common tools

and leave with dozens of new and free tools that make the job easier

Focus Topics include:

Windows PowerShell
Virtualization
Exchange and Unified Communications
Security
Deploying and Managing Windows Servers and Clients
Remote Users and Offices

Speakers include:

Don Jones, TechMentor Conference Chair
Rhonda Layfield, Setup and Deployment MVP, DDPS
Greg Shields, MVP, vExpert

Three main tracks are featured:

Deep Dive Sessions are extra-length sessions where attendees learn to automate Active Directory management, add high availability to Hyper-V, perform packet analysis on your network, or optimize Group Policy for their environment.

Prep School Sessions are exclusive half-day presentations covering complex, core topics like Windows PowerShell, Remote Desktop Services, and Deploying & Managing Windows Servers and Clients. While not required, these sessions are strongly recommended for all attendees, to help with learning valuable new skills and to give a better foundation for the main conference sessions. These are intense, information-packed sessions.

Grad School Sessions are in-depth, resume-building meetings where, in just half a day, attendees learn to support SQL server and "speak" the SQL language, deploy Windows client and server operating systems, and prepare their environment for Exchange Server 2010.

The sessions cover such material as:

Stop Working Nights and Weekends: 10 Tips You Can Immediately Implement
Windows 7 Virtual Deployment Solutions
Eliminate Application Compatibility Issues with Windows 7's XP Mode
The Windows PowerShell v2 No-Scripting Crash Course
Moving to Windows 7: From Vista or XP, Quickly, and Using FREE Tools!
Mastering System Recovery - How to Recover from any System Failure
Eliminating Malware, Inappropriate Software, and Most IT Problems with AppLocker

Between the intensive learning and the tremendous opportunities for networking and sharing with other IT peers and colleagues, this event has had high praise from previous attendees, and this year’s event promises to deliver again.

For more information, go to http://techmentorevents.com.

TehMentor Orlando 2010
March 8-12, 2010