Manufacturers & Representatives Committee


Objective:

The primary mission of this committee is to provide support to VA AWWA and VWEA educational programs by planning, coordinating and implementing the exhibitor programs at the Annual Meetings and other specialty seminars to maximize educational value for attendees and provide a source of revenues to help pay for the meetings. The committee also provides technical resources to VA AWWA and VWEA such as speakers specializing in particular process and equipment technologies for seminars and training sessions. The MARC also acts a liaison to bring issues of concern from its manufacturer and representative members to the Boards, and to communicate Board policies to its members, as well as coordinating with the national MAC and MARC committees of AWWA and WEF respectively.

Membership:

The Manufacturer's and Representative's Committee, a Joint Committee of VA AWWA and VWEA , consists of members from equipment manufacturers and manufacturer's representative sales agencies involved in the water and wastewater industry in Virginia.

Member of:

Annual Meeting Council

Duties:

In consultation with the respective meeting Chair appoints a MARC Exhibits Coordinator for each VA AWWA or VWEA meeting that has exhibits as part of the program, presently including the individual association Annual Meetings, Water JAM, VWEA Education Seminar, and VWEA Industrial Waste and Pre-Treatment Seminar.  The MARC Exhibits Coordinator is responsible for working with the meeting program committee to provide the following services:

1-    Coordinate exhibits hall layout, electrical service, sound system, exhibitor signs and exhibit hall event planning with program committee, other committees that have exhibit hall events, and the hotel staff.

2-    Secure exhibit decorator to furnish pipe, draperies, tables and chairs; coordinate execution of contract for decorator services; coordinate set-up and take-down of exhibit booths by the decorator at the meeting.

3-    Prepare and distribute exhibitor registration package to prospective exhibitors; receive and process exhibitor registrations; collect exhibitor fees and forward to administrator with accounting of exhibitor registrations and attendees; coordinate set-up and take-down of exhibitor displays at the meeting; interface with the exhibitors.

4-    Solicit exhibitor technical session papers; coordinate with program committee and preside over exhibitor's papers session.

5-    Maintain comprehensive and current list of past exhibitors and prospective new exhibitors; promote value of exhibiting at VA AWWA and VWEA meetings to exhibitors; plan and implement exhibitor programs that provide educational value to meeting attendees and sales/marketing value to exhibiting companies.

6-    Provide financial support to the meetings through implementation of a successful exhibitor program.