Thank you to everyone who attended APCO’s Annual Conference & Expo, and thank you for making it one of our best conferences yet! More than 5,700 attendees and exhibitors gathered in Orlando last week to earn CEUs, visit the expo and network with their peers. They were not disappointed as APCO 2024 offered more than 120 educational sessions to choose from and over 250 exhibitors to meet with — not to mention the incredible keynote speakers and social events like the APCO Block Party and the Connect & Celebrate Dinner. Be sure to check out the photos on Flickr and Instagram. We hope to see you again next year in Baltimore for APCO 2025!

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The Food for Thought Luncheon on Wednesday in Orlando, Florida’s, Orange County Convention Center marked the final day of APCO 2024 with recognition of people, agency certifications and chapter membership success. It concluded with a how-to seminar on bringing creativity and innovation to life and work.

APCO CEO and Executive Director Mel Maier introduced the award winners for chapter membership, and then recognized agencies whose representatives were present that have achieved the Agency Training Program Certification standard from APCO this year.
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APCO Nation gathered on Wednesday for the Connect & Celebrate Dinner at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. For the 90^th annual conference, it was a final burst of business — swearing in officers, award presentations, leadership visions — followed by a final shot of recreation composed of dancing and dinner.

APCO President Becky Neugent and Immediate Past President Angela Batey swore in Michael O’Connor as 2^nd Vice President, Jack Varnado as 1^st Vice President and Stephen Martini as President. Neugent became Immediate Past President, and Batey rotated off the Executive Committee.
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Get caught up on some of the final day’s sessions.

• Prioritizing Employee Retention During a Staffing Crisis
• Bee GOLDEN
• Culture, the Movie
• Building Your Agency’s Public Education Program
• Artificial Intelligence for Training
• Ethical Leadership in an Unethical World
• The Expanded Emergency Response Ecosystem
• FCC Update 
• The Ground Truth: Perspectives from ECC Leaders
• In Your Own Backyard: Human Trafficking Awareness

This just in from our blood drive partner OneBlood: The two-day blood drive resulted in 96 units of blood. Each donation can save up to three lives, meaning 288 patients could benefit from the lifesaving efforts of blood donors at APCO 2024. Thank you to all who donated.