The American Industrial Hygiene Conference & Exposition (AIHce) - 2016

Thought LeaderDo you know who thought leaders are in today’s professional environment? They are informed opinion leaders and the “go-to” people in their field of expertise who call people to take action with their innovative approaches, turn ideas into reality, and show others how to replicate their success.

These professionals inspire others to join their efforts through evolutionary and revolutionary advancements. Thought leaders provide a method, process, guidelines, or best practices, assuring others will align with and build a foundation on their success.

AIHce continues this track from last year’s Fall Conference. The Thought Leader track is a comprehensive selection of topics that look into the future of industrial hygiene. This track highlights several sessions, PDCs, and workshops spotlighting important ideas and knowledge skills essential for tomorrow’s IH thought leaders. Accessible for professionals regardless of their career stage, these sessions will provide essential insight and information for those who wish to take a more strategic view, or to simply understand how key leaders see industrial hygiene fitting into tomorrow’s world.

These new focus areas were identified after intensive research by the Content Portfolio Management Team, who was tasked by the AIHA Board of Directors to discover, explore, evaluate, and recommend  content development priorities, including:

• Big Data: Data Management & Interpretation
• Changing Workforce Demographics/Environment
• Emerging Markets/Global IH/OH Standards of Care
• Exposure Banding/OEL Process
• IH Business Case Development
• Sensor Technologies

Look for these new areas of focus throughout the AIHce program, using our topic search option, or identify sessions using the “Thought Leader” search term.

Elevate your exposure at AIHce 2016 through sponsorship!

AIHce is the must-attend experience of the year for IH/OH professionals worldwide. AIHA offers your organization the opportunity to create a customized sponsorship that will deliver maximum exposure before, during, and after the conference!

For 2016, we have created a new sponsorship structure which includes both a la carte options and sponsorship tiers. A La Carte items allow you to choose sponsorship of a specific item or event on-site.  Sponsorship tiers give you access to exclusive tier-only benefits and credits toward your specific item and event sponsorships.

NEW 2016 Exclusive Tier Benefits Include:

• Direct email messages to attendees pre- and post-AIHce
• Attendee list access
• Top-notch brand exposure through all pre-, during, and post-event attendee communications, including The Synergist
• High visibility on-site signage, including marquee and customized lobby signage in the registration area
• Inclusion of your branded one page insert with attendee registration materials
• Exclusive invitations to VIP events and reserved seating
• Opportunity to introduce education sessions
• Choice of item/event sponsorship to compliment your package from $6,000 – $30,000

…and many more!

The American Industrial Hygiene Conference & Exposition (AIHce) is a must-attend event for industrial hygiene/occupational health professionals of all levels and specialties. Discover the information and strategies you need to protect worker health, while taking advantage of several networking opportunities to grow your professional network.

Registration and hotel reservations are now open.

Top Reasons to Attend AIHce

• World-class education on topics important to the IH/OH professional
• Numerous networking opportunities to build and retain relationships
• High-caliber Expo featuring hundreds of exhibitors displaying innovative products and services
• Six days of idea generation to address challenges, work more effectively, drive revenue, and improve the bottom line at your organization
• Earn certification maintenance points for the year at one conference

Networking Opportunities at AIHce

There’s no argument that networking today is critical for success. At its core, networking is making contacts and encouraging an information exchange that fosters voluntary collaboration. While dissemination of information is part of the process, it isn’t the final definition. In order to be truly successful, there needs to be some dialogue, reciprocity, and mutual interaction. Networking enhances inclusive thinking, creativity, and dialogue – all crucial elements to today’s successful professional.

Strengthening Your Job

Within the realm of IH/OH, networking can enable sharing and strengthening of your job ‘intangibles,’ encourages ownership and cooperation, and helps connect needs and solutions. It is fundamental in both doing and communicating your work. If its part of your core process, a network builds a set of channels for disseminating and communicating your message; the more involved the receivers are in helping develop the content of communication, the more likely they are to respond and act on it.

More generally, networking as means of communicating is about ensuring that the spaces, time, and opportunities are present to enable such communication to take place. A large part of your future professional needs must include communication opportunities to deal with the complexities that are faced in continuing workplace issues.

What AIHce Is Doing

Knowing how important networking is for our members and their work, we’ve made sure that attendees to this year’s AIHce have ample opportunities to connect and network. From innovative sessions to extended breaks, to interactive tours and workshops, there are several avenues for attendees to build their professional networks, find new collaboration opportunities, and discuss professional milestones and aspirations.

Why make plans to attend AIHce in Baltimore this year? Here are 8 reasons why today’s IH/OH professional shouldn’t miss out:

Learn about new ideas and techniques as the profession moves into the future. IH/OH opportunities and responsibilities are expanding, and looking ahead from a global perspective is key to understanding where we fit in the process.

Meet and network with your peers. Collaboration is the way to approach networking. Most people can help each other uncover ideas and spark inspiration when they get to know each other on a personal level. This isn’t just a great morale booster–connecting with like-minded people inspires us and creates opportunities to build partnerships and joint ventures that will strengthen ourselves and the profession in the years to come.

Regain your focus. Sometimes we get caught up in the day-to-day regimen and need some help reacquiring the ‘big picture.’ This is a great way to remind us why we do what we do.

Renew your excitement. Being an IH/OH professional can be stressful and wear down our career excitement levels. A professional conference filled with multiple educational opportunities like AIHce can reignite our passion for our jobs.

Learn current strategies. Sometimes, we can find the solutions to problems through hearing how others have conquered similar issues. Educational sessions give you a great sense of what’s current in your discipline that you might not be aware of. You’ll have the chance to talk to your peers face-to-face about what they’re working on and share advice on how to tackle important issues facing your field.

Position yourself as an expert. When you are active in your industry, you can develop a reputation as an expert to your peers. Those who are engaged over the long term are often asked to speak at the events, write articles for their industry publications, and often lead technical and education sessions at conferences. Like it or not, others like to associate with the experts in any industry. If your strategy is to be the best-kept secret in your business community, you will be missing a valuable opportunity.

Share the wealth. Bring all that great conference information back and share it with all the folks who didn’t get to go, but could benefit from the good stuff. (A great way to do that is through AIHce Virtual Conference.) Attending various sessions and learning about the latest trends and how they’re being used in your industry augments your knowledge base and gives you something valuable to bring back, and possibly apply, to your own work.

Have fun. All work and no play can get old fast. AIHce adds a layer of enjoyment to managing your career growth by mixing a social aspect into your learning efforts. Taking an extra day at the beginning or end of the trip to explore or visit friends in the region is a great way to maximize the investment in travel. Never underestimate the power of a little fun mixed with some interesting people!