Meet Our 2024 Speakers!

Keynote Speakers

 

peggy berg

Founder of Castell,
now an AHLA Foundation Project

Mandi (Kobasic) Graziano 

Vice President Global Accounts, HPN Global

jason dunn

President and CEO, National Coalition of Black Meeting Professionals

Kim Sidoriak

President & CEO Visit Carlsbad

Taylor smith

Content Developer,
Meetings Today Magazine

Theresa (Terri) Breining

President of Breining Group, Inc.

ALYSSA TUROWSKI

General Manager,
Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines

Dzidra Junior

President of Renditions
Consulting

EMILY MOORE

Executive Director at Cabrillo National Monument Foundation

Dania Duke

VP Area Management Director, Davidson Hotels & Resorts

MARILYN HANNES

Corporate Senior Vice President, Strategic Relationships
United Parks & Resorts

Shirley Parsons

DEI Manager at the
Port of San Diego

Gilad Berenstein

Founder at Brook Bay Capital, LLC and AI Entrepreneur

JULIE COKER

President & CEO at
San Diego Tourism Authority

Whitney Taylor

Experienced Event Management Professional

amanda armstrong

Senior VP, Communications & Industry Relations
Encore

Junior Tauvaa

Chief Business Officer,
PCMA

CHANTEL ROSS FRANCOIS

President of East Point Georgia Convention and Visitors Bureau

dari desousa

Human Resources
Consultant

Sara Arjmand

CEO
Formula Marketing