{"id":16483,"date":"2020-09-22T15:55:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T15:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=16483"},"modified":"2020-09-22T15:55:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T15:55:10","slug":"nasaos-virtual-conference-concludes-successfully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/national-news\/nasaos-virtual-conference-concludes-successfully\/%20","title":{"rendered":"NASAO&#8217;s Virtual Conference Concludes Successfully"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO)\nsuccessfully held their first ever virtual Annual Conference last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2020 Annual Conference &#8211; NASAO&#8217;s 89th &#8211; was originally\nscheduled to take place in Greenville, SC. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic,\nhowever, the NASAO Executive Board faced the decision to cancel the event, or\nshift to a virtual platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to being NASAO&#8217;s first ever online event, the\nthree day conference made history being the first large scale conference of the\nnational aviation associations held virtually following COVID-19. With over 500\nregistered attendees and 30 exhibitors, the virtual conference was also the\nhighest attended NASAO Annual gathering in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In striving to be an accessible resource to the aviation\ncommunity, NASAO opted to price registration at $30 and $60 for members and\nnon-members respectively. With a lower price-point and no travel costs, State\naviation staff who typically would not be able attend in person, got to take\nadvantage of the education and networking opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;NASAO&#8217;s first priority is always to serve the needs of\nour members. Now more than ever, it&#8217;s important to come together. Our hope was\nthat lower pricing would allow more of our members to benefit from the\nconference, and we&#8217;re happy to see that was indeed the case,&#8221; reported\nGreg Pecoraro, NASAO&#8217;s President &amp; CEO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/dan-elwell.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16485\" width=\"267\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dan-elwell.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dan-elwell-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><figcaption><em>Dan Elwell addresses NASAO virtual conference.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The conference sessions addressed a variety of topics, from\nworkforce development to the impact of COVID-19. The virtual platform remains\nopen for a full month, so registered attendees can re-watch all the sessions,\nand continue to visit Exhibitor Booths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the highlight events of the conference included the\nKeynote session with FAA Deputy Administrator, Dan Elwell; election of the\n2020-2021 NASAO Board; and the presentation of the NASAO Awards honoring state\nand individual contributions to aviation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO) successfully held their first ever virtual Annual Conference last week. The 2020 Annual Conference &#8211; NASAO&#8217;s 89th &#8211; was originally scheduled to take place in Greenville, SC. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, however, the NASAO Executive Board faced the decision to cancel the event, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Layout-for-Conf.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16486,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16483\/revisions\/16486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}