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 Tuesday, February 5th

11:00am - 12:00pm

Smarter Snow with SMI

Joe VanderKelen- CEO SMI SnowMakers
Join SMI's Joe VanderKelen, Doug Vaughn, John Parker and Peter Geise as they review the new SMI Smartsnow ™ 6.0 Mobile and Main software platforms and what's new in automation at SMI. Also included will be some new project reviews.

12:15pm - 1:15pm

Liftopia: Best Practices in eCommerce

Evan Reece Co-Founder and CEO
Liftopia's founder will present Liftopia's latest innovations in advance purchase, reporting and analytics, best practices in variable pricing and eCommerce marketing. Liftopia will share case studies, data and insights from across the Liftopia.com and Cloud Store platforms.

Shaping the North American Snowmaking Automation Revolution

Geir Vik- CEO, TechnoAlpin North America
The session will recap TechnoAlpin's first 10-years in North America. The progression from a 90% manual snowmaking market when we started , to increasingly automatic snowmaking "revolution" 10-years later. The discussion will highlight some of the reasons why an automatic snowmaking system makes economical sense for most mountain operators and also address the top 10 perceived problem topics when migrating to an automatic system.