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Interview with Rob Stephen, 2006 SCAA Conference Chair

How Charlotte was chosen as the location for the 2006 conference (2:29)

Conference attendance (5:06)

The culinary track and conference programming (5:58)

What the Conference Chair does (8:31)

Getting back to the business of coffee (11:38)

The business growth track (14:13)

Mark asks Rob some hard questions regarding the future of the SCAA:

- About regional events and diversifying revenue sources; setting the stage with more transparency and new avenues of communication (17:18)

- Where will the SCAA be in terms of satisfaction by next year’s conference? (26:51)

- A brief interlude as Nick Cho crashes the podcast… (28:19) (that bastard! ;))

- Looking to Long Beach (29:38)

- The SCAA's Chronicle (print and PDF newsletter) to return (30:43)