Join your friends and colleagues in at the 2019 ACM-NE Conference & Trade Show from October 30-Nov 1, 2019 in Portland, Maine at The Westin Portland Harborview.

We have an exciting two days of activities including a trade show, workshops, demonstrations, and special guest speakers. Special Halloween events and the Nor’easter Awards will take place on Thursday evening. Now more than ever, we encourage you to gather with your industry colleagues to envision the future of Community Media!

Conference Hotel and Registration

Conference Registration (early bird deadline was 9/30): This includes full two-day registration for Thursday Trade Show, Nor’Easter Awards Festival, Post-Awards Halloween Karaoke Party sponsored by Cablecast Community Media by Tightrope, Friday educational workshops, keynote speakers and more! Conference Registration: Click Here!

Hotel Registration: Westin Portland Harborview Hotel is family friendly and located in the heart of downtown. $174 per night hotel rate is guaranteed through September 30, 2019. Book early. Hotel Room Registration: Click Here!

ACMNE 2019 Conference Workshop Schedule

at The Westin Portland Harborview
October 30-Nov 1, 2019
Portland, Maine

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

3:00pm-9:00pm: Vendor – Trade Show set-up
3:00pm-5:00pm: Registration
5:00pm – 7:00pm: ACM-NE Board Meeting & Dinner

Thursday, October 31, 2019

8:00AM-5:00PM: Registration Table Open (Ballroom Lobby)
9:00AM-10:30AM: Breakfast (Ballroom)
10:15AM – 10:45AM: VENDOR DEMO: “Audio and the Internet: The Halloween Edition” presented by Comrex
11:00AM – 12:00PM: ROUNDTABLE – “Working with your Local or Regional Emergency Planning Committee” led by Jim Palmer, Peabody TV (Rines A)
11:30AM – 12:00PM: VENDOR DEMO: “STREAMline your channels for this next generation” presented by CASTUS Corporation
12:15PM – 1:00PM: Grab and Go Lunch
12:45PM – 1:15PM: VENDOR DEMO: “Become your community’s first choice for hyperlocal information” presented by Cablecast Community Media
1:00pm – 4:00pm: Special VR Storytelling Workshop with Public VR Lab (paid add-on) (Longfellow)
2:00PM – 3:00PM: ROUNDTABLE – “How to Organize a Film Festival in your Community” led by Jason Daniels, ECAT (Rines A)
5:00PM-7:00PM: Welcoming Reception at The Westin Portland Harborview (across from Grand Ballroom)
7:15PM-9:00PM: Nor’Easter Awards at SPACE Gallery & Venue (538 Congress Street) – Register here!
9:00PM-11:30PM: After party at SPACE with Karaoke DJ & Halloween Costume Party (costumes optional) sponsored by Cablecast Community Media – Register here!

Friday, November 1, 2019

7:30AM-12:30PM: Registration Table Open
8:00AM-8:50AM: Welcome & Breakfast Plenary
9:00AM-10:30AM: Workshop Sessions #1

10:45AM-12:15PM: Workshop Sessions #2

12:15PM-1:45PM: Special Leadership Awards Luncheon with Keynote Speaker, Robert Shetterly, Artist/Activist & Founder of the Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait project (Ballroom)

2:00PM-3:30PM: Workshop Sessions #3

3:45PM-5:15PM: Workshop Sessions #4

5:30PM-8:00PM: Dinner Break on your own!
5:00-11:00pm: First Friday Arts Crawl in Portland

Featured Keynote Speaker

Robert Shetterly, Artist/Activist & Founder of the Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait project.

About the Artist: He says that the maintenance of democracy depends less on voting rights and the separation of powers than on historically honest education, a media that believes in the right and necessity of citizens to hear the truth, and the moral courage of citizens to act for the common good. In this age of the corporatization of nearly everything, the role of local, independent media has never been more important for the survival of democracy as well as the survival of the planet. With portraits and stories Shetterly will speak about the failure of corporate media in the run-up to the Iraq War and how the weight of truth telling shifted to local media.

Conference & Trade Show Sponsors

The Alliance for Community Media Northeast Region is happy to announce the 2019 Conference and Trade Show sponsors and exhibitors from October 30 – October 31, 2019 in Portland, Maine at the Westin Portland Harborview Hotel! Thank you to our sponsors and exhibitors for their dedicated support bringing interesting and innovative expertise to our annual premiere Trade Show event.

Platinum Sponsor & Exhibitor
Comrex

Gold Sponsor & Exhibitor
Cablecast Community Media by Tightrope

Nor’Easter Awards & Festival Sponsor & Exhibitor
Cablecast Community Media by Tightrope

Gold Sponsor & Exhibitor
CASTUS Corporation

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Also Exhibiting:

  • Comrex- Platinum Sponsor
  • Cablecast Community Media by Tightrope Media Systems- Gold Sponsor and Nor’Easter Awards Sponsor
  • CASTUS Corporation – Gold Sponsor
  • Access AV
  • Barbizon Light of New England, Inc.
  • B&H B2B
  • ENCO Systems
  • Hunt’s Photo and Video
  • LEIGHTRONIX, Inc.
  • Municipal Captioning, Inc.
  • Panasonic
  • TelVue
  • Tape Services, Inc.
  • Unique Media Systems
  • US Broadcast Distribution
  • Women in Film & Video-New England
  • Zeplay, LLC
 
 

Hotel Parking:

  • Overnight Guests: $34 for valet or $26 for self parking and 
  • Day Parking: $15 for valet (be out by midnight) or $5/hour for self-parking

Alternative Parking Garages:

ELM ST. PARKING GARAGE

The Elm St. parking garage is directly managed by the city Parking Division and can be reached at 207-871-1106. The Elm St. parking garage is located at 21 Elm St. (between Portland High School and the library)

SPRING ST. PARKING GARAGE

The Spring St. parking garage is directly managed by the city Parking Division and can be reached at 207-874-2842. The Spring St. parking garage is located at 45 Spring St. (next to the Civic Center with entrances on Spring St. and Free St.).

ACM-NE REGION CONFERENCE REGISTRATION CANCELLATION POLICY

  1. If a registrant is unable to attend the conference for any reason, they may substitute someone else from the same institute/organization by contacting Erica Jones, Conference Chair ejones@somervillemedia.org
  2. Where the registrant is unable to attend, and is not in a position to transfer his/her place to another person, then the following refund arrangements apply:

a. Registrations cancelled more than 25 days before the event will be refunded 100% of the registration fees.

b. Registrations cancelled less than 25 but more than 14 days before the event will be refunded 50% of the registration fees.

c. Registrations cancelled less than 14 days before the event will not be eligible for a refund.