Caitlin McDiarmid
APP Administrator

 

We never get tired of hearing “this was the best Conference yet.” We were even more proud to hear it for this, our 20th anniversary! Thank you to all the participants of this year’s events. Having members of our history at Conference combined with the premiere exhibit of the Body Piercing Archive made it even more special. We’ve never heard such positive comments about our Banquet and the dance floor filled for the first time ever. Our numbers are up with a 10.05% increase in participants! Our Vendors were even more supportive than ever – with more sponsorships and more donations to the Raffle than we ever expected. Our attendees opened their pockets and hearts with generous donations to the Sailor Sid Campaign and the purchase of APP merchandise. Class attendance stayed steady and all our new technology performed well.

Here’s Conference by the numbers…

Overall attendance at Conference this year: 1040

Full Conference Attendees: 567

Partial Conference Attendees: 279

Speakers: 58

Vending Companies: 53

Number of Volunteers: 70

Number of Class Topics: 40

Number of Workshop Topics: 4

Number of Round Table Discussions: 5

Class Hours: 95

Round Tables & Meetings (Hours): 19

Individual Class Attendances: 4607

APP Donations via Conference: $4,139.30—Thanks each and everyone of you for your support!