Full Conference versus Day Passes at Marketplace & Academy

ASTRA’s mission is to Elevate, Engage and Promote, and just walking a show flow doesn’t really do much more than promote and engage in very short snippets. We want all of our members to see Marketplace & Academy as more of a conference to better their business through education and times for networking – not just walking the show floor. If you’ve seen the testimonials from the Toy Boat, you can see how important it is to learn and connect as well as see product.

This is what we’ve been refering to as ‘going beyond the show’. Many times the best collaboration happens during the meals, sesssions and events!

Full Conference includes everything you see on our schedule. Day Passes are ONLY for walking the trade show floor during exhibit hours.

While we know that investing in your business and attending full conference is well worth the cost, we also heard that local stores wanted to send staff members for a day to see the show floor and look at product. With this in mind, we have decided to add one more option for registration. We are now offering day passes for each day the show floor is open – Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The cost for each day pass is $40 per day you choose to purchase. This will only be for the hours the exhibits are open and will not include any events or food.

We would love to have you at all of our events as we know how beneficial the full conference can be to you and your business. However, we listened. You now have another option to check out the exhibits. Registration is open for all options on our website astratoy.org under the events tab.

If you are new to ASTRA, please join us!

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Thank you to our committee volunteers, and welcome to those who want to be on a committee. Sunday, June 11

The luncheon and presentation by James Howard includes a clip of the docuseries, “Black Inventors Got Game,” followed by a panel discussion.

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