NAPSA

See You at NPE 2023!

National Pavement Expo 2023 brings vendors and suppliers together with contractors who make their living from asphalt and concrete paving, infrared pavement repair, seal coating, striping, sweeping, crack repair, pavement repair and snow removal.

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NAPSA

by Karen Smith

Over four days and multiple tracks, NPE2023 offers workshops and seminars highlighting the topics and skills necessary to operate a successful business in this industry: management skills, operator performance and safety, risk management, leadership strategies, asphalt design, crack sealing, paving, sealcoating principles, striping, and sweeping topics. As you know, or might expect, that last category — sweeping topics — is handled by conference partner North American Power Sweeping Association. Who’s better than NAPSA to organize that information-packed track?

To give you a taste of what will be included, the NAPSA-sponsored power sweeping track will include sessions on these evergreen topics: • The power sweeping standard • Best practices • Certification • Management and human resources • Roundtable discussions • Keynote speakers • Sweepers Night Out

Best practices seminars are led by acknowledged experts in the power sweeping industry. Keynote speakers deliver hard-hitting and often entertaining speeches that inspire as well as inform. Sweepers Night Out offers all paid-attendees an associationsponsored excuse to let their hair down and socialize. This is where the real networking happens!

How to Register? Registration for the NAPSA program (Sweepers Night Out and Annual Meeting) is separate from NPE registration. A separate registration will be sent for NAPSA. The full 2023 NPE full-conference pass includes any conference workshop or general session, as well as admission to the exhibit hall. NAPSA members have a specific discount code for free and greatly reduced sessions.

Sweepers Track Courses

NAPSA encourages members to take full advantage of the “Sweepers Track” and select the following sessions: • NAPSA Keynote: Elizabeth

McCormick – Stay Alert Stay Alive:

Course code: W07 Generously sponsored by TYMCO • NAPSA Best Practices: Course code

W06

• 3 NAPSA (FREE) selected sessions: • Josh Ferguson – Using the ANSI

Power Sweeping Standard To Protect

Your Business and How To Use It As

A Sales Tool (Wednesday, January 25 at 1 p.m.) Course code: A05 • Derek Rayburn – The Complete

Internet: Strategies To Grow Your

Company (Wednesday, January 25 at 3 p.m.) Course code: A10 • Bryan Young – Environmental

Benefits of Sweeping (Friday, January 27 at 2 p.m.) Course code: C11

NAPSA has a separate landing page for registration for Sweepers Night Out and the NAPSA annual meeting, as those events are not part of the NPE program. NAPSA Sweepers Night Out Sponsors will have tickets for the premier networking event.

To date, those sponsors include Stewart Amos Sweepers, Nite-Hawk Sweepers, Schwarze Industries, Elgin Sweepers, TYMCO, Keystone Plastics, Sweep Inspect, 1-800 Sweeper, World Insurance Associates and Scenic City Studio.

See you there!

As always, NAPSA will be fully represented at NPE2023. If you haven’t met the association’s executive director, Nancy Terry, that’s your chance to get to know the administrative powerhouse who keeps NAPSA organized and its business running. Find the NAPSA booth in the exhibit hall at space #1637.

NPE2023 will be held January 25-27 at the Charlotte Convention Center, Charlotte, North Carolina. The annual trade show typically attracts up to 20,000 attendees and more than 150 exhibitors. The audience profile typically includes corporate decision makers: company owners, CEOs, project managers and presidents. Attendees come from around the globe, although most of the foreign visitors are from China and India.

Built in 1995 and renovated in 2021, the Charlotte Convention Center itself is equipped with cutting-edge technology and world-class facilities. It offers over 400,000 sq. ft. of convention space with 41 meeting rooms. ■ For more information visit

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The North American Power Sweeping Association (NAPSA) is a nonprofit association made up of 200+ contract sweepers, service providers and sweeping equipment dealers, manufacturers and suppliers. NAPSA is dedicated to providing beneficial support to the membership and enhancing services to the sweeping industry. NAPSA is committed to promoting and educating the power sweeping community while enhancing the environment. For more information on NAPSA membership, please visit www.powersweeping.org or call (888) 757-0130.