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Entrepreneur Journal is proud to be a sponsor of the 62nd annual IFA Conference, which begins later this month on Friday, February 25 and concludes on Tuesday, March 1. This 12 months’s occasion marks the primary time in three years {that a} nationwide or worldwide IFA assembly will probably be going down in individual — because the previous two years dictated digital attendance solely. As many as 4,000 attendees are anticipated to descend on San Diego, the place the five-day occasion is scheduled to happen on the San Diego Conference Middle, positioned within the picturesque Marina District.
New management and new path
The Worldwide Franchise Affiliation (IFA) is beneath the brand new management of President Matthew Haller, a 10-year veteran of the group. A staunch franchising advocate, Haller is liable for enhancing the group’s lobbying coalition and ensuring the commerce business group’s voice was well-represented and heard because it pertained to pandemic reduction efforts.
“As this 12 months’s IFA Conference approaches, we’ve got a brand new and impressed message to share — that the franchising business is open for alternative,” Haller says. “Because the pandemic recedes and the complete spectrum of enterprise and commerce is unleashed, the IFA has a brand new mission to attach with entrepreneurs on the native stage — proper in their very own communities. That is the place the spine of America’s small enterprise resides, and we will probably be imparting our conference attendees to ‘go dwelling and get loud’ in regards to the progress and potentialities for the franchising business.”
Entrepreneur Media’s partnership
Entrepreneur Journal, proprietor of the celebrated “Franchise 500” rankings, is considered one of 60 totally different presenting sponsors of the 2022 IFA Conference. As franchising’s largest commerce business group, the IFA has rededicated itself to specializing in partnerships that align profitable manufacturers and companies.
“Our strategy to partnerships is way more pragmatic than up to now,” Haller says. “We merely have to fulfill extra folks the place they’re and unfold our message of openness and alternative. As we plan for the longer term, we’ve discovered that point is what issues probably the most – to the entrepreneurs that may make up the subsequent technology of franchise house owners, time is an irreplaceable useful resource. And we need to ensure the quantity we’ve got to work with is used correctly.”
2022 IFA conference highlights
The 2022 IFA Conference will embrace a few particular visitor audio system, together with former NBA All-Star Shaquille O’Neal and Vernice “FlyGirl” Armour, the primary black feminine fight pilot within the U.S. Armed Forces. O’Neal will probably be talking on the ability of entrepreneurship — one thing he is aware of fairly a bit about from his expertise as a multi-unit proprietor of 5 totally different franchise manufacturers. Armour will probably be spreading a message of variety and the way the inclusion of leaders from numerous backgrounds generally is a constructive contribution to a brand new technology of enterprise leaders.
Entrepreneur Media’s franchising division has a mission to coach, recruit, practice and assist preserve the subsequent technology of franchise house owners in america. By its participation in a number of conferences and panels all through the conference, the group intends to shore up the IFA President’s message that the franchising business is certainly “open for alternative.”
To register for the 2022 IFA Conference, merely observe this hyperlink. A full agenda of the five-day occasion will be discovered on the IFA’s 2022 Conference’s touchdown web page.
