Meeting Registration will be on-line this year. You can reserve your place at the meeting and sign up for activities for yourself and your family. The system accepts Visa, Mastercard and Discover credit cards. (We accept American Express, but this option is temporarily unavailable online. Please complete the online registration and call us at (703) 379-7755 if you wish to pay by American Express). Turn on your PC speakers before clicking to the registration site for the full experience. REGISTER now!

Activities begin with an opening reception and dinner on Tuesday, July 22^nd. The final activity on Friday the 25^th includes a private room at the Del Mar Race Track, with a concert following the races. This will be a fun afternoon for attendees of all ages! Learn more on our activities page and then register on-line. Network with colleagues while having fun.

Hotel Reservations Make your room reservations now! Call La Costa Reservations directly at 800.854.5000 and tell them you're with the Dental Trade Alliance. As you can imagine, La Costa is a very popular place, and rooms will be reserved quickly. Note that activities start with dinner on Tuesday, July 22^nd and conclude Friday, July 25^th, so plan arrival / departure dates accordingly.

In addition to the specified room rates, there will be an Automatic Daily Resort charge of $20.00, plus California Tourism Assessment fee of 0.074% per room, per night, and applicable taxes which are currently 10%. Full information on rooms and hotel amenities can be viewed on the hotel website (www.lacosta.com), but rooms include:

Opening Speaker is Professor Clayton Christensen.
Innovation, Technologies, and Business Authority

Clayton M. Christensen is a professor at the Harvard Business School. His research and teachings center on managing innovation and creating new growth markets. A seasoned entrepreneur, Professor Christensen has founded three companies: CPS Corporation, a successful advanced materials manufacturing company; Innosight, a consulting and training business; and Innosight Capital that he launched with the Boston Consulting Group. Clayton has co-authored five books including the New York Times best sellers, "The Innovator's Dilemma" and "The Innovator's Solution". He served as an assistant to the US Transportation Secretaries Drew Lewis and Elizabeth Dole.
Link to www.claytonchristensen.com/ for more information.

Closing Speaker is Christopher Gardner.
A Rags-to-Riches Story: From Homelessness to Wall Street

This is an amazing story of how Gardner went from being homeless to being on Wall Street, and starting his own institutional brokerage firm which has expanded into Christopher Gardner International Holdings. His rags to riches autobiography "The Pursuit of Happyness" became a New York Times and Washington Post #1 bestseller. It was recently made into a popular major motion picture starring Will Smith. Gardner is also a humanitarian; he's a board member of the National Fatherhood Initiative, and the National Education Foundation, and works with additional groups. He has been featured on TV on “Evening News with Dan Rather,” “20/20,” “Oprah,” “Today Show,” and more, plus he's been profiled in numerous newspapers and magazines.
Link to www.chrisgardnermedia.com for more information.

• Located north of San Diego, in Carlsbad, California
• Minutes from shopping, dining, beaches and San Diego attractions
• 35 miles to the San Diego International Airport (SAN)
• 50 miles to Orange County John Wayne Airport (SNA)
• 90 miles to Los Angeles and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
• Approximately two hours to Palm Springs