ILA/NLA/NSLA Joint Conference
Mark your calendars for the 2019 Annual Conference:October 2-4
La Vista Hotel and Conference Center
12520 Westport Parkway
La Vista, Nebraska 68128
Registration Rates:
- Member -Full Conference: $170
- Non-Member -Full Conference: $205
- Student- $30
- Member - Thursday Only: $125
- Non-member -Thursday Only: $165
- Member- Friday Only: $100
- Non-Member -Friday Only: $135
- Exhibits Only- $35
Room Rates:
Embassy Suites
| Single Rate | Double Rate | Triple Rate | Quad Rate |
| $149 | $149 | $159 | $169 |
Courtyard by Marriott
| Single Rate | Double Rate | Triple Rate | Quad Rate |
| $129 | $129 |
$139 | $149 |
Opening General Session Keynote
JAIME CASAP
Thursday, October 3, 2019
Jaime Casap is the Education Evangelist at Google. Jaime evangelizes the power and potential of technology and the web as enabling and supporting tools in pursuit of inquiry-based learning models. Jaime collaborates with school systems, educational organizations, and leaders around the world focused on building innovation into our education policies and practices. He speaks on education, technology, innovation, and generation Z, at events around the world.
In addition to his role at Google, Jaime is also the author of “Our First Talk About Poverty,” as a way to talk to children about poverty. He serves on a number of boards for organizations focused on education and equity. Jaime teaches a 10th grade communication class at the Phoenix Coding Academy, a computer science public school he helped launch in Phoenix, and guest lectures at Arizona State University.
He was recently named as the ASU GSV 2018 Innovator of Color and received an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Felician University. You can follow and reach him on Twitter at @jcasap
Lisa Scottoline
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
7:30pm – 8:30pm
Sponsored by the Council Bluffs Public Library Foundation
Lisa Scottoline is a #1 Bestselling Author, The New York Times bestselling author and Edgar award-winning author of 32 novels, including her latest work, SOMEONE KNOWS which is coming April 9, 2019. Lisa’s writing career began with her first novel, Everywhere That Mary Went, published in 1994 by HarperCollins Publishers. The novel became a bestseller and was nominated for the Edgar Award, the most prestigious award given in crime fiction, awarded by the Mystery Writers of America. Lisa’s second novel, Final Appeal, was also nominated for and received an Edgar Award. Since then she has written 32 novels, all of which have appeared on bestseller lists, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, and Publisher’s Weekly. (more…)