SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass. - Hosted by Printing Industries of New England, the 2009 Northeast Print Management Conference will be held Oct. 3-6 at The Water's Edge Resort & Spa in Westbrook, Conn.

Designed for owners, senior executives and managers at printing and graphic communications companies throughout the region's $12 billion marketplace, the conference will provide a mix of insight into current business challenges and opportunities with leisure and networking events at a luxurious water front setting on the Connecticut shore.

Keynote topics: Sales, M&A s and the future
Featured speakers this year include Linda Bishop, who has more than 20 years of print sales experience; Liz Miller, vice president of programs and operations for the Chief Marketing Officer Council; Stuart Margolis, of MargolisBecker; Paul Reilly of New Direction Partners; Michael Makin, president and chief executive officer of Printing Industries of America; and Julie Shaffer, vice president of digital technologies at PIA.

This conference has been hosted by PINE and co-sponsored by Printing Industries Alliance and Graphic Arts Association for many years. These associations collectively cover nine states in the Northeast and provide a wide range of programs and services to the industry.

Conference sponsors to date include Xerox, United Insurance Company, EFI, Oce, and Heidelberg. To see the complete conference  program, visit  http://www.pine.org/PMC/2009/PMCbrochure.pdf . PINE can be reached at 1-800-365-7463.