CSAA 2001 Annual Meeting
"The Maturing of the Central Station Industry in the New Millennium"
The Ritz Laguna Niguel
Dana Point, California
Oct. 26-Nov. 1, 2001

Thanks to our CSAA 2001 Annual Meeting sponsors: ADI/Ademco (Golf Tournament); Alert Alarm of Hawaii (Board Reception); Altronix Corporation (Welcome reception for new members); American Alarm & Communications (Monday's Coffee Break); Bold Technology Group (Wednesday's Coffee Break); Detection Systems (Tuesday's Coffee break); Digital Security Controls-DSC (President's Dinner Dance's entertainment); Digital Monitoring Products, Inc.-DMP (President's Dinner-partial); Interlogix (President's Reception); Monitoring Automation Systems-MAS (Tuesday's Breakfast); Northern Computers (Monday's Breakfast); System Sensor (Tennis Tournament); TRG Associates (Entertainment for the San Juan Capistrano dinner/reception and the flowers for the President's Gala).

Presentations On-line
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Robert J. Blair, President & CEO, Optex, Inc., Protection instead of Detection
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Louis T. Fiore, VP, Technology, Detection Systems Inc., Advances in CCTV
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Albert Janjigian, President, Total Systems Network, Influence of the Internet on the Security Industry-Part II
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Steve Keefer, President & CEO, Monitoring Automation Systems (MAS), Using New Software Technologies to Protect the Bottom Line
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Craig Leiser, President, Kismet Group, Ltd., Security Dealers: Are They Part of the Problem or a Solution?
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John Mack, CEO, USBX, Inc., Mergers and Acquisitions within the Security and Alarm Industry
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Stephen W. Medcroft, Author of "Call Centers Made Easy - How to Build, Manage, and Profit from Your Small Business Call Center", Improving Customer Interaction in a Shrinking Economy
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Pamela J. Petrow, Sr. Vice President, Vector Security, Successfully Managing a Software Change
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Jim Stevens, VP Engineering Control Systems, Interlogix, Inc., Signaling on the Internet
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Other Presenters (Summaries or presentations will be posted in the future)

• Monday, October 29

• Tuesday, October 30

• Wednesday, October 31

• Thursday, November 1

Monday, Oct. 29, 2001

Jay Conrad Levinson. author, Guerrilla Marketing in an Age of Mergers & Acquisitions

George Miller, President, NFPA, NFPA Today and the Premise Security Project

Loring Knoblauch, President, Underwriters Laboratories (UL), New UL Marketing and Branding Program

Ronald G. Thornton, CPCU, President, Inland Marine Underwriters Association (IMUA), Today's P&C Insurance Marketplace Opportunities & Challenges Create Tomorrow's Results

Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2001

Panelists: Daniel Demers, President, Protectron; Ed Bonifas, VP, Alarm Detection Systems, Inc.; Kim Sears, VP, Sales, Security Systems by Hammond, Inc.; and George DeMarco, Greater Alarm; Dealing with the Transition from a Zero-down Market Toward the Traditional Market (Panel)

Chief Mike Brown, President, International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) and Sheriff John Carey Bittick, President, National Sheriffs' Association (NSA), New Millennium Agendas of the Major AHJ's

Steve Schwartz, Consultant, Overview of the 2001-2002 CSAA Central Station Wage and Benefit Survey

Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2001

Alan Pepper and Stephen Marks, Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp LLP, A Central Station on Trial: Do You Really Want a Jury Deciding the Fate of Your Company?

George Gunning, President, California Alarm Association, Electricians and the Apprentice Program Mandate in California: A National Trend?

Louis T. Fiore, Vice President, Technology, Detection Systems, Inc. a member of the Bosch Group, Advances in Closed Circuit Television

Thursday, November 1, 2001

Ron Davis, Chairman Emeritus, Security Associates International; Les Gold, Partner, Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp LLP; and Dorsie Mosher, Marketing Consultant Futurist View of the Industry

Eric J. Pritchard, Partner, Tannenbaum & Chanin, LLP, Ten Sure Fire Ways to Protect Your Alarm Company's Net Worth

Art Black, Principal, Carmel Fire Protection Associates, CSAA/UL Fire Certificate Program