522: Dr. Bob Skinner – ADA Meeting Chair at ADA SmileCon - a podcast by ACT Dental

Dr. Bob Skinner – ADA Meeting Chair at ADA SmileCon

Episode #522 with Dr. Bob Skinner

If you weren't at SmileCon 2022 — why not? It’s a great place to learn and have a good time. There are tons of CE, activities, and events you won't want to miss! To tell you all about it, Kirk Behrendt brings back Dr. Bob Skinner, the meeting chair of SmileCon 2022, to welcome you to this amazing event. To learn more and to register for SmileCon 2023, listen to Episode 522 of The Best Practices Show!

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Links Mentioned in This Episode:

SmileCon: https://www.ada.org/education/smilecon/smilecon-future-meetings

Main Takeaways:

Learn about SmileCon and its vision.

Save the date for SmileCon 2023!

Go to SmileCon 2023!

Quotes:

“We work on these a couple years out, so it’s not like we started thinking about this last week. There was a lot of preparation. We have the basic CE courses, because a lot of people like to come here to get CE. We’ve got phenomenal speakers. So, you can come here, you can have fun and see all the wow moments that we put in, but you can get a good education too. You can learn new techniques, new materials, new supplies, and new equipment. A lot of people like that. We’re always in a great destination.” (1:24—1:55)

“[The NASA mini museum is] one of the wow moments we have. They brought a mini museum from NASA. They brought the moon rock . . . One of the lounges has a little NASA mini museum. We had to pay to get it here from NASA about 30 miles away. I said, ‘I think we can swing that.’ We had to get a little security for it. And so, that's a wow moment. You can come see that and be part of NASA. Leland Melvin is going to be our keynote, an astronaut that went from the NFL to an astronaut. Think about that. You don't see that much. Super, super nice guy.” (3:16—3:56)

“We wanted to create some FOMO. Why aren't you here?” (4:13—4:16)

“Another vision we had was Street Fest. I thought, ‘We’re going to be in this building for two days. Let's get outside. It’s October. It’s in Houston. The weather is going to be great.’ So, we’re going to close the street down in front of the George R. Brown Convention Center. We’re going to have a stage set up and have a live band . . . We’re going to close the street and have food trucks come in, and you can go to different food trucks and get the cuisine of Houston. I've been down here six times in the last year-and-a-half. I've never had a bad meal. It’s...

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