The ITAD Summit 2023 was a resounding success. Kudos to Robert Tokarchyk, his team, (and Arizona) for bringing the heat! 🔥🔥🥵
The event was like a big reunion of our industry partners and ITAD suppliers, with a few new ones to boot. We had the opportunity to share best practices, market insights, move our industry forward, and have some fun, too.
Rike Sandlin, you did an incredible job facilitating our panel on Refurbishing and Automation. I was honored to serve alongside some true leaders and innovators in our space – Markevis Gideon, Brooks Boland and Joe Savarese. The topic naturally moved towards use cases for AI, and it was fun to hear how quickly we’re all embedding this in to our operations. Keep pushing and experimenting everyone, but stay connected – it’s more important than ever.
Thank you to the ASCDI, Joe Marion & Billy Marion for an pre-event reception and putt-putt outing the night before the Summit. I hope we introduced some new folks to the great value of the ASCDI - The ITAD Association – Joe spoke incredibly well on our ethical trading standards expected of members, and our advocacy for reuse, circularity and progress on right-to-repair. 🍻
The Alta booth was non-stop action. I honestly don’t think I’ve handed out this many business cards in 15 years. Michael Hutchcraft stopped by and got a bear hug, after all his help this year in preparing us for our June R2v3 / ISO audit. I was glad to be “stuck” at the booth for most of the event and have so many conversations, with the rest of our team booked solid in one-on-one conversations. Ryan Mezera, Mike Lochner and Andrew Riedl were everywhere and represented Alta Technologies Inc and ITAD well. Many wished Vadim Nevelskiy and other Alta reps could have been there, too, but we all know how hard it is to get away from the day-to-day, especially in July.
The ITAD Summit turns their evening networking events up to 11 each year and 2023 was no exception. These events were a blast, but really fueled important conversations around how we operate our businesses and take ITAD to the next level... in between lots of laughs. Cheers and we’ll see everyone again at ITAD 2024! #ITAD2023 #ITADSUMMIT #ITAD #inpersonevents
