NACA Live

Presenters: Adam Tobey; Brett Pasternak; Karli Leinweaver of Concert Ideas, Inc.

Audience: Undergraduates

Description:

In this session, participants will gain essential skills and insights crucial to successful concert booking. They'll learn how to select the right artists and venues, navigate the entire booking process, manage logistics and technical needs, learn the importance of event marketing and promotion strategies, how to handle financial aspects effectively, and develop risk management and problem-solving abilities. This comprehensive learning experience equips attendees to excel in the dynamic world of live music events.

Featured Workshop

Presenters: Adam Tobey; Brett Pasternak; Karli Leinweaver of Concert Ideas, Inc.

Audience: Undergraduates

Description:

Join our educational session designed to guide you through every crucial step in planning a successful concert. This includes contracts, paperwork, marketing, production, advancing, and day of show 101. No detail is left uncovered. By the end of this session, you'll have a comprehensive roadmap for planning and executing a seamless concert.

Featured Workshop

Presenter: Briana Hansen of Sex Rules & Feeling Risky

Audience: Undergraduates

Description:

Believe it or not, it is possible to have important, complicated conversations in ways that use humor and engagement to keep attention and still remain respectful.

Based on the popular, interactive, educational program, Sex Rules, this workshop will show an effective approach at tackling challenging topics like consent, healthy relationships, bystander intervention, toxic messaging, the neurobiology of trauma, sexual misconduct and interpersonal relationship violence in a way that’s both digestible and memorable for students and administrators alike.

It's a refreshing new way to an age-old conversation.

Participants will learn active strategies to cultivate a sense of support, prevent emotional burnout, and harness humor for both engagement and healing. Learn to create cultures where difficult conversations lead to growth, understanding, and lasting change. Oh, and some people will win prizes!

Featured Workshop

Presenter: Briana Hansen of Sex Rules & Feeling Risky

Audience: Undergraduates

Description:

Effective substance education isn't about belittling, lecturing, or giving people rigid rules.

It's about empowering students to better understand themselves so they can make choices that are in line with the type of person they want to be.

In doing so, they can take steps daily towards living the type of life they want to live. That's the inspiration behind the popular Feeling Risky interactive educational program, which will be the basis of this workshop.

In this workshop, we'll focus on choices, judgment-free information, and general personal risk management. We'll discuss how biology, society, peers, and culture all play a part in our urges. And we'll show how interaction and play make these lessons last even longer.

Plus, prizes for people who play along!

Featured Workshop

Presenter: Dr. Brittany Greene of Crowned Financials LLC

Audience: Undergraduates

Description:

The Currency Code™ is an interactive financial empowerment workshop that helps students decode, establish, or redefine their relationship with money, credit, and self-worth. We’re not just talking budgets, we’re reprogramming how students think about currency in all its forms. From navigating student loans and credit cards to building financial confidence and real-world strategy, this session equips students with a practical system to shift from survival mode to power moves. Participants learn about the various unique “Money Identities,” explore limiting beliefs around wealth, and walk away with a system they can apply right now as they learn about financial concepts waiting for them on the other side of graduation. The Currency Code™ helps students claim their worth, protect their bag, and build a legacy rooted in confidence before the physical money reaches their accounts!

Featured Workshop

Presenter: Allison Marconi, Forbes Marketing Group

Audience: Undergraduates

Description:

Who doesn't like free stuff!? Give the students what they want! Cool, unique, and FREE give-a-ways. This is where we talk about what is hot and unique in regards to all things SWAG. Custom give-a-ways are a great way to promote YOUR brand and YOUR event. This is a HUGE part of marketing. This session will dig into why promotional items are a fundamental part of a successful organization and show attendees how they can create a call to action AND give the students something really cool to have in their day to day life.

Featured Workshop

Presenters: Stacey Sottung, OnCampusText

Audience: Undergraduates

Description:

Marketing in 2025 is about understanding the fundamentals. Stop throwing content at the wall to see what sticks. Branding, print marketing, digital marketing and having a complete strategy are your avenues to success. Each pillar is just as important as the next one. This session will dig into all of the facets of a complete marketing plan so that attendees can improve their campus communication leading to higher attendance at events. 

Featured Tech Demo

Presenters: Stacey Sottung, OnCampusText

Audience: Undergraduates

Description:

Your student organization is a business, are you marketing it like one? The social media of your program board is a KEY factor in reaching your student body and let's face it, not everyone is amazing at it. Text message reminders are the leading way to get that extra attendance bump, are you using them? This session will explore how to create content both on social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok and then pair them with strong call to actions through text message reminders to ensure that your event attendance is as strong as you want it to be!

Featured Tech Demo