The Future: A new conference from Craig Schumacher

After six great years it's time to take this conference to the next level and to grow it and include more people and more voices in the audio community. Next year we will return to New Orleans and do a similar conference, but with a new name. I am very passionate about bringing it back to New Orleans, a city which has been very good to us. Bringing the conference to New Orleans in 2004 and 2005 allowed us to expand the conference content and the experience and was a good fit for our attendees, sponsors, exhibitors, and panelists. Post Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is still a great music city and is still a perfect site for this conference.

Our government has abdicated its responsibility to New Orleans, and as a community of people who live for the music it's on us to do what we can to help lift this great music city back up. Bringing our conference, our community and our business to New Orleans is one of the best things we can do.

Thanks to all of you who've attended, and for making this the best event in the audio community. Thanks to Larry and John for everything they and their wonderful magazine has done - and for contributing to a vision of what a truly great audio conference could be. We look forward to continuing our relationship with Tape Op Magazine as a cornerstone sponsor in this conference and we also look forward to adding other significant and relevant organizations in our audio community. I hope we see you all in New Orleans in 2008.

-Craig Schumacher