Jeopardy-Style Conference Session will Highlight IIAR Standards
A new conference session format is brewing ahead of the IIAR annual conference in March according to IIAR conference planners. The session, which will take place during the event’s closing day will include a lively jeopardy-style question and answer format and will focus on IIAR’s standards.
“The closing forum this year is going to be really fun,” said IIAR Vice President – Education, Outreach and Events, Yesenia Rector, adding that IIAR has assembled the members who lead the formation of and write the standards for the organization.
She added that the three-hour conference closing session on Wednesday morning is a unique opportunity for members to hear directly from the experts on their questions. “Throughout the year, questions [about IIAR standards] come up, and this is a big chance to get them answered all at once, by the experts,” said Rector. “You’ll be glad you stayed [and didn’t leave early] for this session. All of our standards [subcommittee] chairs have really been working hard on this – so that members can understand how to put IIAR standards to use. It will really make you appreciate our standards and how much work goes into them and into explaining them.”
IIAR’s Standard’s Committee Chairman, Don Faust, who will be leading the session, said one thing the group is not aiming to do is give a comprehensive review of rules and regulations. “We’re hoping this is a good chance for everyone to get to know our standards in an informal way,” he said. “Standards are living breathing things that are being shaped and revised constantly. Sometimes those revisions are minor and sometimes they’re major, but ultimately they are reflections of things that are happening in the field.”
He added that one of the most important things to understand about IIAR’s standards is that they’re consensus standards. “Ultimately, our standards have to represent the consensus of everyone in the industry and that starts with knowledge. The more of us who are invested in really understanding these standards and how they’re used, the better.”
