9am: Networking
Networking with your peers from across the Commonwealth fosters collaboration, sparks new ideas, and builds valuable relationships that strengthen both individual success and collective impact.
10am: Speaker Series – INFINITE ADVANTAGE: Impact Storytelling
Guest speaker – Adam Olenn, Rustle & Spark
The 21st century pits our ability to adapt against the fastest pace of change in human history. Technologies like artificial intelligence are growing logarithmically. Social networks have left us feeling more separated and lonely. And together, they have spawned an information environment so dense with static that it’s hard to hear the music.
Fortunately, you have within you a power that overcomes all of these challenges: the ability to create and share stories.
In this energizing, inspiring, and highly practical keynote, you’ll learn why stories are the preeminent form of human communication, the transformative effects they have on business, and how to achieve these results time after time.
11am: Chamber Exchange
Chamber Exchange is a valuable one-hour session focused on asking questions,
sharing ideas, and learning what other chambers are doing, while gaining insight and feedback from your peers on your own challenges and initiatives.
Noon: Lunch
Lunch will be catered TBA (no orders needed ahead of time)
Professional Development Day
Date and Time
Friday Feb 27, 2026 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST
Friday February 27, 2026
9am Networking
10am Speaker
11am Chamber Exchange
Noon Lunch & tour
Location
Zeiterion Performing Arts Center
684 Purchase St.
New Bedford
Parking:
Street parking is available and usually plentiful but metered. Passport app for parking meters is available in the city. Ideal parking is the parking garage located next door (same address as the theatre).
Fees/Admission
Members $25
Future Members $50 ***Registration in advance required / Payment required at registration***