RIDING THE WAVES OF INNOVATION is being held from March 9-11, 2009 in sunny and scenic Long Beach, California, and your options as an attendee for dining, shopping, and other fun and enriching experiences in this lovely city are many. Travel information can be found on our Hotel page.

In an effort to reduce paper use and hold as "green" a conference as possible, we would like to encourage you to visit the following online links to learn more about your entertaining options.

Dining in Long Beach

The Long Beach Area Convention & Visitors Bureau has created an excellent Online Guide to Dining in Long Beach that permits you to choose restaurants to visit by location and category of food, and enables you to "map out" the restaurants you are interested in and save an online itinerary that can be accessed later or saved to your computer or mobile device. The conference hotel is immediately adjacent to the Long Beach Area Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Shopping in Long Beach

Another of the excellent online guides you'll find at the LBCVB website given above is their Online Guide to Shopping in Long Beach, which offers similar functionality to the Dining Guide: browsing by location and category as well as mapping and itinerary creation.

Enriching Long Beach Attractions

The Online Guide to Long Beach Attractions makes plain why this bright, scenic city is such a hot tourist destination. Conference attendees can visit the Queen Mary, moored permanently at the Port of Long Beach, the celebrated Aquarium of the Pacific, and the beautiful Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden, located on the campus of CENIC Charter Associate Cal State Long Beach. Many other exciting options for entertainment and enrichment can be found at the Online Guide, so be sure to take a look.