DEMA

The following individuals will serve three terms.

A1: Manufacturing

Jenna Meistrell, Body Glove (elected 2021)

A2: Diver Certification and Training Agencies

Tom Leaird, SEI Scuba
Jeff Mondle, PADI Americas (elected 2021)

A3: Dive Publishing, Media, Consulting and Non-Retail Service Providers

William Cline, Cline Group Advertising
Dan Orr, Dan Orr Consulting (elected 2021)

A4: Retailers

This review comes on the coat tails of the other virtual dive show, Scuba.Digital, which we attended a few weeks prior and the conclusions are just about the same; The conference component in which attendees can listen into a range of webinar-style presentations worked reasonably well.

The rest of it, however, such as networking activities which is an essential part and, to entities like ourselves, the most important aspect of taking part in dive shows, absolutely did not.

While various governments, as of writing this, are mulling over various subsidies or bailouts to tide over whole sectors of business to the other side of the coronavirus outbreak, much uncertainty and concern for the future remains at this juncture among operators with whom X-Ray Mag has spoken about the matter.

This year the DEMA Show ( Diving Equipment and Marketing Association) is being held in Las Vegas from Wednesday 16th to Saturday 19th November inclusive.

Attendees from all over the world fly in to attend the Dive Industry’s only trade-only event at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

DEMA has confirmed that there is an 'early bird special' where current DEMA members can save up to US$125 on their registration fees provided they book by 7th October.

DEMA Show will feature the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino as this year’s Host Hotel.