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2025 VCA Annual Meeting Exhibit/Sponsor Registration

  • 06/12/2025
  • 06/14/2025
  • The Virginian Hotel, Lynchburg, VA

Registration

  • • Guest Speaker for Annual Meeting
    • Sponsorship Board
    • Ad in event brochure/handout (one page)
    • Written acknowledgment in any future email blasts for the event
    • Large logo placed on any running PowerPoint slides
    • Logo on home and meeting page of VCA website prior to the meeting
    • Includes Exhibit table with power
    • Company Logo on all Signage
    • 2-Minute Introduction of company and introduction of First Speaker)
  • • Guest Speaker Program and Banquet Sponsorship Board
    • Ad in event brochure/handout (1/2 page)
    • Written acknowledgment in any future email blasts for the event
    • Large logo placed on any running PowerPoint slides
    • Logo on meeting page of VCA website prior to the meeting
    • Company Logo on all Signage at Reception
    • Includes Exhibit table with power
    • 2-Minute Introduction of company at Reception
  • • Logo / Name in event brochure
    • Written acknowledgment in any future email blasts for the event
    • Public recognition at meeting
  • Emerald $2500,
    • Sponsorship Board
    • Ad in event brochure/handout (1/4 page)
    • Written acknowledgment in any future email blasts for the event
    • Large logo placed on any running PowerPoint slides
    • Logo on meeting page of VCA website prior to the meeting
    • Company Logo on all Signage
    • Includes Exhibit space outside in parking lot
    • Outside speaking to introduce their equipment
Register

VIRGINIA CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING

“Cemeteries Reimagined: Cultivating a Welcoming Atmosphere to Shatter Stigmas and Inspire Celebrations”

The Virginian Hotel, Lynchburg, VA

June 12-14, 2025

*Hotel Group Rate has ended but you can still reserve your room.
 RESERVE HERE. 

Annual Meeting Schedule

Thursday

June 12, 2025

8:00 am

Golf Outing at Poplar Grove Golf Club, 129 Tavern Lane, Amherst VA
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm   Registration and Vendor Set up

6:00 pm -8:00 pm  

Welcome Reception, sponsored by Columbia Gardens Cemetery, Historyland Memorial Park & Arboretum, Evergreen Memorial Trust & Trinity Memorial Gardens.

Friday

June 13, 2025

8:00 am – 8:30 am  

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00am – 2:00 pm

Exhibit Hall Open

8:45 am – 9:15 am

VCA Annual Membership Meeting

9:15 am – 10:15 am

10:15 am - 10:45 am

Amber Caron, Wreaths Across America

Break with Suppliers in Exhibit Hall

10:45 am – 11:30 am

John Bolton, “My Cemetery: Simple Burial Ground or Multi-faceted Community Asset?”  

11:30 am – 12:15 pm

Ashleigh Meyer, "From Solemn to Celebratory: The Cemetery as a Space for the Living"

12:15 pm-1:00 pm

Lunch Buffet in Exhibit Hall

1:00 pm – 1:15 pm

John Bolton, ICCFA Report

1:15 pm- 1:30 pm

Wally Frankland, Veteran’s Update

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm  (Maps available for location)

Kenneth Glass, "Robotic Equipment", Stihl Demo at Historic Presbyterian Cemetery 2020 Grace Street, Lynchburg, VA 24504

Saturday

June 14, 2025

8:00 am – 8:30 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00 am-2:00 pm

Exhibit Hall Open

8:35 am-12:35pm    

Mike Doherty, Cemetery Training for the Compliance Agent

9:00 am – 9:45 am  

 9:45 am - 10:15 am

Shaun Spencer-Hester, The Anne Spencer House & Garden Museum

Break with Suppliers in Exhibit Hall

10:15 am - 11:00 am

Dr. Rev Joe Cobb, Mayor of Roanoke

“Honoring Their Breaths: When the Bones of our Ancestors Breathe Forth Reparation and Justice”

11:10 am -11:20 am

Legislative Report; Jimmy Stuart

11:20 am – 11:30 am

VFDA Report; VFDA President Gregg Faulkner

11:30 am -11:40 am

SCCFA Report; SCCFA President Jodie Dupree

11:40 am-12:00 pm

DPOR Update; Anika Coleman

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Lunch Buffet in Exhibit Hall

1:00 pm – 1:45 pm  

Alan Creedy, “How to Win Back Lost Customers”

2:00 pm         

Family Time

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

President's Reception 

6:00 pm – 8:30 pm  

Installation Banquet featuring Mary Pope Maybank Hutson President, Sweet Briar College, "Honoring the Legacy of Monument Hill: A Tribute to our History"

Officer/Board Installations: Jodie Dupree, SCCFA

Please join us in thanking our Conference supporters! 

Reception Sponsors:

   

Trinity Memorial Gardens

Platinum Sponsor:



Emerald Sponsor:



Gold Sponsors:

        

     

Silver Sponsor:

        

    Coldspring


Bronze-Coffee/Snack Break Sponsors:


      


Compliance Training Sponsor:


Columbia Gardens Cemetery


Friends of VCA: 



Sponsors/Exhibitors Information & Registration

Terms and Conditions

By registering for this Virginia Cemetery Association event or program you consent to being photographed, filmed and/or otherwise recorded at the event or program. By doing so, you grant to the Association rights to the release, publication or reproduction of any recorded media taken at the event or program of your appearance, voice or name for use by the Association and its management team.        

Cancellation Policy:

Registrants canceling on or before May 19, 2025, are entitled to a refund, less a $50 processing fee. Registrants canceling after May 19, 2025, are NON-REFUNDABLE. Substitutions are allowed and encouraged. All Cancellations must be directed in writing to VCA office.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Become a member

Membership with the VCA provides your company with many valuable benefits. We host educational and networking events each year with a large discount provided for our members. Supplier Members have the opportunity for advertising and sponsorships to promote their business.
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