Where Marketing Minds Connect: Meet the 2026-2027 AMA Orlando Board
On September 10, AMA Orlando goes online to introduce the chapter's 2026-2027 board. One hour, zero dollars, and the fastest way to find out what Central Florida's marketing community has planned for the year ahead.
By AMA Orlando, published August 28, 2026, 5 minute read
Every chapter year opens the same way: a new board, a new slate of plans, and a room full of marketers wondering what the next twelve months will look like. This year, the room is virtual, and every marketer in Central Florida is invited to be in it.
On Wednesday, September 10 at 6:00 PM ET, AMA Orlando hosts Where Marketing Minds Connect, a free online welcome event for the chapter's 2026-2027 board. It runs about an hour, registration takes a minute on Eventbrite, and you can join from a home office, a kitchen table, or the quiet corner of a coffee shop.
Why the Chapter Opens the Year This Way
A board slate is easy to announce in a newsletter. Names, titles, headshots, done. But a chapter is not a mailing list, and the people who volunteer to run it are not line items. They are working marketers who give up their evenings to build programming, partnerships, and mentorship for a community they belong to.
Introducing them live, with time for questions, does two things a newsletter cannot. It lets you take the measure of the people planning your chapter year, and it lets them hear directly from you about what that year should include. The conversation runs both directions, which is the whole point of a professional chapter in the first place.
What Happens on September 10
The evening is built around three words that have long described what this chapter does at its best.
- Ideas. The incoming board shares what AMA Orlando has planned for 2026-2027, from event programming to partnerships, and the thinking behind those choices.
- Connections. Time is built in to talk with the marketers on the call, not just watch a presentation. Bring a one line introduction and use it.
- Community. The event closes with how to plug in, whether that means membership, volunteering, or simply showing up to what comes next on the calendar.
No sales pitch, no gated follow up sequence, no fee. The chapter wants you to meet the people running it, and that is the entire agenda.
Who the Evening Is For
The honest answer is anyone whose work touches marketing in Central Florida, but a few groups will get particular value from this hour.
- Current members get the first look at the year ahead and a direct line to the people shaping it.
- Marketers who have been meaning to check out AMA Orlando get the lowest commitment introduction the chapter offers. No drive, no parking, no name tag anxiety.
- Students and early career professionals get to see how a professional chapter works from the inside, and to meet leaders who were in their position not long ago.
- Agency owners and in house leaders get a read on the community their teams could be learning from and hiring out of.
What a Volunteer Board Actually Does
If you have never been close to a chapter board, the job is easy to underestimate. Board members book venues and speakers, negotiate sponsorships, run the mentorship program, manage the budget, publish the newsletter, and answer the inbox. Every event you have attended, every article on this site, and every partnership the chapter holds exists because a volunteer decided it should.
That is worth an hour of your evening to acknowledge, and it is also worth understanding if you have ever considered volunteering yourself. The people on this call are the best possible answer to the question of what chapter leadership involves.
Why Virtual, and Why It Works
AMA Orlando serves a region that stretches from Winter Park to Kissimmee to Cocoa Beach. An in person event, however good, always asks someone to cross a long stretch of Interstate 4 at rush hour. A virtual welcome removes that tax entirely and lets the chapter meet everyone where they already are.
Virtual also changes who shows up. Parents who cannot arrange an evening out, professionals who commute, students in the middle of a semester: the people a chapter most wants to reach are often exactly the people a downtown venue quietly filters out. One hour online is the most inclusive format the chapter can offer, so that is the format this event uses.
How to Register
Registration is free and handled on Eventbrite. Grab a ticket, and the joining link arrives with your confirmation email. Add the hour to your calendar, and that is the entire preparation the evening requires.
If you want to arrive with context, spend ten minutes on the board page to see how the chapter is structured, or skim the chapter's recent articles to get a feel for what this community writes and thinks about.
What to Do Before the Call
A virtual event rewards a small amount of preparation, and this one is no exception.
- Write a one line introduction. Name, role, and the marketing problem you are currently living with. It makes every breakout conversation easier.
- Bring one question for the board. The programming you want, the topic you wish someone would cover, the thing the chapter should do differently. This is the night to say it.
- Decide what you want from the year. A mentor, a speaking slot, a new role, a sharper skill set. The chapter can help with all of them, but only if you name the goal.
The Bigger Picture for 2026-2027
A board introduction is also a statement of intent. The chapter that shows up on your screen on September 10 is the same one that will run workshops, socials, and panels through the year, publish practical writing on this site, and maintain a free tools library for the marketers of Central Florida. Meeting the board is the front door to all of it.
Key Takeaways
- The event is free, online, and one hour long. September 10 at 6:00 PM ET, with registration on Eventbrite through the event page.
- It is the fastest introduction to the chapter. Members, prospective members, and students all get value from the same hour.
- The conversation runs both ways. Come with a question or a request for the year's programming, and the board will hear it.
- Volunteering starts here. If chapter leadership has ever tempted you, meet the people doing it now.
- Keep going after the call. Browse the full calendar and the free resources library to stay close to the chapter between events.
Topics: AMA Orlando, chapter news, virtual events, networking, board of directors