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International Professional Martial Arts Conference 2020

May 28-30, 2020

You're invited! Revgear University, Zen Planner, and Kovar Systems have joined forces to put on the martial arts event of the year.

Spend 3 full days with a choice of over 100+ business sessions and on-mat training opportunities to attend. Sessions will cover topics on martial arts, fitness, business, sales, and marketing tactics taught by world-class school owners and instructors.

What Can You Expect?

On-Mat Training

Amazing on-mat training session opportunities with martial arts legends and experienced instructors including Erik Paulson, Mark DellaGrotte, John Whitman, and over 30+ martial artists!

Business Seminars

Tons of business seminars with the industry's best that cover topics on how to grow your school, retain your student active count, manage your staff, develop instructor teaching tactics, advance your marketing and selling techniques to boost your business, and more!

Networking

You will have a great opportunitiy to network with many vendors, martial arts peers, and speakers throughout the week and expand your community reach within the industry.

Event Speakers

CALL FOR CONTENT!

Is there a topic or presenter you'd like to see? Are you interested in being speaker and have a session you would like to present?Let us know! CLICK HERE to submit sessions!

Harinder Singh Sabharwal

Jeet Kune Do Athletic Association

Erik Paulson

CSW Training Center

Katalin Rodriguez Ogren

POW Gym Chicago

Jon Whitman

Krav Maga Alliance

Ryan Hoover

Fit to Fight

Stefan Billen

Chris Mierzwiak

Easton Training Center

Ian Lieberman

Easton Training Center

Silver Fox

Silver Fox Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy

Chris Rappold

Personal Best Karate

Rafael Cordeiro

Kings MMA

Dave Kovar

Kovar Systems

Matt Brown

UFC Fighter

Jason Khalipa

NCFIT

Alex Kostic

Moti Horenstein

Moti Horenstein's Krav-Maga MMA

John Bussard

Kicks Karate

Bryan Nay

Kovar Systems

Chad Shepherd

Kovar Systems

Dave Chamberlain

Kovar Systems

Elaine Warrener

Kovar Systems

Chaz Butler

Kovar Systems

Nick Wilson

Kovar Systems

Tim Leard

Kovar Systems

CALL FOR CONTENT!

Is there a topic or presenter you'd like to see? Are you interested in being speaker and have a session you would like to present?Let us know!

CLICK HERE to submit sessions!

Speaker list and sessions are subject to change.

2020 Schedule At-A-Glance

REGISTRATION & BADGE PICK-UP

Wednesday 4:00PM to 7:00PM

Thursday 9:00AM to 12:00PM

EVENT START/END TIMES

Thursday 12:00PM to 8:00PM

Friday 8:30AM to 6:00PM

Saturday 8:30AM to 6:00PM

Event Date, schedule, speakers, and times subject to change.

Sessions for ALL School Owner Levels!

With over 100 breakout sessions covering all topics, there’s a lot to take in! Since everyone is at a different place in their journey, we wanted to make it easy to find the content that will most apply to you and your team and have adopted a three-digit numbering system for most of this year’s content. First, you’ll see session broken down by 100, 200, 300, or 400-level courses. The first number indicates how advanced the topic will be, and roughly translates to:

100 Sessions

200 Sessions

300 Sessions

400 Sessions

100 Sessions

100

0 - 100 students

100-level courses are foundational systems and concepts that are essential for growing your student body up to about 120 students. Whether you have a brand new location, are trying to make the move to full-time professional martial artist, or want to begin growing a team, you want to make sure these systems are in place.

200 Sessions

200

100 to 200 students

200-level courses focus on intermediate systems that help you establish repeatable processes to grow past the 100 student mark and into the territory of 200+ students. These concepts are central to how we run our Kovars academies, and will help you grow and develop your team around you to serve a larger part of your community.

300 Sessions

300

200 - 300 students

At the 300-level, the assumption is your school is already running fairly smooth and you have a team already in place to help you. Your school is successful, but you can still improve as you face new challenges with a growing team. Maybe you’re looking to open a second location, or you want to continue to grow your primary location well into the 300+ student range and beyond.

400 Sessions

400

300+ students or Multi-Schools

Our 400-level courses are catering to well-established school owners with much larger teams, often spanning several locations or single locations at the “mega-school” level. These topics will focus on the challenges of running multiple locations, shaping large-scale teams, and other more advanced or nuanced topics that should be prioritized only after those of the earlier subjects.