GMI Rocket Presents:
GMI Con 2022 đ
The global immigration industryâs only marketing and growth conference!
Dates:
Thursday March 31st, 2022 | 11am - 5pm EST (8am - 2pm PT)
Friday April 1st, 2022 | 11am - 5pm EST (8am - 2pm PT)
Location:
Online
đșđŠâ€ïž 10% of ticket sales will go to nonprofits supporting Ukraine
GMI CON 2022 is the second-annual marketing and growth conference focused exclusively on the immigration industry.
Weâre bringing together business and marketing experts from both inside and outside the immigration industry to inform, inspire, educate and elevate you and your practice.
Plus, this isnât another boring virtual event platform: weâve built a beautiful, customized digital world where you can walk around, interact with vendors and their booths, run into colleagues and make new friends.
đCurious? Click the link below to experience the GMI CON world!đ
đșđŠâ€ïž 10% of ticket sales will go to nonprofits supporting Ukraine
Schedule at-a-glance
â Note - all speaker sessions will take place on Zoom, and they will be recorded for attendees to view once the conference is over
Thursday, March 31st, 2022
11:00am - 12:00pm EST
âïžDoors open for attendees to explore exhibitors and network!
12:00pm - 12:50pm EST
Session 1: đ€Inspirational keynote: How to find your authentic confidence in todayâs world
Tina Rae VanSteenbergen, professional speaker
1:00pm - 1:50pm EST
Session 2: đGrow your immigration practice: How to approach your firm like the business it is
Alay Yajnik, MBA and law firm growth expert
2:00pm - 2:50pm EST
BREAK! Eat some lunch, reply to work emails, or go for a walk!
3:00pm - 3:50pm EST
Session 3: đ„YouTube for immigration: How to build a brand and get clients through YouTube
Maneesha Mukhi, YouTube growth and immigration expert
4:00pm - 4:50pm EST
Session 4: đ€LinkedIn for immigration: Become a thought leader and get clients through LinkedIn
Roman Zelichenko, immigration lawyer-turned-entrepreneur and LinkedIn expert
5:00pm - Whenever!
đ„Open time to explore and network!
Friday, April 1st, 2022
11:00am - 12:00pm EST
âïžDoors open for attendees to explore exhibitors and network!
12:00pm - 12:50pm EST
Session 5: đInteractive session: Tap into your creativity through improvisation!
Rick Andrews, improv instructor
1:00pm - 1:50pm EST
Session 6: đ§đ»ââïžCreating a success mindset: De-stress and level up your immigration practice the right way.
Olivia Vizachero, lawyer and certified life coach
2:00pm - 2:50pm EST
BREAK! Eat some lunch, reply to work emails, or go for a walk!
3:00pm - 3:50pm EST
Session 7: đInstagram & TikTok for immigration: How to grow your firm through next-gen social apps
Jacob Sapochnick, immigration lawyer and social media influencer
4:00pm - 4:50pm EST
Session 8: đ« Growing your firm with events: How to create, organize and capitalize on in-person events
Sam Udani, immigration event producer and immigration publisher at ILW.com
5:00pm - Whenever!
đ„Open time to explore and network!
đșđŠâ€ïž 10% of ticket sales will go to nonprofits supporting Ukraine
Speakers and session info
THURSDAY March 31, 2022
(12pm EST) Session 1: đ€ Keynote Speaker
Tina Rae VanSteenbergen
Tina is a thoughtful, hilarious and passionate professional speaker and facilitator who has inspired thousands across corporate events and college campuses. Tinaâs keynote presentation is going to help us start this conference with intentionality, self-confidence, and a mindset for success, especially after years of dealing with travel bans, government hurdles, geopolitical events and the COVID-19 pandemic. Tina will inspire us to not only use what weâve been through as a force for continued growth, but also remind us to care for ourselves and our colleagues in the process.
(1pm EST) Session 2: đ Grow your immigration practice
Alay Yajnik
Alay is a law firm growth expert and the founder of Law Firm Success Group, the author of Staffing Up, The Attorney's Guide to Hiring Top Talent, and hosts the Lawyer Business Advantage podcast. Alay is going to talk about how to approach your immigration firm or business with an MBA mindset and an eye toward growth, transformation, and having the business of your dreams. Alay has helped lawyers hire more successfully, get more clients, make more money, and (importantly) learn how to take more vacation while still growing their practice. Heâll share some of this during his session.
(3pm EST) Session 3: đ„ YouTube for immigration
Maneesha Mukhi
Maneesha is a YouTube coach for immigration lawyers, the founder of immigration resource platform AskEllis, and the creator of a rapidly growing immigration information YouTube channel. Maneesha is going to help you understand how to launch a YouTube channel, learn the basics of how YouTube works, go over what you need to do to succeed on YouTube, and how you can get started with your own channel, or improve your existing channel, in 2022.
(4pm EST) Session 4: đ€ LinkedIn for immigration
Roman Zelichenko
Roman is a former immigration lawyer, co-founder of electronic LCA compliance startup LaborLess, LinkedIn coach, writer, speaker and the founder of GMI Rocket. Roman is going to talk about all things LinkedIn for the immigration industry, from cleaning up your profile and getting better at posting content to becoming a thought leader in your niche. Roman will also dive into more recent LinkedIn updates and how you can optimize your success on the platform today!
Friday April 1, 2022
(12pm EST) Session 5: đ Interactive session leader
Rick Andrews
With 20+ years performing and teaching improv, Rick helps groups and individuals become more confident listeners, creatives, decision makers, and speakers. Rick is going to walk us through improv games to loosen us up, get us smiling and get us thinking creatively, right through Zoom. Itâs fun, itâs engaging, itâs hilarious, and youâll be left feeling invigorated and ready for the rest of the conference!
(1pm EST) Session 6: đ§đ»ââïž Creating a success mindset
Olivia Vizachero
Olivia is a lawyer and life coach, and the founder of The Less Stressed Lawyer, a coaching business that helps overstressed, overworked and overwhelmed lawyers start living lives with less stress and far more fulfillment. Olivia is going to inspire you to look at your work as an immigration professional differently, and to come away feeling more grounded and confident with your practice as it stands today. Because once you feel good about where you are today, you can start planning more successfully for where you want to be tomorrow.
(3pm EST) Session 7: đ Instagram & TikTok for immigration
Jacob Sapochnick
Jacob is a San Diego-based immigration lawyer, entrepreneur, investor and Instagram and TikTok influencer with over 1.3 million followers across social media platforms. Jacob is going to share his tips and tricks when it comes to creating highly engaging and effective content on TikTok and Instagram, especially through video posts, reels and stories. As a verified (blue check!) content creator on both Instagram and TikTok, Jacob is going to help you walk away with practical insights on how to grow on todayâs most popular social media apps.
(4pm EST) Session 8: đ„ Growing your firm with events
Sam Udani
Sam Udani is the CEO of ILW.com, an immigration publication and resource center for immigration lawyers across the US on topics ranging from EB-5 to PERM to everything in between. Over the past two decades, ILW.com has produced hundreds of in-person events for immigration lawyers, EB-5 investors and others, both within the US and around the world, including India, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Turkey, UAE, Kuwait, UK, Canada and more. Sam is going to talk about how immigration firms can organize in-person events, from large-scale gatherings to informal lunch meetings, and how to leverage these events for growth. Sam will also share past successful and failed events, and what heâs learned from them.
đșđŠâ€ïž 10% of ticket sales will go to nonprofits supporting Ukraine
Sponsors
đPlatinum Sponsor đ
Syndesus is a Canadian PEO that helps growth-focused U.S. companies remotely employing H-1B, F-1 OPT and other skilled employees in Canada who have either run out of immigration options in the US or simply want to relocate to Canada. Syndesus also supports individuals: both Canadian nationals who want to work remotely for U.S. employers as well as H-1B and F-1 OPT tech workers in the U.S. who are looking for a job with a Canadian company.
đ Gold Sponsorđ
Global RCG helps US companies who are at risk of losing, or are having trouble hiring, skilled, foreign-born workers because of the H-1B visa lottery or other US immigration challenges, and helps them hire and retain these skilled workers through various, creative global residency programs, with an eye to eventually bringing them back to the US or, in some cases, enabling them to live outside the US and work remotely. Overall, Global RCG is focused on solving ââthe international mobility and residency challenges faced by globally-oriented individuals and remote work-centric companies.
đ„Silver Sponsorđ„
Supervisas is an immigration SaaS platform that provides a new digital solution for global immigration agencies to streamline their manual application processes for their customers. Supervisas launched in Canada, helping Canadian immigration agencies leverage their technology to streamline and grow their firms. Supervisas is now expanding into the U.S.!
Mitratech provides technology solutions for corporate legal departments, risk & compliance teams, and HR professionals across the US and the world. In 2020, Mitratech acquired INSZoom, a leading immigration case management platform, and now provides comprehensive, secure, and compliant cloud-based immigration software to immigration law firms, in-house teams and other immigration service professionals worldwide.
Joorney Digital delivers customizable templated websites, built specifically for the immigration law firms, consultants and other businesses they serve. Joorney Digital is part of Joorney, one of the leading immigration Business Plan writing companies in the US and Canada, and works alongside immigration attorneys and consultants, startups, M&A advisors, and others.
Exhibitors
Since 2013, Law Firm Success Group has been helping law firms and lawyers fill their books with great clients, while enabling them to take weeks of vacation each year. The team is made up of Certified Practice Advisors, who are law firm growth experts and world-class business coaches, so reach out to them to learn more about how they can help you revamp or revive your firmâs business!
Founded by a lawyer-turned-live coach, The Less Stressed Lawyer works with lawyers who are over feeling overwhelmed and want to start living their lives, and growing their careers, with less stress and far more fulfillment.
LaborLess is a cloud-based platform that enables immigration law firms and H-1B, H-1B1 and E-3 employers to post electronic Labor Condition Applications and create and manage electronic Public Access Files. LaborLess digitizes and streamlines the LCA posting and PAF creation process, eliminating up to 90% of the busy work! đ
For over 20 years ILW.com has been an immigration publication and resource center for immigration lawyers across the US. ILW publishes immigration books on everything from PERM to EB-5, produce online and in-person EB-5 events, organize immigration CLEs, and even pioneered cloud-based immigration software in the early 2000âs before the division was later divested.
Created by immigration attorney Dionnie Wynter Pfunde, the Wynter Law Academy is a coaching program that helps immigration attorneys create successful, fully virtual practices while living anywhere they want. In fact, on Saturday April 9th, Dionnie is hosting a one-day intensive workshop on building the immigration practice of your dreams, and has other workshops throughout the year. Connect with Dionnie on LinkedIn, Facebook or Instagram and DM her âAcademyâ to learn more!
Immigration Paralegals, formerly known as Tila Case Prep, is an immigration paralegal service that has a team of experienced virtual paralegals that seamlessly integrate into their clientâs law firm, providing support, as needed, to firms that need help with a growing caseload, want to have more of their time back, or otherwise want to expand their team, and either donât want or need to add a full-time paralegal onto their payroll. Immigration Paralegals was launched by Yesica Sierra, who was herself an immigrant to the US!
The TikTok Masterclass for Lawyers, created by immigration lawyer and TikTok creator and influencer Jacob Sapochnik, is meant to help lawyers learn how to use TikTok in a way that will get them more cases and build their law practices. From creating successful content to leveraging engagement and turning it into business for your law firm, this course will teach you everything you need to know!
đșđŠâ€ïž 10% of ticket sales will go to nonprofits supporting Ukraine
Want your company to be part of this awesome event? Join us!
Sponsor
While all the level sponsor slots have been taken, you can still sponsor two sessions and have your company introduced at the beginning of that sessions. Reach out to learn more.
Exhibit
Want to set up an awesome virtual booth and introduce your products or services to immigration professionals from around the world? Reach out and ask about exhibiting!