2024 VAF Annual Conference Keynote Speaker

Opening Session: Seeing Straight in a Cross-Eyed World

Friday, January 5

9:00 am

GARY BERG

Our Friday Keynote Speaker , Gary Berg, was born in Wisconsin and fell in love with mini-donuts at the Dunn County Fair. After graduating from college in Wisconsin and graduate school in Missouri he worked as a college administrator for 10 years before leaving that profession to start a new entertainment agency. That agency, G.L. Berg Entertainment, is now in its 34th year and annually contracts over 6000 shows all over the world and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Gary is also an award-winning author, a basketball coach, radio host . . . and more importantly, dad, husband, brother, son and friend. Gary has attended over 100 state and county fairs over the years and considers fair people “his people”. He has presented talks from coast to coast and is looking forward to presenting in Virginia for the first time. His presentation is titled “Seeing Straight in a Cross-Eyed World”- and its purpose is to help us all look at the world and each other with more open eyes and minds so we can get to better outcomes.