b'minor tweaks, and the occasional new products give us the opportunity to try to grow. Relationships between friendly and the occasionally less than friendly contractors, mergers, divestments, and retirements all help the industry grow and evolve. All these changes impact our professional and our personal lives. PRESIDENTS These kinds of changes stress even more how we need to MESSAGEadapt and look at how we incorporate these innovations into our practices and recruit the people who can best make that happen. We would all prefer to be the caveman behind in-stead of under the wheel. Greetings MICA Members!As a reminder, the Fall Business Meeting is going to be Hopefully everyone has been having a fruitful andtaking place in November instead of October this year. exciting summer!Registration is open on the MICA website and information can be found in this issue of the newsletter. Please go To all our contractor and associate members, yourregister today! companys primary contact should be hearing from or should already have heard from a member of the BoardThanks for reading. After you finish reading through the by the time this edition of the Messenger reaches you. Ifrest of the MICA Messenger, do me and you a favor, put not, please feel free to reach out to me directly. Thisdown your phone, turn off the TV, get away from the tradition and obligation helps us make sure that wecomputer and other devices.It is change, continuing know MICA is listening. Any feedback you can provideTake some time to be with yourchange, inevitable can only help the Association. families and friends away fromchange, that is the technology.dominant factor in society today. Nosensible decision can Times are changing. Back in June at our Annualbe made any longer Convention in Colorado Springs, I was having aSincerely,without taking into Lee Stuckenschmidt, account not only the conversation with Ben Pfister and he showed me theworld as it is, but the ChatGPT app. It is surprising how the program can lookMICA Presidentworld as it will be. at a question and provide a professional answer almost~ Isaac Asimov like talking with another person. Something in thatMICALEADERSHIP: made me feel something like a caveman seeing a wheelPresidentLee Stuckenschmidt,for the first time. The experience stuck with me enoughSystems Undercover, Eaton, CO. that Ive gone and played with the application more since and come up with a few opinions.President-ElectKevin Rambo, F & H Insulation Sales & Services, Kechi, KS. Is it going to eliminate our industry?Vice-PresidentCarl Petersen,Probably not.Delta Thermal Services, Mankato, MN.Is it going to impact virtually every part ofAssociate PresidentLouis Walton,how we operate? Potentially, yes.Proto Corporation, Hewitt, TX. MICABOARD OF DIRECTORS: Does Artificial Intelligence have the potential to be the flying car that 1950s Americans as Ted Nickel, Mavo Systems, Inc., White Bear Lake, MNsumed would be parked in every garage by theMatt Lillig, Cornerstone Services Group - NE,turn of the millennium. Maybe.Omaha , NESteve Sack,Sprinkmann Insulation, Inc, I would strongly suggest that if you have not looked atPeoria, ILthe application, you give it a try.Matt Hymer, Midwest Materials Co., Joplin, MO Even though everything we do is impacted by changes,Tim Hughey, Colorado Mechanical Insulation, its not just technology. General Contractors have beenEnglewood, CO. trending away from the Contractor role and may asAdam Sease, Gagnon Inc., Bettendorf, IAwell be called Construction Managers. Creative fixes,Gordon Vierck, Luse Thermal Technologies, Aurora, IL3'