ESRI Education User Conference
The 7th annual ESRI Education User Conference, or EdUC, will be June 16-19 in San Diego. EdUC is the largest GIS education event in the country, with an audience of teachers, researchers, librarians, and administrators. One of the events is an Academic GIS Program Fair, which is a great opportunity to see what other attendees are doing with GIS.
To find out more, the website is at http://www.esri.com/educ. There is also a blog at http://blogs.esri.com/roller/page/ucblog to keep up to date with speakers and events. The deadline to register is April 27, so you can wait until GIS training is complete before registering.
Also check out how you can involve your seniors in EdUC.