Heating, Air-conditioning & Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI) hosted its annual Congressional Fly-in in Washington, District of Columbia on May 23-24.

Ryan Estis is the former Chief Strategy Officer for the $200 million People Marketing division of McCann-Erickson World Group Advertising and is one of America’s leading business performance experts. This Service World Expo keynote speaker will help attendees tap into their deep reservoir of potential and unleash their unique capability into the world. Estis helps people see new opportunity through techniques that remove the barriers of fear, doubt, and uncertainty that threaten to inhibit performance.

Heating, Air-conditioning & Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI) has announced the speakers for its upcoming Marketing & Sales Focus Conference on Sept. 18-19 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This is the last and largest HARDI Focus Conference of the year.

The demand for unitary air conditioners is forecast to expand at a 4.9 percent yearly rate through 2021 reaching $11.0 billion and continuing to outperform air conditioning equipment sales as a whole.  The replacement of units that have reached the end of their operational lives will remain the primary driver of sales.