Schedule – International Certified Instructors

Day Before
Wednesday
7.8.26

05:00 - 6:00 PM

Sign-In

Instructor’s sign-in table is open. Pick up your ID tag from Chairman Robert Moreno.

5:00 - 9:00 PM

Meet & Greet

Challenge the Chairman Race to 1 and you have the break! If you win the Chairman will buy you 4 raffle tickets ($20 Value) and write beat the Chairman and your name. If you lose you donate $20 to the Juniors raffle and write lost to the Chairman with your name and those will go into the drawing box. If you beat the Chairman you can select the prize, if you lost to the Chairman we read your name and then draw the next ticket.

Day 1
(Thursday)
7.9.26

8:00 AM

Johan Ruysink

Doors Open for Greeting and Seating and Meeting

Doors will be opened at 0800 to take your seats.

Hotel breakfast is offered from 0600-0900.

8:00 - 9:30

Johan Ruysink

Johan Ruysink USA Coach Question and Answer Time

9:00 - 9:30

Eric Naretto

Opening raffle ticket purchases

Start buying tickets for the raffle items. After each instruction the presenter will draw one ticket for the first pick. Buy your tickets from the start. 4 for $20. We will draw after each presentation and you must be present to win or another ticket will be drawn.

9:30 - 9:40 AM

Shane Tyree

Opening Address with PBIA and ACS

Welcome ceremonies from Shane Tyree (BCA) & Janet Yabarra (ACS).

9:40 - 9:50 AM

JANET YABARRA

Welcoming our 2026 ACS INSTRUCTOR OF THE YEAR

9:50 - 10:00 AM

Shane Tyree

Welcoming our 2026 PBIA INSTRUCTOR OF THE YEAR

10:00 - 11:30

Kevin Cattani PhD

Kevin P. Cattani, PhD - Sport Management Program University of Dubuque

Kevin P. Cattani, PhD

Professor of Sport Marketing and Management

Director of Masters in Management: Sport Management Program

University of Dubuque

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

First Ticket Drawing Lunch & BEF Championships

Raffle ticket sales. 4 for $20

1:00 - 2:00 PM

Dr. David Alciatore

Dr. Dave - How to Teach Cue Ball Control Interactively

Dr. Dave will start off this summit with table side instruction and get us out of our chairs around the table. This class will be livestreamed for those who could not attend.

2:00 - 3:00

Kevin Guzzo

Kevin Guzzo Mental Performance Mastery Getting "One Percent Better"

Kevin Guzzo is one of the country's leading voices on performance and personal growth. With over 30 years of experience as a teacher, coach and athletic administrator, Kevin developed the One Percent Better Concept after a call from performance coach Brian Cain.

3:00 - 4:00 PM

Mitja Gradisnik

Mitja Gradisnik Live Online from Slovenia!

4:00 - 4:30 PM

Shane Tyree

Shane Tyree USA CueSports Information and Questions

4:30 - 4:45

Shane Tyree

MPM Certificate Holder Group Photo

All Members who have completed the Mental Performance Mastery Certification will be included on the group photo used in a future MPM Article for the BCA Insider Magazine.

4:45 - 5:00

Eric Naretto

Ticket Drawing to End the Evening

Purchase tickets to help support the Junior Program and win prizes.

5:00

Dinner on our Own

Day 2
(Friday)
7.10.26

8:00 - 9:00 AM

Robert Moreno

Beat the Chairman OkinawaRob for $20 worth of Raffle Tickets

Race to one! You have the break and when you win the Chairman will buy you 1 raffle ticket. If you lose, you will buy the Chairman 1 raffle ticket.

9:00 - 9:10 AM

Eric Naretto

Assembly

9:10 - 9:15

Robert Moreno

Ticket Drawing to Start the Day Right

Buy tickets 4 for $20

9:15 - 10:30 AM

Nic Barrow

Nic Barrow The Observation Games: Snooker Post Shot Routine Secrets

Nic Barrow
-Snooker Professional 1991-1997
-Resident UAE National Snooker Coach, 1999-2006
-Founder - The Snooker Gym (We Train Frustrated Amateurs, To Beat Their Highest Break) 2003.

-World's most successful creator of snooker coaching materials
-Coach Examiner for English Amateur, World Amateur, and World Professional Federations 2005-2013.
-Snooker Coach to Ding Junhui during his 5 tournament winning season 2013-2014.
-Snooker Coach to Ronnie O’Sullivan OBE during his 5 tournament winning season 2023-2024.

10:30 - 11:30

Patrick Hummel

Patrick Hummel From Germany

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Ticket Drawing, Lunch & BEF Championships

Raffle sales. 3 for $20

1:00 - 1:45 PM

Robert Farago

Robert Farago - a Knoxville-based hypnotist, pool player, writer and social media content creator.

Robert Farago Is a Knoxville-based hypnotist, pool player, writer and social media content creator. The Tufts-educated psychologist founded two of the world’s most popular blogs: The Truth About Cars and The Truth About Guns. Before moving to the Volunteer State, Farago spent 15 years in the UK, hypnotizing professional athletes in golf, motor racing, football, darts, and track and field. Farago’s newfound love of billiards brought him out of retirement to create social media focusing on the mental side of the game, generating millions of views. He also works with individual players to eliminate performance anxiety (triggering the “flow state”), remove bad habits and instill new positive behaviors. “I never talk about a player’s mother,” the self-described Command Hypnotist avers. “I tap into their subconscious mind to create or eliminate subconscious stimulus -> response patterns.”

1:45 - 2:00

Ticket Drawing Mid Day

4 Tickets for $20

2:00 - 3:00 PM

Tanner Pruess

Tanner Pruess Lessons From a Competitor: The Reality of Execution Under Pressure

A competitor’s perspective on the lessons he learned in the arena — why players succeed or fail when the pressure is real — and how instructors can train execution that holds up in true competition.

3:00 - 4:00 PM

Samm Diep-Vidal

Samm Diep-Vidal - How I built my online presence and is it the right path for you?

Samm has built a combined audience of over 50k on Facebook, 30k on Instagram, and 16k on YouTube, growth earned organically through planning, hard work, and consistency. She'll be sharing her journey to help other instructors decide whether or not content creation is the right path for their own teaching business.

4:00 - 5:00 PM

Mark Finkelstein