sentences:  The national conferences provided a focus for innovation in ILT in FE throughout the period and fielded leading edge speakers from industry and government ministers.The Association was a pioneer of the use of video technology in its conferences (at a time when this was unknown in educational conferences) i.e.the pre–recorded interview with minister Tim Eggar at the second conference in Nottingham 1990 and the live dual video links with the minister Tim Boswell in 1991.