Panel: New Omni a game changer for Oklahoma City By: Janice Francis-Smith The Journal Record January 15, 2021 Paul Kiley, area director of sales and marketing at Omni Hotels & Resorts; Mike Burns, vice president of sales and services for the Oklahoma City Convention and Visitors Bureau; and Maureen Heffernan, CEO/president at the Myriad Gardens Foundation and Scissortail Park (joining by phone), spoke with Journal Record Interim Editor Joe Dowd during Friday’s JR Now webinar. (Screenshot by Janice Francis-Smith) OKLAHOMA CITY – As the doors open to the new Omni Hotel and the Oklahoma City Convention Center, Oklahoma City is finally getting in with a “cooler” crowd of cities competing for both visitors and a talented workforce, according to a panel that spoke with