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Pre-Conference Workshop Registration will take place from 7:15 AM - 8:00 AM on Thursday, February 22, 2024. All pre-conference workshops begin at 8:00 AM.

Check-in registration for the pre-conference workshops will take place in the Gold Room, located on the Lobby Level of the Fairmont. You will be checked in for both your workshop and the general conference at this time. You do not need to check-in a second time.

Please note, only those people who have signed up in advance for a pre-conference workshops may pick up their badges at this time.

If you are not registered to attend a Pre-Conference Workshop, you must pick up your badge during the General Conference Registration beginning at 10:30 AM. Your badge will NOT be available before that time.

General Conference Registration will take place from 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM on Thursday, February 22, 2024. Doors open in the Ballrooms at 11:15 AM. The Opening Remarks begin at 12:00 PM.

Check-in registration for the general conference will take place in the Gold Room, located on the Lobby Level of the Fairmont.

General conference attendees can check-in beginning at 10:30 AM. Registration runs through the start of the opening keynote at 12:00 PM and will remain open through 1:30 PM, after which you can go to the Help & Information Desk. The Help Desk will be relocating from the Gold Room to the Vanderbilt Room on the Terrace Level of the Fairmont at 1:30 PM. While we move, there will be an approximately 15 minute delay in the ability to check-in. Registration will be available again beginning at 1:45 PM and will remain open at the Help Desk until 6:00 PM. (Full Help Desk information and hours located below.)

All keynotes and sessions will take place at the Fairmont Hotel.

**Special Instructions for Keynote Attendance on Thursday & Friday**


Due to demand, we are not able to accommodate all conference attendees in the same room at the same time to hear the keynotes. We have split the attendees into three groups, and each group will experience the same keynotes each day in a varied order. The speakers are each giving their keynote address twice in order to accommodate this. Information e-mails with your group assignments were sent out on 02/13/24. Those with BLUE badges will view the keynotes in the Grand Ballroom, which is located three floors down from the Lobby Level of the Fairmont, and those with GREEN badges will view the keynotes in the Venetian Room on the Lobby Level of the Fairmont. Our overflow group (those who registered after the conference was sold out of general space) will have YELLOW badges and view the keynotes via a live stream, on screens in the Terrace Room located on the Terrace Level of the Fairmont. The live stream will follow the Grand Ballroom schedule.

The badge colors and groups only affect the keynote addresses on Thursday & Friday. Saturday keynotes will host all badge colors. During the concurrent sessions A, B, C, and D, you are free to attend the track of your choice. The surveys that you may have previously received were to assist in our planning only.

Click HERE for a printable PDF version of the BLUE/YELLOW Badge Group schedule.

Click HERE for a printable PDF version of the GREEN Badge Group schedule.


Information Desk

You will be able to find answers to your questions and help with registration problems at the Learning & the Brain Help & Information Desk. This is where you can always find direct representatives from Learning & the Brain, as opposed to hotel staff, temporary event staff, or volunteer helpers. On Thursday , the Help Desk will be located in the Gold Room on the Lobby Level, as noted above from 7:15 AM - 1:30 PM. From Thursday afternoon at 1:45 PM and throughout Friday and Saturday, the Help Desk will be located in the Vanderbilt Room, on the Terrace Level of the Fairmont. The full Help Desk hours are from 7:15 AM - 6:00 PM on Thursday, February 22, from 7:30 AM - 6:00 PM on Friday, February 23, and from 7:30 AM - 2:30 PM on Saturday, February 24.


*The information above was part of a larger information e-mail that was sent on 02/13/24 at 6:30 PM ET to all attendees registered to attend live onsite in San Francisco.