Registration

EduCon gives participants global perspectives through our intimate, small-group learnings.

EC22 live sessions featured in the digital experience will be available on-demand within 24 hours. All sessions will be available to digital participants for 60-days following the event.

Digital Experience

Networking Activities

Sponsorship Opportunities

Who’s Coming

* The NEW PCMA MEMBER rate is the best way to get ready for EduCon 2022. It includes a new one-year membership to PCMA and gives you access to hundreds of recorded sessions from past events, including Convening Leaders. Please allow up to 5 business days for your new member benefits to update. Additional discounts not applicable.

To receive the PCMA Member rate, individuals must be in good standing at the time of the event. Join/Renew your PCMA Membership.

MAKE YOUR CASE

Need help presenting the benefits of PCMA EduCon to your boss? Utilize our “gain approval” documents to showcase the cost/benefits for attending.

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Attendees can earn up to 12.25 but more CEs will be available to watch On Demand after the conference. The number of CEs you receive is based upon the type and number of sessions you attend. Not all sessions will be eligible for the CMP, and that will be noted on the schedule of events. Onsite attendees must always wear their badge to ensure CEs appear on your transcript post-event.

Sunday, June 5 – Wednesday, June 8, 2022, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Registration rates are based on membership type. See the list above for the current rates.

Registrants are encouraged to register online.

Cancellation of registration must be submitted in writing via email and must be dated on or before 5:00 p.m. Central Time on Friday, May 6, 2022, to receive a refund less a $150 USD registration cancellation processing fee. After May 6, 2022, at 5:00pm Central Time no refunds will be granted.  Cancellation of Student and Faculty registrations are subject to a $50 cancellation processing fee each.

There are no refunds for PCMA Foundation contributions, Give Back Bash or Fitness event tickets. Cancellation for EduCon does not cancel membership dues paid during the registration process.

Replacement of a registered PCMA attendee by a business colleague/co-worker will be accepted. The written request must be sent to: educon@executivevents.com

A $50 USD processing fee will apply to all substitutions if notified in writing by 5:00pm Central Time Friday, May 27, 2022. After Friday, May 27, 2022, the substitution fee will increase to $75 USD. If the original registrant was registered as a PCMA member, the new registrant must also be a member or join membership upon registering.

Please email educon@executivevents.com or call 866.483.0174. For international callers, please call 303.731.1035.

For an optimal Digital Experience, please check out these tech tips and recommendations from our digital provider, Cadmium here.

If you continue to have issues, please contact us by logging into the event digital platform, click your name in the top right corner, then in the drop-down select Technical Support and submit a Support Ticket, or call us at 410-638-9239 and select the option for Technical Support.

Hotel reservations are being made through a reservation link directly with the hotel. The link is included in your registration confirmation email. To secure PCMA’s special group hotel rate, your hotel reservation must be booked by Friday, May 20, 2022. 

Yes, we have several fun ticketed events planned for EduCon attendees.

Foundation Fun Run – 5K Fun Run/Walk 

Take a run through the city before the hustle and bustle begins for the day. We will meet in the Empire Foyer for some stretching and then head out to enjoy some local sites and scenery. You’ll be supporting the Foundation along with your overall fitness goals; a great way to kick off the week!

Monday June 6, 2022, 6:30am– 7:30am
Brought to you by IMEX  

Ticket price:  $40 USD   

Registration fee is non-refundable.

Hospitality Helping Hands 

For those who live in New Orleans it is not if, but when they will be hit by a hurricane.  U can make a difference! Join the Foundation for an afternoon of camaraderie and packing kits to ensure that the New Orleans community is prepared.  Once complete with a handwritten note, the kits will be distributed within the community through door-to-door introductions and activities within the school system.

Brought to you by MGM Resorts and Reno Tahoe; benefiting Hands On New Orleans

Monday, June 6, 2022, 3 – 5:00 pm  

Ticket Price: $85   

Registration fee is non-refundable as it’s a donation.  

Give Back Bash 

Join PCMA Foundation for a Monday night rockin’ good time! Vintage Rock Club is a throwback club and video music experience that brings your vintage favorites to the big screen. Dance to the best of the decades with a cocktail in hand while reliving your favorite music videos, concert footage and memorable movie clips.

Monday June 6, 2022, 9 p.m. to Midnight

Location: Vintage Rock Club     

Ticket price:  $ 99    

Registration fee is non-refundable as it’s a donation to the PCMA Foundation.   

Get Fit with the Foundation – Namaste with PCMA

Take care of U this morning and join in for some poolside yoga on the 5th floor of the Hyatt Regency. Every level can join in and start the day with a little movement, meditation, and breathing techniques to promote your mental and physical well-being. 

Tuesday, June 7, 2022, 7:00am – 8:00am

Ticket price:  $40 USD   

Registration fee is non-refundable.     

Already registered for EduCon? To add special ticketed events to your registration, please contact:
Executive Events by phone: 1.866.483.0174 or 1.303.731.1035 for international callers or by email at educon@executivevents.com

Attendees that were approved for credit from 2021 EduCon will receive a registration discount code to cover this year’s registration costs (this will not cover additional add-on costs such as Foundation/special ticket events).

The registration system will not allow for payment by multiple credit cards. If you want to put part of your payment on a different credit card (for example, registration fees to your corporate card, Foundation donation to your personal credit card), this is not a problem. Please contact educon@executivevents.com

We will accept check payments; please contact educon@executivevents.com

If you prefer to contact us by phone, please call 866.483.0174 or 303.731.1035 for international callers.

Attendees can earn up to 12.25 hours of CE if they take advantage of every live opportunity for continued education. For digital, there are 6.75 CE’s available.

Registrants will have access to content in the event platform for 60 days post event, pending speaker approval.

For sponsorship opportunities, please contact busdev@pcma.org.

Please email educon@executivevents.com or call 866.483.0174. For international callers, please call 303.731.1035.

  • “I joined PCMA in the early 90’s and have made an effort to attend Convening Leaders and the Education Conference ever since. Over the years I’ve actually come to enjoy EduCon more than CL because it is somewhat more intimate and consequently navigating the education, networking and still handling my responsibilities with my clients is less daunting. EduCon provides focused sessions that help me with my relationships with colleagues, clients and suppliers and offers me the opportunity to engage more actively in the sessions I attend.”

    Annette Suriani, CMP Executive Director at AMPs – Association of Meeting Professionals

  • “The PCMA EduCon Conference should not be missed. In addition to the extraordinary networking opportunities available to all attendees, the conference content is top notch.  The sessions offer something for everyone and you always take home a nugget or two to take back to your team. Plus, I love the size of this event, you get a chance to connect with everyone.”

    Tim Mathy, Senior Partner, SpeakInc.

  • “Attending PCMA EduCon is a must-do for any planner or supplier in our industry. I love the size of the meeting because I am able to see old friends and network within smaller groups to make new connections. The education sessions are new & fresh and tend to cover topics that other conferences are not. I returned to my office with a list of innovative ideas that I wanted to implement.”

    Lauren Chelf, Director, Meetings & Expositions, AOAC International

  • “Every year I look forward to attending EduCon because of the education and personal connections I make there. It’s a smaller group so it’s more intimate and it’s easier to have meaningful one-on-one conversations. The experiential learning sessions are interesting and a great way to get out of the traditional meeting rooms to learn something new.”

    Rebecca Ramsey, Business Development Executive at EVENTEQ

  • “At EduCon, PCMA experiments with new and innovative learning environments, offering content around key and driving topics. I look forward to the event each year, it’s the right size all sessions very approachable for networking and learning over the course of a few days.”

    Mindy Abel, CMP CTA Deputy Director, Anaheim Convention Center at City of Anaheim

  • “Over the years that I have not only attended but actively participated at the PCMA-EduCon, I have learned, grown and felt immediate enrichment in my professional as well as personal life. EduCon affords a unique way to learn in a different mode that allows you to toss away the Gen this and X that categories and explore in “personas”. EduCon causes me to pull out my thoughts and ways of interacting and examine them to give either a yes, I will continue down this road or someone share a new way that I should consider. In the synergistic aura that permeates this intimate meeting, I feel free to explore, challenge and learn with no judgements or “wrong methods”. The meeting of the minds, the growing of thoughts and openness to new ideas is what I so look forward to at every EduCon meeting…and I have yet to be disappointed.”

    Norma Taylor CMP, Regional Manager, Tourisme Montreal

  • “PCMA EduCon is one of my most favorite education and networking events. The size and intimacy of PCMA EduCon has resulted in deeper connections, and the ability to engage and learn in a comfortable environment. Some of my biggest business opportunities have resulted by my attendance at this annual conference. I highly recommend the investment!”

    Susan Euritt, Principal, Ruckus Strategic Partnership Consulting, LLC

  • “My team calls PCMA Educon our ‘little secret’, and not sure that we want everyone to know how inspiring it is. We love the smaller format and rich learning and connections that flows from that. Don’t tell anyone.”

    Claire Smith CMP, Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Vancouver Convention Centre