Elevate 2021 Registration is Now Open

 The conference will be held online on December 6th and 7th.  Conference session start times are expressed in Eastern Standard Time, and the conference begins at 9AM on the 6th.  As with last year the presentations will be recorded and made available later.  However, attending the conference live allows you to participate in chat with the presenter and other attendees during the sessions and any Q&A sessions that may be available after each session.

ISUG Board of Director's 2022-2023 Nomination Period Open

Half of the board is re-elected each year.  The positions open this year are: President, Vice President of Business Relations, Vice President of Technologies, Benefits Director, Content Director, Regional Director - Asia Pacific and Regional Director - Latin/South America.  Candidates for the positions must be paid members.  In addition, nominees for the position of President must have formerly served as a Vice President.

Nominations are open from October 4th to October 15th.  An election will be held if there are no contested positions from November 15 to November 19th.

https://www.isug.com/news/31-board-of-directors-2022-2023-term-nomination-period

Elevate 2021 Call for Papers is now open

The initial proposals are due by October 22nd.  Elevate 2021 will be on online event starting on December 6th at 9AM US Eastern.

https://www.appeon.com/elevate/call-for-presenters/register

Elevate 2020 Report

Well, this year's conference was definitely different.  As a result of COVID Elevate 2020 was entirely online.  As a result, no breakfasts, lunches, evening events, happy hour, etc. so they won't be part of the review this year.

Summary

I thought it went quite well, particularly given it was Appeon's first attempt at doing an entirely online conference.

ISUG Board of Director's nominations are now open

Half of the board is up for election every year. The offices currently up for election are Vice President of Finance, Vice President of Membership, Communications Director, Social Media Director, Regional Director - Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) and Regional Director - North America.  The positions are open for nomination until October 16th.

https://www.isug.com/news/24-board-of-directors-2021-2022-term-nominations-period

Elevate 2020 Call for Papers is now open

The deadline for submission is September 30, 2020.  The conference, which will be a "digital conference" this year do to COVID concerns, will be held November 16 and 17th, 2020.

https://www.appeon.com/elevate/call-for-presenters/register

Elevate 2019 Report

Summary

The event was held at the same location as last year, except that last year it was a Sheraton and this year it's called Philadelphia Marriott Old City,  (Marriott bought out Sheraton in 2016 and has been upgrading the old Sheraton hotels since.)  The event ran from Oct 28th to 30th.  This is the third year Appeon did it themselves, and they really seem to have worked out all the kinks.  It was an excellent conference.