If you plan to be an online presenter, our Online Meeting Hub can enable simultaneous language interpretation for you and your session, as long as you provide your own simultaneous interpreter. However, CIES will not provide an interpreter for you and your online session. Presentation time slots will remain the same for all presenters, regardless if an interpreter is present.

If you plan to provide your own simultaneous interpreter for an onsite presentation, please make sure you send in your request by February 6, 2024 to conference@cies.us with Own Simultaneous Interpreter in your Subject line. Your request must include all four pieces of information: a) full name of your interpreter; b) the interpreter’s email address; c) language needed for English interpretation; and d) name of your session with the interpretation.

No, unfortunately, we do not have the capacity to provide language translation or interpretation. Some sessions will be bilingual, using English and another language.

CIES 2024 will follow a similar format to last year’s conference There will be two online days (March 6-7, 2024), followed by a break (March 8-9, 2024), and the onsite conference (March 10-14, 2024).

Those who register to attend the on-site days of CIES 2024 in Miami, FL will have access to all on-site and online sessions on March 6-14, 2024. Those registered to attend the two online days of CIES 2024 will have access only to those sessions in the Online Meeting Hub that are scheduled on March 6-7, 2024.

Yes, but this will depend on whether the chair or one of your on-site panelists can provide the online presenter a personal Zoom link. The session chair will be responsible for resolving  how to virtually include off-site panelists. (A Zoom link will not be provided  for regular sessions.) Tech support will not be available for outside Zoom links.

Please be reminded that all presenters, chairs, or discussants must still pay on-site registration fee in addition to CIES membership fee, even if they present online during the five onsite days from March 10-14, 2024.

All registered on-site and online attendees and participants will have access to the Online Concurrent Sessions.

If you plan to be an online presenter, our Online Meeting Hub can enable simultaneous language interpretation for you and your session, as long as you provide your own simultaneous interpreter. However, CIES will not provide an interpreter for you and your online session. Presentation time slots will remain the same for all presenters, regardless if an interpreter is present.

If you plan to provide your own simultaneous interpreter for an on-site presentation, please make sure you send in your request by February 6, 2024 to conference@cies.us with Own Simultaneous Interpreter in your Subject line. Your request must include all four pieces of information: a) full name of your interpreter; b) the interpreter’s email address; c) language needed for English interpretation; and d) name of your session with the interpretation.

Those registered on the online format will have access to all online sessions.

Due to limited resources and support, change requests will not be accepted in general. Under exceptional circumstances, you must write to conference@cies.us as soon as possible, but no later than January 3, 2024, indicating in your subject line: “Change Request from Onsite to Online” or “Change Request from Online to Onsite”. There is no guarantee that your request will be accepted, and if accepted your change will be FINAL.

We no longer give out tote bags at our Annual Meeting. You are encouraged to bring your own bag.

February 15, 2024 is the deadline for sending posters and book launch videos. On-site (optional) and online poster presenters should send their poster to conference@cies.us before February 15 indicating in your subject line: “Poster to be uploaded.” For (optional) book launch videos, presenters should send their video to conference@cies.us before February 15, 2024,  indicating in your subject line: “Book launch video to be uploaded.” Other presentations do not have to be submitted or uploaded in advance.

For online sessions, the automatic closed captioning in Zoom can be used. If other accommodation is required, please contact us at conference@cies.us, indicating in your subject line: “Support for Attendees with Disabilities” by January 30th, 2024.

 Organizations are strongly encouraged to use the systems to individually register each member of their group. If your organization is registering more than 10 people, please contact accounts@cies.us for more information.

Yes. If you plan to attend a pre-conference workshop (or more), you should register for the workshop(s) when you register for the conference or later, until March 10th, 2024.

It costs money to put on a meeting – even an online meeting. There are costs associated with the submission system, websites, storage for recorded sessions, Zoom licenses, and other technological services.

 Memberships are based on a calendar year (January 1 ending December 31). To renew your membership for 2024, you must renew AFTER October 15. Multi-year memberships are available for up to 3 years.

Other attendees who are not presenting, discussing, chairing, or organizing sessions may attend and pay the registration fee for CIES 2024 until the last day of the conference, although it is financially beneficial to join CIES and register as a member.

To be eligible for a refund, cancellation requests must be made by email to conference@cies.us no later than Tuesday, February 6, 2024, indicating in your subject line: “Cancellation & Refund Request”. A cancellation fee of $35 will apply.

For individuals registered at Low-Income Country rates, the cancellation fee will be waived if the request is made by February 6, 2024.

Refunds will be issued in the same form in which they were received. In the case of wire transfer refunds, a $20 wire transfer fee will be withheld from the refund amount. No refunds will be issued to requests after February 6, 2024.