Message from the CADP Executive Director, Timothy Brown
CADP Converting 2022 Conference to Virtual
Dear CADP members, colleagues, and partners,
After consulting with the CADP Board, our meeting professionals, the Embassy Suite hotel staff and monitoring the current COVID situation in California, CADP has determined converting the CADP 2022 Annual Conference to a virtual event is the prudent decision at this time.
We will maintain the one-day Conference on Thursday, Feb. 24 but will be postponing the Capitol Day until later in the year to see what/if specific bills should be discussed with legislators. We will also maintain the Board, QMC and Business Meetings on Feb 22 (Tue). Please keep these events on your schedule. Registrants will have flexibility to participate on Feb. 24th, view sessions on their own schedule and have access to sessions for up to 30 days.
The schedule will be updated on the CADP Annual Conference website and registration will be converted to accommodate the Virtual Conference registration rates by next week. We will send another announcement once that is complete and encourage you to expand the opportunity to participate to others within your organizations that would not be likely to travel to the Conference.
We will be in contact with those who have already registered for the 2022 CADP Annual Conference regarding refunds from the in-person rate to the Virtual Conference rate ($259). For those who already have hotel reservations, we are working with the Embassy Suite staff to cancel those reservations and will provide more details shortly.
With the statewide mask mandate for all indoor events, the Senate only allowing the Senator and one essential staff member in the Capitol building (with a similar announcement from the Assembly expected shortly), and the hotel being flexible, we believe the decision to move to a virtual meeting makes the most sense.
CADP realizes there is “virtual event” fatigue, but with several CADP member companies already announcing travel restrictions for Q1 or “until further notice,” we were concerned there would be very little turn out for a face-to-face meeting. Even if the COVID situation/numbers in California (and specifically Sacramento) improve by late Feb., we feel the confidence factor of attendees will still be low and CADP member companies will not be able to quickly pivot on travel restrictions.
While I am personally extremely disappointed, we hope you appreciate our hesitancy to make the switch to virtual while understanding we need to make this call sooner than later to be able to produce the exceptional educational experience our members expect from CADP.
Please reach out to me at brownt@cadp.org or Jeremy May at mayj@cadp.org with any questions and we will keep you posted as the situation develops over the next two weeks.
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