501F & G Users Conference 2024
February 4 - 8, 2024 Disney's Coronado Springs Resort Lake Buena Vista, Florida
Dear Vendors and Users,
On behalf of the Board of Directors for both the F and the G Users Group, and Square One Meeting Planning, I would like to extend to you a warm welcome to the 24th Annual Conference of the 501F & G Users Group meeting February 4th – 8th, 2024 being held at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
For those of you who golf, and those like me, who just like to ride around in a golf cart, we are lined up for a great Sunday outing at the Lake Buena Vista course, touted to be one of Disney’s toughest courses designed by Navy Veteran, “Gentleman Joe” Lee.
The conference proper is rapidly developing into something I’m truly excited to be a part of. The Boards of both groups have been working diligently on reshaping the agenda to provide even more user-to-user closed sessions – which means – more impactful, useful, and relevant topics.
We’ve made some changes to our audio-visual setup in an effort to provide better sound throughout the room so everyone can hear everyone else, and we’ve already got some fantastic presentations being prepared by users who volunteered topics early! Thank you! For those who haven’t presented in the past, we’d love for you to consider presenting something that you learned this last outage season, or something that bit you this summer. We always have time and space for presentations and the more the better!
Back by popular demand will be our web master, Chad Boschert. Always available to provide help and guidance on how to get the most of our website and forum, so be sure to look him up in between sessions.
Pending Fire Marshall approval, we have 85 tabletops for our vendor fair, and we have a host of new vendors interested in Vendorama so I’m excited to see what presentations vendors come up with!
As a reminder, we could not offer the conference in its current format without the support of ALL our sponsors and vendors. Our vendors and sponsors support everything from our internet usage while at the resort to the great food we get to eat. As always – I would like to express, on behalf of the F & G Board, how grateful we are to have all of you, and we thank you for your continued support of this conference. For the users – please take the time at this conference to introduce yourself to some of the vendors you have not met, drop a business card as a way of saying thank you, and take some literature or line cards back to your teams. After almost 25 years in the business, I can tell you – it is not if, it is when you will need help and being tapped into the network of experts our vendors represent has saved me and many others countless times during outages.
Finally, I would like to thank you, the users! You are why we are all here and why the Board spends all year planning for the next conference. Your continued support, presentations you create, conversations, use of the online forum, and participation at the conference are what it’s all about. I hope this conference provides you with value, knowledge, and a sense of community. If at any time you have comments, suggestions, or would like to participate in a more powerful way, please reach out to myself or any of the board members, we are here for you.
For 501F Users: In order to attend the 501F User Conference, you must have a member profile established with 501F Users Group. If you do not have a member profile, go to https://forum.501fusers.org/login.
For 501G Users: In order to attend the 501F & G Users Conference, you must have a member profile established. If you do not have a member profile, email Jacki@somp.co for assistance.
Incomplete Registrations: If you did not complete your registration and came back at a later time, select "New Registration" to complete your registration.
Modify Registration: If you need to update a confirmed reservation, you will use the Modify Reservation registration link.