ISA Annual Convention 2011 Blog

Before You Leave

Here is a list of helpful tips to check off before you leave for Montreal:

• Travel: Ensure that your travel plans are in order including: passport, travel visa (if required), hotel guest room reservation (and confirmation number) and plane tickets (boarding passes)
• Weather: ISA panels/events are occurring in 3 different hotels (the Sheraton, Fairmont and Marriott), within a 4-5 minute walk of each other - we recommend you check the weather prior to departure
• ISA Registration: Review your Convention Registration to ensure that ISA has received your registration information and fee
• Coordinate with Panel: Be sure to coordinate with your panel chair about presentation length and ensure that the panel discussant(s) has received your paper (contact information for your panel(s) can be obtained from the detail tab to the left of your panels in the My Program area of MyISA)
• Upload Paper: To ISA Paper Archive no later than 1 week prior to your scheduled panel(s)
• Flashdrive: Be sure to bring your presentation (Windows compatible) on a flashdrive for your panel session (PDF or Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 ONLY, a Windows netbook is set up on-site in each panel room)
• Revisit Online Program: To check for any last minute panel/meeting changes to the program and take advantage of MyISA's option to search and build your own program schedules

Fairmont Announces Available Rooms

The Fairmont is accepting limited reservations past the cutoff date, but the group rate may or may not be available. Remaining rooms are available by call in only to General Reservations Central at 1-800-441-1414 and mentionning the group code ISA309.

If you are unable to receive the group rate at any of the main hotels, please select the Omni as it has availability until March 5 or until sold out.

Marriott & Hilton Rooms Available

The Marriott and the Hilton let us know that they now have a limited number of rooms available at the group rate. Please see the Convention Hotels website for room rates and links to online reservations.