NSPE works with our hotel and visitor bureau partners to help ensure compliance with all local, state, and national safety guidelines and regulations. If an event venue requires additional restrictions or limitations, all in-person participants will be expected to meet those requirements. 

This commitment will be modified if necessary to comply with the mandates of any state laws for meetings held in those states.

Your health and safety remain NSPE’s highest priority. As we gather in person, we continuously monitor conditions and have established meeting guidelines and policies to ensure a safe and comfortable environment for all participants traveling to New York City, New York.

Please carefully review NSPE’s Safety Acknowledgement and Liability Waiver, which all attendees must agree to during the registration process. Attendees will also be required to accept the NSPE Meeting Code of Conduct.

Registrations will not be considered complete until these agreements are acknowledged.

By registering for NSPECon, I acknowledge that: (a) there are risks inherent to attendance at any conference, including personal injury due to slipping or tripping; physical exertion; defective or faulty hotel or convention center furniture or equipment; the actions of other attendees; or  contracting a virus ; (b) there may be others in attendance at the Event, or who I come into contact with while traveling to the Event, who have a virus  or who are not fully vaccinated ; (c) viruses  can cause serious illness with lingering effects, and even death; and (d) no amount or extent of precautions, including masking, can guarantee I will not contract a virus.

I knowingly and voluntarily assume all risk of, and accept all responsibility for, injury, harm, illness, damage, expense, liability, and loss, and even death, I may experience or incur associated with attendance at the Event, including personal injury and contracting a virus.

On behalf of myself and my family, I release, waive and forever discharge any and all liability, claims, and demands of whatever kind or nature against the National Society of Professional Engineers, its directors, officers, employees, volunteers, and agents (the “released parties”), in law and in equity, to the fullest extent permissible by law, including but not limited to damages or losses caused by the negligence, fault, or conduct of any kind on the part of  the released parties (excluding gross negligence and willful misconduct), including but not limited to death, bodily injury, illness, economic loss or out of pocket expenses, or loss or damage to property, which arise from my attendance at the Event, including due to any virus.

NSPE is committed to providing a safe, productive, and welcoming environment for all meeting participants and NSPE staff. All participants, including, but not limited to, attendees, speakers, volunteers, industry partners, exhibitors, NSPE staff members, service providers, and all others are expected to abide by this Meeting Code of Conduct. This policy applies to all NSPE meeting-related events, including those sponsored by organizations other than NSPE but held in conjunction with NSPE events, on public or private platforms.

NSPE has zero-tolerance for any form of discrimination or harassment, including but not limited to sexual harassment by participants or our staff at our meetings. Unacceptable Behavior is defined as:

Harassment, intimidation, or discrimination in any form.

Verbal abuse of any attendee, speaker, volunteer, industry partner, exhibitor, NSPE staff member, service provider, or other meeting guest. (Examples of verbal abuse include, but are not limited to, verbal comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion, national origin, inappropriate use of nudity and/or sexual images in public spaces or in presentations, or threatening or stalking any attendee, speaker, volunteer, industry partner, exhibitor, NSPE staff member, service provider, or other meeting guest.)

In addition, participants are asked to adhere to the following rules:

• The recording or transmissions of any education sessions, presentations, demos, videos, or content in any format is strictly prohibited.
• Disruption of presentations during sessions, in the exhibit hall, or at other events organized by NSPE throughout the virtual meeting. All participants must comply with the instructions of the moderator and any NSPE event staff.
• Presentations, postings, and messages should not contain promotional materials, special offers, job offers, product announcements, or solicitation for services. NSPE reserves the right to remove such messages and potentially ban sources of those solicitations.
• Any direct selling of products/services offered by speakers, industry partners, or consultants in any public area of the virtual platform is prohibited. Many of the engagement conversations are based around knowledge and expertise and are not categorized a direct sales pitch. Selling must be conducted during mutually agreed upon private video, audio or text conversations.
• Participants should not copy or take screen shots of Q&A or any chat room activity that takes place in the virtual space.

NSPE reserves the right to take any action deemed necessary and appropriate, including immediate removal from the meeting without warning or refund, in response to any incident of unacceptable behavior, and NSPE reserves the right to prohibit attendance at any future meeting, virtually or in person.

NSPE has zero-tolerance for any form of discrimination or harassment, including but not limited to sexual harassment by participants or our staff at our meetings. If you experience harassment or hear of any incidents of unacceptable behavior, NSPE asks that you immediately inform NSPE about any incidents by writing or calling Kelly Ann Gull, CAE, Director, Professional Development and Training, [email protected], ph: 703-684-2856.