FAQs
Payment/Registration
Yes, we have an Early Bird Discount and a Same Agency Discount. Early registration is $790. After Aug. 9, 2024, registration increases to $890. We offer a $50 per person discount on each additional attendee from the same agency.
Registration includes access to all events. Breakfast and lunch will be provided on Wednesday and Thursday, October 2 and 3. We will also provide coffee breaks and light snacks on all three conference days. FirstWatch will host a happy hour the evening of October 1, and also a dinner cruise on the evening of Wednesday, October 2 for all attendees (optional).
Once you start filling out the form, you will have the option to add additional team members. They will automatically be given the Same Agency Discount. Click on “Add Another Registrant” underneath the total.
Please download instructions.
Please download instructions.
Once you are registered for the conference, you will receive a pop-up message with a link to print a receipt, and a confirmation email with a link to print a receipt. If you can’t find your receipt or need another receipt sent to you, you can go to the registration page, and click “Resend Confirmation” in the top bar, and enter your email address.
Yes, you are able to cancel your registration and receive a refund or credit towards next year’s event. Please contact Jenny at jabercrombie@firstwatch.net.
Go to the registration page and register. There is a choice to mail in a check. Mail checks to: FirstWatch, 2035 Corte Del Nogal, Suite 101, Carlsbad, CA 92011. All checks must be received within 30 days of your registration.
Lodging
Rooms will be offered at $194/per room on a first-come-first-serve basis.
Yes, parking is available at the Catamaran for a reduced rate of $15/per day (self-parking) or $44 valet.
Other
There is no certification available at the conference.
We do not have a mobile app for this year’s conference.
There is not a virtual component to this year’s conference. After the conference has ended, we may elect to share certain recordings with attendees.
Link to schedule coming soon.
In addition to the additional expenses for FirstWatch staff, wages, travel, and food, during the event, the hotel expenses are extraordinary. When companies have conferences at a hotel or convention center, the venue requires catering and other services to be handled through them and charge extremely high rates for food, audio-visual, etc. (For example 5 gallons of coffee is ??, sandwich lunch is ??.) FirstWatch loses money on every Collaborate Live, but we feel that the investment is worth it in order to have face to face gatherings like this. Interestingly, this is one of the reasons most conferences have sponsors and exhibitor booths, because the income from the sponsors and exhibitors helps defray the conferences’ expenses. We are considering if there is a way to include sponsors and exhibitors in Collaborate Live in the future without detracting from the conference itself.
Still have questions? Contact Liz Bogart at lbogart@firstwatch.net.
