SSA Members,
As you are aware, the United States is suffering a very large surge in coronavirus infections.
The highly infectious Omicron variant is sweeping the country and infecting well over 500,000 people per day, far more than at any previous point in the pandemic. Current predictions suggest the level of infections will continue to be very high for the next several months.
Your Board of Directors has explored all aspects of holding the convention during this maelstrom of Covid-19 infections, and concluded that the best and safest course of action for the health of the SSA and our members was to postpone the convention. This was a difficult decision and we apologize for the resultant disruption in everyone’s plans.
We are working to reschedule the convention for early November, 2022 or early in 2023 at the Atlantis Hotel and the Reno-Sparks Convention Center in Reno, Nevada. The convention as now planned would be moved to a time when we hope the pandemic will be far better controlled. As soon as the new dates are known we will advise our members. In the meantime, parts of the convention may come to you virtually. We are exploring the possibility of having some of the planned lectures available as SSA Webinars in the intervening months.
If you have submitted a regular registration for the convention, the SSA office will automatically take care of a refund for you in the next several days. If you are an exhibitor and would like a refund, please contact convention@ssa.org to make the request.
We look forward to seeing you in Reno at the rescheduled convention.
Suggestion: Have a Zoom presentation of the speakers who planned to present at the Reno convention. Record and archive the presentations, enabling members who, due to schedule or time zone conflicts, could not participate in real-time, to log in and view at their convenience. Costs would be negligible compared to an in-person convention – not to mention travel time and expenses saved.