Registration Fees & Policies

SGIM values the participation of each attendee, exhibitor, sponsor, and presenter and is committed to providing a safe, productive, and welcoming environment for all meeting participants and staff. Accordingly, all attendees are expected to show respect and courtesy to other attendees. All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience including people of all backgrounds. All participants, including, but not limited to, attendees, speakers, volunteers, exhibitors, staff, and service providers are expected to abide by this Virtual Event Code of Conduct while attending a SGIM virtual event.

SGIM has zero tolerance for any form of discrimination or harassment. If you experience harassment or hear of any incidents of unacceptable behavior, we ask that you contact us at support@sgim.org immediately so that we can take the appropriate action.

Unacceptable behavior is defined as:

• Harassment, intimidation, or discrimination in any form.
• Abuse of any attendee, speaker, volunteer, exhibitor, sponsor, staff member, service provider, or other meeting guest. (Examples of abuse include, but are not limited to: comments related to age, appearance, apparent or perceived disability, ethnicity, gender, geographic location, nationality, professional level, race, religion, and sexual orientation)
• Disruption of presentations during sessions, in the exhibit hall, or at other events hosted through the virtual platform.
• Participant non-compliance with instructions of the moderator and/or any virtual event staff.

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

• The recording and/or transmission of education sessions in any format is strictly prohibited.
• Presentations, postings, and messages should not contain any promotional materials, special offers, job offers, product announcements, or solicitation for any types of services (apart from designated spaces such as the career fair and exhibitor booths).
• Participants may not reproduce or re-purpose presentation materials in any way without the express consent from the presenter.
• Participants may not record, copy, or take screen shots of Q&A or any chat room activity that takes place in the virtual conference.

SGIM reserves the right to take any action deemed necessary and appropriate, including immediate removal from the virtual without warning or refund, in response to any incident of unacceptable behavior.

Registration and attendance at, or participation in, SGIM meetings and other activities constitutes an agreement by the registrant to the use and distribution (both now and in the future) of the registrant or attendee’s image or voice in recordings, both live and on-demand, photographs, videotapes, electronic reproductions, and audiotapes of such events and activities by SGIM. Your virtual registration may include technology that monitors your activities throughout the meeting, such as session attendance and virtual booths visited.

All cancellation requests must be made in writing to SGIM and received by April 12, 2021. Any refunds, based on the refund schedule below, will be issued following SGIM21 by May 30, 2021. SGIM is not responsible for cancellations not received. Please send questions and cancellation requests to annualmeeting@sgim.org with your registration confirmation number.

Any Early Bird registrations not paid by March 15, 2021 will be cancelled.

Physician and Allied Health Professional Registrations will be fully refunded minus a $75 cancellation fee.
Trainee Registrations will be refunded at 50% of the fee paid with no additional cancellation fee.

After April 12, 2021, no refunds will be issued.