Arrival Instructions

Dear ABEAI Conference Session Chairs and Participants:

First, thank you for your papers and participation.  Upon your arrival at Marriott Resort and Beach Club, please pick up your conference registration packets at the conference registration table inside  the designated meeting room on Events Schedule documentThe packages will also be available at the welcoming cocktail reception at 5:30 pm, the day of arrival. 

Items of Interest:

-You will find your name tag and reception (four drink) tickets inside. Blue tickets are for the reception in the evening for the first reception. Red tickets are for the second cocktail reception.  Due to liability issues, you can only use two drink tickets per reception.

-No hard copies of the final Event Schedule will be available at the conference. Please make sure to bring a hard copy or access the final version at  http://abeai.org/schedule_of_events 

-At the conclusion of the Conference, please return the plastic nametag hangers to the basket on the registration desk.  We are trying to recycle our materials as much as possible. 

-Load your presentation on a thumb drive. Wifi access in the conference room may not be available so please be prepared appropriately.

-Feel free to dress casually for all Conference events. 

 Airport Transportation options in Hawaii:

 Uber and Lyft are available at the airport.

Rental cars, cabs, Speedy shuttle (1 (877) 242-5777) are also options.  You may need to make shuttle reservations in advance.   Please seek help from the airport information desk and staff. 

 

Presenters:

 -We will have a designated PC laptop for presentations.   It will be connected to the monitor.  Please use the designated laptop and your thumb drive to avoid technical complications.

-Remote presentation “clicker” will not be provided. Please feel free to bring one.

-Apple laptops are not compatible with the system.   

-We will not have an overhead projector.  

 Session Chairs:

We have tried our best to make sure that all scheduled authors will attend and present their papers.   If there are absentees, you may allocate more time to remaining presenters.  Please allow 5-10 minutes at the end of the session to choose the best paper for your session by secret ballot, and submit the paper title and author name to abeai@up.edu.  These papers may be eligible for publication in the Journal of Business Leadership.   

 The username and password for the session laptop is taped to the keyboard.  Please go to your session a few minutes earlier and log on to the laptop. 

Participants:

Please attend as many sessions as possible and cast your votes for best papers.

Best paper authors:

If your paper is selected as a Best Paper in Session, your paper may be eligible for publication in the Journal of Business Leadership (JBL).  Please visit  http://www.anbhf.org/jbl.html for further details. 

We will contact you no later than December 30 regarding paper submission to JBL.

The Conference Proceedings

-The downloadable Conference Proceedings will be on the website (www.abeai.org) by January 15.  No revisions are accepted after December 25. 

We look forward to seeing you there!

Jake Fait

Bahram Adrangi

 

 

Session Chairs:

We have tried our best to make sure that all scheduled authors will attend and present their papers.   If there are absentees, you may allocate more time to remaining presenters.  Please allow 5-10 minutes at the end of the session to choose the best paper for your session by secret ballot, and submit the paper title and author(s)  to abeai@up.edu.  These papers may be eligible for publication in industry  journals

The username and password for the session laptop is taped to the keyboard.  Please go to your session a few minutes earlier and log on to the laptop.

IMPORTANT:   Session Chairs please turn off the projector at the end of each session to allow it to cool down by pushing the power button twice.

Participants:

Please attend as many sessions as possible and cast your votes for best papers.

Best paper authors:

We will contact you no later than December 30  regarding paper submission to JBL. These Journals have not charged any publication fee so far.

The Conference Proceedings

The downloadable Conference Proceedings will be on the website (www.abeai.org) by January 15.  No revisions are accepted after December 25. 

Feel free to dress casually for all Conference events.