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Yes, kick-off Keynote Welcome will start promptly at 8:30 am.

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• 📍Address: CNA Insurance, CNA Tower, 151 N. Franklin Street (7th Floor), Navy Pier Room 3, Chicago, IL 60606
• 🅿️Parking: The building offers indoor executive parking, with over 4,200 additional parking spaces available across public garages within a one-block radius.
• 🏢Hotel: Nearby options within walking distance in the Loop include the Residence Inn by Marriott Chicago Downtown/Loop and W Chicago - City Center. (Note: Please contact your preferred hotel directly regarding current shuttle or concierge transport services.)
• 🧳Luggage Room: Guests can check in with the 7th-floor CNA Conference Center Concierge Desk upon arrival to safely store luggage, coats, and personal bags during the event.
• 🚕Taxi & Rideshare: Taxis, Uber, and Lyft provide convenient drop-off and pick-up directly at the main entrance on 151 N. Franklin Street.
• 🛬 Air Travel:
  • O'Hare International Airport (ORD): about 17 miles / 35–50 minutes (or direct via CTA Blue Line to Washington Station)
  • Midway International Airport (MDW): about 11 miles / 25–40 minutes (or direct via CTA Orange Line to Washington/Wells Station)

• 🎟️ How to Register: Visit the official event page at ELE's Fall Conference 2026 and click the Use My Annual Ticket or Buy Tickets ($950) button.
• 🔑 Existing Members & Ticket Holders: Log in with your work email or username. If your membership includes full-day conference access, select Use My Annual Ticket and enter your pre-paid ticket code or discount code at checkout.
• 🆕 New to ELE? You can register directly for an individual ticket with the Buy Tickets ($950) button.

• 🎯 Target Audience: The AI-era shift lands on every leader responsible for people — inside HR, L&D, and the business teams running the new playbook. This working summit is built for all of them, together in the same room.
• 👥 Ideal Role Profiles:
  • CHROs and Senior HR Executives: Setting talent strategy for a hybrid workforce.
  • Chief Learning Officers & Heads of Talent: Rebuilding organizational capability for AI-era work.
  • Heads of Leadership Development, OE, & EX: Closing the gap between AI adoption and human performance.
  • Business Leaders & People Managers: Leading hybrid teams of humans and AI agents.
• 💡 Core Insight for Attendees: In the next two years, every employee becomes a manager. Individual contributors will supervise AI new hires — quality-checking their output, correcting their errors, and deciding what work to trust them with. That's a promotion nobody applied for.
• 🎟️ Membership & Access Details:
  • Pre-paid tickets for the Fall Conference are included with Team-Leader and Strategic Partner Memberships.
  • Individual members can purchase tickets online ($950) or upgrade to a team plan.
  • Vendor participation is limited to a few ELE Strategic Partners or invited by Dirk Tussing.

• 🎟️ Members with Pre-paid Tickets: Active Team Leaders and their members can register using pre-paid tickets allocated based on their membership level. When logged in and registering online for ELE's full-day Exchange, your promo/discount code is displayed in the yellow box at the top of the screen.
• 💳 Individual Tickets & Team Discounts: If you do not have pre-paid tickets available, individual ticket pricing is listed directly on the event's calendar page. Upgrading to a Team Membership offers substantial ticket discounts for your organization.
• 🤝 Requesting a Referral (Non-Members): ELE is an invite-only community. If you are not yet a member, explore our updated membership plans or request a referral from a current member via our Contributing Members Directory.

• 🎟️ Buy an Individual Ticket: Lite and Dormant members can register directly for the conference using the Buy Tickets ($950) button on the event page.
• ⭐ Upgrade for Included Access: Activate a Premium/Plus Membership Plan with auto-renewal to get pre-paid conference ticket(s) included, along with full access to year-round ELE programs: Activate Premium Membership

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