The purpose of these FAQs is to provide a summary of the processes that have been established for everyone attending this event.

Pre-paid tickets for the Annual ELE Chicago Exchange are included for all Team-Leader and Strategic Partner Memberships.

Individual members can purchase tickets online or upgrade to a Team Leader subscription.

Vendor participation is limited to a few ELE Strategic Partners or invited by Dirk Tussing.

After you have an ELE user account, you can self-register online.

All active Team-Leaders and their team members can register using pre-paid tickets. Annually, four pre-paid tickets are added. When registering online for ELE's full-day, in-person Exchange, a promo/discount code is displayed in the yellow box at the top of the screen.

If you do not have pre-paid tickets available, the registration price is displayed on the event's calendar page. Team Membership pricing has deep discounts.

If you are not an ELE Leader-Member, look at our updated membership options.
Interested in attending? First you need an ELE referral to get access to our invite-only community.

To request a referral, look on our Contributing Members directory to request one as a trusted colleague from a current member. Active Contributing Members can refer trusted colleagues.

Yes. It’s easiest to self-register for ELE events. Make sure you log in (password reset is available if needed). From an Upcoming Events, open the event, scroll down, and click the Register button.

You can cancel an event registration from the My Event Registrations page. For the specific event to cancel, click the “Actions” ⚙ then the ❌ action.

Question? Please send an email to help@learningexecutive.com

Yes, EVERYONE must pre-register for ELE events.

• Address: Zurich North America Headquarters 1299 Zurich Way, Schaumburg, IL 60196
• Parking: If parking is unavailable in the visitor's lot, extra parking can be found in the parking garage. From the parking garage on level 1 is an entrance to the main building.
  
• Hotel with Shuttle to Zurich: Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel. 1551 Thoreau Drive. Phone: 847-303-4100. To reserve the shuttle to Zurich's building, call the number and say "Front Desk."
• Luggage Room: Visitors can check in with the Conference Center Concierge Desk between 7 am - 5 pm to drop off and pick up luggage, coats, and bags in a secured luggage room.
• Taxi: All-star Cab provides service for O'Hare/Midway (Please note that it requires 45 minutes advance notice for Midway Airport)
• Air travel: O'Hare Airport: about 14 miles / 22 minutes | Midway Airport: about 35 miles / 55 minutes

You have admin access if you are an ELE primary contact for your organization's group membership.

To learn more, go to My Membership page to see the Team Members, Owner, and Admin.

Note: After you add a new Team Member (their work email is required), a user account with member-only ELE access is created but requires them to confirm. They need to check their inbox/spam folder for an invite, follow the steps and click the confirmation link.

After each team member has an ELE account, they can self-register themselves. The auto-confirmation will include a calendar record with specific event information for member access.

Here are the links to the online/mobile & print agenda:

1. Mobile-friendly Oct 10th: Online-Mobile

2. Printable PDF Agenda: Print-PDF

For Leader-Members, PDF copies of presentation slides/handouts, and audio or video recordings will be available as Insights (login required). Slides are updated upon receipt from the Session Leaders. Recordings are posted within a week.

If you are a presenter, you can find recordings for all of your Insights on the Members directory.

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You can view the agenda, abstracts, photos, and videos for previous annual full-day conferences & exchanges by exploring About-Annual Exchanges archives here.