Registration

Terms & Conditions

Payment for Registration

Payment of the applicable fee for the Event is due within 7-days of submitting your registration. If you are registering within 90-days of the event you will be required to pay at the time of registering, using a credit card. If such payment is insufficient or declined for any reason Conference Design may refuse access to the Event and shall have no liability in this regard.

Currency and GST

All prices are quoted in Australian Dollars (AUD$) and include GST.

Confirmation and tax invoice

Once you have completed your registration, you will be sent a confirmation email with a PDF tax invoice. Please ensure that your valid email is entered correctly on the registration form and check your junk mail folder in case your confirmation email(s) are caught by spam filters.

Essential information for registered attendees will be sent electronically to the email address that is provided at the time of registration.

Credit Card Payments

Credit card charges appear as Conference Design Pty Ltd on your card statement. When using the online payment system credit card transactions will be processed directly by ANZ eGate and Conference Design does not store or transmit your credit card details. ANZ eGate is a secure and PCI compliant platform.

Registration Cancellation Policy

Any individual registration cancellation requests are subject to the cancellation policy listed below and as agreed to when registering for the convention. In regard to COVID-19, we continue to monitor advice from the Australian Government.

Registrations for physical or hybrid events cancelled up to 90-days prior to the event will be eligible for a full refund where the payment was made online by credit card. In all other cases, a cancellation fee will be charged. Cancellations notified after 90-days prior to the physical or hybrid event will not be eligible for any refund, however, another person may participate in the Event.

Cancellations for virtual/online events will not be eligible for any refund, however another person may attend the Event in your place.

All cancellations for physical, hybrid or online/virtual events must be advised via email to Conference Design.

Visas

Due to strict visa requirements, if the Event is a physical or hybrid event (not entirely online/virtual), persons participating from the countries listed below will not have their registrations and presentations confirmed until they have obtained a visa:

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cóte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Cameroon, Kenya, Somalia, Iran, Pakistan, Algeria, Libya, Egypt.

EFT Payments

Please include the EFT Reference shown on your Tax Invoice when submitting an EFT and email Conference Design the details including date, amount and your bank’s reference.

• BSB: 017 010
• Account #: 1085 82575
• Account Name: Conference Design Pty Ltd
• Bank: ANZ Bank, 61 Liverpool Street, Hobart 7000
• Swift Code: ANZBAU3M

Conference Cancellation or Postponement

The Host and Conference Design do not accept any liability for losses incurred if the Event is cancelled or postponed due to an unforeseen occurrence or any other occurrence that renders performance of this Event inadvisable, illegal, impracticable or impossible.

An unforeseen occurrence shall include, but shall not be limited to: an Act of God; infectious disease outbreak, industrial disruptions, service provider failures, governmental restrictions and/or regulations; war or apparent act of war; terrorism or apparent act of terrorism; disaster; civil disorder, disturbance, and/or riots; curtailment, suspension, and/or restriction on transportation; or any other emergency.

If the Event is entirely online and is terminated due to a force majeure occurrence before the first day of the Event, then Conference Design will reschedule the affected virtual event and your registration fee will be applied to the rescheduled event.

Where a technical outage/malfunction is the cause for a temporary or complete failure to broadcast the Event and it cannot proceed, the Event may be rescheduled to an alternative date or content will be made available to view online at your leisure (on-demand).  Conference Design will make every effort to communicate with registrants regarding the technical outage/malfunction via the OnAIR portal or if the platform is unable to transmit communication, an alert will be sent via email, conference app or mobile text message, and posted to the Event website.

Limitation of Liability

The Host and Conference Design does not take responsibility for technical issues outside of our control, i.e. internet and power outages. Where possible we will supply backup solutions to avoid any prolonged interruptions, but this cannot be guaranteed if the cause of the interruption falls outside our jurisdiction.