{"id":487,"date":"2026-03-03T16:57:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/?p=487"},"modified":"2026-04-26T22:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T02:00:10","slug":"fedcon26-registration-and-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/2026\/03\/03\/fedcon26-registration-and-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"FEDcon26 Registration and Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>SAVE THE DATE!!<\/strong><\/span> Our biennial <strong>Training Conference<\/strong> is <strong>August 23 to 25<\/strong> at the Hyatt Regency, <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/VjAt9fr5tD8fZBGP8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>One South Capitol Avenue<\/strong><\/a>, <strong>Indianapolis IN<\/strong>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/fedcon.narfe.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>FEDcon26 website<\/strong><\/a> has the details. Some points to help you in planning:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Hyatt Regency<\/strong> should not be confused with the Hyatt House, which is only a few blocks away.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Early Bird<\/strong> registration is $225 for members, $300 for non-members until <strong>May 22<\/strong>. It\u2019s $250\/$300 May 23 to August 7 and $300 afterwards.<\/li>\n<li>Spouses must\u00a0 pay the registration fee as it covers two lunches and coffee breaks. Even at these prices, NARFE does not break even.<\/li>\n<li>For those arriving early Sunday, <strong>August 23<\/strong>, the Registration Desk is open 10:00 am to 6:00 pm and the exhibit hall 1:00 to 7:00 pm.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Annual Business Meeting<\/strong> is 1:30 to 3:30 pm, <strong>August 23<\/strong>, and is open to all members.<\/li>\n<li>The conference starts Sunday evening, August 23, with a <strong>Welcome Reception<\/strong> from 5:00 to 6:00 pm.<\/li>\n<li>An optional offsite evening\u00a0event on Monday, August 24, is still to be determined (TBD).<\/li>\n<li>The conference ends with a <strong>Closing Reception<\/strong> on Tuesday, <strong>August 25<\/strong>, from 4:30 to 5:30 pm. An optional evening event is TBD*.<\/li>\n<li>Our hotel rate is $179. For reservations, the <a href=\"https:\/\/fedcon.narfe.org\/hotel-and-travel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Hotel and Travel<\/strong><\/a> page on the <a href=\"https:\/\/fedcon.narfe.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>FEDcon26<\/strong><\/a> website links to the Hyatt\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyatt.com\/events\/en-US\/group-booking\/INDRI\/G-NARF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NARFE FEDcon26<\/strong><\/a> page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*Another federation heard one evening event may be a baseball game. The AAA Indianapolis Indians (Pittsburgh Pirates) play the Columbus Clippers (Cleveland Guardians affiliate) August.25. That\u2019s Tuesday Dollar Menu night. It\u2019s a 12-miniutes walk to Victory Field from the Hyatt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE has released the registration fee, hotel rate and general schedule for the conference August 23 to 25 and pre-conference events August 20 to 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2026\/04\/FEDcon26-logo-and-motto-with-border.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}