ACCI 2025 Annual Conference

“Enhancing Consumer Well-being: Equity and Resilience”
April 15-17, 2025, Omni William Penn, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Hotel Information

  • Make your hotel reservation first and receive $100 off the registration price!
  • Make your reservation HERE
    • ACCI's group rate is $179 + tax per night single/double occupancy (about $204 USD)
    • Group rate ends March 15, 2025 extended to March 22, 2025 April 4, 2025
    • Group rates are available for 3 days before and after the conference dates, based on availability.
    • A small block has been reserved for Federal employees. Please contact the ACCI Office if you need to book at the Federal per diem.
    • Note: A credit card is required when you making your reservation; cancel 72 hours prior to arrival to avoid a charge of one night plus tax.
  • General information about Omni William Penn, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Registration Information

  • Pricing:
    • Professional Members - $700 until 3/15/2025 extended to 3/22/2025 4/4/2025; $750 after
    • Student Members - $400
    • Retiree Members - $450
    • Non-member (join when you register & receive member pricing) - $850
  • Register HERE
  • Registration Terms & Conditions - The Fine Print
  • Travel details and more here.

Schedule

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Fun Things to do in Pittsburgh

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Note: ACCI’s Journal of Consumer Affairs has announced a call for papers for a special issue "Enhancing Consumer Well-Being: Equity and Resilience" The submission deadline for that call is September 1, 2025.


Conference Planning Committee Chair: Richard Stebbins
Co-Chair: Yilan Xu


Goals of the Conference

  • Learning about programs and research in the wide field of consumer science,
  • Networking to learn what others are doing,
  • Motivation to become refreshed, stimulated in your own work, and to keep up the new connections made here.

Conference Objectives: At the end of the conference, participants will be able to: (1) name at least three new research projects of which they were unaware; (2) describe at least three new professional contacts; and (3) explain ACCI’s mission and vision and identify at least one way in which you could become active in support of work in the consumer's interest.