General information
Registration for the 17th Annual Waterloo Staff Conference opens on Portal in March 2025.
When choosing your conference session on Portal, you can select one option for each time frame (which will highlight in gold). All other options for that timing will be blocked out with the words "Time Conflict." To change your selection before submitting, you need to uncheck a box in the time slot you are adjusting so that the other options become available again.
Details about sessions will be located in the conference schedule.
Registration will remain open on Portal until the end of the conference on April 9.
For help with the registration process or any further inquiries about the conference, please contact us at ohd@uwaterloo.ca.
Locations/ format
This year's conference will be a hybrid format:
- April 8 - In-person sessions with live-streamed keynotes.
- April 9 - Primarily virtual sessions, with recordings and in-person keynote viewing rooms available.
For event locations and virtual session access, please see Know before you go.
Need help with Portal?
Portal Support: portal@uwaterloo.ca
New to Portal? Learn more about this application.
You will need to register for the event with your WatIAM userID and password.
Good to know: Where to find event links and my schedule
Once you submit your registration for a session, a confirmation e-mail will be sent to your Waterloo e-mail address with any URL Links you will need, which you'll also find in your Portal Calendar. The Portal Calendar will also have the room locations of your in-person sessions, closer to the conference.
Attached to your registration confirmation is a Calendar file you can import into your Outlook as a reminder.
Please note: Should you modify your registration, you will need to re-import the calendar file from your updated registration confirmation.
As well, your personalized event schedule is on Portal. Login with your WatIam credentials, on web or app, and look under My Registered Events or on the Calendar function.
Modifying your registration
Need to modify or cancel? Simply log into Portal and visit your registrations. Select the appropriate action to make any changes and click submit. Note: You might not get another confirmation email if you are just modifying you registration but you will see a change in your calendar in Portal.