Registration

Full Registration- $385 Deadline July 5, 2024

Late Registration- $425 Deadline July 26, 2024

REGISTRATION ENDS July 26, 2024! No refunds will be given after July 26th at 12pm.

** Guest tickets for Welcome Reception, Monday Luncheon, and Hall of Fame Dinner Banquet available to purchase through registration link below. If Guests want all meals (the above mentioned plus breakfasts Monday and Tuesday morning) they should do a full registration.

*** Selecting your Tour during registration does not guarantee your tour spot. It is a first come basis with limited availability for each and you will get a confirmation of your tour before Annual Meeting.

Hotel Accommodations

$157/night + tax & $10/night resort fee

Book online: Chateau Elan - Reservations - Room Availability (synxis.com)

For Call-in Booking: 1-678- 425-0900, the booking ID is 080324GAC

There will be complimentary self-parking. DEADLINE FOR HOTEL RESERVATIONS: JULY 14, 2024

Thank you to our Sponsors!

McDuffie County Conservation District Oconee River Conservation District

Hall County Conservation District

SPONSORSHIP & EXHIBIT OPPORTUNITIES

Exhibitors can register at the REGISTER HERE button above. Sponsorships can also be paid with card via the REGISTER HERE button above.

Platinum $5000

Recognition in meeting program & on meeting webpage, 3 shoutouts on GACD Facebook and Instagram page, 2 complimentary meeting registrations, 1 complimentary exhibit space, Hall of Fame Banquet Sponsor (logo on banquet program, verbal recognition, and reserved table for Banquet)

Gold $2500

Recognition in meeting program & on meeting webpage, 2 shoutouts on GACD Facebook and Instagram page, 1 complimentary exhibit space, verbal recognition at Luncheon, Logo on Attendee lanyards

Silver $1000

Recognition in meeting program & on meeting webpage, 1 shoutout on GACD Facebook and Instagram page, Breakout session verbal recognition

Bronze $500

Recognition in meeting program & meeting webpage, 1 shoutout on GACD Facebook and Instagram page

Basic Exhibitor $325

Vendor Space: table and chair
Includes Sunday reception for 1. No other meals included.

Vendor Space: table and chair
1 full registration (all meals for 1)
plus Logo in Program

Tentative Agenda

SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2024

4-6pm: Registration 4-5pm: Exhibitor Set Up

5pm: GACD Board Meeting

6-8pm: Welcome Reception / Visit with Exhibitors

MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 2024

7-8am: Breakfast

8am: General Session - Welcome, Partner Reports, Keynote Speaker: NRCS Cheif Terry Cosby

10-10:30: Break / Visit with Exhibitors

10:30-11:30: Breakout Sessions

Choose between Breakout 1 - Feral Hog Trapping Master Class OR Breakout 2 - Leveraging an Urban Grower Network to Develop Impactful Educational Programming

11:30-12pm: Break / Visit with Exhibitors

12pm: Luncheon - Service Pin Ceremony and District Supervisor Memorials

1-1:30pm: Break / Visit with Exhibitors

1:30-2:30pm: Breakout Sessions

Choose between Breakout 3 - Grow Fish not Weeds OR Breakout 4 - Watershed Dams & Erosion Control Plans

2:30-2:45pm: Break / Visit with Exhibitors

2:45-3:45pm: Breakout Sessions

Choose between Breakout 5 - Bale Grazing OR Breakout 6 - Onsite Wastewater

DINNER ON YOUR OWN

TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2024

7-8am: Breakfast

8am: General Session - Keynote Speaker Terry Chandler, Water Panel, NRCW

10-10:30am: Break / Visit with Exhibitors (Exhibitors are dismissed at 10:30am)

10:30-11:30: GACD Business Meeting

LUNCH ON YOUR OWN

1-4pm: Tours THANK YOU to our Tours sponsor: Oconee River Soil and Water Conservation District and Hall County Soil and Water Conservation District

*** Selecting your Tour during registration does not guarantee your tour spot. It is a first come basis with limited availability for each and you will get a confirmation of your tour before Annual Meeting.

Option 1: Chateau Elan Winery Tour - An engaging and informative private experience that includes a tour of the winery production facility by an educated Wine Steward. During the tour, the winemaking process from grape to glass, is explained by an eduacted wine steward. After the tour, there is a personalized guided tasting of Chateau Elan wines.

Option 2: Carlyle-Blakely Farm Tour - The Carlyle-Blakely Farm is notable as the site of a prominent agricultural reform demonstration on May 12, 1948, which addressed a huge problem in Georgia agriculture where few Georgia farmers terraced their fields or rotated crops, leading to severe erosion. The farm (then 168 acres) was chosen as the site of a Master Conservation Field Day.

5-6pm: Reception / Cash Bar

6pm: Hall of Fame Dinner Banquet