ACC Annual Scientific Session Faculty FAQs

Yes. You can access your invitation(s) by visiting the ACC.26 Portal and clicking on the "Tasks" tab at the top of the page if it's not already open.

No, all ACC.26 faculty must present live, in-person at the meeting.

All ACC.26 faculty must complete a disclosure statement prior to accepting a faculty invitation. To complete your disclosures, visit https://disclosures.acc.org and log in using your ACC username and password. If you do not have an ACC username you can create one for free on that page.

The registration fee is waived for confirmed ACC.26 faculty. Please allow 24 hours after accepting the faculty invitation before you access the registration site so that you can register with a complimentary status.

You must register yourself. Registration is NOT automatic when you accept your invitation(s). Invited and confirmed faculty can register for ACC.26 during the Exclusive Member Registration period beginning on Wednesday, October 1, 2025. General Early Bird Registration opens on Wednesday, October 15.

Confirmed faculty will receive a free three-month subscription to ACC Anywhere, a comprehensive digital library of ACC's in-person and virtual meetings including on demand access to 200+ sessions from ACC.26.

No, you do not. The ACC does not pay an honorarium, nor reimburse for hotel, travel, or per diem expenses for ACC.26 faculty members.

At the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, 900 Convention Center Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70130.

You can make a hotel reservation through the ACC.26 site. To see which hotels are available, visit our registration page.

Once you register for the conference, you will be able to obtain official documentation to get a visa. Please visit the registration page for more information.

That depends on your specific role within a session. Chairs, presenters, and panelists all have different responsibilities within a session. Please refer to the summary page of your invitation(s) to see what type of role(s) you have and the associated responsibilities. We will also send out more detailed information about this in February.

As a case presenter you should work with the session chairs to develop an appropriate case. If you need the chairs' email addresses, you can find them on the summary page of your invitation under the "Presentations" header.

After accepting your invitation, you will be taken to a summary page. That summary page lists all session details, including other presenters within your session and their email addresses. You can find this under the "Presentations" header on the summary page.

Yes, the template will be available on your portal page in January 2026.

No. However, we strongly encourage you to use the template to create consistency between presentations and sessions at ACC.26.

The sessions are organized by our ACC.26 Program Committee. Therefore, one of our program committee members selected you as faculty.

Yes. Please visit the ACC.26 website for more information.

Friday, March 27: Noon - 5 p.m.
Saturday, March 28: 7:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 29: 7:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Monday, March 30: 7:30 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Yes. If you arrive at the Speaker Service Center by 7 a.m. on Saturday and you explain to the staff that your presentation is at 8 a.m., they will make every effort to ensure that you are ready on time.

Yes, but only at the Speaker Service Center; presenters are unable to present directly from a USB/flash drive.