FAQs

Read full policies here: Pricing.

Read full policies here.

Conference registrants may take and post photos of sessions and posters, as long as the speaker/presenter allows it. Video and audio recordings and live feed streaming of sessions and posters by conference registrants is strictly prohibited.

A professional conference photographer will be taking photos for the use of Obesity Week LLC and The Obesity Society (TOS), and TOS staff will be recording videos for social media posts. By registering for the conference, you are consenting to allow your image to be used by Obesity Week LLC and TOS in future promotions and on social media. Discretion is used when selecting photos for promotional purposes. If you do not wish to be in a photo and see the photographer shooting a photo of you, you must personally ask the photographer to delete the shot at the time it is taken. If you have concerns, please contact us at [email protected].

Infants may be brought into sessions by a parent or guardian, but must be removed immediately if disruptive. Children must be accompanied by an adult when in the exhibit hall. Children may only enter the exhibit hall during show hours. Children are never allowed in the exhibit hall during set-up and dismantle. Children may not participate in conference exercise events or social events where alcohol is served due to insurance.

There is a dedicated lactation room near the public restrooms located on the right side of the hotel check-in desk (from the perspective of someone looking at the desk). Follow the short hallway to the end – the room is on the left.  If locked when the sign says “vacant”, ask the hotel check-in desk for the key.

For access to a quiet room for prayer or sensory reasons, please see the conference registration counter.

Information coming soon.

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Please take all lost and found items to the ObesityWeek® Registration Desk. After the conclusion of the conference, all lost and found items will be given to the convention center security.

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Read full policy here: COVID-19 Policies.

Complimentary wi-fi will be provided to all conference registrants at speeds sufficient to download the conference app and check email. Log-in details will be provided on the conference app.

All sessions at ObesityWeek® are conducted in English. For translation, consider using Google Translate or similar free apps. You can use your phone’s microphone to listen to the speaker and have Google Translate output to written text on the phone screen, and/or use earbuds if you wish to hear the simultaneous translation.

Please look at this page for the most up-to-date list.

All live sessions (except workshops) are recorded and posted on demand. Registrants have the option of purchasing on-demand recordings of all sessions for $TBD through November 17, 2026. After the conference, the price increases substantially to $TBD member / $TBD non-member. Those recordings will launch January 2027 be available through December 31, 2027. Approximately 85 CMEs are included. ObesityWeek® on-demand also includes non-CME sessions.

ObesityWeek® does not provide meals to all attendees (specific events only), however, there are typically two or three corporate supported symposia that serve meals on each conference day at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. See https://obesityweek.org/attend/css/ for details. There is also food at various hotel restaurants and in the neighborhood around the hotel (5 to 12 minute walk.) There is a 2-hour lunch break built into the conference schedule.

ObesityWeek® provides drink tickets and appetizers at the welcoming and closing receptions and beverages at the coffee breaks. All food items at ObesityWeek® receptions will be clearly labeled showing those that are gluten-free (GF), nut-free (NF), dairy-free (DF), vegetarian, (VEG) and vegan (VEGAN).

Abstracts are accepted in March-April and June-July.  View the Abstract Submissions page for details.

In an Obesity journal supplement published concurrently with the conference, on the app, and also on this website, under Abstracts and Interactive Schedule.

Acceptance and rejection emails come from [email protected] and go to the SUBMITTER of the abstract. If you were not the one who submitted it, check with that person. If you were, check junk/spam. For the March/April Call for Abstracts, emails go out in late June/early July. For the June/July Call for Late-Breaking Abstracts, emails go out in early September. If it is past those dates, please email [email protected].

Yes, all oral and poster presenters must register at regular registration prices. Co-authors are not required to register.

Contact [email protected] to discuss.

Registration opens in May.

No, it’s much better to join TOS while you are registering to avoid a time lag.  Non-members have the option of signing up for TOS membership during the registration process. The charges for the conference and membership are processed as one transaction, and you will receive an itemized invoice.

If you are experiencing financial hardship, such as retirement, unemployment, coming from a developing country, or other circumstances, please send an email explaining the situation to [email protected].

Please contact [email protected] for options.

We strongly encourage ACH (electronic check) or credit card payment, but checks or wire transfer can be accommodated in special circumstances. Email [email protected].

Odds are that we have an old email address for you or a misspelled name in our system. (Accents don’t work in our system, for example.) Email [email protected] and we’ll sort it out for you.

Yes, all oral and poster presenters must register at regular registration prices.

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At this time, we offer Continuing Medical Education (CME) PRA Category 1 credit and ABIM MOC credit (for Track 5 sessions only). We hope to offer more boards in the future.

You can use the links in the app or the personal link directly into the CME system that is emailed to you daily after the conference has begun. Evaluate the session, then hover over the box to select the number of credits earned for each session you watched. Then go to My Certificates to email or print your certificate.

Credit claiming is on the honor system to the closest quarter hour. If you purchased on-demand access to recordings, that will include a separate CME certificate, and the courses you already claimed credit for at the live conference will be grayed out so you cannot double-claim credit for the same session.

To claim ABIM MOC credits [only available at Track 5 (Clinical Practice) sessions], you will also have to pass a short post-test and enter your certification number, birth month, and birth date.

You will receive a number of emails from the CME/evaluation system. There is a personal link in it. Click through and go to My Certificates, where you can email your certificate to yourself, print it, or download it.  If you’ve lost the email, go to the Education tab of this website and then to Claim Past Credits. You may have to reset your password to log in. If so, just click the reset link and follow directions.

Attendees REALLY want you to, and we do too. You don’t have to post your slides as handouts (though we would love it if you did!) We are asking you to do at least a simple one-page summary with key takeaways, resources for follow-up, contact info if you want to give that out – anything that makes sense and will give attendees a tangible resource that will remind them of your presentation after the deluge of information they receive at the conference.

We want you to record a short video on your phone or on Zoom that we can post on social media to promote your session at the conference. It would be ideal to receive these in late spring/summer – as early as possible.  If you click through your personal link to the speaker resource center and click on the promotional video part, there’s even a sample script for you to use.  It will only take a couple of minutes and will help us a great deal. Please do it – it makes a big difference to the success of the conference.

• Please check in at the Speaker Ready Room (Chesapeake 12) to let us know you arrived at the conference and double-check that the correct slides are loaded for your presentation. Please do this as early as possible, preferably right after you arrive at the conference.  Please find the room number for your session in the conference program and arrive 30 minutes before the start of the session. Speaker Resources, including poster instructions and a slide template, can be found at https://obesityweek.org/abstracts/speaker-resources/.
• Speaker Ready Room Hours (Chesapeake 12)
  • Friday, November 13, 2026: 7:30am – 7:00pm
  • Saturday, November 14, 2026: 7:30am – 7:00pm
  • Sunday, November 15, 2026: 7:30am – 7:00pm
  • Monday, November 16, 2026: 7:30am – 7:00pm
  • Tuesday, November 17, 2026: 7:30am – Noon