For Attendees

This year, we are at the Washington State Convention Center (WSCC), and the main conference hotel is the Sheraton Seattle Hotel in Seattle, Washington.

This page will contain everything you need for registration, reserving a room, obtaining visas, and finding a roommate. For now, we want to make sure that rate information is available early to attendees.

Registering for SIGCSE 2017

SIGCSE 2017 takes place between March 8th and March 11th of 2017.

As always, we encourage attendees to register early. This helps us with our planning, and in return, you get lower registration rates!

Also, if you are not currently a SIGCSE member, you should consider joining at the same time that you register for the conference. Professionals can save between $30 and $55, while both professionals and students save time by not having to fill out a separate membership form. The benefits of SIGCSE membership are too numerous to list here, but they include the quarterly publications ACM Inroads and the SIGCSE Bulletin, free access to SIGCSE publication archives, access to the SIGCSE-ANNOUNCE and SIGCSE-MEMBERS mailing lists, and the opportunity to network within a community of computing professionals.

Professionals should choose one of the “Non-member joining SIGCSE” registration categories, which are less expensive than the Non-member category. Students simply choose the “Student Non-member” registration category, and then don’t opt-out of the included membership (that’s right – it couldn’t be much easier). Alternatively, you could join SIGCSE, wait for your membership number, and then register for the conference using the “Member” category.

But wait! There’s more! Student volunteers get reimbursed for their conference registration, so they actually get free SIGCSE membership when they join at the same time that they register for the conference. Important: to get this benefit, students must register as volunteers through a system separate from conference registration.

Registration Rates

K-12 Educators, Workshops, and Students

Regarding Visas

The following is the official word from supportletters@acm.org regarding letters of support for visas. Your requests should be emailed to supportletters@acm.org with the information described below.

Note that it could take some time for your request to be honored; leave plenty of time.

Reserving a Room

There are four conference hotels with special conference room rates. All four are close to the Washington State Convention Center and are within easy walking distance of each other. The primary conference hotel is the Sheraton Seattle.

• Sheraton Seattle (reservations)
  Room rate: $185/night + tax (only upgraded, more expensive rooms left)
  Deadline: February 7, 2017
  (if you phone direct and ask for the SIGCSE rate, you may still be able to get the group rate)
  Address: 1400 6th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101
  Phone: +1-206-621-9000
  Phone (direct): +1-206-447-5547

• Grand Hyatt Seattle (reservations) (now SOLD OUT)
  Room rate: $185/night + tax (now SOLD OUT)
  Deadline: February 7, 2017 (now SOLD OUT)
  Address: 721 Pine St, Seattle, WA 98101
  Phone: +1-206-774-1234

• Hyatt at Olive 8 (reservations)
  Room rate: $185/night + tax
  Deadline: February 17, 2017 (note extension!)
  Address: 1635 8th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101
  Phone: +1-206-695-1234

• The Roosevelt Hotel (reservations) (now SOLD OUT)
  Room rate: $159/night + tax (now SOLD OUT)
  Deadline: February 7, 2017 (now SOLD OUT)
  Address: 1531 7th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101
  Phone: +1-206-621-1200

Find a Roommate!

You can also use the SIGCSE roommate database to find someone to room with. This is the preferred database of SIGCSE members around the world for finding roommates at the SIGCSE Technical Symposium. Honest.

Getting to SIGCSE 2017

Seattle-Tacoma International (Airport Code: SEA)