2025 CONFERENCE AGENDA

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Sunday, OCTOBER 26

  • Check in at the PDG Registration & Information desk to pick up your name badge and conference materials. Conference staff are here throughout the conference to answer your questions.

  • Meet exhibitors with creative technology and service solutions in the Exhibit Hall. Don't forget to get your PDG passport stamped at each exhibitor table to be eligible for fun giveaways and prizes!

  • Presenter: Steven Selander - President, Professional Development Group III

  • Enjoy coffee and tea in the ballroom foyer while you network and visit with exhibitors on service/product offerings.

  • Transition break between concurrent sessions.

  • Join your colleagues for a private reception.

Monday, OCTOBER 27

  • PDG conference staff are available during this time if you have any questions.

  • Meet exhibitors with creative technology and service solutions in the Exhibit Hall. Don't forget to get your PDG passport stamped at each exhibitor table to be eligible for fun giveaways and prizes.

  • Join your colleagues for a hearty breakfast.

  • Enjoy coffee and tea in the ballroom foyer while you network and visit with exhibitors on service/product offerings.

  • Transition break between concurrent sessions.

  • Enjoy lunch.

  • Enjoy coffee and tea in the ballroom foyer while you network and visit with exhibitors on service/product offerings.

  • Transition break between concurrent sessions.

Tuesday, OCTOBER 28

  • PDG conference staff are available during this time if you have any questions.

  • Meet exhibitors with creative technology and service solutions in the Exhibit Hall. Don't forget to get your PDG passport stamped at each exhibitor table to be eligible for fun giveaways.

  • Join your colleagues for a hearty breakfast.

  • Enjoy coffee and tea in the ballroom foyer while you network and visit with exhibitors on service/product offerings.

  • Transition break between concurrent sessions.

  • Enjoy lunch in the Ballroom at the Marina Inn at Grande Dunes.

  • Presenters: Michelle Hartman - Conserve, Karen Reddick - National Credit Management & Dave Wilbur - Williams & Fudge

    A discussion of the current concerns, trends and pending regulation in the third-party collections industry from our panel of experts. This panel will provide a high-level overview of Compliance Laws and Regulations affecting higher education collections. We will address state laws and federal regulations as it relates to higher education collections. We will go over what elements need to be regulations as it relates to higher education collections. We will go over what elements need to be present in a Financial Responsibility Statement that will help enforce past due debt and protect both institutions and their partners against liability. Learning Objectives: · A better understanding of "why" their third-party agency is asking for documents · A general knowledge of the regulatory environment and state laws · The understanding that the language in an institution's Student Financial Agreement is key to future collectability

  • Transition break between concurrent sessions.

Agenda is subject to change.