REGISTRATION

Your registration for the 2025 Leadership Summit acknowledges your acceptance of the following code of conduct for all events and activities at the 2025 Leadership Summit. NLGI values the engagement of everyone involved in the 2025 Leadership Summit, and NLGI is committed to ensuring a safe event and enjoyable experience for everyone.

To that end, you are to act in a professional and courteous manner to all attendees, speakers, presenters, and staff throughout the 2025 Leadership Summit, including hotel staff. NLGI does not tolerate harassment, discrimination, or other unwelcome or unlawful behavior based on anyone’s race; sex; national origin; religion (or lack thereof); age; ethnicity; color; gender; sexual orientation; marital, civil union, or domestic partnership status; physical, mental, or sensory disability; national, social, or ethnic origin; pregnancy; family or parental status; and other protected categories.

“Harassment” includes but is not limited to: offensive verbal comments, including to speakers during presentations; inappropriate, unwanted, and/or unsolicited physical contact; sexual propositions or posted/texted sexual images; unwelcome sexual attention or comments; off-color or obscene jokes, remarks, or gestures; any other words or conduct of a sexual nature that makes the recipient or observer uncomfortable; deliberate intimidation, stalking, or following; sustained disruption of talks or other events; unwelcome photography or recording; and, advocating for, or encouraging, any of the above behavior.

NLGI takes seriously any violation of this Code of Conduct. Accordingly, attendees at the 2025 Leadership Summit who violate this Code of Conduct can, in the judgment and discretion of NLGI, be expelled from the 2025 Leadership Summit, can be prevented from attending certain events at the 2025 Leadership Summit; and can be barred from future NLGI events after notification and an opportunity to respond, and review by the NLGI Board of Directors.

If you are being harassed, observe someone else being harassed, or have concerns about potential violations of this Code of Conduct, please notify NLGI staff immediately. In the case of an in-person emergency, call 911 or hotel security, whichever feels safest for you. NLGI will take all appropriate action to protect anyone affected by violations of this Code of Conduct.

All reports made to NLGI staff are confidential. If NLGI staff takes a personal report from you, they may need to involve others to ensure that your report is properly managed and that the appropriate action is taken to protect you or others, but all efforts will be made to keep your report confidential. NLGI will only involve law enforcement or hotel security at a victim’s request.

NLGI expressly disclaims any liability arising out of your consumption of alcoholic beverages in conjunction with the 2025 Leadership Summit. You are responsible for your own well-being. NLGI expressly disclaims liability for any acts or omissions of attendees resulting from excessive drinking, recklessness, or negligence on the part of any participant(s). NLGI reserves the right to revoke your registration at any time for breach of the foregoing.

As a registered attendee or guest of the 2025 Leadership Summit, you authorize NLGI to photograph your image as a participant in the 2025 Leadership Summit sessions and events. Use of the photographs will be limited to NLGI and for future promotional purposes only.

Attendee hereby assumes all risks, and accepts sole responsibility, for any injury (including, but not limited to, personal injury, disability, and death), illness, damage, loss, claim, liability, or expense, of any kind, that Attendee may experience or incur in connection with attending the 2025 Leadership Summit. Attendee hereby releases, covenants not to sue, discharges, and holds harmless NLGI, its employees, agents, and representatives, of and from any such claims, including all liabilities, claims, actions, damages, costs, or expenses of any kind arising out of or relating thereto.

Specifically relating to the global COVID-19 pandemic, you acknowledge the highly contagious nature of COVID-19 and voluntarily assume the risk of exposure or infection by attending the 2025 Leadership Summit, and that such exposure or infection may result in personal injury, illness, disability, and/or death to attendee. You further understand that the risk of becoming exposed to or infected by COVID-19 at the 2025 Leadership Summit may result from the actions, omissions, or negligence of others who may attend the 2025 Leadership Summit or their families, colleagues, or others with whom they may have contact. Accordingly, you understand and agree that this release includes any claims based on the actions, omissions, or negligence of NLGI, its employees, agents, and representatives, whether a COVID-19 infection occurs before, during, or after participation in the 2025 Leadership Summit. If you test positive for COVID-19 during the summit or within seven days after the summit, please contact NLGI HQ.

In addition to all other rules and regulations relating to the Attendee’s attendance at the 2025 Leadership Summit, you agree to comply with all COVID-related procedures that may be implemented by NLGI and/or the Hotel, including, but not limited to, mask-wearing and social distancing requirements and restrictions on certain activities that carry higher COVID-related risk, in order to protect as much as possible, the health and safety of all attendees.