In accordance with DoW's conference policy, all conferences that DoW hosts or that DoW personnel attend are required to be reported through a central DoW Conference Tool. This data is used to generate the annual reports that are posted publicly and support the Department's ongoing oversight of conference activities.
Registering attendance at a non-DoW hosted conference in the DoW Conference Tool is a two step process. First, the DoW organization selects the conference that they are sending personnel to from a list of conferences. Second, they enter the details about their attendance at the conference and upload the approval memorandum that authorized their personnel to attend the conference. Utilizing this two step process allows the Department to ensure that it can subsequently aggregate the attendees from multiple DoW organizations that are attending the same conference because each organization has selected the conference from the same overall list of conferences.
If a DoW organization is the first to try to register approved attendees at a particular conference and it does not appear on the selection list, the DoW Conference Tool allows them to enter the details about the conference and submit it for inclusion on the list. This submission is then reviewed by an administrator for completeness and to ensure that it is not duplicative with a conference that is already on the list.
CAC Users
All CAC users should submit conferences directly through the DoW Conference Tool.
Non-CAC Users
Methods for Non-CAC Users may return in the future.