Conference Location & Hotel: Bahia Resort Hotel

998 W Mission Bay Dr
San Diego, CA 92109

We have a block of rooms at the Bahia Resort Hotel, the conference hotel. The room rate is $249 plus tax, and there is an additional $20 resort fee per day (reduced from $44/day). Rooms include free parking and access to all resort amenities includingprivate beach access, Wi-Fi, two in-room bottled waters per day, fitness center and pool access, and coffee maker and tea available in each room.

Please book by July 15, 2025 at 5pm PST to receive the discounted room rate. If you’re interested in extending your stay, you may book rooms two days prior or one day following August 14^th at the discounted rate. This is only available until the hotel occupancy peaks. At that time, we cannot guarantee these rates. Book now to get your discount!

For more information, check out the 2025 Conference FAQ.

Highlights of the conference will include our Short Course and Plenary Session:

• Our short course, Finding People Where They Are: Multi-Sample/Multi-Mode Approaches to Survey Research, will be led by Cameron McPhee and Eran Ben-Porath from SSRS. This course focuses on addressing a key challenge in conducting survey research: reaching representative samples of respondents. While this has been a challenge since the onset of public opinion research, the current moment has made it more complicated. Not only are people are communicating in multiple ways, people are increasingly discriminating about the types of communication with which they will engage. This means that the people we reach online are different from those we find by mail; not to mention those who are reached by phone. Additionally, sampling frames and sampling methods vary in their reliability, as well as in the representativeness of respondents they produce. And, of course, the mode of data-collection can affect the results we observe. In view of the ever-growing set of decisions researchers need to make in an attempt to ensure their surveys’ accuracy, this course is meant to accomplish several goals: review the historical challenges of coverage and representativeness, and how those challenges have been met; assess the current moment and the broad set of challenges it brings; and suggest approaches to meeting the challenges. These include the mixing of samples within a study, employing multiple paths of outreach to potential respondents, and offering multiple access-points and modes through which respondents can take part in surveys. We assess the strength and challenges of these approaches, and then consider the circumstances best-suited for the different solutions we present.
• Join our plenary panelists, Director Todd Hughes (UCLA Center for Health Policy Research), Dr. Shakari Byerly (EVITARUS), and Director Brianne Gilbert  (Loyola Marymount University) for a discussion around Informed Inclusion: Leveraging Data to Foster Diversity and Equity.  Public opinion and survey researchers provide data that informs decisions made by policy and law makers. This plenary program explores the ways data can be used for more informed inclusion, and will explore possibilities of addressing disparities fostering diversity and equity as Southern California continues to address the wildfire destruction and displacement. The renowned scholars participating in this plenary have a variety of expertise and insights from years of public service and public policy research. We are looking forward to a frank and lively discussion on leveraging data to foster diversity and equity.

Tentative Conference Schedule:

Thursday, August 14^th