June 1-4, 2025
Embassy Suites by Hilton Greenville Golf Resort & Conference Center
670 Verdae Boulevard
Greenville, SC 29607
This is an in-person event, open to any food safety professionals and policymakers in local/state/federal government, industry, and academic sectors.
Greenville’s Website – With sites for Visitors and Trolley Information
Agenda
The AFDOSS Board is pleased to present the draft agenda for the 2025 Annual Educational Conference. The agenda has not been finalized, so please check back here again for updates as they become available.
2025 AEC Agenda (Draft)
Conference Registration
Registration is NOW OPEN! We have Earlybird Discounts available through the end of April. Starting May 1, all conference registrations will increase by $25.
You can complete your registration using this link.
Conference registration is NOW OPEN, and is available via our membership platform, Wild Apricot. To register, please click this link – REGISTER HERE.
Please ensure your membership status for 2024 is up to date before registering. This will ensure you can register at the Regular Member Conference Rate.
TIP: For AFDOSS Members, to help prevent duplicate member profiles in our database, if someone else is registering for you – please have them use your email address to create the registration. This will allow the system to associate your registration with your Wild Apricot profile and give you access to your member rate.
Hotel & Transportation
The 2025 AFDOSS AEC is in Greenville, South Carolina, at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Greenville Golf Resort & Conference Center. The negotiated conference room rate matches the GSA federal rate ($110.00), plus applicable taxes. There is also a mandatory 3% Greenville local destination tax on the room rate. With all the applicable taxes, this yields a nightly rate of $124.77.
Click this link to make you reservation. There will be two options available, Sunday-Tuesday (Jun 1-3) and Sunday-Wednesday (Jun 1-4). If you intended to stay for the full conference, please be sure to book the room for Sunday-Wednesday.
Alternatively, you can call (864-676-9090). Be sure to mention our conference, “AFDOSS Assoc of Food and Drug.”
From their website:
Located next to the Preserve at Verdae golf course, our conference center resort is six miles from downtown Greenville. We’re 15 minutes from the airport via free shuttle, which can be chartered within a five-mile radius. Enjoy made-to-order breakfast, evening receptions, swimming pools, and a fitness center featuring a Peloton® Bike with toe cages.
Hotel Services & Negotiated Benefits
- Check-in time is 4:00 PM and check-out time is 12:00 PM.
- Complimentary Breakfast for each registered guest (7am – 10am on Saturday and Sunday, 6:30am – 9:30am Monday through Friday).
- Evening Reception available from 6pm to 7:30pm daily. Two complimentary beverages will be offered to each registered adult.
- Complimentary guestroom Wi-Fi.
- Complimentary self-parking.
- No resort fee.
Per the terms of our contract, the cutoff date for reservations is Sunday, May 11, 2025.
Driving directions are available here.
Greenville Trolley
Greenville’s trolley website is available here. Rider information is available here.
Trolley pass and fare information is available here. (Greenlink System Map – PDF)
Greenlink partnered with the Transit App. You can download it for free by searching for “Transit App” in the iOS and Google Play store.
Greenlink operates its fixed bus routes Monday-Friday from 5:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m., with the last trip departing from the downtown Transit Center at 10:30 p.m. Saturday service operates from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., with the last trip departing from the downtown Transit Center at 5:30 p.m. See the Schedules page for more information on Greenlink’s fixed route services.
Sponsors and Exhibitors
AFDOSS would like to thank our conference sponsors, AFDO and HS GOVTECH! Please be sure to check out their exhibitor tables at the meeting.
If you are interested in supporting AFDOSS by being a Conference Sponsor or Exhibitor, please contact our AFDOSS Treasurer, Craig Nielsen. We have a few different options available to highlight your regulatory or industry community.
Live Auction
As is tradition, AFDOSS will be having a Live Auction to benefit the Mary Logan Scholarship Fund. For more information about the auction, please click here.
Continuing Education
AFDOSS will be applying for Continuing Education Credits (CEUs) through NEHA. The amount of CEUs will be determined once the conference agenda is finalized. Forms to claim CEUs will be made available for conference attendees at the registration desk.
Contact Information
Please use our contact form, for any general event questions or suggestions. If you have specific registration or AEC payment questions, please contact our AFDOSS Treasurer, Craig Nielsen, at AFDOSS.Craig@gmail.com.