Booking your Flight and Hotel
Booking your Flight and Hotel
Immersion2026 will take place on March 10th to March 12th, 2026 at the Four Points by Sheraton Kansas City Airport hotel
in Kansas City, Missouri.
Please note there are two cities in the Midwest located close to each other, both with the words “Kansas City” in them.
- One of them is in Kansas City, Missouri. This is the place where Immersion2026 will take place. You should book your flight into this city.
- The other one is Kansas City, Kansas. You should shun and ignore this city. We are not having the event here.
Booking your airfare
There are two airports in Kansas City:
- Kansas City International Airport – the one you should fly into
- Kansas City Wheeler Downtown Airport – the one you should ignore and NOT fly into
This is the airport you should fly into: Kansas City International Airport. The code for this airport is MCI.
Let me state it again, even more clearly:
Please do not fly into any other airport than Kansas City International Airport.
There is a free shuttle and the hotel where we are having the event, the Sheraton Four Points, is located close to Kansas City International Airport. If you chose to fly into another airport, the free shuttle to the hotel will not be available, and you will be considerably further away from the hotel where we are having the event.
The check-in time for the hotel is 3 PM CT, and we are having a welcome event on March 10th, 2026 at 5 PM CT.
Immersion2026 will end on March 12th, 2026 at 1 PM CT. The check out time is 11 AM CT.
Booking your hotel room
The name of the hotel where we are having Immersion2026 is the Four Points by Sheraton Kansas City Airport. It is located at 11832 NW Plaza Cir, Kansas City, MO 64153. There is a free shuttle from MCI airport (see above) to this hotel.
By purchasing a ticket to Immersion2026, you agree to stay at the Four Points by Sheraton Kansas City Airport in order to fulfill the room block requirement. If you chose not to, and as a result we are unable to fulfill the room block requirement, you may be billed for the cost of a hotel room for two nights.
Cost Transparency
In the spirit of transparency, we disclose how much we made in ticket sales.
My goal for all Immersion events is to identify the best venue for the lowest possible price. To achieve this, I researched and got proposals from a number of different hotels in different parts of the country. Missouri is centrally located and the amenities were much less expensive than in a larger city. This is a professional event, not a camping trip, and for that reason I chose the hotel that offered the highest professional quality of experience for the price charged.
Despite my efforts to minimize costs, there are contractual and statutory obligations that must be met (Missouri state sales tax, service and taxes on event items such as food, beverage, and AV, ticket processing fees, etc.) I also had to build in a buffer in case incidental expenses were to arise, which I am anticipating is likely. At Immersion2024, a substantial expense arose that was unanticipated and I was glad that I had built in the buffer that I had. Even doing so, there were some costs that I had to absorb for that event.
If the surplus of ticket revenues over event costs is excessive, I will be more than happy to discuss what recourse should be taken in an open way, with all event participants. At Immersion2024, we conducted a vote and participants agreed that they did not wish to receive back any surplus.
The table below breaks out the major costs anticipated at this time for Immersion2025 which provides transparency as to why the ticket cost was set at what it was.
If you would like to see the back up, the legal documentation that verifies what these costs were contractually agreed upon to be, I’d be happy to provide that to you.
Here is the cost breakout for Immersion2024 which took place in March 2024. As you can see, there was a small surplus. It was my intention to return any surplus to the group. However, at the event, it was decided unanimously by the group that I could retain any surplus instead of going through the effort of dividing it up into equal parts amongst the registrants. As a note, I did not include any of my personal expenses and there were several Transparency Movement expenses that the Immersion benefitted from that were not included here as well (as those were sunk costs).
Please advise also that these are not the after-tax numbers. I have not yet been advised by my CPA as to if the tax impact of any Immersion2024 activities, as of January 2025.
We will conduct a vote at Immersion2026 to determine what will be done with any potential surplus, as we did at IM2024.
Do any other events or conferences disclose their financials? Go ask them and see what they say! And that’s Transparency for ‘ya!
Disclaimers
Rates may vary as a function of geographic location due to exchange rate differences, fees, surcharges, and other factors. These offers are limited to the services advertised in the promotions contained on this page. Additional services may be provided at an additional cost at rates that are subject to negotiation.