Call for Presentations

Big Year. Big Easy.

2025 NATIONAL CONFERENCE
March 26-28, 2025| New Orleans, Louisiana

We’re doing it up big for our 2025 national conference in New Orleans, because it’s a big anniversary: 50 years!

We’d love to see you on the program, helping our members have those big a-ha moments, teaching them the big (and little!) things that will make their day-to-day a little easier. Whether you’ve presented at half a dozen conferences before or zero times before, we know you have expertise to share. That’s why we’re inviting you to submit your presentation proposal for Big Year. Big Easy.

 What topics do we want to see?

We scoured the evaluations from the 2024 national conference, and here are some of the topics our members would love to see on the Big Year. Big Easy. program:

• Data mining and analytics (retention analytics, student segmentation)
• Crisis comms (free expression, ongoing training, strategies, emergency comms plans)
• Creative how-tos (photography, graphic design, website development, storytelling)
• Social media (trends, tips, how to grow an audience)
• AI integration (AI’s role in marcom and PR, policies and procedures, how AI can help with time management)
• Personal growth (benefits of advanced degrees, how to advance within marcom, motivating employees, dealing with burnout)
• Marketing-adjacent topics (government relations, workforce development, fundraising)

Whether your presentation is at a beginner, intermediate or expert level (and don’t sell yourself short: If you have expert-level knowledge, own it!), we want all your big ideas.

The proposal request deadline has passed. 

For further inquiries, please reach out to Lawanna Duran at [javascript protected email address]. Notifications regarding proposals will be communicated by the week of Jan. 6, 2025. 

TYPES OF PRESENTATIONS

Presenters can select one of following presentation types:

• BREAKOUTS: These one-hour sessions (45-50 minutes for the presentation, 10-15 minutes for questions) allow for an in-depth look at a topic. This option is available to members and vendors.

• NCMPR CREATIVE HOW-TOS: These one-hour sessions are broken into two halves: A presenter will have 30 minutes max to teach attendees how to do something. The remaining time will be a hands-on section, where attendees will be able to practice what they’ve learned, while the presenter is available to answer questions. Topics should be related to creative to-dos, such as storytelling, design, videography, photography and social media. This option is available to members. 

QUESTIONS?

Contact NCMPR’s national office at (505) 349-0500, or email our executive director, [javascript protected email address].