The Call for Ideas for the 2025 National Brownfields Training Conference is now open!
We invite you to submit your ideas for dynamic educational sessions that encourage conversation and participation from your fellow attendees. A great session will motivate brownfields stakeholders to engage, learn, and share their experiences and knowledge of community revitalization challenges and solutions. If you have a brownfields success story or knowledge and experience in brownfields topics, this is your chance to share it with your colleagues.

Please carefully review the Call for Ideas Submission Guide before completing your submission. Contact Emily Sparks (esparks@icma.org) with questions. 

The Call for Ideas will close on December 20, 2024 at 11:59pm ET.

Instructions

  1. Before beginning, download and carefully review the Call for Ideas Submission Guide. 
  2. Click the red “click here to submit your idea” button above to be directed to the Call for Ideas submission page.
  3. Use the form to fill out the information for your session. Only sessions submitted through this form will be considered.
  4. Please have a formulated title, description, and learning objectives for your session. Sessions without a compelling title and description are less likely to be selected.
  5. Titles are limited to 100 characters and descriptions are limited to 125 words.
  6. You are asked to submit a polished description that will be posted to the website and mobile app, which is required in your proposal. 
  7. We require that you submit speaker emails and also ask for speaker bios and photos. 
  8. You may submit a session on behalf of someone else who will be the speaker(s). 
  9. You may submit multiple session proposals.
  10. Have fun! Playful session titles are welcomed and encouraged.

A priority of the National Brownfields Training Conference is promoting diversity and raising awareness and understanding among our attendees and stakeholders of the vital role diversity plays in our communities and our economy. Therefore, we request that proposed speaker panels contribute to this mission.  Diversity across our speaker population contributes to enhancing participation, inclusion and leadership opportunities for brownfields stakeholders of diverse backgrounds. When our speakers and moderators reflect a diversity of backgrounds, including race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual preference and Tribal affiliation, we enhance our ability to educate our attendees on how diversity impacts the communities affected by brownfields.