Please submit your speaker proposal for a Pre-Conference Workshop or a Conference Breakout using the Speaker Submission Form provided below and complete all fields. Proposals shall be submitted exclusively online. The Conference Committee will make its selections by early October. You will be notified of acceptance or rejection no later than October 31, 2022.

Pre-conference training sessions can be either four (4) hours, eight (8) hours, two (2) days or three (3) days in length, or multi-day Position Specific courses; all Breakout Conference sessions are one (1) hour in length and all Plenary Sessions are forty-five (45) minutes in length. 

Please note that the Conference Committee:

• Selects presenters based on their personal knowledge, experience and professional reputation.
• Selects presentations that provide a well-rounded educational program for all of AHIMTA's attendees; therefore the following concepts are important to the committee:
  1. Pre-Conference presenters should provide useful toolkits and/or resources for the attendee.
  2. Breakout sessions should provide lessons learned from real world responses, useful implementation tools, useable resources or “how to’s”. 
  3. That there be a variety of presentations that target different sectors of incident management; including, but not limited to various levels and departments of government, education, critical infrastructure, healthcare, non-profits and private sector.
  4. Company endorsements for specific products or services will not be tolerated.
• Requests that all proposals include a list of outcomes/objectives that the attendee will receive, learn, or be able to perform after attending your session.
• May cancel a session if the original speakers or submitted topic are no longer available.
• will require acknowledgement & approval of any speaker substitutions in writing.