Conference Planning Committee
The committee’s responsibilities include:
- Reviewing conference evaluations to make improvements/recommendations for changes.
- Reviewing abstract procedures, categories, and session types.
- Selecting keynote speakers, including Coleman Griffith and Performance Excellence Award Winner, and communicating with speakers to ensure their talks are appropriate for AASP audience.
- Coordinating & selecting other featured sessions/speakers.
- Accepting/rejecting abstracts based on scores from blind review, and programming them on specific days/times during the conference, taking into consideration program balance and speaker overlap. (This occurs during the in-person meeting in April/May at the conference location.)
- Determining ancillary conference events, such as receptions and social gatherings.
- Introducing speakers / making announcements at the conference.
Conference Planning Committee (CPC) Chair: Chelsea Butters Wooding