Members Area

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

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