41stKYSHRM-2025-PostEventReport

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2025 POST-EVENT REPORT

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ABOUT THE KYSHRM CONFERENCE Thank you for your partnership in the 41st Annual Kentucky SHRM Conference—an event that united Kentucky’s HR leaders, executives, and professionals for three days of learning, networking, and strategy. This year’s conference delivered exceptional engagement and visibility for event sponsors, showcasing brands to a statewide audience of decision-makers across diverse industries.

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SPONSOR FEEDBACK This conference is one of our primary events that bring existing and future clients together every year. You and your team make the process very easy for us to focus on our relationships with the attendees. We enjoy your partnership and look forward to working with you further in the future.

Jeff Graf, CPFA™, NQPA™ Principal | Retirement Plan Advisory Cerity Partners

www.kyshrmconference.com

As always, we enjoyed our time at the conference and appreciate everything you and the entire KYSHRM team do to put on such a great event.

Taylor Wallace Manager - Regional Business Development, Littler

You run a top notch event. Looking forward to 2026!

Cathy Lyons Senior Client Account Executive McGriff Insurance Services, LLC

RETURN ON INVESTMENT

596

18/98

80

conference attendees

Sponsors / Exhibitors

speakers

ONSITE RECOGNITION Sponsor signage/banners Slides shown Verbal recognition of sponsors Conference app

ATTENDEE DEMOGRAPHICS

The KYSHRM Conference has been and will continue to be successful thanks to our sponsors and exhibitors.

Thank you for your support!

View our sponsors here.

View our exhibitors here.

Titles (of those in attendance) 51% 18% 18% 13%

Other Director Manager Executive

Industries Represented: 51% 16% 11% 7% 7% 4% 4%

Services Manufacturing Finance/Insurance/Real Estate Transportation/Communications/Electric/Gas/Sanitary Public Administration Construction Retail & Wholesale Trade

Company Size (# of employees): 34% 28% 17% 11% 10%

0-100 101-250 251-500 501-1000 1001+

www.kyshrmconference.com

OVERALL EVENT RATING

4.7

out of 5

BRAND VISIBILITY MARKETING STATISTICS Email Marketing Performance 34 unique promotions 375,082 emails delivered 106,292 unique opens 3,892 clicks Engagement Rate: 2.8% click-through, demonstrating aboveaverage engagement for professional audiences.

Social Media Exposure PLATFORM

Facebook & Instagram Facebook Ads Twitter LinkedIn LinkedIn Ads

IMPRESSIONS ENGAGEMENTS

10,483 110,496 530 7,953 20,322

424 1,717 3 1,150 216

Advertising Digital 6 2 1

Business Lexington digital ads Business Lexington E-blast KCC Digital Newsletter

Print 1 1 4

Qtr-pg.Business Lexington Print Ad Qtr-pg. Kentucky Chamber News Print Ad Full-pg. HR Professionals magazine Print Ads

Website Presence

PARTICIPATE IN 2026!

Sponsor logos and company webpage links displayed at www.kyshrmconference.com

Contact:

Conference App Presence

Andrea Flanders Director, Sponsor Relations Kentucky Chamber 502-848-8786 aflanders@kychamber.com

Exhibitors and sponsors

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Brand Exposure Web, print, advertising, email and social media.

ATTENDEE FEEDBACK “Excellent!! Can’t wait until next year!!”

“It was my first time, and I had a fantastic time.”

“Loved the welcome reception night 1!”

“This was a great conference overall. The food was fantastic too.”

“I LOVE (and appreciate!) that we had dietary options for the final day lunch. Thank you for this!”

“Great conference – good content and excellent networking.”

“Great experience. Thanks to all those that made the event so successful” “Great sessions!”