CALL OPENS: August 11, 2025
CALL CLOSES: September 15, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. EDT
Transform your research, ideas, and best practices into a presentation for the 2026 IPMI Parking & Mobility Conference & Expo, coming to Milwaukee, Wisconsin from June 14 - 17, 2026. Presented by many of the industry’s top minds, sessions at #IPMI2026 should spark the imagination, encourage dialogue, spotlight innovation, and drive new solutions to our greatest industry challenges.
The International Parking & Mobility Institute (IPMI) is the world’s largest association of professionals in parking, transportation, and mobility. Members include representatives from garage owners and operators to to city managers to government agencies, health care centers, universities, airports, and event venues as well as the designers and vendors that serve them.
IPMI works to advance the parking and mobility profession through professional development, certification, research and data collection, advocacy, and community building. With experts worldwide in dozens of specialties, IPMI helps parking, mobility, and transportation function efficiently so people, businesses, and communities can keep moving. Get all the details about IPMI membership.
IPMI has refined the review process to provide original, engaging, thought-provoking, and positive educational experiences for attendees.
• Submissions will go through a blind review and will be reviewed without the organizations’ or presenters’ names (or identifying information) attached to them. This ensures that selections are made based on the quality of the submission.
• Submissions are limited to two per presenter and four per organization. Larger organizations should coordinate submissions with their marketing department.
• IPMI will accept only original, first-run presentations. If your session has been previously presented, it is ineligible for the program.
• Vendors are encouraged to recruit clients and partners who are front-line implementers or end-users as co-presenters.
IPMI has recently implemented single sign-on (SSO) with this system. Please use your IPMI account password to log in. If you do not have an account, please create one here: login.parking-mobility.org/ You may start the submission process and return to your saved presentation until the deadline.
The deadline for all submittals is September 15, 2025, 7:00 PM EDT.
Kathleen Federici, M.Ed. Vice President, Professional Development, International Parking & Mobility Institute federici@parking-mobility.org
Submittals should demonstrate one or more of the following:
• Creativity, innovation, and new solutions to deliver successful parking and mobility programs.
• Real-life examples or case studies, and research and data that contribute to the advancement of the industry.
• Cutting-edge technologies, trends, and insights, into best practices that can be translated to operations, performance, and staff retention.
• Leadership and customer service that demonstrate effective problem solving, communications, and engagement.
To provide the best educational experience, IPMI provides multiple presentation formats:
Presentations led by one or two leaders targeting industry veterans/C-Suite leaders in analysis, high level risk-taking, autonomy, and leading change in an organization. Educate attendees about how to shape organizational strategy.
Share topics of interest, lessons learned, foresight, or evidence of impact related to a central theme, presented from varying perspectives. Presenters should engage the audience to stimulate and provoke discussion, and include diverse perspectives, and panelist. Panels cannot exceed one moderator and three panelists.
Stories of real-world, practical, proven solutions to challenges implemented by one or more institutions. Case studies provide ideas and approaches that may be adapted to another organization or attendee.
Share innovative strategies and methods in interactive, outcome-focused ways to promote discussion and engagement. This may include polling, small group breakouts, or other interactive activities.
Diversity in the make-up of presenters and panelists, as well as in the ideas and topics covered, are encouraged.
Varied perspectives are strongly favored, as both will ensure a comprehensive and compelling education program.
As IPMI strives to conduct a fair selection process that limits biases, our evaluation process is a blind review, ensuring that education sessions are selected based on the quality of the submissions. All submissions will be reviewed without the organizations’ or presenters’ names (or identifying information) attached to them. Do not submit your title, session description or objectives with identifying information as submissions that fail to do this will be disqualified. Incomplete and salesoriented submissions will not be considered, and no extensions will be provided.
Each accepted presenter will be contacted independently, and will be required to login, confirm participation, and sign the Speaker Agreement. Every presenter is required to accept IPMI’s Non-Discrimination, No SelfPromotion, and Copyright policies.
August 11, 2025: Call for Presentations opens.
● September 15. 2025: Call for Presentations closes 7:00 p.m. EDT.
● November 6, 2025: IPMI notifies selected presenters.
● December 2, 2025: Speakers accept and return speaker agreement.
● April 30, 2026: Discount for registration ends.
● May 18, 2026: Hotel deadline for reservations.
● June 1, 2026: Slides and handouts must be uploaded to the Speaker Service Center.
c PRESENTER INFORMATION*
* All personal contact information will be suppressed for the Conference Program Task Force Review processes but is needed to communicate submission status by IPMI staff.
** Please exclude organization names, presenter names, or other identifying information in your title, and summary.
Provide full name, title, company/organization, address, phone, email for your presenters and/or moderator. This is required by IPMI, and will be hidden from the Conference Program Task Force as they review the submissions. It is imperative that the email address for all presenters is correct. If the email address is incorrect, your presenters will not be able to complete their requirements and the submission will not be reviewed. Each email address provided must match the presenter’s name and be a unique email address.
c PRESENTER BIOGRAPHY**
Provide a concise biography (50 words maximum) for your introduction and a professional headshot. Include a (75 word maximum) summary of education, work history, and experience relevant to your speaking topic on stage. When you’re writing your bio, you want to focus on how the audience perceives you. What is it about you that would be most important or interesting to them?
c PROFESSIONAL HEADSHOT
Headshots should be provided at a resolution of no less than 150 dpi and 4”w x 6”h as a jpg or png. Please keep a neutral background.
c PRESENTATION TITLE**
Create a clever or compelling short title (less than 10 words) that piques interest and describes the educational value, while providing a clear, concise title that accurately reflects the session content. IPMI reserves the right to edit session information upon acceptance.
c IMPACT STATEMENT **
This one sentence description will be used for printed materials, conference website and in the mobile app.
c PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION **
Provide a 300-word description of your presentation. Avoid jargon; clarity is paramount in describing what your audience will learn or be able to do at or after your session.
Using measurable, outcome-based verbs, list three learning objectives based on Bloom’s Taxonomy for session participants— what they will be able to do as a result of participating in your session. A learning objective clearly expresses what the participant will learn or be able to do after attending the session.
c INSTRUCTIONAL FLOW
Examples:
• Differentiate between potential and kinetic energy.
• Describe Newton’s three laws of motion.
• Outline various stages of design thinking.
• Recognize different types of number sequences.
How would you describe the instructional flow for this session? What techniques will you use to get your points across and have them be remembered by the audience? What interaction or interactive element are you incorporating for the audience? How will the time be used? Please be specific.
Submissions are evaluated based on established criteria to ensure a comprehensive, nonpromotional, commercially unbiased, objective, and diverse education program. IPMI is only accepting submissions that are original. IPMI accepts only original content. Content should be specifically created for #IPMI2026.
Submissions are evaluated based on the following criteria:
• Overall quality and written description of content with a cohesive focus.
• Well-defined learning objectives that match the session description.
• Relevance and practical application of content to the parking, transportation, and mobility industry.
• Level of participant engagement and interactivity.
• Appeals to a significant sector of the industry.
Consider how to make your presentation engaging and interactive. Ideas on how to engage your participants include:
• Include embedded video into presentation (five minutes or less).
• Illustrate scenarios, graphics, stories, or case studies.
• Ask questions, provoke discussion, create a plan, use exercises, offer resources and take-aways, such as templates.
• Create instant online polling, or get a pulse on your audience needs via slido or polleverywhere.com using your personal credentials.
• WiFi.
• Podium with wireless microphone.
• Laptop with sound.
• LCD projector and screen.
• Slide advancer with laser pointer.
• For panels, a table with chairs for panelists and and two table microphones.
Presenter Tip: Always use the microphone; individuals may have hearing challenges that cannot pick up your words if you do not use the microphone.
OWNERS & OPERATORS
• Airports: Small, Medium & Large Hubs
• Cities & Municipalities
• City & County Planners and Commissioners
• Commercial Operators
• Commercial Real Estate Owners and Managers
• Corporate Complexes
• Developers: Mixed-Use and Multi-Family
• Event and Entertainment Destinations (Casinos, Amusement Parks, Convention Centers)
• Facility Owners & Building Managers
• Hospitals & Health Care Systems
• Hotels & Entertainment Complexes
• Lifestyle, Retail & Shopping Centers
& OPERATORS
• Parking, Mobility & Transportation Agencies and Departments
• Rail Operators & Port Authorities
• Transportation & Transit Agencies
• Transportation Management Organizations
• Universities and Colleges
SERVICE
• Architects
• Engineers
• Consultants
• Contractors
• Planners
• Procurement Agents
• Accessible Parking
• Active & Alternative Transportation
• Consultants
• Curb Management
• Data & Analytics
• Distributors & Manufacturers
• Electric Vehicle and EVSE/ EVCS
• Enforcement
• On & Off-Street
• Mobile Apps
• Mobility-as-a-Service
• Micro-mobility
• Multi-modal
• Parking Access and Revenue Control
• Payment and Collections
• Permitting
• Software & Hardware
• Startup Companies
• Technology
• Transportation Network Companies
