Call for Presentations for 2026 IAHSS Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA

Deadline is August 27, 2025

The 58th IAHSS Annual Conference and Exhibition will be held April 13-15 at New Orleans Marriott on Canal Street. Security Directors, Managers and Officers from both large and small healthcare organizations come seeking strategies, insights, models, and practices as well as lessons learned from real life scenarios to address the ever-changing needs of healthcare security, safety and emergency management. Attendees are looking for solutions that will help to position them as leaders within their organizations.

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Selection Process and Timeline

• Submit your session ideas no later than August 27, 2025 (Noon CT). You may edit your submission up until the deadline.
  
  
• Each submission will be reviewed by a team of volunteers and staff, and you will be notified in the Fall on the status of your submission.

Session Presenter Expectations

• All presentations MUST be provided electronically on the IAHSS PowerPoint template no later than 3 weeks in advance of the conference for review and preparation.
  
  
• Sessions are between 20-60 minutes long.
  
  
• Presentations may not include sales pitches or any promotion of your company's specific products or services. Experience has shown that presentations with sales-like components consistently receive the lowest ratings. Product & service providers are strongly encouraged to pair up with a healthcare security, safety or emergency management practitioner.
  
  
• You are limited to submitting a maximum of two (2) session proposals.
  
  
• We take our session evaluations very seriously. Participants rate education sessions and presenters on a 1-5 scale. The goal is for all presenters to receive a 4.0 or higher.

Submit your session idea by August 27, 2025 (Noon CT).

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