CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Collaborate 2025
OVERVIEW
The International Partnering Institute (IPI) is hosting the 16th Annual Collaborate Conference and Awards Ceremony, a one-day event filled with opportunities to learn, share, and network, on Thursday, May 15, 2025 at the Grand Hyatt at SFO.
Each year, more construction industry thought-leaders and change-makers join the conversation on collaborative construction. Join this elite group and bring your ideas on what the industry can do to make collaboration the new standard in construction.
Are you ready to make an impact? Submit your proposal to join us as a Speaker, Panelist, or Moderator at the IPI 2025 Collaborate Conference. This exclusive opportunity allows you to share your expertise and insights with a diverse audience. Get ready to inspire and engage - your voice matters. Submit your proposal by December 13, 2024.
Attendees for the Annual Conference and Awards Ceremony will include Owners, Contractors, Facilitators, and more! We welcome all kinds of proposals, but we're especially excited about those that highlight collaboration and interactive elements. Share your vision with us and let's create something amazing together!
We are seeking presentations that:
- Use Partnering to enhance alternative delivery methods, project planning, or progressive design build
- Involve outstanding project teams resolving novel challenges through collaboration
- Integrate LEAN tools and technologies (AI, virtual design and construction, etc.) to enhance collaboration
- Adapt the recommended structured model to respond to new challenges
- Combine Partnering with concrete risk management strategies
- Discuss intergenerational needs and talent acquisition and retention strategies
- Broaden the spectrum of collaborators, bringing in stakeholders, end-users, and communities
- Discuss methods to expand leadership, improve teamwork, or skillsets for project leaders
- Share strategies to improve project delivery through strategic partnerships
A growing trend toward mega-projects, global trade trends, and the need for project leaders to operate through uncertainty has increased the demands on project leaders and teams. Our expectations created by the rising availability of technology in construction have resulted in a rising need to improve how we understand the differences that distinguish high-performing teams. This conference will help construction industry leaders work together and learn from one another to develop strategies to meet the rising challenges in today’s market.
Owners, contractors, designers, construction managers and facilitators are encouraged to apply to present.
GUIDELINES FOR PROPOSALS
Proposals are being accepted for breakout sessions. Deadline to submit is December 13, 2024.
Breakout sessions will last 45-60 minutes. This should consist of 30-45 minutes of presentation and 15 minutes for questions and audience discussion.
The IPI Conference Task Force will assess the proposals and complete the selection process. Preference will be given to those presentations that are thoughtful, original and innovative. To improve the chances that your proposal will be accepted for inclusion, please consider the following:
- Stick to one or more of the conference topics
- Provide presentation proposals that reflect issues and influences related to Collaborative Partnering
- Proposals should clearly outline the presentation’s subject and content, and how it relates to the industry.
- The audience tends to include members of the design and construction industry who are sophisticated in collaborative project delivery. Make sure to share the planned delivery and presentation medium, and how you intended to engage the audience. Proposals featuring a higher degree of audience participation are more likely to be selected.
Include two to three presenters, with multiple perspectives represented (i.e., an Owner, contractor, architect and/or consultants). You must confirm the commitment of all speakers listed in your proposal to participate actively in the planning and presentation of the session.
All speakers identified in the proposal will receive complimentary conference registration.
Fill out the online proposal form carefully and completely. Partial answers, unclear sentences, failure to address the specific question, missing information, poor grammar, misspellings and other irregularities will detract from the content of your proposal and make it harder to evaluate. Please do not indicate that your institutional representative will be confirmed once the session has been accepted. This will be considered an incomplete submission. Incomplete proposals are not likely to be accepted.
Be thoughtful and articulate in outlining your proposed learning outcomes.
Develop a quality presentation that relates to key issues facing project Collaborative Partnering or teaming in construction and project delivery. Selection committee members seek presentations that are creative, fun, useful and informative. Effective use of graphics, statistical and analytic benchmarking, research, delivery methodologies, and use of appropriate media are encouraged.
Content matters, but presenters matter, too. Please outline each presenter’s previous conference presentation experience. At least some of your proposed presenters should have relevant speaking experience.
The goal for a concurrent session is not intended to be a presentation of a beautiful and complex construction project or program. Rather, we seek innovative and creative ways to help the industry deliver highly collaborative projects and initiatives.
Thank you for taking the time to submit your proposal! We greatly value your contribution to the Collaborative Partnering movement.
If you have any questions please email IPI Headquarters.