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Session proposals should be submitted through the online form, available via the conference website.
Accepted formats include presentations, panels, interactive work sessions, and roundtable discussions. Sessions can be 45, 60, or 75 minutes; however, longer sessions should have more than one presenter or be a non-presentation format.
Sessions should generally be focused on applied solutions to the issues facing rural, county, small town, and tribal planners. While all relevant planning topics are encouraged, the following topics are of particular emphasis for the conference committee:
- Housing affordability
- Water planning & management
- Comprehensive / long-range planning
- Transportation planning, particularly in a regional context
- County planning vs city planning issues
- Tribal planning
- Economic development in a Western Context
- Planning in recreation gateway towns or counties
- Healing polarization / conflict resolution / public engagement
- Technology (GIS, Generative A.I. , etc.)
- Food systems planning (including farmland preservation)
- Legislative Updates
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