About the 2024 Call for Presentations

Transform your research, ideas, and best practices into a presentation for the 2024 IPMI Parking & Mobility Conference & Expo, coming to Columbus, Ohio from June 9 - 12, 2024. Presented by many of the industry’s top minds, sessions at #IPMI2024 should spark the imagination, encourage dialogue, spotlight innovation, and drive new solutions to our greatest industry challenges.

About IPMI

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.

2024

Key Facts

IPMI has refined the review process to provide authentic, engaging, thought-provoking, and positive educational experiences for attendees that supports the diversity of our members.

• Submissions will go through a blind review; all submissions 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. IPMI encourages presenters to submit a single, well-crafted presentation submission.

• Vendors are encouraged to recruit clients and partners who are front-line implementers or end-users as co-presenters.

What Makes A Good Presentation

Questions?

Kathleen Federici, M.Ed. Director, Professional Development International Parking & Mobility Institute

federici@parking-mobility.org

Presentation 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.

Presentations Formats

IPMI requests presentations that appeal to all types of adult learners. To provide the best educational experience, IPMI provides multiple formats for education sessions:

STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP

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 on shaping organizational strategy and aiding in the growth or progress of industry best practices.

PANEL PRESENTATION

Share topics of interest, lessons learned, foresight, or evidence of impact related to a central theme, presented from varying perspectives.Presenters should actively engage the audience to stimulate and provoke discussion, and include diverse perspectives, panelists, and feature equity and inclusion.

CASE STUDY

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.

INTERACTIVE/INNOVATIVE PRESENTATION

Innovative strategies and methods that will be shared and demonstrated in interactive, outcome focused ways to provoke discussion and audience engagement. May include polling, small group breakouts, or other interctive activities.

Please note: Panel presentations include a maximum of one moderator and three panelists.

Varied perspectives are strongly favored, as both will ensure a comprehensive and compelling Conference education program.

Diversity in the make-up of presenters and panelists, as well as in the ideas and topics covered, are encouraged.

Speaker Requirements

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. Submissions that fail to do this will be evaluated accordingly and may be disqualified. Incomplete and/or sales-oriented 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. As part of the agreement, every presenter is required to accept IPMI’s Non-Discrimination, No Self-Promotion, and Copyright policies.

Speaker Timeline

July 25: Call for Presentations opens.

● September 11: Call for Presentations closes 7:00 p.m. EDT.

● October 31: IPMI notifies selected presenters.

● November 14: Speakers accept and return speaker agreement.

● April 30: Discount for Speaker registration ends.

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May 15: Hotel deadline for reservations at IPMI guaranteed rates.

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May 20: Slides/handouts must be uploaded to the Speaker Service Center.

Preparing For Your Submission

PRESENTER INFORMATION*

Provide full name, title, company/organization, address, phone, email for your presenters and/or moderator. 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 and be a unique email address.

PRESENTER BIOGRAPHY & PROFESSIONAL HEADSHOT*

Provide a concise biography (75 words maximum) and a professional headshot. Include a brief summary of education, work history, and experience relevant to your speaking topic. 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?

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.

PRESENTATION ABSTRACT**

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. Sales pitches and promotional material for companies, products, or services will not be considered for the education program.

PRESENTATION SUMMARY**

This description will be used for printed materials, conference website and in the mobile app. Shorten your presentation abstract to a concise summary (75 word maximum).

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

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.

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.

INSTRUCTIONAL FLOW

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.

* 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, abstract, and summary.

Evaluation Criteria

All submissions go through a blind review process where they are evaluated anonymously by Conference Program Task Force Reviewers. Submissions are evaluated based on established criteria to ensure a comprehensive, nonpromotional, commercially unbiased, objective, and diverse education program. Programs that were created specifically for #IPMI2024 and have never been presented previously will be favoured. Submissions that clearly describe innovative and creative work receive the highest priority.

Tips on Engagement

Consider how to make your presentation engaging and interactive. Ideas on how to engage your participants include, but are not limited to:

• Include a video (five minutes or less) to engage the audience.

• Illustrate scenarios, graphics, stories, or case studies.

• Ask questions, use exercises, or create a learning/educational takeaway.

• Create instant online polling, or get a pulse on your audience needs via slido or polleverywhere.com using your personal credentials.

• Provoke discussion, create a plan, offer resources and take-aways, such as templates.

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.

• Appeal to a significant sector of the industry.

AV Provided To Speakers

• WiFi in education session room.

• Podium with microphone.

• Laptop with sound.

• LCD projector and screen.

• Slide advancer with laser pointer.

• For panels, a table with chairs for panelists and a single table microphone.

Presenter Tip: Always use the microphone; individuals may have hearing aids that cannot pick up your words if you do not use the microphone.

Who Attends IPMI Parking & Mobility Conference & Expo?

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

OWNERS & OPERATORS

• Parking, Mobility & Transportation Agencies and Departments

• Rail Operators & Port Authorities

• Transportation & Transit Agencies

• Transportation Management Organizations

• Universities and Colleges

SERVICE

PROVIDERS

• Architects

• Engineers

• Consultants

• Contractors

• Planners

• Procurement Agents

PRODUCT AND SOLUTIONS SUPPLIERS

• 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