Call for Session Proposals

Press Release – Call for proposals

Session proposals

CIIC 2024 Conference Theme: 20/20 Vision for the Future: utilizing our 20 year history to improve tribal communities for the next 20 years
Construction in Indian Country (CIIC) 2024 National Conference presentations/education sessions should bring completed or ongoing and innovative solutions for tribal communities, research, and emerging technologies for CIIC’s principal focus areas:

Track 1: Economic and Workforce Development – Sharing stories of success, lessons learned, resilience and breakthroughs with one another regarding various funding sources for projects. Expansions and new engineering and construction opportunities. Lessons learned and best practices from previous facilities projects as Owners determine renovation projects. Best practices and programs to develop the workforce today and into the future.
Track 2: Residential, Tribal Housing, Infrastructure, Development & Improvements, Public & Private Partnership Projects – Challenges and solutions to building out, improving, and developing infrastructure and increasing living standards of tribal communities. Public private partnerships projects; ongoing or completed projects and best practices, the emerging manufacturing and solar market. Supply chain/resource and personnel challenges and solutions. Emerging technologies and their applications to tribal communities.
Track 3: Tribal Leadership, Governance, – Governance that impacts the designs and construction of tribal communities, procurement processes, opportunities outlook, and diversifying tribal economy. Presentations may reflect the current status of the industry, give information about construction markets, lessons learned or provide insight on landmark bills that brought millions of dollars for Indian country. 

Presentations may reflect the current status of the industry, give information about construction markets, lessons learned or provide insight on landmark bills that brought millions of dollars for Indian country. Projects funded by various funding sources. We’re sharing stories of success, lessons learned, resilience and breakthroughs with one another.

Process of Selection

The CIIC Conference Session Selection Committee will give special consideration to interactive, skills-building workshops with experienced and knowledgeable presenters. Workshops and presenters must appeal to one or more of the following groups (but not limited to): Tribal Enterprises, Tribal Officials, Tribal Leaders, General Contractors, Subcontractors, Suppliers, Architects, Planner or Engineers.

Workshop sessions are 90 minutes (Introductions – 15 mins, Presentation – 45 mins, Q&A – 30 mins).

The Mission of Construction in Indian Country (CIIC) is to support construction management education to benefit American Indian and Indigenous communities as they increase their capacities to manage their own affairs while determining their own destinies. Our Vision is that all Indigenous communities shall have the technical capabilities and personnel to manage construction activities at industry-best standards.

Selection schedule

Proposal Submission Deadline On or Before: Friday, July 12, 2024, midnight PST or until all sessions are filled.
Notification of Selection: On/after Friday, August 2, 2024 (until all sessions are filled)
Final edits due for accepted session proposal for printing (abstracts/title/biographies/updated preferences): Friday, August 16, 2024
Deadline for Session Acceptance: Wednesday, August 9, 2024
Agenda announcement: Monday, August 12, 2024
If selected, Speaker Registration is required. (Speaker rate is $495).

Proposal format

The conference session proposal form is divided into 5 sections. You may go back to edit your responses after you have submitted. All session proposals will be reviewed after July 12, 2024. We suggest you make your final edits no later than the deadline, July 12, 2024. We reserve the right to extend the proposal deadline and adjust the selection schedule, if the Selection Committee deems necessary.

Section 1: Primary Contact Information – This section is to collect contact information of the person who is the Primary contact. Required is best email and phone numbers to use in case of any sudden program changes (i.e. – room location, dates, times, etc.).

Section 2: Scope & Topic – This section collects details and information about your session.

Type of session (panel, presentation, workshop)
Audience level (novice, intermediate, expert)
Track selection
Session Title (10 words max limit)
Abstract (300 words max limit)
Session Description (500 word max limit)
File upload (optional, must have Google account)

Section 3: Rationale – This section assists the Conference Session Proposal Selection Committee with the rationale behind the proposal.

Why is the topic current and important?
Why the session may attract a large number of attendees?
How the session differs from others; i.e., related workshops and conferences of similar topic?

Section 4: Presenters – This section collects information about the Presenters. Up to 3 Presenters per session.

Name, Title, Company/Org, Biography (bio-50 words max)

Section 5: Preferences & Survey – This section will collect your preferences and short optional survey.

Technical requirements: Does your session have spatial requirements or need the following: laptop, projector, sound, etc.?
Preferred session times (responses are not a guarantee of a date/time assignment)
Survey (optional)

Contact

For questions or more information about our call for proposals, contact us.