AEA Evaluation Conference 2025

The AEA Evaluation Conference brings together 2,000+ evaluation professionals from multiple disciplines and backgrounds. Evaluators come to this event to learn best practices, discover new techniques, and implement lessons learned from others in the field. 

Evaluation 2025 is taking place at the Kansas City Convention Center. We hope you join us November 10 – 15, 2025 in Kansas City, MO!

Who You Will Meet

• Students studying evaluation or a related field
• Independent consultants
• Data visualization experts
• Evaluation educators
• Evaluation managers and supervisors
• Professionals with a focus on non-profits and foundations
• Funders of evaluation
• Professionals with a focus on personnel, program, technology, government evaluation, healthcare, social justice, education, and more represented in our 55 Topical Interest Groups

Theme

Engaging Community, Sharing Leadership

Shared leadership approaches create an environment where communities can grow, learn, and innovate to improve outcomes. This approach can be challenging to introduce to stable environments versus volatile or complex environments, but if done successfully, evaluators can empower communities with the tools to thrive as they walk into the future.

Leaders who engage in shared leadership approaches will listen, share, and discuss shared formal and informal ethical agreements and explore how these agreements interact with the complexities of society and factor into how progress is achieved. Through this guidance, evaluators can distribute knowledge, data, and stories that can make a lasting impact on a community.

Proposals

Evaluation 2025 proposals will open in early 2025. We want to hear from you! Keep these questions in mind when you submit a proposal for Evaluation 2025.

 • Can evaluators ask new questions and integrate contemporary evaluation approaches to advance the field, all while being mindful of diverse perspectives of a community or organization?

• How can we gain the attention of society by sharing communications and information, and re-examining our understanding of knowledge, data, and stories through an integrated lens? Can we promote our common interests while still acknowledging and respecting and even integrating our differences?

• How does reflection (self and group), and forming questions together in community build connections, promote unlearning and learning, and reveal novel ways of doing evaluation?

• How does integration of perspectives in evaluation practice and research create opportunities to explore technological advances like quantum computing and artificial intelligence while simultaneously upholding equity?

• How does evaluation speak into our understanding of how change occurs, and the perceptions of a change process shared by the individuals and groups involved?

• How can evaluation embed curiosity so that we can explore the ‘identities’ and ‘values’ guiding our evaluation ethics and influencing our collective moral imagination?

• From our evaluation practice, what is needed to occupy individual and group attention in a way that focuses on hearing and seeing humanity in the midst of the stated reasons/purposes for the evaluation?

Registration

Registration for Evaluation 2025 will open in July 2025. If you would like to be notified of event updates and when registration will open, please go to link below 

https://www.eval.org/evaluation2025#REGISTRATION

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