- 06 Oct, 2025
- Juliana Nakiwanda
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The American Evaluation Association 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. 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?
Proposal Deadline: Friday, March 28, 2025 at 11:59 PM ET
In case you missed it: Prepare, Set, Submit! Submitting A Proposal for Evaluation 2025
Back by popular demand, learn hot tips and cool tricks for submitting session proposals for Evaluation 2025. With over a decade of experience leading AEA conference sessions, Kim Leonard and Sheila Robinson will guide you through the submission process, share valuable insights, and answer your questions. In addition, they will share resources to help you get started. Watch the webinar recording and download the slides here.
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 fill out the form at the bottom of the page.
| Registration Type | Early Bird | Regular | Onsite |
| Member | $600 | $700 | $775 |
| Non-Member | $950 | $1,200 | $1,300 |
| Full-Time Student | $300 | $425 | $445 |
One Day Registration
| Wednesday* | $250 |
| Thursday | $250 |
| Friday | $250 |
| Saturday | $150 |
*Only the Wednesday One Day Badge pass allows access to the Wednesday pre-conference programs.
Hotels
AEA has secured room blocks at the hotels below. A link to book reservations at the AEA group rate will be provided when the housing block opens in July.
Kansas City Marriott Downtown
200 W 12th St
Kansas City, MO 64105
$229/night + taxes
Single/double occupancy
Loews Kansas City Hotel
1515 Wyandotte St
Kansas City, MO 64108
$239/night + taxes
Single/double occupancy
