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
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.
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 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
Friday
Saturday
$150
*Only the Wednesday One Day Badge pass allows access to the Wednesday pre-conference programs.
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
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