The IAP2 USA Midwest Chapter will return to Minnesota's Twin Cities metro area from May 3-5, 2023 for its annual spring conference. Join us as we explore this year’s theme, Meeting People Where They Are in Public Participation, and delve into the ways P2 practitioners can improve our interactions with the communities we serve.

Dates: May 3-5, 2023

Location: Eagan Community Center (1501 Central Pkwy, Eagan, MN 55121)

Theme: Meeting People Where They Are in Public Participation

• Schedule
• Conference Registration -- available through April 14
• Pre-Conference Training Registration -- space is limited!
• Conference Sponsorship

Registration fees:

• IAP2 Member — $175
• Non-Member — $215
• Student — $90

Registration covers:

• More than 20 sessions to choose from (many of which eligible for CM credits)
• Wednesday lunch and evening happy hour
• Thursday breakfast, lunch and evening event with food and drinks
• Friday breakfast

Visit the conference website for more information.

A limited number of affordability scholarships will be awarded based on need. Scholarship submission requests will be accepted until April 1, 2023, and applicants notified by email on the status of their application by April 15, 2023

Pre-Conference Training Sessions

The Midwest Chapter is also offering two optional add-on trainings in conjunction with the 2023 Spring Conference. These trainings will be held the morning of Wednesday, May 3, from 8 am to noon. The conference will then kick-off with a keynote speaker over lunch.

Training Option #1
Inclusive Thinking in Engagement Planning: Strategies for Incorporating Diverse Perspectives
$125

This training session is designed to help engagement practitioners facilitate inclusive thinking amongst their teams and colleagues. It is intended to raise awareness of the importance of actively engaging the diverse perspectives of project team members to support engagement planning.

The workshop will cover a variety of topics including:

• Understanding biases and its impact on engagement planning within project teams
• Techniques for actively seeking out and considering diverse perspectives amongst project teams
• Principles for inclusive thinking that promotes open dialogue amongst project team

By the end of the workshop, participants will have a better understanding of the importance of inclusive thinking and the need to actively seek out and consider diverse perspectives into their engagement planning work with project teams.

Trainer: Maria deBruijn, Emerge Solutions, Inc.

Training Option #2
Stakeholder Mapping: Identifying And Analyzing Underrepresented Stakeholders 
$125

This course introduces a powerful, transparent process to identify and analyze key stakeholders for any engagement project – a critical step in an ethical and equity-centered engagement design. After understanding the theory and purpose, participants use short cases to practice stakeholder mapping.

Participants will learn how to identify and analyze the full spectrum of stakeholders, with special emphasis on underrepresented stakeholders who need additional outreach/support to ensure inclusive engagement. For each case, the group learns how to “clean” and finalize the map, and then discusses implementation challenges and how to overcome them.

Participants leave ready to conduct thorough, defensible stakeholder mapping that identifies underrepresented stakeholders, and use the results to plan and successfully implement inclusive engagement

Trainer: Anne Carroll, Carroll, Franck & Associates

**Space is limited for each of the trainings.**
Don't delay in registering!**