Professional Speakers - Call for Presentations | Inspire 2025

Overview

The Florida Apartment Association is seeking education session proposals for Inspire, Powered by FAA, the 2025 FAA Annual Conference & Trade Show. FAA provides 1,000+ conference attendees with educational and innovative panel discussions and presentations that actively engage and inform. Speakers and sessions should stimulate discussion and address relevant and timely topics and trends that impact members of the multifamily property management profession.

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About Inspire 2025

Inspire, powered by FAA, the Annual Conference & Trade Show  - assembles multifamily industry professionals from across the state to engage in three days of educational sessions and events. The conference will take place November 5-7, 2025, at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, FL. Conference attendees include property management executives, senior leadership, developers, property managers, maintenance professionals, onsite community staff, and industry suppliers. Conference attendees seek to improve their careers through professional development, engagement and collaboration. This is your chance to share your time, talent, inspiration and ideas on the Florida apartment industry's biggest stage.

What We’re Looking For | Topic Areas

FAA is focused on how individuals and organizations can stay current through professional growth and development, no matter their experience or career level. FAA wants to provide sessions with practical solutions to common challenges that will have long-term career value.

Sessions should focus on trends, technology, and techniques vetted by theory, research, and practice. All presentations should highlight one of our industry-specific categories:

Customer Service | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging | Employee Recruitment and Retention

Industry Trends and Technology | Leadership | Property Management/Operations | Maintenance

Marketing | Risk Management or Legal | Sustainability | Other

Attendees should be able to return to their organizations with a fresh perspective and the ability to implement change based on the knowledge they’ve gained through each session.

Professional Speaker Submission Criteria

FAA offers a mixture of presentations from professional (paid) speakers and panels of subject matter experts who volunteer their time, talent, and expertise at the annual conference. Each session type provides a unique perspective for attendees and a blend of engaging topics. Every year the Conference Committee reviews dozens of high quality session proposals, and the effort put into your submission makes a big difference. Supplier companies may not submit any promotional or advertising material. The proposed topic must be educational and relevant to the multifamily industry without explicitly promoting your company.

Professional Speaker Presentations: These sessions are facilitated by individuals with specific expertise, and training, in presenting lively and relevant topics to audiences of all sizes. FAA contracts with these speakers for paid presentations based on their skill set and subject matter expertise. Prior experience as a professional speaker is required in order to be considered.

• Criteria for Paid Speakers:

  • Session Length: About 1 hour, with time for Q&A
  • Demo Video: Each paid speaker must submit a demo reel or an introductory video for the Conference Committee. For your convenience, a link to record a video is provided in speaker proposal form (links below).
  • Prior Experience: Paid speakers must have expertise in the subject matter and training in professional facilitation.
  • Sample Submission Form: Please click here to review a sample of the professional speaker submission form.
  • Deadline: Submit your session no later than December 13, 2024.

Session Selection Process

The FAA Conference Committee will meet in January 2025 to evaluate session proposals for panels and paid speakers. All submissions for sessions and speaker proposals must be submitted online by the deadlines posted above. Incomplete, late, or blatantly promotional submissions will not be considered. 

Session Evaluation Criteria:

• Relevance to multifamily housing industry

• Quality and comprehensiveness of submitted materials

• Moderator, panelists, and presenter qualifications

• Usefulness of information for attendees to apply to daily work life

• Appropriateness of topic for an advanced audience

Click the button below to submit your session proposals! 

Paid Speaker Submissions

Notification of session selection status will be provided in February 2025. If you have any questions please e-mail the events team or call FAA HQ at 407-960-2910.