Call for Presentations
Share your expertise with the remodeling industry's leading professionals.
Inspire the Industry. Elevate the Profession.
Calling all experts! NARI is seeking presentations for our 2027 Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, April 12–14, as well as educational webinars for the upcoming year.
This is your opportunity to demonstrate your expertise and thought leadership to the industry's most forward-thinking remodeling business owners and professionals and help influence the future of the professional residential remodeling industry.
Submit your presentation today for a chance to showcase your bold ideas, powerful insights, and proven strategies to NARI's nationwide membership, comprised of the industry's foremost remodelers.
What You’ll Gain:
- National recognition as a thought leader.
- New connections and opportunities across the remodeling community.
- A platform to shape the industry's future.
Presentation Submission Deadline: August 7, 2026
Design Leadership and Emerging Trends
- Latest design trends
- Best practices in design
- Developing profitable designs
- Working with production teams
- Developing client buy-in through the design process
- AI & technology tools for designers
- And more…
Technical Skills for Trade Professionals
- Installation best practices
- Production best practices
- Managing teams in the field
- Safety best practices
- Building science
- And more….
Business Management & Innovation
- Protecting profit
- Managing financials
- Managing people
- Project management best practices
- Estimating best practices
- Emerging technologies
- AI tools for remodelers
- Growing as a leader
- Communication strategies
- Dealing with difficult customer situations
- Recruiting qualified employees
- Marketing best practices
- Sales best practices
- Setting expectations with customers for high buy-in
- Growing a business from one revenue tier to the next
- And more…
- In-person at the NARI Annual Conference, April 12-14, 2027, in Atlanta, GA, or via Zoom Webinar
- Duration: 45 – 50 minutes
- We will consider longer-form trainings that may be delivered over multiple online sessions. In the past, we have covered topics more in-depth over the course of three 1.5-hour sessions, spanning three consecutive weeks. If you would like to propose a long-form virtual training, please specify this in your submission form.
- All presentations must be of purely educational nature and free of product and service promotions.
- Proven track record delivering presentations to large audiences.
- Dynamic presentation delivery style able to catch online and live audiences’ attention.
- Fully developed, market-ready session description in paragraph format, along with bullet-pointed learning objectives, to help the NARI Education Committee evaluate your proposal.
- Link to a video of a prior presentation is a plus and will assist us in evaluating your proposal.
- Reference contact information for organizations for which you have previously delivered presentations or conducted training.
Once the Call for Presentations closes, the NARI Education Committee will thoroughly review all presentations and make final selections for 2027 education. The committee works through a consensus-based process to make final selections.
Presenters will be informed if their presentation was selected by the start of November 2026. Presenters whose presentations were not selected will also be informed at the same time.
If your presentation is selected, a NARI Education staff member will reach out to schedule and discuss the commitment details to ensure a good fit for both parties.
Once scheduling is confirmed, you will be asked to sign a presenter contract to solidify the commitment.
Thank you! We look forward to reviewing your innovative and exciting presentations.
If you have questions, please reach out to us at education@nari.org or 847-298-9200.