
Pre-Conference
Tuesday & Wednesday
September 16 & 17
Additional fees apply
General Conference
Thursday & Friday
September 18 & 19
Saturday Programming
Saturday
September 20

Denotes additional fees and pre-registration required.
- Tuesday, September 16, 2025
- Wednesday, September 17, 2025
- Thursday, September 18, 2025
- Friday, September 19, 2025
- Saturday, September 20, 2025
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
|Tuesday, September 16, 2025
ADI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Registration & Breakfast
7:45 AM - 8:30 AM
|Tuesday, September 16, 2025
ATI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Registration & Breakfast
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
|Tuesday, September 16, 2025
FLI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Registration & Breakfast
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
|Tuesday, September 16, 2025
ADI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Morning Sessions
8:30 AM - 11:45 AM
|Tuesday, September 16, 2025
ATI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Morning Sessions
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
|Tuesday, September 16, 2025
FLI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Morning Sessions
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
|Tuesday, September 16, 2025
ATI Pre-Conference Lunch
12:05 PM - 1:00 PM
|Tuesday, September 16, 2025
FLI Pre-Conference Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
|Tuesday, September 16, 2025
ADI Pre-Conference Lunch
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM |Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Pre-Conference Institute Sessions
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FLI Pre-Conference Flagship Institutes Afternoon Sessions
ATI Pre-Conference Flagship Institutes Afternoon Sessions
ADI Pre-Conference Flagship Institutes Afternoon Sessions
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
|Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Reception
7:00 AM - 7:45 AM
|Wednesday, September 17, 2025
ADI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Breakfast
7:45 AM - 8:00 AM
|Wednesday, September 17, 2025
ATI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Breakfast
7:45 AM - 12:00 PM
|Wednesday, September 17, 2025
ADI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Morning Sessions
8:00 AM - 8:15 AM
|Wednesday, September 17, 2025
FLI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Breakfast
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
|Wednesday, September 17, 2025
ATI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Morning Sessions
8:15 AM - 12:00 PM
|Wednesday, September 17, 2025
FLI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Morning Sessions
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
|Wednesday, September 17, 2025
ATI Pre-Conference Lunch
11:55 AM - 12:55 PM
|Wednesday, September 17, 2025
ADI Pre-Conference Lunch
12:00 PM - 12:55 PM
|Wednesday, September 17, 2025
FLI Pre-Conference Lunch
12:00 PM - 7:30 PM |Wednesday, September 17, 2025
General Registration
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Registration for General Conference
Swag Store
12:45 PM - 5:00 PM
|Wednesday, September 17, 2025
ATI Pre-Conference Flagship Institutes Afternoon Sessions
12:55 PM - 5:00 PM |Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Pre-Conference Institute Sessions
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FLI Pre-Conference Flagship Institutes Afternoon Sessions
ADI Pre-Conference Flagship Institutes Afternoon Sessions
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM |Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Pre-Conference Workshops (pre-registration required)
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Equitable Strategy Workshop
The Next Era of Enrollment: Strategies That Think and Tools That Learn
Enrollment Management Data Storytelling, Board Reporting, and Dashboards…Oh My!
Saddling Up for Success: Navigating Financial Aid with Data, Tools, and Trailblazing Strategies
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
|Wednesday, September 17, 2025Member Lounge
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
|Wednesday, September 17, 2025Opening Reception
7:00 AM - 4:00 PM
|Thursday, September 18, 2025Registration
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
|Thursday, September 18, 2025Breakfast
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |Thursday, September 18, 2025
Sponsor Hall, Swag Store and Member Lounge
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Member Lounge
Swag Store
Sponsor Hall
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
|Thursday, September 18, 2025Welcome and Opening Remarks with Mike Flanagan, CEO
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
|Thursday, September 18, 2025Coffee with Sponsors
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM |Thursday, September 18, 2025
Concurrent Sessions
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AI 101 - Unlocking Your New Superpower
Confidently Managing Your Relationship with Your Head of School
Accelerating Financial Aid Processing
The Art of the Interview
Retention by Design: Engaging Faculty to Transform Retention Strategy
Are You Ready for the Enrollment Cliff?
Strategic Partnerships: Building Cross-Departmental Relationships
Confessions of a Road Warrior: Making Enrolment Travel Count
Is your China strategy healthy? Stay in control amidst an uncertain future
From Enrollment to Headship: 6 Essential Skills for Future School Leaders
The Access Loop: Reimagining School & Access Org Partnerships
From Profiles to Purpose: Aligning Who You Serve with How You Serve
Less Admin, More Impact: AI in the Admission World
What happens when we finally say the quiet part out loud?
Key Trends in Tuition and Financial Aid
Featured Session: Hopes and Fears: Working with Today’s Independent School Parents
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM |Thursday, September 18, 2025
Concurrent Sessions
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Tracking the Trends: How Global and Domestic Forces Are Shaping Enrollment
Farewell to the Open House - A Refreshed Approach to Showcasing your School
Articulating Your DEI Commitment for All Audiences
How Change Management Can Modernize Your Approach to Enrollment Management
Beyond the Busy Season: A Year-Round Playbook for Strategic Enrollment
OpenAI and Claude and Gemini, Oh My!
A Journey through the Event Rabbit Hole - What story are you telling?
Documenting Your Organization
Learning Differences and Admissions, How can we help?
Expanding Enrollment: A Multipart Approach to Growth
A Fresh Start: A Strategic Reset for Financial Aid Operations
Coffee Talks: How To Build your Funnel with Local Events
Developing a New Market through the Power of Strategic Collaboration
Featured Session: Eight Things Parents Cannot Do for Their Children (but wish they could)
Dashboards, From Beginner to Pro!
Foes as Friends
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
|Thursday, September 18, 2025Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
|Thursday, September 18, 2025Keynote - David Yeager
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM |Thursday, September 18, 2025
Concurrent Sessions
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Dessert with the Sponsors
Book Signing with David Yeager
Paws for a Cause: Powered by Blackbaud
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM |Thursday, September 18, 2025
Concurrent Sessions
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Rethinking Financial Aid: Building a Community, Not Just a Bottom Line
SEVIS Survival Guide: Navigating Compliance with Confidence and Clarity!
NextGen Leadership: Cultivating and Retaining Millennial and Gen Z Talent
Building and Managing Effective Admission Committees
A Case Study in Crafting a Theme
Rethinking Admissions: Is Our Process Built for the Families We Serve?
Featured Session - What Happens When It Goes Viral? Deepfakes, Enrollment Risk, and Crisis Readiness
Retaining and Elevating the 9th Grade Year: An Intentional Approach
Change the ROI Conversation— How Marketing, Admissions, HOSs & CFOs Win
Legal Trends for Enrollment Managers
Using Research to Rethink Retention and Onboarding
Working Remotely, Recruiting Globally: A New Model in Admissions
Creative Ways to Mess Up a Survey (Lessons from My Own Disasters)
Peer Power: Maximizing Yield with Student Ambassadors
How Advancement Teams Drive Enrollment Success
Building Meaningful Partnerships with CBOs
NextGen Admission: Advancing Equity and Data-Informed Decisions in Enrollment
Expand Your Curriculum, Grow Enrollment
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
|Thursday, September 18, 2025Boarding School Reception and Placement Fair
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
|Thursday, September 18, 2025PoC Reception
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM |Friday, September 19, 2025
Breakfast
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Breakfast
Breakfast for International Schools
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |Friday, September 19, 2025
Registration, Member Lounge, Swag Store and Sponsor Hall
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Member Lounge
Sponsor Hall
Swag Store
Registration
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
|Friday, September 19, 2025Special Music with St. Stephen’s Episcopal School Student Orchestra
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
|Friday, September 19, 2025Awards and Recognitions
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
|Friday, September 19, 2025Coffee with Sponsors
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM |Friday, September 19, 2025
Concurrent Sessions
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Enrollment Management: A Data-Informed, Systems-Thinking Approach
Stay in Your Lane! Navigating the Board, Head, and Director Partnership
The Changing Retention Roadmap
Cracking the Code: Is Yours a Market or Marketing Challenge?
Strategic Yield: A Needle You Can & Must Move
Build Better Meetings with Generative Thinking for Enrollment Success!
Featured Session - AI for Admissions: Data, Emails, Insights
Stretching Your FA $$ – Finding need in a sea of hidden income & assets
Empowering Your Board
Hey Canadian Schools, What’s Keeping You Up at Night?
Second Season, First Choice: Navigating Late Admission
Partner Up: Tapping Alumni to Strengthen Your Admission Process
Know Thyself: Leveraging Communications Styles for Success
Lower School Admissions Process from Start to Finish!
Tuition, Trends and Transformation: Financial Insights for Enrollment Leaders
Global Currents: Trends and Insights in International Student Recruitment
Minding The Student Perspective: A Self-Reflection Snapshot
11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
|Friday, September 19, 2025Headshots
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM |Friday, September 19, 2025
Concurrent Sessions
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Anatomy of an Office: Exploring a Multi-Director Admissions Model
After Admission: Reimagining the Enrollment Experience
Engaging the Head, Board, Parents & Faculty to Energize Admissions
Calling it Splits - Strategies for working with two-household families
From Howdy to Handshake: Intentional and Insightful Parent Interviews
How to Add an FTE with AI
Increase Apps with the 3 Cs: Collaboration, Consortia, and Common Apps
Meet the HENRYs: Financial Aid Strategies for Families on the Economic Rise
From ATI To Affecting Change
Confidently Navigating DEI and Transgender Admissions: Legal Guidance for Enrollment Professionals
Growing Young Leaders: Student Ambassador Program for 5th graders
The New Family Wishlist: Insights from a Rapidly Growing Virtual School
In Conversation: Navigating Admissions Conversations with Dignity
Using Surveys to Inform Your Practice
Reimagining the Applicant Journey and Enrollment Funnel
Strategies for Administering the SSAT: Becoming a Test Site for Success
Board Reporting: Confident Delivery and Smart AI Preparation
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM |Friday, September 19, 2025
Lunch
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Women's Affinity Lunch
Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
|Friday, September 19, 2025Keynote - Bertice Berry
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM
|Friday, September 19, 2025Headshots
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM |Friday, September 19, 2025
Concurrent Sessions
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Turning Your School’s Identity Into Your Enrollment Superpower
From Portrait to Practice: Aligning Enrollment with Your Ideal Learner
Metrics & Mission: The Student-Centered Approach to Holistic Admissions
Use AI to Level Up Communications, Interview Insights & Event Planning
How Avon Old Farms School Leveraged UBIQ's Innovation
A Foundation for Change: 52 weeks to Exemplary E.M. Operations
So you want to be a Head of School
Targeted Events for Inclusive Admission
Early Childhood Assessments: Data-Driven Decisions for Ongoing Success
Beyond the Placement Test: Rethinking Admissions and Academics
Small Teams, Wise Investments, Big Result
Being Strategic About Enrollment Without Being Strategic About Enrollment
Boards, School Heads, Financial Aid, OH MY!
The Leader as Coach
Beyond the College Sweatshirt Photo: (Re)Defining ROI
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM
|Friday, September 19, 2025Snack Break with Sponsors
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM |Friday, September 19, 2025
Concurrent Sessions
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Navigating Transitions and Leadership Changes
The Kids Are Driving the Bus: How Gen Alpha Will Disrupt School Admissions
Is Your PDSO Ready?
AI-Powered Writing : Revolutionizing Feedback for SSAT Writing Success
Admissions Decision Transparency
Navigating Change: Partnering Effectively with Your Admissions Committee
The Kindergarten Entry Point and the Nostalgia of Yesteryear
From RSVP to ROI: Embracing Change in Events
Embracing Change in Admissions: The Intersection of Identity and Leadership
Know Your Audience: Change Up Your Communication Strategy
Student Ambassadors:Creating a Community Empowered to Strengthen Enrollment
Buying a Mailing List is Not a Marketing Strategy
Expanding Opportunity: Using AI to Close Gaps and Open Doors
Evolve+Endure: Empower Your Community As Authentic Word-of-Mouth Champions
How Do Schools Create Competitive Advantage and Market Differentiation
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
|Friday, September 19, 2025Closing Block Party/Reception
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
|Friday, September 19, 2025LGBTQIA+ Reception
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
|Friday, September 19, 2025Canadian Schools Reception
8:30 PM - 10:30 PM
|Friday, September 19, 2025Off-Site Late Night Networking and Social Event
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
|Saturday, September 20, 2025
5K Run/Walk
8:15 AM - 9:00 AM
|Saturday, September 20, 2025Breakfast
8:30 AM - 2:30 PM
|Saturday, September 20, 2025
Coaching Corner
9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
|Saturday, September 20, 2025The Connection Hub
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
|Saturday, September 20, 2025