Pre-Conference
Tuesday & Wednesday
September 16 & 17
Additional fees apply
General Conference
Thursday & Friday
September 18 & 19
Saturday Programming
Saturday
September 20
- 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
7:15 AM - 8:00 AM
|Tuesday, September 16, 2025
ATI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Registration & Breakfast
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
|Tuesday, September 16, 2025
FLI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Registration & Breakfast
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM |Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Pre-Conference Institute Sessions
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ADI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Morning Sessions
FLI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Morning Sessions
ATI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Morning Sessions
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
|Tuesday, September 16, 2025
ATI Pre-Conference Lunch
12:15 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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ADI Pre-Conference Flagship Institutes Afternoon Sessions
FLI Pre-Conference Flagship Institutes Afternoon Sessions
ATI Pre-Conference Flagship Institutes Afternoon Sessions
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
|Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Reception
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
|Wednesday, September 17, 2025
ADI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Breakfast
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
|Wednesday, September 17, 2025
ATI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Breakfast
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM |Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Pre-Conference Institute Sessions
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ADI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Morning Sessions
ATI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Morning Sessions
FLI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Morning Sessions
8:15 AM - 9:00 AM
|Wednesday, September 17, 2025
FLI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Breakfast
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Pre-Conference Institute Lunch
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ADI Pre-Conference Lunch
ATI Pre-Conference Lunch
FLI Pre-Conference Lunch
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM |Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Pre-Conference Institute Sessions
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ADI Pre-Conference Flagship Institutes Afternoon Sessions
FLI Pre-Conference Flagship Institutes Afternoon Sessions
ATI Pre-Conference Flagship Institutes Afternoon Sessions
12:00 PM - 7:30 PM
|Wednesday, September 17, 2025Registration for General Conference
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM |Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Pre-Conference Workshops (pre-registration required)
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The Next Era of Enrollment: Strategies That Think and Tools That Learn
Saddling Up for Success: Navigating Financial Aid with Data, Tools, and Trailblazing Strategies
Enrollment Management Data Storytelling, Board Reporting, and Dashboards…Oh My!
Anti-Bias Workshop
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
|Wednesday, September 17, 2025Opening Reception
7:00 AM - 5:00 PM
|Thursday, September 18, 2025Registration
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
|Thursday, September 18, 2025Breakfast
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 -
|Thursday, September 18, 2025AI 101 - Unlocking Your New Superpower
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM |Thursday, September 18, 2025
Concurrent Sessions
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Accelerating Financial Aid Processing
From Profiles to Purpose: Aligning Who You Serve with How You Serve
The Art of the Interview
Retention by Design: Engaging Faculty to Transform Retention Strategy
From Enrollment to Headship: 6 Essential Skills for Future School Leaders
Featured Session: Hopes and Fears: Working with Today’s Independent School Parents
What happens when we finally say the quiet part out loud?
Confessions of a Road Warrior: Making Enrolment Travel Count
ABCs, 123s, & Standardization: an Ongoing Analysis of Elementary Assessment
The Access Loop: Reimagining School & Access Org Partnerships
Strategic Partnerships: Building Cross-Departmental Relationships
Are You Ready for the Enrollment Cliff?
Confidently Managing Your Relationship with Your Head of School
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM |Thursday, September 18, 2025
Concurrent Sessions
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Developing a New Market through the Power of Strategic Collaboration
Lessons Learned While Building a New Kind of School
Documenting Your Organization
Title: Expanding Enrollment: A Multipart Approach to Growth
Featured Session: Eight Things Parents Cannot Do for Their Children (but wish they could)
A Fresh Start: A Strategic Reset for Financial Aid Operations
OpenAI and Claude and Gemini, Oh My!
Foes as Friends
How Change Management Can Modernize Your Approach to Enrollment Management
Coffee Talks: How To Build your Funnel with Local Events
A Journey through the Event Rabbit Hole - What story are you telling?
Farewell to the Open House - A Refreshed Approach to Showcasing your School
Dashboards, From Beginner to Pro!
Articulating Your DEI Commitment for All Audiences
Learning Differences and Admissions, How can we help?
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, 2025Dessert with the Sponsors
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
|Thursday, September 18, 2025Book Signing with David Yeager
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM |Thursday, September 18, 2025
Concurrent Sessions
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Featured Session - What Happens When It Goes Viral? Deepfakes, Enrollment Risk, and Crisis Readiness
How Advancement Teams Drive Enrollment Success
Working Remotely, Recruiting Globally: A New Model in Admissions
SEVIS Survival Guide: Navigating Compliance with Confidence and Clarity!
A Case Study in Crafting a Theme
Change the ROI Conversation— How Marketing, Admissions, HOSs & CFOs Win
Legal Trends for Enrollment Managers
Retaining and Elevating the 9th Grade Year: An Intentional Approach
Rethinking Financial Aid: Building a Community, Not Just a Bottom Line
Using Research to Rethink Retention and Onboarding
Building Meaningful Partnerships with CBOs
NextGen Leadership: Cultivating and Retaining Millennial and Gen Z Talent
Peer Power: Maximizing Yield with Student Ambassadors
Creative Ways to Mess Up a Survey (Lessons from My Own Disasters)
Rethinking Admissions: Is Our Process Built for the Families We Serve?
Expand Your Curriculum, Grow Enrollment
Building and Managing Effective Admission Committees
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
7:00 AM - 5:00 PM
|Friday, September 19, 2025Registration
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM |Friday, September 19, 2025
Breakfast
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Breakfast for International Schools
Breakfast
8:45 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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Global Currents: Trends and Insights in International Student Recruitment
Partner Up: Tapping Alumni to Strengthen Your Admission Process
Stay in Your Lane! Navigating the Board, Head, and Director Partnership
Enrollment Management: A Data-Informed, Systems-Thinking Approach
Cracking the Code: Is Yours a Market or Marketing Challenge?
Engaging with Your Community
Know Thyself: Leveraging Communications Styles for Success
Lower School Admissions Process from Start to Finish!
Second Season, First Choice: Navigating Late Admission
Minding The Student Perspective: A Self-Reflection Snapshot
Strategic Yield: A Needle You Can & Must Move
Empowering Your Board
Stretching Your FA $$ – Finding need in a sea of hidden income & assets
Build Better Meetings with Generative Thinking for Enrollment Success!
Featured Session - AI for Admissions: Data, Emails, Insights
The Changing Retention Roadmap
11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
|Friday, September 19, 2025Headshots
11:30 AM -
|Friday, September 19, 2025How to Add an FTE with AI
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM |Friday, September 19, 2025
Concurrent Sessions
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Increase Apps with the 3 Cs: Collaboration, Consortia, and Common Apps
Using Surveys to Inform Your Practice
Reimagining the Applicant Journey and Enrollment Funnel
Strategies for Administering the SSAT: Becoming a Test Site for Success
In Conversation: Navigating Admissions Conversations with Dignity
After Admission: Reimagining the Enrollment Experience
Cross Divisional Retention: Development, Implementation, and New Traditions
From ATI To Affecting Change
Board Reporting: Confident Delivery and Smart AI Preparation
From Howdy to Handshake: Intentional and Insightful Parent Interviews
Calling it Splits - Strategies for working with two-household families
Engaging the Head, Board, Parents & Faculty to Energize Admissions
Confidently Navigating DEI and Transgender Admissions: Legal Guidance for Enrollment Professionals
The New Family Wishlist: Insights from a Rapidly Growing Virtual School
Meet the HENRYs: Financial Aid Strategies for Families on the Economic Rise
How to Run a Successful Play Date
Anatomy of an Office: Exploring a Multi-Director Admissions Model
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 - |Friday, September 19, 2025
Concurrent Sessions
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So you want to be a Head of School
Beyond the College Sweatshirt Photo: (Re)Defining ROI
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM |Friday, September 19, 2025
Concurrent Sessions
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Metrics & Mission: The Student-Centered Approach to Holistic Admissions
Beyond the Placement Test: Rethinking Admissions and Academics
Targeted Events for Inclusive Admission
Being Strategic About Enrollment Without Being Strategic About Enrollment
Growing Young Leaders: Student Ambassador Program for 5th graders
Boards, School Heads, Financial Aid, OH MY!
From Portrait to Practice: Aligning Enrollment with Your Ideal Learner
Less Admin, More Impact: AI in the Admission World
Small Teams, Wise Investments, Big Result
Use AI to Level Up Communications, Interview Insights & Event Planning
The Leader as Coach
Turning Your School’s Identity Into Your Enrollment Superpower
How Avon Old Farms School Leveraged UBIQ's Innovation
A Foundation for Change: 52 weeks to Exemplary E.M. Operations
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM
|Friday, September 19, 2025Snack Break with Sponsors
4:00 PM - |Friday, September 19, 2025
Concurrent Sessions
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From RSVP to ROI: Embracing Change in Events
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM |Friday, September 19, 2025
Concurrent Sessions
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Expanding Opportunity: Using AI to Close Gaps and Open Doors
Know Your Audience: Change Up Your Communication Strategy
Navigating Change: Partnering Effectively with Your Admissions Committee
Student Ambassadors:Creating a Community Empowered to Strengthen Enrollment
How Do Schools Create Competitive Advantage and Market Differentiation
Evolve+Endure: Empower Your Community As Authentic Word-of-Mouth Champions
Embracing Change in Admissions: The Intersection of Identity and Leadership
Is Your PDSO Ready?
AI-Powered Writing : Revolutionizing Feedback for SSAT Writing Success
Admissions Decision Transparency
The Kindergarten Entry Point and the Nostalgia of Yesteryear
The Kids Are Driving the Bus: How Gen Alpha Will Disrupt School Admissions
Navigating Transitions and Leadership Changes
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
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
|Friday, September 19, 2025Networking Evening Reception
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
|Saturday, September 20, 2025
5K Run/Walk
8:15 AM - 9:30 AM
|Saturday, September 20, 2025Breakfast
8:30 AM - 2:30 PM
|Saturday, September 20, 2025
Coaching Corner
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
|Saturday, September 20, 2025The Connection Hub
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
|Saturday, September 20, 2025