North American Snow Conference
Cleveland, Ohio
April 26–29, 2026
Deadline for proposals: Friday, October 3, 2025
Questions? Email us at snoweducation@apwa.org for further assistance.
Three Easy Steps to Submitting Your Proposal
- Read this page for information and instructions.
- Click the “Submit Proposal” button below.
- Complete the Call for Presentations form.
Share Your Knowledge, Experience, and Vision for the Future
The APWA North American Snow Conference provides education and solutions for public works snowfighters and those that support them. This highly anticipated annual conference offers more than 40 education sessions, technical tours, and a variety of opportunities for collaboration and networking.
The education program provides a dynamic forum for information exchange, problem-solving, and collaboration. Speakers are public works professionals, just like you, eager to help their colleagues manage winter/snow operations more successfully, take advantage of emerging technologies, understand and prepare for the challenges ahead and provide better service to their communities.
What Are We Looking For?
We are looking for speakers with new perspectives, solid best practices and/or innovative twists to winter maintenance, workforce development, and fleet/operations. At Snow Conference, participants will have the ability to attend sessions from six tracks throughout the event. Within each track, there are presentations specific to that topic. Each year, we receive feedback on what attendees would like to learn more about.
Requested Topics for 2026
Education Session Formats
Please review the options below for the type and length of format you may select. APWA offers four different formats to ensure dynamic education sessions.
- Education Session: (50 minutes)
- Education Session: (75 minutes)
- Education Session: (20 minutes)
- Poster Presentation
Learn more about education session formats.
How Are Education Sessions Selected?
Review criteria: All submissions are reviewed and evaluated by the NASC Program Review Committee comprised of experts in snow and ice control and winter maintenance planning.
Your success in the selection process depends on how well your proposal supports these primary criteria:
- Practical application: Provides information that participants in their day-to-day work settings can use, offers lessons-learned and how-to-do-it strategies, and offers solutions for sustainability and resiliency of public works operations.
- Leading-edge: Addresses emerging trends and technologies, innovative concepts and approaches, and solutions to improve the provision of public works services.
- Relevance and clarity: Content is interesting and useful to a significant number of expected attendees. Participant takeaways are clearly stated using active verbs that indicate how they will benefit from the information presented.
- Participant takeaways: All proposals must include three (3) takeaways that indicate how the attendee will benefit from the presentation. The participant takeaways must be worded in response to the phrase: “At the conclusion of this session, participants will be better able to________.”
Get tips on writing a compelling session description.
Important: Proposal descriptions should be limited to 1,500 characters or less.
View instructions on APWA presentation policies/guidelines.
Important: Learning objectives should be limited to 300 characters or less.
What Are the Rules?
No sales pitches! Direct promotion of a speaker’s/company’s products, services, or monetary self-interest is not appropriate for education sessions. The public works audience appreciates learning about technologies, services, concepts, and new approaches; but is sensitive to the sales promotion approach. In your proposal, we recommend that you describe how the public works/end-user perspective will be featured in your presentation.
Speaker registration and travel expenses: APWA does not pay speakers of concurrent technical and professional education sessions. Speakers are responsible for making arrangements and paying for travel and other expenses associated with attending the conference. Speakers may qualify for a complimentary single-day registration. Speakers attending the full conference are expected to register and pay the appropriate member or non-member NASC registration fee.
When Will I Know?
Submitters will be notified via email of the accept/decline status of their proposal by November 2025.
How Do I Apply?
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Important FYI: All correspondence sent to you about your submission(s) will be to the email address you listed in the form. If you have a highly restrictive work email account, please consider using a personal email address. You will receive notification of submission via email.