To submit your presentation proposal for the 2025 National Campus Safety Conference and CSC@EDspaces, please use THIS LINK.
Campus Safety Conference (CSC) will celebrate 12 years of peer-to-peer education, networking, solution showcases and trainings next summer in Austin, Texas, as well as next fall at EDspaces in Columbus, Ohio.
Experts and practitioners with deep knowledge and experience in campus security, public safety, emergency management, facilities management, mental health, and technology are encouraged to submit detailed speaking proposals addressing safety and security topics facing higher education and K-12 schools.
The 2025 National Campus Safety Conference will be held in the summer, and CSC@EDspaces 2025 will be held in the fall. The dates and locations are:
- Campus Safety Conference – National Event: July 21-23, 2025, Austin, Texas
- CSC@EDspaces: November 4-6, 2025, Columbus, Ohio
Our 2024 summer event brought together more than 425 safety and security professionals in K-12 and higher education. Attendees from 38 states were onsite, and 63% of our audience had a title of director or above. Attendees reported an 89% satisfaction rating with CSC 2024, and our conference sessions were a huge reason for that!
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CSC affords security directors, police chiefs, emergency management directors, facilities managers, technology executives and other campus administrators responsible for protecting schools and institutions of higher education the opportunity to meet face-to-face with their peers and share lessons learned and promising practices.
Our sessions are collaborative, innovative, and peer driven. They provide the resources and training schools need to increase preparedness, communication, and response prior to, during, and after a variety of safety and security incidents. We continue to focus on being a national resource for education, relationship building, and connectivity.
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Our presentation proposal portal is now open, and submissions are due by January 31, 2025.
Here are the different tracks we are offering for 2025:
- Team Training & Techniques
- Leadership
- Prevention & Policy
- Future Planning & Emerging Solutions
- Current Events
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Sourcing & comparing technology
- Lessons learned & case studies from current events and campus changes
- Leadership training for crisis prevention, response, mitigation, and recovery
- Emergency operations, safety and communication plans
- Emergency drills for staff, students and parents
- Campus police & security training programs
- Mental/behavioral health case studies
- System upgrade projects
- Grant writing and working with funding
- Active assailant incidents and response
- Threat assessments and management
- Severe weather emergencies & natural disasters
- Protests on campus
- After school & extracurricular safety
- Clery/Title IX compliance
- Reunification plans
- De-escalation
Sessions focused on audience engagement and key takeaways with strong participation are highly encouraged.
If you’re interested in submitting a topic for us to consider, please use the following form. If approved, you’ll receive a list of tasks to complete within the portal.
Campus Safety Conference 2025 Presentation Proposal Dates and Deadlines
- Call for Speakers will open December 1, 2024
- Presentation submissions are due by January 31, 2025, by 11:59 PM EST (Late submissions will not be accepted, no exceptions.)
Contact Dana McClay at [email protected] with any questions.
