Call for Proposals
Speak at Convention 2027!
Share your insights, knowledge and expertise at the premiere gathering of not-for-profit long-term care and seniors’ housing professionals!
Call for Proposals
Speak at Convention 2027!
This two-day, in-person retreat introduces core leadership principles and sets the foundation for success throughout the program. You’ll meet your fellow ALP students, connect face-to-fact with your instructors, and enjoy an immersive leadership learning experience covering topics ranging from personal growth and development to team building and networking.
Submission Deadline is
Sep. 25 at 4:00 p.m. EST
Convention 2027 provides an unrivaled opportunity to share your successful initiatives, practices, programs and research in long-term care and seniors’ housing. It is a fantastic opportunity to position yourself as a leader, build your network, and collaborate directly with other experts in the field. Speakers get a complimentary pass for the day of their presentation, or save hundreds on a full Convention pass.
Who can submit a proposal?
AdvantAge Ontario welcomes and encourages presentation proposals from all those engaged in not-for-profit long-term care, seniors’ housing and community services. You do not need to be a member.
What types of presentations are you looking for?
Convention 2027 will offer three full days of education with exciting sessions that encourage audience engagement and participation. Across all session types and subject areas, our most successful speakers:
- showcase member case studies with lessons learned;
- offer “how-to” information that provides attendees with new skills, more efficient processes, or technology;
- share established, innovative and emerging best practices; and
- offer practical, forward-thinking insights that promote the exchange of ideas.
Concurrent Sessions
We invite you to submit a proposal to present one of our Concurrent Sessions at Convention 2027.
What is a Concurrent Session?
Concurrent sessions typically focus on emerging sector issues, successful practices and programs, research, and other relevant content for the LTC sector. Concurrent sessions will take place from May 19-21, 2027. These sessions follow an informal seminar format, and can be 60, 75 or 90 minutes in length, may include up to two presenters, and are intended for 25-100 participants. Presenters are expected to engage participants in interactive learning activities, provide handouts, allow 10-15 minutes for questions and answers discussion, and may include a possibly two-minute ice breaker at the beginning.
There are between 40–45 concurrent sessions to be filled over the three days of the Convention. The AdvantAge Ontario committee will identify the submissions that will be in the schedule and will notify the speakers that have been shortlisted and will have an interview to discuss further information. The committee will identify which time slot would work best in our programming as well.
Subject Areas
Education Streams
Care and services
- Best practices, innovations, and care advancements
- Infection prevention and control
- Cultural care
- Improving care and services initiatives
- Palliative approach to care
- Managing death and dying, MAID
- Innovative food and nutrition programs
- Models of care (e.g. emotion-focused care and social living environment)
- Staffing models – use of allied healthcare professionals, recreation and programming staff, social workers, etc.
- Specialized services and supports, diagnostic services in LTC
- Medical director – recruitment and engagement
- Director of nursing and personal care roles – recruitment, managing and engaging nursing staff
- Medication management
- Mental health and addictions in LTC
- Working with other populations – developmentally disabled, mental health challenges, co-located child care
Community services and upstream supports
- Upstream supports and services for older adults – addressing missing middle in community
- Aging at home and in the community
- Community support services (funded and unfunded) – models, innovations, examples
- Community hubs and services in the community
- Addressing social isolation and loneliness
Collaboration, system planning, and capacity building
- Building partnerships
- Community engagement
- Ontario Health Teams
- Multi-sector collaboration
- Working with hospital, public health, housing, and homecare partners
- Academic partnerships, research and knowledge translation in LTC
- Volunteering – successful recruitment strategies, students, intergenerational, etc.
Management and operations
- Health human resources solutions and best practices – recruitment and retention, preceptorship, partnership with educational institutions, internationally trained healthcare providers, collective bargaining and working with unions, bridging, and laddering
- Working with temporary help agencies
- Diversity and inclusion
- Culture, employee engagement
- Best practices for compliance, inspections, and investigations under the new FLTCA
- Bill 124
- Pay equity
- Employee relations
- Supporting staff mental wellness
- Organization and operational issues
- Risk and financial management
- Health and safety
- Working with family and resident councils, engaging families and residents
- Quality improvement
- Ethical issues and decision-making
- Collective bargaining
- Fundraising for projects beyond capital development
Seniors’ housing
- Life lease
- Innovative models for seniors’ housing, including naturally occurring retirement communities (NORCs) and cluster care
- Campuses of care
- NFP retirement homes
Leadership and organizational effectiveness
- Collaborative leadership
- Leadership development,
- Leading during a crisis
- Funding and reporting
- Public relations, media relations, and reputation management
- Advocacy, building organizational capacity to support advocacy
- Licensing
- Accreditation
- National standards
- Governance
- Grant and proposal writing
Technology and innovation
- Ontario Health Teams – technology integration
- Creating efficiencies and workflow processes
- IT strategy, planning, investing in new technologies
- Funding technology initiatives
- Emerging technology in senior’s care
- Virtual reality
- Supporting virtual visits with friends and families
- Artificial intelligence
- AI tools and automation to improve workflow processes
- Responsible AI, privacy, security, and governance
- Data-driven decision-making in LTC
- Digital transformation, leadership readiness, and change management
- Technology-enabled quality improvement and resident/staff outcomes
- Cybersecurity, privacy, and risk management for LTC homes
Capital development and redevelopment
- Project management
- New development and redevelopment projects
- Planning and site plan approvals
- Construction models
- Opening a new or redeveloped LTC home – lessons learned
- Procurement and cost eligibilities
- Fundraising, capital campaigns, and foundations
- Funding capital projects – funding or financing
- Design and standards
- Innovative design
Audience
Convention delegates typically work in long-term care, seniors’ housing and supportive housing, as well as community services.
Job Titles
- Administrators/CEO
- Board Members
- Senior Managers
- Food Services/Dietary Managers
- Program Managers
- Housing Managers
- Environmental Service Managers
- Financial Managers
- Community Service Manager
- Nurse Managers
- Business Managers
Important Dates
- Call for Presentations Opens July 20, 2026
- Call for Presentations Deadline is September 25, 2026
- Presenters notified November 2026
- Registration Opens January 2027
Speakers Save Big at Convention 2027!
Convention speakers receive a complimentary one-day pass for the day they are presenting, or a discounted full Convention pass.
AdvantAge Ontario does not generally provide honorariums or cover travel and hotel costs, though exceptions may be granted at the discretion of the Association.
Speak at Convention!
Questions? Contact:
Valerie Di Bratto, Manager of Education
905-851-8821 x228 vdibratto@advantageontario.ca
