I hope everyone who attended NORDP’s 2018 10th Annual Research Development Conference in Arlington last week had a safe and uneventful return home, and that you didn’t find your inboxes and desks too cluttered with things to attend to when you went back to work.
Just a few brief statistics about the meeting that I thought might be of interest. This year, we had:
- 1 leadership forum
- 1 short course
- 4 workshops
- 4 plenary or keynote addresses or panels
- 16 sponsors (a record!)
- 33 networking dinners over the first two nights of the conference, with 250 participants
- 40 individual or panel presentations
- 54 posters (not including NORDP’s own committee and programmatic posters)
- 598 registrants (plus 6 on-site registrations, for a total of 604; also a record!)
If you weren’t able to attend the meeting this year, or if you’d like to re-live a little of the experience, check out the conference recap video:
We won’t have the full picture until the Evaluation Committee submits its report to the Board of Directors (probably in September), but all of the comments I heard (or overheard in passing) were uniformly positive. (Speaking of evaluations, if you haven’t yet completed all of yours, please do so: that information is of tremendous help to the Board and the planning committee as we start the process for putting together next year’s meeting.)
Kudos to everybody who helped make this meeting as successful as it was. And a very special thanks to our two stalwart conference co-chairs, Karen Eck (Old Dominion University) and Kari Whittenberger-Keith (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). We couldn’t have done it without you!
If you’re looking for presentations or materials from sessions at the conference that you either attended or wanted to browse because you couldn’t make the session, please be patient. The conference team will be contacting the presenters to get final copies of presentation materials shortly. Once they’re available, they’ll be posted to the conference program page. If you don’t find a hyperlink next to the presentation you’re looking for, that means the materials haven’t been made available yet. Also please note that we do not post materials from the leadership forum or the workshops, as that content is only available to the participants in those sessions.
Lastly, if you missed the announcement at the conference, save the date for #NORDP2019: April 29-May 1, 2019, at the Omni in Providence, Rhode Island!
Michael Spires
NORDP President
NORDP News 
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