Call for presentations for the 2025 Joint Engineer Training Conference is now open!
Ignite your ideas at the 2025 Joint Engineer Training Conference & Expo, May 13-15, 2025, in Louisville, Ky., and submit your abstracts for presentations today. Our Call for Presentations is officially open. Share your expertise with over 2,500 colleagues and A/E/C professionals. Grow your influence and raise your company or organization’s prominence by speaking on unique research, case studies, or projects that will engage and influence the community.


Submit your best session ideas to be considered by the Thursday, January 8, 2025 deadline. Abstracts should be submitted for one of the following focus areas:
- Architecture
- Business Development & Marketing
- Energy & Sustainability
- Engineering & Construction
- Environmental
- Facility & Infrastructure Asset Management
- Joint Engineering
- Leadership
- Resilience
Each speaker may submit up to two sessions for consideration. Please also review the Submission Resources before submitting for detailed information and guidelines on properly assembling and submitting your abstract.
JETC is the largest, most comprehensive gathering of your friends and colleagues from across the A/E/C profession and joint engineer community. Happening only once each year, this is the only venue where industry and government professionals from senior management to staff level, assemble under the same roof to ignite the ideas to help you learn, network, share, and grow!
Share your unique expertise, collaborate with industry professionals, and help prepare government and industry for the challenges ahead. Submit your forward-looking abstracts for presentations today!
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