Top 5 Reasons Why You Should Submit a Speaking Proposal for NCPERS 2025 FALL Conference

Call for Speakers is open for NCPERS 2025 Financial, Actuarial, Legislative & Legal (FALL) Conference. This is your chance to speak, attend, and contribute to important conversations shaping the public pension industry.

Whether you represent a public pension fund or provide services to one, NCPERS membership connects you to a network committed to advancing retirement security. If you're not yet a member, now is a great time to join and gain access to valuable programs like the 2025 Financial, Actuarial, Legislative & Legal (FALL) Conference, taking place October 26–29 at the Omni Fort Lauderdale. To inquire or verify your organization's membership status, please e-mail your inquiry to membership@ncpers.org.

As a member, you'll be eligible to speak, attend, and contribute to important conversations shaping the public pension industry. The Call for Speakers is now open, but there's less than one month left to submit your proposal. Here are five reasons why you should consider joining our speaker lineup:

1. You Bring Firsthand Experience to the Table

Fund members live the day-to-day challenges of pension governance, investment oversight, and member services. Service providers bring a wider lens, offering technical expertise, strategic guidance, and innovative solutions. Together, your perspectives create a complete picture and we need both at the mic. Whether you're tackling risk, regulation, governance, actuarial shifts, or tech trends, your insights are valuable.

2. You Help Drive the Agenda for Public Pension Education

The FALL Conference isn't built around buzzwords or generic panels. It's built around you, our members, and the real-world issues you face. By submitting a proposal, you help ensure the conference remains relevant, practical, and forward-thinking. And since NCPERS events are exclusive to member organizations, this is a chance to lead from within.

3. You Strengthen Your Organization's Profile

Presenting at FALL 2025 gives fund members the opportunity to highlight successful strategies, demonstrate good governance, and share lessons learned. For service providers, it's a way to showcase your firm's thought leadership, foster trust, and provide real value, not a sales pitch, but a solution-oriented dialogue. It's about contributing meaningfully to the community you serve.

4. You Help Build a Stronger Pension Network

Our sessions aren't just about what's presented, they're about what gets shared afterward. Strong content fuels follow-up discussions, sparks connections, and inspires collaboration. Your session could help a fellow fund address a challenge they've been struggling with or offer clarity on an issue others haven't yet faced. That's the power of peer-driven learning.

5. You Reinforce the Value of Membership

FALL is only open to NCPERS members, and so is the speaker lineup. When you submit a proposal, you're reinforcing what makes NCPERS different: a member-based organization that prioritizes knowledge-sharing over noise. By participating, you're not just representing your organization, you're strengthening the value of membership for everyone.

Submission Details

• Deadline to Submit: Friday, August 8, 2025, at 5:00 PM EST
• Event Location: Omni Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL
• Conference Dates: October 26–29, 2025
• Formats: 30-, 45-, and 60-minute presentations, or moderated panel discussions
• Rules: You can submit more than one proposal for consideration, however, only one proposal from your organization will be accepted.
• Status Notification Window: Week of August 25–29, 2025

Click here to submit your proposal

Questions? Contact Jessica Ransome at education@ncpers.org or call 202-601-2449.

Join us in Fort Lauderdale. Share your perspective. Shape the conversation. Help make FALL 2025 the most relevant and impactful event for attendees.