The 2025 IAFSM Annual Conference will be held at the Tinley Park Convention Center on March 11 & 12, 2025.
Call for Speakers
IAFSM invites speakers from municipal, public, and private sectors to present information on floodplain and stormwater management topics. Submit abstracts online: https://forms.gle/zXUYNjTrERTu5hxU8. The deadline is October 31, 2024. Presenters will be notified of their acceptance or denial by January 13, 2025.
IAFSM intends for the 2025 Annual Conference to provide focused/in-depth education and training in the principal committee disciplines of IAFSM, including Floodplain Management, Stormwater Management, Mitigation, Wetlands, CRS, and Legislation, and encourages abstract submissions in the areas of water quality / BMPs for MS4s, and urban flooding issues.
Tours / Field Trips Wanted
Does your community have a floodplain, stormwater, mitigation, or wetland project in the vicinity of the conference hotel that you would like to show to other floodplain managers? IAFSM is considering offering Technical Field Tours again if enough tour sites are submitted to make up a tour. Please submit nominations for potential tour sites at: https://forms.gle/zXUYNjTrERTu5hxU8.
For More Information
For more information please contact Sharon Østerby, Conference Chair, at SOsterby@lakecountyil.gov, or Sarah Harbaugh, Executive Secretary, at iafsm@illinoisfloods.org.
Conference Information will be available soon.