Thank you for attending the annual 2025
NCDA Global Career Development Conference! 

What a great gathering in Atlanta at the 2025 NCDA Conference. Thank you to everyone for traveling near and far to be a part of this experience. Nearly 900 career professionals were in attendance to explore Autonomy to Change: Evolving and Adapting Career Development in Revolutionary Times! Once again, our conference photographer captured the connections and camaraderie that participants enjoy – see the 2025 Conference Photos

Conference Evaluation:
Attendees are asked to provide feedback on the conference. Please go to this link and share your thoughts about the conference.

Continuing Education:
Continuing Education hours will be automatically transferred to your individual member record by July 17th. Login to your NCDA record at www.NCDA.org and click on Profile then View My CE History to access your certificate or verify your hours.

Conference App and Website:
The conference app and website are open until September 30, 2025 and full of helpful information, such as session descriptions, speaker bios and presentation resources. Conference app: https://cvent.me/2ZmMXG Conference website: www.ncdaconference.org

Handouts:
Presentation handouts* and slide decks may be on your conference app. Search the session or speaker’s name and look at the top right of the screen for Resources. For easy access and downloading, visit the desktop version at https://cvent.me/2ZmMXG Please remember that not all presenters uploaded handouts.

*Presenters, if you still want your document uploaded to the app, you can login to the Speaker Resource Center (check your email for the link) and upload it to your speaker profile. If you need assistance, please contact Mary Ann Powell at mpowell@ncda.org.

Attendees:
To protect the privacy of our participants, we will not distribute an attendees list. Those who wish to be contacted may mark their own app profile as Public. Please be aware of scammers that are trying to sell "fake" NCDA conference attendee lists. We do not permit this!

Sponsors and Exhibit Hall:
Thank you to the conference sponsors: Career Development Alliance and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. A special thank you to all NCDA Exhibitors participating in the event. A full list of conference exhibitors can be found in the conference app or on the conference website.

Virtual Conference Opens July 14
For those wanting more career development opportunities, consider a “virtual add-on” for an additional $200. This gives you the opportunity to earn 10 additional CEs and view 50+ career development focused sessions (including the keynote sessions from Atlanta). All sessions are pre-recorded and on-demand for your convenience. There are no live sessions. Please contact Natalie Scrimsher at nscrimsher@ncda.org if you wish to add the Virtual Conference to your existing conference registration. Access to the virtual conference will be available until October 31, 2025. If you know other professionals who wish to attend the Virtual Conference, please refer them to the conference website to register at the Virtual-Only rate.

Career Resource Store:
Ready to continue your professional development? Did you see a book you wanted but forgot to buy at the conference? Looking to invest in the accessibility of e-books? The NCDA online Career Resource Store is open 24/7 for your convenience. Shop now! Be sure to check out the monthly sale items listed on the NCDA home page.

Professional Development Update:
Melissa Venable, Director of Professional Development, released an update on 2024-2025 activities, covering the Career Practitioner Conversations podcast, the NCDA Webinar Series, and NCDA's online learning platform - The Hub. Please review the full update linked here, continue your own professional development, and contact Melissa with any questions you may have: mvenable@ncda.org.

Social Media:
What did you learn, capture and love at the conference? Keep posting on X, Instagram, Threads,  Facebook and LinkedIn, using our #NCDAconference25 hashtag, and we can repost what you're sharing. Here are the NCDA handles:
Instagram, Threads and X, at @NCDACareer 
Facebook and LinkedIn as "National Career Development Association"

Join Us Next Year in Minneapolis! 

NCDA 2026 Global Career Development Conference
Creative Resilience: Integrating Dynamic Solutions in Career Development
Minneapolis, MN, June 30 – July 2, 2026
Pre-Conference: June 29

 

The 2026 Call for Proposals will open in August, with a deadline to submit proposals October 7, 2025. Watch email for the announcement or visit the conference website at www.NCDAconference.org