ImpressU Speaker Interest Form

Will You Make an Impression on impressU Online? Thank you for your interest in speaking with Impressions. We appreciate your willingness to help us provide the highest level of apparel-decoration education possible, and for serving as our educational partner in promoting the conference to your clientele. As you prepare your proposals, Impressions is taking submissions for the following for its impressU conference program: Trending Topics Panels (3+ speakers) Beginner and Intermediate Level Courses (1000-2000 level) Advanced and Expert Level Courses (3000-4000 level) How should my video be structured? You can submit topics that are covered within a 10-15 min range or 30-45 min and can be broken out into 2-3 parts. Meaning, each video should be no longer than 15 minutes long. impressU Online offers a speaker honorarium for new and original content! Our standard rate is $165 per 10-15 min recorded session. You may submit up to 3 part sessions if you need additional time to cover your topics. Each part will be paid at the $165 rate. ***SPECIAL NOTE: Submissions should be original and new. Content that has been used in other places virtually will not be accepted.

Please consider the following guidelines for content proposals:

What We Want

- Content that fits our seven educational tracks: screen printing, embroidery/digitizing, heat-applied graphics, DTG, hybrid, print on-demand, and business. - Fresh, current topics and content that address current decorated-apparel industry trends; specificity when it comes to topics. - Speaker Diversity! We welcome submissions from BIPOC speakers and those who are racial, gender, sexual-identity and ethnic minorities to use our platform to share your strategies and successes with the Impressions community; - Inspiring content and actionable ideas that will help decorators solve problems or meet a need.

What We Don't Want

- Dated topics with limited relevancy - Repurposed content that is more than 1 year old - Vagueness or ambiguity when it comes to topics - Content that has been presented before - Product-centered content from vendors that can be used to “sell” during sessions - Promotional content.

Sessions can be up to 45 min and must be able to be broken out into 2-3 parts.

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