Join us in 2025! The 2025 UPCEA Annual Conference is the most significant assembly of thought leaders and practitioners today in the field of professional, continuing, and online education. Join us March 24-26, 2025 for engaging keynote speakers, high-energy concurrent sessions, and plentiful networking opportunities.
The Annual Conference convenes deans and other senior university leaders, key staff, and teams responsible for the management, administration, and growth of professional, continuing, and online education programs. Attendees have access to targeted sessions spanning the top areas of practice in our field (aligned with UPCEA's eight professional Networks), led by higher education experts and colleagues.
Attendees will also find targeted sessions on the most pressing topics in the field today - including marketing and enrollment management, alternative credentialing, instructional design, noncredit programs, federal policy, finance and operations, and more.
For more information on exhibiting or sponsorship opportunities below, please contact:
Brandan Kaiser, 202-844-4242, email bkaiser@upcea.edu
Exhibit Registration Type |
Price |
Member |
$3,900 by November 18, 2024; $4,200 after |
Non-Member |
$6,000 by November 18, 2024; $6,300 after |
Note: Price includes two (2) full conference registrations. Additional registrations can be purchased at the current corporate member or non-member attendee registration rate.
If you have any questions or interest regarding exhibiting, please contact Brandan Kaiser, bkaiser@upcea.edu or call 202-844-4242.
Anticipated Attendance: 1,000+
Exhibit Booth Space: 85 Exhibits
2025 Dates and Location:
March 24-26, 2025
Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel - Denver, CO
Exhibit Booth Includes
Two (2) attendee registrations
10’ W x 8’ D’ space w/ pipe & drape backdrop and side rails
6’ table & two chairs
Waste basket
Exhibit Hall is carpeted
If needed, additional booth accessories can be purchased through Arata Expositions
All exhibitors receive a pre-conference attendee list each week starting one month out from the event date (no emails or phone numbers are provided)
Events in the Exhibit Hall (Tentative)
Opening Night Reception on March 24
Breakfasts on March 25 and 26
Lunch Pick Up on March 25
All Networking and Refreshment Breaks
Exhibit Hall Hours (Tentative)
March 24 - 2:15 PM to 7:00 PM
March 25 - 7:00 AM to 5:15 PM
March 26 - 7:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Exhibit Hall General Contractor
UPCEA uses Arata Expositions as its General Contractor to set up/decorate the Exhibit Hall at the Annual Conference. All exhibitors for the Annual Conference agree to ship their materials to the attention of Arata Expositions and pay any associated fees that Arata Expositions charges as it relates to handling of your exhibit materials etc. An Exhibitor Service Manual produced by Arata Expositions will be provided to your exhibit logistics contact at a later date.
Rules & Regulations
Registering for a booth only reserves a spot on the exhibit floor. Booth space location requests will only be assigned once payment is received in full to UPCEA and once the exhibit hall layout has been created. Booth selection is done by order of registration. The linked exhibitor rules and regulations supplement the Online Registration to Contract for Exhibit Space at the Conference. By completing the Online Registration to Contract for Exhibit Space, the exhibitor agrees to be bound by and adhere to the terms, rules and regulations, and all amendments thereto, and decisions of UPCEA and the host hotel.
Deans and directors of professional and continuing education
Senior online learning officers
Executive directors of global campuses or system-wide online units
Directors of marketing, enrollment management, and student success
See Who Exhibited at the 2024 Annual Conference
UPCEA is open to customized options to help you reach your goal and build brand awareness. Each option includes pre-, post- and onsite visibility on the event website, in the conference program, and on signage. Contact Brandan Kaiser, bkaiser@upcea.edu, for information.
Options include, but are not limited to:
Second Night Reception Sponsor
Conference App sponsor
Wireless Internet sponsor
Registration Desk items such as notepads, pens etc.
Charging station(s)
Affiliated Events Policy
The association has gone to great lengths and expense to negotiate and contract for a reduced room rate at conference hotels. That rate is based upon the projected attendance at the meeting. If corporate member and nonmember attendees elect to stay at other hotels, it subjects the association to attrition penalties that can cause significant financial loss to the association. We count on our corporate community to support the association, and one of the ways to do that is to honor our efforts to secure a sufficiently large room block at a reduced rate at a first class hotel/conference venue.
For these reasons, corporate member and nonmember attendees are prohibited from holding any meetings (briefings, seminars, etc.) within a 25-mile radius, targeting professional, continuing, and online leaders in higher education during the scheduled hours of UPCEA events unless otherwise negotiated and scheduled with and by UPCEA. Any such meeting occurring within 36 hours before or after the UPCEA conference must be coordinated with UPCEA and, space permitting, be held at the conference hotel. This policy helps ensure that the association’s contracted obligations to the hotel for guest rooms and food and beverage minimums are met, which is essential for the financial health of the association and its members. If UPCEA cannot find space for the corporate member or nonmember attendee’s event at the contracted hotel, we will work to help find alternative space. In no circumstances, however, is it permissible for a corporate member or nonmember attendee to contract a separate hotel block, either at the conference hotel or elsewhere.
UPCEA reserves the right to prohibit corporate member and nonmember attendees who violate this policy from exhibiting or participating at UPCEA events.