AEA Annual Conference

AEA's Annual Conference brings together evaluators from around the country and around the world for professional sharing. Each year, the presiding AEA President identifies a theme for the conference plenaries and highlight strand woven throughout the event.

As part of the Annual Conference, the STEM TIG hosts a Business Meeting to highlight ways to advance the field and coordinate on-going communication and professional development activities.

2022 Annual Conference

• Theme: "(re)shaping evaluation together"
• November 7-12
• New Orleans, Louisiana
• TIG Program Co-chairs: Angelicque Tucker-Blackmon, Asia Williams, and Tom Withee
  
• Conference theme description: In 2022, the year of the Tiger, you are invited to bring your unique evaluation skills, competencies, and perspectives to (re) Shaping Evaluation Together.  For this conference, we seek to create a space to explore three significant shifts that are disrupting evaluation practice, and that will influence how our field theorizes and applies evaluation to evidence-informed decision making: 1) Equity, social justice, and decolonization; 2) New funders and social finance; and 3) Digital data and technology.

2021 Eval21 Reimagined: A Virtual Experience

• Theme: “AEA at 35 : Meeting the Moment"
• November 8-13
• Virtual
• STEM TIG Sessions
• Conference FAQ
• Proposal Submission

2020 Eval20 Reimagined: A Virtual Experience

• Theme: How Will You Shine Your Light?
• October 27-30
• Virtual
• STEM TIG Sessions
• STEM TIG Collaborative Planning Session (Feb 27, 2020)
• TIG Program Co-chairs: Cherie Avent and Ginger Fitzhugh

2019 Annual Conference

• Theme: "Paths to the Future of Evaluation: Contribution, Leadership, and Renewal"
• November 11-16
• Minneapolis, Minnesota

2018 Annual Conference

• Theme: "Speaking Truth to Power"
• October 29-November 3
• Cleveland, Ohio

2017 Annual Conference

• Theme: "From Learning to Action"
• November 6-11
• Washington, DC

2016 Annual Conference

• Theme: "Evaluation + Design"
• October 24-29
• Atlanta, Georgia

2015 Annual Conference

• Theme: "Exemplary Evaluations in a Multicultural World: Learning from Evaluation's Successes Around the Globe"
• November 9-14
• Chicago, Illinois
• STEM TIG Call for Proposals

2014 Annual Conference

• Theme: "Visionary Evaluation for a Sustainable, Equitable Future"
• October 13-19
• Denver, Colorado
• STEM TIG Sessions

2013 Annual Conference

• Theme: "The State of Evaluation in the 21st Century"
• October 14-19
• Washington, DC
• STEM TIG Sessions