Hindsight is 2020: Surviving, Thriving, and Arriving
2021 Annual CDPI (Virtual) Conference
May 24th - 27th, 2021
The annual CDPI conference will bring career services professionals from across the state of Indiana for a week of professional development opportunities. This year, attendees will have the opportunity to hear from 20 different presenters [including professionals from across the state and community partners] about best practices for supporting our students during the pandemic and beyond. The conference will include sessions focused on supporting our own wellness, effective practices for virtual career services, tailoring services to various student groups, employer relations, alumni engagement, and networking and other early career practices.
The daily conference structure is below. Click here for a brief overview of the sessions to be offered each day!
Conference Structure
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Time (EST)
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Event
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9:30am-10am
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Monday & Wednesday: CDPI Networking
Tuesday & Thursday: Wellness Session
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10:30am-11:30am
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Breakout Session A
Breakout Session B
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12:30pm-1:30pm
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Featured Speaker: Skillful Indiana, Work+Learn Indiana & Ascend Indiana
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2pm-3pm
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Breakout Session A
Breakout Session B
*This time block will be an annual celebration on Thursday, May 27th
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Virtual conference details:
The virtual conference will take place via Zoom and attendees will be able to choose which sessions and how many sessions they want to attend throughout the week. Upon registration, attendees will receive a confirmation email of their registration. A full program will be released in late April to registrants which will include:
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Conference session zoom links;
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Breakout session descriptions; and
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Information on how to access session materials and recordings after the conference.
Register for the virtual conference today!
The annual conference is free for current CDPI members. If you need to renew your membership ($35), please click here for further information. We ask you do so by May 10th to allow time for membership renewal processing.
Non-Member Conference Registration
Non-members will be charged a fee of $45 at time of registration, and this fee includes conference registration and a one-year CDPI membership for eligible members. A CDPI board members will email you requesting your details to create your membership instance prior to the conference.
Questions about the conference?
Contact Karley Clayton, CDPI President-Elect, at president-elect@cdpi.org
Why do we charge for events?
CDPI is a non-profit organization that has recurring expenses like maintaining the website you are using right now, book-keepers, and grant opportunities for our members. We rely on membership dues to keep our organization running!
