Dear Potential Speaker:

Are you interested in becoming one of our concurrent session speakers at this year's conference?

We are inviting you specifically because we believe you have a unique perspective on our conference theme, which is Collaboration. Here are some questions that we'd like our speakers to explore this year:

• How do I encourage more collaboration among my students during virtual training sessions?
• What are the best practices to help my organization increase collaboration in the cloud?
• Can I increase the frequency of events where I co-facilitate?
• Are there other tools/technologies that our organization should consider to increase collaboration?
• How do I hold my learners accountable for collaborative learning?

You get several benefits by presenting at the ASTD-Cascadia Conference:

• Exposure to the largest association of training, human resources, and workplace learning professionals in the Northwest; we're on track for more than 300 attendees this year!
• Opportunity to attend our keynote presentation by Peter Block, author of Flawless Consulting
• Recognition as a thought leader on best practices in collaboration
• Promotional opportunities to sign and sell books that you have authored

The March 31st Deadline Is Approaching Fast!
For more information and to submit a proposal, visit our conference webpage. You will want to access the RFP Form and the Speaker RFP Information document. With regard to the RFP form, be sure to complete ONLY the "RFP Form" worksheet and NOT the Official Use Only worksheet.

We look forward to reviewing your proposed workshop. If you have any questions about the process, please contact Melinda Krueger, our Concurrent Session Lead, at conferencesessions@astdcascadia.org. Please remember that submissions (in the original Excel format) must be received by March 31, 2013, and feel free to forward this information to other potential speakers.

We Welcome Your Feedback
Is there anything we can do to improve the RFP process? We'd like to know if there's anything we can do to make the RFP process easier for our potential speakers. Share your thoughts with me at dnetz@gpstrategies.com.

We look forward to receiving your RFP!

DJ Netz
2013 Conference Chair
ASTD - Cascadia Chapter