Thank you for your interest in the PMDMC 2023, public media’s largest conference devoted to issues surrounding revenue generation, marketing, and management.
The PMDMC is the one time each year when more than 1,000 public media leaders and revenue-generating professionals from organizations of all sizes join together to dream big, stay energized, and build a more sustainable future for public media.
The 2023 PMDMC is in Atlanta from July 11-14. We are looking for sessions that cover the myriad of challenges our industry is currently facing while also connecting attendees through interactive formats. You can submit a fully designed session proposal, an idea that you want to understand better, or both. What brand new challenge is keeping you up at night? What new success have you tapped into? Check out an example of a fully designed session proposal here.
Consider these key elements to help your proposal rise to the top:
- Amplify multiple voices, especially Asian, Black, Indigenous, LatinX, and other People of Color, plus representation from both leaders and staffers.
- Represent a variety of station sizes, types, formats, and markets.
- Outline 2-3 concrete learning goals and takeaways, plus a vision for engaging attendees (ie. what will the attendee be doing in the session?).
- And last but not least, connect and inspire your audience and colleagues!
Attention business partners or vendors: Your proposal should feature a variety of perspectives, including that of a station or other client(s). Avoid promoting and/or selling your product directly. Attendees tell us they don’t want pitches. Instead, they want thorough information about the application of a tool or service along with user case studies so they can make up their own minds.
The deadline to submit session proposals or ideas closed on February 24, 2023.
Learn more about our conference content selection process
The Public Media Development and Marketing Conference content is curated by a team of Greater Public advisors, staff, and contractors. This process begins with the public call for proposals, happening January 31-February 24, 2023. Anyone can submit a session proposal or idea, which is sent to the PMDMC content team shortly after the deadline.
Once the content team receives the session proposals and ideas, they evaluate and rate every submission with the other advisors and staff in their learning area. The content team then selects proposals and ideas to develop based on the criteria outlined for this year’s conference:
- Amplify multiple voices, especially Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color, plus representation from both leaders and staffers.
- Represent a variety of station sizes, types, formats, and markets.
- Outline 2-3 concrete learning goals and takeaways, plus a vision for engaging attendees (ie. what will the attendee be doing in the session?).
- And last but not least, connect and inspire your audience and colleagues!
Typically, the content team receives approximately 100 session proposals and ideas! PMDMC23 will feature around 40 sessions, so, unfortunately, we cannot provide a slot to every submitter. However, our content team works hard to group together session proposals and ideas that have a common theme, bringing more voices to one session.
Business partners or vendors are invited to submit proposals or ideas but should remember to focus their session around station attendees. Avoid promoting and/or selling your product directly. Attendees consistently tell us they don’t want pitches. Instead, provide thorough information about the application of a tool or service along with user case studies.
Those who submit designed proposals for PMDMC23 will be contacted no later than June 1. The full conference schedule will be announced on June 15, 2023.