PMDMC is public media’s leading conference dedicated to revenue generation, marketing, and management. Its greatest strength lies in the collaborative exchange of ideas and strategies from stations across the country.
We invite you to join this exchange by submitting a session proposal to share your successes at this year’s conference, happening July 7-10, 2025, in Philadelphia. As the public media landscape evolves, we’re all tasked with adapting our work to ensure public service thrives. How are you doing this at your station? What breakthroughs have you discovered? We’re looking for innovative, sustainable, and creative solutions to today’s challenges.
Check out an example of a fully designed session proposal.
While writing, consider the following conference priorities:
- Key Topics: Revenue generation, audience development, organizational health, and community connections.
- Diverse Voices: Representation from Asian, Black, Indigenous, LatinX, and other People of Color, plus perspectives from leaders and staffers.
- Station Variety: Reflecting different sizes, formats, and markets.
- Clear Takeaways: 2-3 measurable and achievable learning goals.
- Engagement: Interactive elements to involve attendees.
The deadline to submit session proposals closes on February 14, 2025.
For business partners and vendors: We welcome your proposals! However, ensure they highlight diverse perspectives (e.g., station or client voices) and avoid direct product pitches. Attendees value in-depth information, practical applications, and real-world case studies over sales-oriented content.
The deadline to submit session proposals or ideas for the second call for proposals closed on May 17, 2024.
Learn more about our conference content selection process
A team of Greater Public advisors, staff, and contractors curates the Public Media Development and Marketing Conference content. This process begins with the public call for proposals, happening January 14 – February 14, 2025. Anyone can submit a session proposal. Once the deadline ends, the PMDMC content team receives all submissions at once.
The content team then evaluates and rates every submission with the other advisors and staff in their learning area. The content team selects proposals with the following conference priorities in mind:
- Key Topics: Revenue generation, audience development, organizational health, and community connections.
- Diverse Voices: Representation from Asian, Black, Indigenous, LatinX, and other People of Color, plus perspectives from leaders and staffers.
- Station Variety: Reflecting different sizes, formats, and markets.
- Clear Takeaways: 2-3 measurable and achievable learning goals.
- Engagement: Interactive elements to involve attendees.
Typically, the content team receives approximately 100 session proposals! PMDMC25 will feature approximately 40 sessions, so, unfortunately, we cannot provide a slot to every submitter. However, our content team works hard to group session proposals that have a common theme, bringing more voices to one session.
Business partners or vendors are invited to submit proposals or ideas, but they 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 how a tool or service is used, along with user case studies.
Those who submit proposals for PMDMC25 will be contacted no later than May 28, 2025. The full conference schedule will be announced on May 30, 2025.
