Registration

Leadership Roles and Tracks

This summit will include a few new session formats – including Leadership Intensives before the opening plenary and Collaborative Strategy Labs on day three. Attendees will be register by leadership role for targeted content and peer connection throughout the event. Each track will have dedicated Leadership Intensives and Spotlight Sessions to explore unique challenges and opportunities within their job function.

Before registering, please review the agenda to determine which track best aligns with your work. Changes to track choice after registration are subject to availability and approval and may not be possible.

• Executive Leaders: Guide organizations through strategic, operational, and cultural leadership. Often serve as executive directors, CEOs, or senior managers with organizational or multi-agency responsibilities.
• System and CoC Leaders: Coordinate regional homeless response systems (e.g., Continuums of Care), overseeing data, funding streams, and system performance aligned with federal, state, or local housing goals.
• Government and Policy Leaders: Hold elected, appointed, or administrative roles that shape policy, budgets, and legislation related to homelessness, housing, healthcare, and community development.
• Peer Leaders (Lived Experience Experts): Lead through lived experience with homelessness, providing strategy and insight on advocacy, program design, and system governance, as well as peer support.
• Emerging Leaders: Stepping in to new levels of influence. Includes rising leaders across sectors and early or mid-career professionals developing management skills, entering formal leadership roles, or growing their leadership identity.
• Advocate Leaders: Organize and mobilize for systemic change from outside traditional institutions through legal advocacy, organizing, campaign work, or public education. They hold systems accountable and represent community-driven power.
• Philanthropic Leaders: Invest in homelessness solutions, system transformation, or community infrastructure. Represent private foundations, community foundations, grantmaking staff at United Ways, corporate giving programs, individual philanthropists, or venture philanthropy.
• Research Leaders: Generate and apply evidence to drive actionable solutions to end homelessness, ensuring that data, evaluation, and community knowledge inform systems and policy change.

How Can I Cancel My Registration?

Cancellation requests made by 11:59 P.M. ET on Monday, January 19, 2026, will incur a $50 cancellation fee. Requests made between Tuesday, January 20, 2026, and Friday, February 6, 2026 by 11:59 P.M. will incur a $150 cancellation fee. Cancellations made on or after Saturday, February 7, 2026, will receive no refund.

To cancel a registration, submit a request using the form below. Refunds for paid registrations are subject to approval and a cancellation fee.

Code of Conduct for Events

The National Alliance to End Homelessness (the Alliance) strives to create a diverse, inclusive, accepting and safe space for everyone.

All voices are welcome to ensure diversity of thought among speakers, attendees, and guests at our events and webinars. There is a zero-tolerance policy for any form of discrimination or abusive behavior.

1. Attestation. During the registration process, you will be asked to check a box agreeing to treat fellow participants respectfully, helping to ensure welcome conversation from all participants. By checking this box, participants also acknowledge that any form of discrimination, violence, or abusive behavior may result in removal from a session, webinar, or event, depending on the situation.
2. Disruptive Conduct. You acknowledge and agree that the Alliance reserves the right to refuse or approve admittance of any individual (or) remove you from the Event if the ALLIANCE, in its sole discretion, determines that your participation or behavior create a disruption or hinder the Event or the enjoyment of the Event content by other attendees.
3. Recording, Live Streaming, and Videotaping. Participants may not record or broadcast audio or video of sessions at Alliance Events.
4. In addition to the requirements and prohibitions set forth in this Section 3, ALLIANCE may also exclude any prospective participant from registering for or participating in any Event, at ALLIANCE’s sole discretion.
5. Reporting an Incident or violations of this Policy:
   • If you have a complaint or concern about harassment, discrimination, bullying or any other conduct which may violate the Alliance Code of Conduct, we encourage you to tell an Alliance event staff member, Alliance security personnel or event facility security personnel immediately. You may also notify us via email at conference@naeh.org or by calling this number (202) 262-2615. You may request that your report remain confidential and only be shared with those on a “need to know” basis.
   • When taking an in-person report, our team will ensure you are in a safe location and cannot be overheard. The Alliance staff member may involve other team members to ensure your report is managed properly. Once safe, we’ll ask you to convey the specific circumstances. While this can potentially be upsetting, we’ll give you the patience and respect you deserve; and bring along someone to help support you if you desire. You will not be asked to confront any individual and all our communications will be confidential and only be shared with those on a “need to know” basis.
   • Notifying the Alliance staff or onsite Security does not constitute or replace notification to local law enforcement. This Code of Conduct does not replace rules posted by event facility, official event hotels or any rules that are part of the Alliance’s contracts with its vendors, exhibitors and/or sponsors.