If you need to request a change to your original track choice, please complete the form here. Requests are subject to availability and approval. You will receive a confirmation email from the Alliance as soon as possible once your request has been reviewed.
Requests must be submitted by February 6, 2026.
Track Descriptions
Please reference the full summit agenda here.
- 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.





