Call for Speaker Nominations
The 2027 Leadership Summit on Ending Homelessness will bring together leaders from across the movement to end homelessness for deep learning, strategy-building, and community connection. As we finalize the agenda, we welcome speaker nominations of leaders whose stories, strategies, or lived experiences can help us meet this moment with clarity, courage, and collaboration.
Note: This is not a call for full session proposals. The Summit planning team will curate and design session content. Nominations will help us identify prospective speakers and facilitators whose experiences align with the session goals and themes already in development.
The nomination form will close on Friday, December 11, 2026 at 11:59 P.M. ET.
Please reference the full agenda here before completing the nomination form.
Nominee Requirements
- Must be at least 18 years of age.
- Must give their consent to be nominated.
Leadership Community Descriptions
- Frontline Leaders: Provide direct care to unhoused individuals, including those who oversee staff and programs that provide housing navigation, case management, crisis intervention, and supportive services.
- Data Leaders: Generate and apply evidence to drive actionable solutions to end homelessness, ensuring that data, evaluation, and community knowledge inform systems and policy change.
- System 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.
- State and Local Government Leaders: Hold elected, appointed, or administrative roles that shape policy, budgets, and legislation related to homelessness, housing, healthcare, and community development.
- Emerging Leaders: Step into 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.
- 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.
NOTE: Reflective of past feedback, Lived Experience leaders will be integrated throughout each leadership community. Members of the Alliance’s lived experience Community Strategic Team (CST) are involved in overarching planning of both the Leadership Summit and LEAD Institute content.
Session Descriptions
- Spotlight Sessions: Shorter sessions focused on timely topics, presented by one or two speakers followed by a moderated Q&A. Designed for fast insight and reflection within peer groups.
45 minutes | Up to 2 speakers per spotlight session - Workshops: Interactive, skill-building sessions. Topics span communications, advocacy, funding, and systems change.
75 minutes | Up to 4 speakers per workshop - Roundtables: Facilitated small-group discussions by leadership community.
45 minutes after Tuesday Lunch | 1 speaker per roundtable - Collaborative Strategy Labs: Cross-functional, problem-solving sessions bringing together leaders from across tracks to co-design responses to complex system-level challenges
2 hours final day of summit | Multiple speakers per lab