Why DEAMcon
We like to tout that DEAMcon isn’t your average HR conference, and when you join us, that’s exactly what you’ll find. We add special touches to every aspect of our event to ensure you leave with more than just key learning points because DEAMcon is about more than just continuing education — it’s a full-on experience!
Engaging
Program Content
Led by industry subject matter experts and peers, DEAMcon sessions are designed to help you successfully master the many roles and responsibilities you administer — from OFCCP compliance and recruitment marketing to accessibility and efforts to amply diversity, equity, and inclusion. At DEAMcon, there are sessions on the agenda for all skill levels and education needs!
Inspiring Speakers
Standout Presentations
Practitioner-led Workshops
Real-world
Education
With robust and highly relevant programming offered at DEAMcon, attendees can earn major professional development credits — we’re talking HRCI and SHRM recertification credits. Content and accreditation? That’s a win-win!
Interactive
Demo Hall
View videos, experience live demos, and chat with underwriters to learn about emerging products and services in a no-pressure environment. Visit each pedestal to complete the Underwriter Passport and collect Swag Bucks that can be used to purchase merchandise in the Swag Store so you can show off your Association with pride, taking home the items YOU want to add to your collection.
Unparalleled
Networking
At DEAMcon there are countless opportunities to meet new people and network with one another during social breaks. Be sure to attend the exciting evening themed event — because having fun isn’t optional at this conference!
300+
Industry Professionals
10+
Hours for Networking
1
Exciting Themed Evening Event
Exceptional
Value
Forget boxed lunches and black coffee. We curate unique food offerings from breakfast to snack breaks to lunch, and offer free hand-crafted drinks at our Espresso Cart throughout the conference. We keep attendees engaged with fun activities and giveaways, plan exciting evening events, and work plenty of networking opportunities into the agenda. Our presenters are hand-selected to ensure they are engaging and thought-provoking and go the extra mile to meet any need during your time with us. Don’t let our low registration price fool you — you’re in for a real treat!
What People Are Saying
Brandy Luna
Director, Human Resources
DEAMcon is one of my favorite conferences that I attend every year. I make it a point. The first year we came there were two of us. Now there's four of us from Nelnet that attend. So I would say the quality is very high. We definitely get our value out of the conference.
Julie O'Hara-Harvey
Sr. AA/EEO Program Manager & Diversity Consultant
The conference really, really helps you see a wide variety of different ways that organizations manage in the space of DEI, affirmative action, which is compliance, and also recruiting. So I think that this conference is really state of the art, one of the best that I attend annually.
John Whalin
National Vice President, Talent Acquisition
I've been coming to DEAMcon for well over 10 years. I continue to express to many of my friends and many of my former colleagues that this is probably the best conference I come to from an educational standpoint. My favorite thing about DEAMcon would be the networking opportunities and some of the outreach programs that are brought forward that I would not know about otherwise.
Luz Cuevas-Santos
Diversity & Inclusion Advisor
DEAMcon is my favorite conference to attend. I feel like there is a great combination of opportunities to interact and network with other organizations that stand in the same position as us as federal contractors, as well as interaction with the DirectEmployers staff, which helps create a family environment.
Emily Duff
Senior Manager, Corporate Recruiting
The quality of the DEAMcon program, the speakers are top notch. You are talking to people that have fantastic experiences and a wealth of knowledge that you feel like you can't soak it all in at once. You need to take it back to your room, digest for a little bit and come back the next day ready to ask questions and network them a little bit more.
Kelly French
Talent Acquisition Program Specialist – Veterans
[Being a presenter at DEAMcon] was great. I’m not especially a public speaker, but it was really easy. The support that I received from the team in creating the presentation and helping me edit it, add some content that I think was beneficial for everyone was great. Good collaboration from the team and I really appreciate that type of support.
Brandon Jones
Regional Recruiter
Seth Mayer
Veteran & Military Families Program Operator
This is the first DEAMcon I've attended and I think this is absolutely a conference that our LVERs should be at. There are so many recruiters and compliance people in the room that there is such great networking available. We need a few of our LVERs to be able to come to an event like this. The amount of diversity, equity, inclusion topics that were coming through, our HR department should have been here too.
This is always an amazing event. I look forward each year to the latest and greatest. You manage to have some of the most engaging speakers for the sessions that truly have great meaning.
Questions? Contact the DEAM Team at DEAM@DirectEmployers.org
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