This track spotlights cutting-edge strategies in data, technology, and policy that reimagine how systems operate, optimize performance, and deliver superior, lasting outcomes for all served. Share your innovations in interoperability, artificial intelligence, system redesign, or funding models that build long-term sustainability, resilience, and widespread impact. Submissions that elevate trauma-informed approaches and lived experience are especially encouraged.

This track features proven and promising approaches from across human services domains, including aging, child care, child welfare, early childhood, disability, housing, food security, and economic support. We want to share how your policy-enabled innovations and cross-sector partnerships are improving results for individuals and families. Ideal for case studies and examples that translate evidence into real-world impact.

This track focuses on strategies that strengthen workforce well-being, leadership capacity, and collaboration at every level. Share how your organization is supporting your workforce in adapting to H.R. 1, building belonging, or redefining the culture of human services work. Ideal for leaders and innovators shaping the future of the human services sector.

Built in partnership with the National Association for Welfare Research and Statistics (NAWRS), this track elevates the role of research, evaluation, and evidence in driving measurable change. We invite studies, evaluations, and success stories that strengthen families and communities, especially those that demonstrate how research translates into effective practice. Includes opportunities to be featured in the Research to Practice Showcase.

Submissions for this track center community voice and the power of cross-sector collaboration to address pressing challenges and opportunities. Proposals will demonstrate how public agencies, nonprofits, and communities can move beyond service delivery toward true system transformation. Share how your community or partnership is co-creating solutions with those most affected by policy and practice decisions. Ideal for submissions grounded in collaboration and community and social impact.