Because the challenges facing our society cannot be solved by any one organization alone.
SAVE THE DATE
May 18–20, 2027
Pre-conference events: May 17
Hyatt Regency McCormick Place
Chicago, Illinois
May 18–20, 2027
Pre-conference events: May 17
Hyatt Regency McCormick Place
Chicago, Illinois
Join people from across sectors and around the world at NCDD2027, working to strengthen dialogue and deliberation in our society. Together, we'll strengthen relationships, spark collaboration, and increase our collective capacity to address today's complex challenges.
Why We're Gathering
Dialogue and deliberation are the practices that help people build relationships, communicate across differences, make thoughtful decisions, solve complex problems, and work together on the issues that matter most. People across communities, sectors, and countries are advancing this work every day.
For more than two decades, NCDD has convened the people doing this work by creating spaces where relationships deepen, ideas cross-pollinate, and new collaborations emerge, strengthening both individual practice and our collective capacity.
In 2027, we're building on that legacy.
Rather than simply bringing people together to learn from one another, we're intentionally designing this gathering to strengthen the connective infrastructure that helps the broader ecosystem share knowledge, build partnerships, and increase its capacity for collaboration and collective action.
Because our greatest opportunity isn't only strengthening individual efforts. It's strengthening how those efforts connect.
When the people advancing this work are more connected, the relationships, knowledge, and innovations they create ripple outward. Ultimately, this strengthens our ability to respond to today's complex challenges and helps create more connected, resilient, and responsive communities.
For more than two decades, NCDD has convened the people doing this work by creating spaces where relationships deepen, ideas cross-pollinate, and new collaborations emerge, strengthening both individual practice and our collective capacity.
In 2027, we're building on that legacy.
Rather than simply bringing people together to learn from one another, we're intentionally designing this gathering to strengthen the connective infrastructure that helps the broader ecosystem share knowledge, build partnerships, and increase its capacity for collaboration and collective action.
Because our greatest opportunity isn't only strengthening individual efforts. It's strengthening how those efforts connect.
When the people advancing this work are more connected, the relationships, knowledge, and innovations they create ripple outward. Ultimately, this strengthens our ability to respond to today's complex challenges and helps create more connected, resilient, and responsive communities.
What You’ll Experience
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NCDD2027 is designed to be more than a place to exchange ideas. Through interactive sessions and shared experiences, you'll have opportunities to strengthen relationships, identify shared priorities, and spark new collaborations.
Learn Explore emerging practices, dialogue methods, and practical tools from across the ecosystem. Connect Cultivate meaningful relationships through networking, meetups, and cross-sector conversations. Collaborate Work alongside others through partner-led sessions, participant discussions, and collaborative problem-solving. Carry Forward Leave with stronger relationships, fresh ideas, and renewed momentum for the work ahead. |
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Who Should Attend
NCDD2027 welcomes everyone working to strengthen how people connect, communicate, make decisions, solve problems, and work together across differences.
You don't need to identify as a dialogue and deliberation practitioner to belong here. If your work helps people build relationships, navigate differences, make thoughtful decisions, solve problems, or collaborate more effectively, you'll find a community here.
Attendees include people from many sectors and disciplines, including:
You don't need to identify as a dialogue and deliberation practitioner to belong here. If your work helps people build relationships, navigate differences, make thoughtful decisions, solve problems, or collaborate more effectively, you'll find a community here.
Attendees include people from many sectors and disciplines, including:
- Dialogue and deliberation practitioners
- Facilitators, mediators, and conflict transformation professionals
- Community organizers and civic leaders
- Public servants and public participation professionals
- Educators, students, and researchers
- Journalists, storytellers, and communicators
- Philanthropic, nonprofit, and foundation leaders
- Organizational, systems, and network leaders
- Anyone seeking more constructive ways to engage people in everyday life
Rooted in Place
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Every place has its own relationships, history, and wisdom. That's why NCDD approaches each conference as a partnership with the local community rather than simply selecting a location.
We're thrilled to bring NCDD2027 to Chicago, a city with a rich history of civic leadership, community organizing, philanthropy, journalism, higher education, and public engagement. Rather than simply hosting the conference here, we're partnering with local practitioners, organizations, and leaders to help shape the experience. Together, we're working to ensure the conference reflects the strengths, perspectives, and innovations already thriving throughout the Chicago region. We look forward to continuing to partner with and learn alongside the people and communities who call Chicago home. |
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Co-Creating the Conference
NCDD2027 is being shaped through partnerships with organizations and leaders from across the dialogue and deliberation ecosystem. Together, we're co-creating a conference that reflects the diversity, innovation, and collective wisdom of this work.
We're grateful to our growing community of Conference Partners, including The Rippel Foundation, whose support and collaboration are helping bring this vision to life.
Interested in becoming a Conference Partner? We'd love to explore how your organization can help shape the conference and strengthen this growing ecosystem.
Learn about Conference Partnerships → Explore the invitation
We're grateful to our growing community of Conference Partners, including The Rippel Foundation, whose support and collaboration are helping bring this vision to life.
Interested in becoming a Conference Partner? We'd love to explore how your organization can help shape the conference and strengthen this growing ecosystem.
Learn about Conference Partnerships → Explore the invitation
Help Shape NCDD2027
Help us build a conference that reflects the needs, ideas, and aspirations of the broader community.
Take the Community Input Survey: Share your ideas for conference themes, session topics, and attendee experiences. Interested in presenting, volunteering, exhibiting, or sponsoring? Let us know through the survey.
Get Conference Updates: Be the first to hear about registration, programming, and opportunities to get involved.
Take the Community Input Survey: Share your ideas for conference themes, session topics, and attendee experiences. Interested in presenting, volunteering, exhibiting, or sponsoring? Let us know through the survey.
- Complete the survey in just a few minutes: https://forms.gle/RjJws4CF5cVeLGgK6
Get Conference Updates: Be the first to hear about registration, programming, and opportunities to get involved.
- Subscribe to the Conference Updates list by sending a blank email to [email protected]. This list is a one-way announcement service, not a discussion list.
Conference Schedule
Pre-conference events
Monday, May 17, 2027
Main conference
Tuesday, May 18 through Thursday, May 20, 2027
Additional information about the program, session opportunities, registration, and pre-conference events will be announced as planning continues.
Monday, May 17, 2027
Main conference
Tuesday, May 18 through Thursday, May 20, 2027
Additional information about the program, session opportunities, registration, and pre-conference events will be announced as planning continues.
Location
Hyatt Regency McCormick Place
2233 South Martin Luther King Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60616
Located near Chicago’s South Loop, the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place provides convenient access to the lakefront, public transportation, cultural attractions, restaurants, and downtown Chicago.
A conference hotel room block and booking information will be shared when registration opens.
2233 South Martin Luther King Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60616
Located near Chicago’s South Loop, the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place provides convenient access to the lakefront, public transportation, cultural attractions, restaurants, and downtown Chicago.
A conference hotel room block and booking information will be shared when registration opens.
Travel Information
Chicago is served by two major airports:
Chicago O’Hare International Airport
Approximately 20 miles from the conference hotel.
Chicago Midway International Airport
Approximately 10 miles from the conference hotel.
Attendees will also be able to reach the conference area through Chicago’s public transportation system, regional rail, rideshare services, taxis, and Amtrak.
More detailed travel guidance, accessibility information, and local recommendations will be added closer to the conference.
Chicago O’Hare International Airport
Approximately 20 miles from the conference hotel.
Chicago Midway International Airport
Approximately 10 miles from the conference hotel.
Attendees will also be able to reach the conference area through Chicago’s public transportation system, regional rail, rideshare services, taxis, and Amtrak.
More detailed travel guidance, accessibility information, and local recommendations will be added closer to the conference.
Stay Connected
Registration, program opportunities, sponsorship information, and additional conference details are coming soon.
Save the date and join us in Chicago as we come together to learn, connect, collaborate, and carry the work forward!
Save the date and join us in Chicago as we come together to learn, connect, collaborate, and carry the work forward!