Center of Excellence for Event Planning

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The Center of Excellence for Event Planning advisory board is selected through a competitive recruitment process. The charge of this critical Center of Excellence is to support AECT’s Director of Operations with operational event decisions. The board serves as the "AECT organizational-level event planning house" composed of AECT organizational and event experts who will work with the Director of Operations  as the primary operational business arm for all organizational-level AECT events.

Advisory Board Members 2026

Dr. Lauren Bagdy
Convention Lead
convention@aect.org
 
Payton Walters
Payton Walters
Oxford Abstracts Lead
OnlineConference@aect.org
 
Haley Kinney
Online Conference Lead
OxfordAbstracts@aect.org
 
Dr. Rebeca Peacock
Research Symposium Lead
ResearchSymposium@aect.org
 
Okan Arslan
Design & Development Competition Lead (Interim)
DDCompetition@aect.org
 
Dr. Charles Wang
Publishing Summit Lead
PublishingSummit@aect.org