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Smarter PR Starts Here: Connect Your Pitching, Distribution & Measurement with Notified
Oct. 14, 2025 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Learn how with Notified you can leverage one platform for all your pitching, distribution, analytics, and measurement needs.Categories: Emerging Trends -
WebinarRed Carpet & Crisis Communications: Playbooks from the Front Lines
Oct. 15, 2025 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Join the PRSA Entertainment & Sports Section for a high-impact session that pulls back the velvet rope on how top PR pros plan, run, and protect marquee events—from celebrity arrivals and mixed zones to last-minute pivots and reputation risk.Categories: Crisis & Reputation, Special Interests -
WebinarPRSA IPA Business-Building Webinar Series: Oct. 2025
Oct. 22, 2025 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
This IPA webinar series features a variety of topics and speakers focused on “the business of the business” to help you work ON the business not just IN it.Categories: Special Interests -
ConferencePRSA 2025 Health Academy Conference
Oct. 27 – 28, 2025
Washington, D.C.
This year, the Health Academy Conference is conveniently being co-located with ICON 2025. -
ConferencePRSA 2025 Association/Nonprofit Section Conference
Oct. 27 – 28, 2025
Washington, DC
Be part of the PRSA 2025 Association/Nonprofit Conference. -
ConferencePRSA ICON 2025
Oct. 28 – 30, 2025
Washington, DC
Join us in Washington DC, for the always insightful ICON 2025. Our headquarters hotel for PRSA will be the Washington Hilton. -
Course/WorkshopAPR Virtual Boot Camp
Nov. 5 – 7, 2025
This course is designed to provide a setting for busy professionals to focus on final preparations. We strongly recommend that candidates complete previous preparations through their local chapter, on their own or by taking the APR Online Course. (This is not a seminar for those beginning their APR journey.)Categories: Accreditation Preparation & Renewal -
ConferencePRSA 2025 FutureCon
Nov. 5 – 7, 2025
Designed for executive, C-suite and management level communicators, this future-forward event will bring together industry leaders and innovators to share the latest trends, data and insights shaping communications and public relations.Categories: Crisis & Reputation, Diversity & Inclusion, Emerging Trends, Leadership & Management, Measurement & ROI -
Certificate ProgramCourse/WorkshopStrategic Communications for Associations and Nonprofits Certificate Program
Nov. 5 – Dec. 17, 2025
For associations and nonprofits, effective communication is not a luxury — it’s a necessity for advancing mission, maintaining trust and demonstrating value to members, donors, policymakers and the public. Yet in many organizations, communications efforts are under-resourced, reactive or misaligned with strategic priorities.Categories: Communication Strategy -
WebinarConnecting With Communities Through PR: A Roundtable Discussion
Nov. 11, 2025 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Join us for a dynamic roundtable discussion on how public relations professionals and educators can strengthen connections with communities through storytelling, outreach and advocacy.Categories: Emerging Trends, Special Interests -
WebinarPRSA IPA Business-Building Webinar Series: Nov. 2025
Nov. 12, 2025 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
This IPA webinar series features a variety of topics and speakers focused on “the business of the business” to help you work ON the business not just IN it.Categories: Special Interests -
WebinarFuture Shifts (Tech Edition): Megatrends and Seismic Changes that Tech PR Pros Should Have on Their Radar
Nov. 13, 2025 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Beef cattle cloning. Microchip brain implants. Game-changing digital payment systems. Quantum computing. Fusion energy. Renewable energy. Drone warfare. Cyberattacks. And of course, AI everything, including the mainstreaming of AI-based robots (androids). These are just some of the technology-related subjects that professional futurists are concerned about as they think about the future of our world. In this thought-provoking webinar, professional communicator and futurist Stephen Dupont MSc, ACategories: Emerging Trends, Special Interests -
WebinarDiscover Your Life & Leadership Purpose
Nov. 18, 2025 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Join this webinar to learn why discovering and actively living your purpose can UNLEASH greater success, fulfillment, and joy in your personal life, workplace, and communities.Categories: Diversity & Inclusion -
WebinarPRSA IPA Business-Building Webinar Series: Dec. 2025
Dec. 3, 2025 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
This IPA webinar series features a variety of topics and speakers focused on “the business of the business” to help you work ON the business not just IN it.Categories: Special Interests -
Webinar5 Things You Didn’t Know About ChatGPT That Can Supercharge Your RPIE Model
Dec. 4, 2025 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Join this webinar to learn five powerful ways to pair ChatGPT with the RPIE framework.Categories: Emerging Trends, Techniques & Tactics -
Course/WorkshopMaster Class in Strategic Communication
Dec. 11 – 12, 2025
New York, NY
In this two-day, in-person Master Class, we’ll explore how communication professionals can apply strategic thinking to their work — how to think clearly, influence effectively and use language with impact.Categories: Communication Strategy -
Webinar10 Things Your Boss Wishes You Knew About Technology and Innovation In PR
Dec. 30, 2099 5:01 a.m. – 6:01 a.m.
This webinar will explore some of the most recent trends in PR technology and innovation.Categories: Communication Strategy, Emerging Trends, Techniques & Tactics -
Certificate ProgramCourse/WorkshopA New View of Integrated Marketing Communications Certificate Program
Dec. 30, 2099 5:01 a.m. – 6:01 a.m.
In this fresh take on advanced IMC techniques, learn how to incorporate newer trends like storytelling, influencer marketing and AI into your integration strategies and tactics to help create a seamless, transparent journey for every audience.Categories: Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) -
WebinarAct Like a Communicator, Think Like a CEO
Dec. 30, 2099 5:01 a.m. – 6:01 a.m.
Your communications team is a master of their domain. However, you need them to go beyond being great communicators — you need dynamic employees trained to look around corners, consider holistic enterprise goals and keep an eye on the bigger picture. In short, you need them to think like a CEO.Categories: Communication Strategy, Leadership & Management, Techniques & Tactics -
WebinarAdvanced AI Strategies and Use Cases for Communications Pros
Dec. 30, 2099 5:01 a.m. – 6:01 a.m.
Join this webinar for an action-packed session that goes far beyond basic AI theory. Matusky will offer sophisticated, real-world insight into how AI can truly transform PR workflows, results and impact.Categories: Emerging Trends, Techniques & Tactics
