Annual Conference

CAUBO 2026 Call for Content Proposals is now open!

Share your expertise and experience with your peers and colleagues!
Proposals accepted now through Thursday, October 23, 2025

CAUBO builds the capacity of leaders in the higher education sector by connecting them with peers and information enabling insights into effective practices, and new and different perspectives.

We invite you to share your expertise and experience by submitting a content proposal for the CAUBO 2026 Annual Conference and Functional Seminars, which will take place in St. John’s, Newfoundland from June 15-17, 2026.

CAUBO is looking for energetic and engaging speakers to deliver diverse, interactive, and thought-provoking conference presentations tailored to HE administrators. We are looking for a combination of presentations that provide an overview of a topic and those that also provide a “deeper dive”.

We are particularly interested in proposals that showcase a program, activity, or initiative that:

  • provides diverse perspectives in response to societal trends, practices, or challenges facing HE (e.g., social justice, climate change, EDI, recruitment, and retention),
  • promotes campus wellness (e.g., mental health, employee satisfaction, institutional culture),
  • highlights programs/practices and policies with an institutional impact (e.g., flexible work arrangements, space management, digitalization),
  • provides insights into mitigating risks facing HE administration (e.g., sustainability, internationalization, campus safety),
  • proposes means to address issues of financial sustainability such as revenue diversification, cost management, organizational efficiencies, etc.
  • fosters improved quality of service delivery, and or enhances productivity and efficiencies within a team or an institution,
  • highlights how data governance has been used in a team or an institution.

Find out more about the content guidelines and how you can submit a conference presentation proposal by clicking here.

CAUBO’s 2026 Call for Proposal submission period remains open until October 23, 2025.

We look forward to receiving your submissions and connecting with you in St. John’s, Newfoundland in June 2026!

About the CAUBO Annual Conference

The conference is CAUBO’s flagship professional development event, and it brings together university administrators from across Canada working in a variety of functional areas such as finance, human resources, treasury, procurement, facilities, internal audit, and IT. Conference sessions focus on trends and hot topics in higher education administration, with the aim of sending delegates home with best practices and information they can put to use right away at their jobs. Evening social and networking events provide a great opportunity to relax and reconnect with friends and colleagues and enjoy great food and entertainment in interesting and vibrant venues.

The conference location rotates among CAUBO’s four regions: Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, and West. CAUBO’s member universities take turns hosting the conference, and the host selects the annual theme. More than 700 people attend the CAUBO conference annually.

Dates and locations of upcoming CAUBO Conferences:

  • June 15-17, 2026 – St. John’s, NL
  • June 14-16, 2027 – Niagara Falls, ON

The following resources linked are restricted to administrative staff at a member institution

Administrative members can search for recorded content from previous conferences via the Knowledge Centre.

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