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Annual Conference History
AEA's Annual Conference brings together evaluators from around the country and around the world for professional sharing. Each year, the presiding AEA President, or - in the case of cosponsored conferences, a program team - identifies a theme for the conference plenaries and highlight strand woven throughout the event.
Future Conferences: Conference locations are selected by the AEA Board of Directors.
- Evaluation 2018: October 28 - November 3, Cleveland, OH
- Evaluation 2019: November 11 - 16, Minneapolis, MN
- Evaluation 2020: October 26 - 31, Portland, OR
- Evaluation 2021: November 8-13, Washington, DC
Conference History: AEA has held its annual conference in geographically dispersed locations in the US and with our partners at the Canadian Evaluation Society.
- Evaluation 2018, October 29 - November 3, Cleveland, OH
2018 President: Leslie Goodyear
Presidential Theme: Speaking Truth to Power
Website: Program | Full Site
- Evaluation 2017, November 6-11, Washington, DC
2017 President: Kathryn Newcomer
Presidential Theme: From Learning to Action
Website: Program | Full Site
- Evaluation 2016, October 24-29, Atlanta, GA
2016 President: John Gargani
Presidential Theme: Evaluation + Design
Website: Program | Full Site
- Evaluation 2015, November 9-14, Chicago, IL
2015 President: Stewart Donaldson
Presidential Theme: Exemplary Evaluations in a Multicultural World: Learning from Evaluation's Successes Around the Globe
Website: Program | Full Site
- Evaluation 2014, October 13-19, Denver, CO
2014 President: Beverly Parsons
Presidential Theme: Visionary Evaluation for a Sustainable, Equitable Future
Website: Program | Full Site
- Evaluation 2013, October 14-19, Washington, DC
2013 President: Jody Fitzpatrick
Presidential Theme: The State of Evaluation in the 21st Century
Website: Program | Full Site
- Evaluation 2012, October 22-27, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2012 President: Rodney Hopson
Presidential Theme: Evaluation in Complex Ecologies
Website: Program | Full Site
- Evaluation 2011, October 31-November 5, Anaheim, California
2011 President: Jennifer Greene
Presidential Theme: Values and Valuing
Website: Program | Full Site
- Evaluation 2010, November 8-13, San Antonio, Texas
2010 President: Leslie Cooksy
Presidential Theme: Evaluation Quality
Website: Program | Full Site
- Evaluation 2009, November 9-14, Orlando, Florida
2009 President: Debra Rog
Presidential Theme: Context and Evaluation
Links: Program | Full Site
- Evaluation 2008, November 5-8, Denver, Colorado
2008 President: William Trochim
Presidential Theme: Evaluation Policy and Evaluation Practice
Links: Program | Full Site
- Evaluation 2007, November 7-10, Baltimore, Maryland
2007 President: Hallie Preskill
Presidential Theme: Evaluation and Learning
Links: Program | Full Site
- Evaluation 2006, November 1-4, Portland, Oregon
2006 President: Melvin Mark
Presidential Theme: The Consequences of Evaluation
Links: Program | Full site
- Evaluation 2005, October 26-29, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Co-sponsored with the Canadian Evaluation Society
2005 President: Sharon Rallis, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Conference Theme: Crossing Borders, Crossing Boundaries
Links: Program | Full site
- Evaluation 2004, November 3-6, Atlanta, Georgia
2004 President: Nick Smith, Syracuse University
Presidential Theme: Fundamental Issues
Links: Program | Full site | Overall Conference Evaluation
- Evaluation 2003, November 5-8, Reno, Nevada
2003 President: Richard Krueger, University of Minnesota
Presidential Theme: Methodology
Links: Program | Full site | Conference Evaluation PDF
- Evaluation 2002, November 6-9, Arlington, Virginia
2002 President: Molly Engle, Oregon State University
Presidential Theme: Evaluation - A Systematic Process That Reforms Systems
Links: Program | Conference Evaluation PDF
- Evaluation 2001, November 7-10, St Louis, Missouri
2001 President: James Sanders, Westrn Michigan University
Presidential Theme: Mainstreaming Evaluation
Links: Program PDF | Conference Evaluation PDF
- Evaluation 2000, November 1-4, Honolulu, Hawaii
2000 President: Laura Leviton, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Presidential Theme: Evaluation Capacity Building
Links: Program
- Evaluation '99, November 3-6, Orlando, Florida
1999 President: Michael Scriven, Claremont Graduate University
Presidential Theme: The Territory Ahead
Links: Program PDF
- Evaluation '98, November 4-7, Chicago, Illinois
1998 President: Donna Mertens, Gallaudet University
Presidential Theme: Transforming Society Through Evaluation
- Evaluation '97, November 5-8, San Diego, California
1997 President: William Shadish, University of Memphis
Presidential Theme: Theory and Practice: Partners in Evaluation
- Evaluation '96, November 6-9, Atlanta, Georgia
1996 President: Leonard Bickman, Vanderbilt University
Presidential Theme: AEA: A Decade of Progress, Looking Back and Looking Forward
- Evaluation '95: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Co-sponsored with the Canadian Evaluation Society
1995 President: Eleanor Chelimsky, Independent Consultant Conference
Theme: Evaluation for a New Century: A Global Perspective
- Evaluation '94: Boston, Massachusetts
1994 President: Karen Kirkhart, Syracuse University
Conference Theme: Evaluation and Social Justice
- Evaluation '93: Dallas, Texas
1993 President: David Fetterman, Stanford University
Conference Theme: Empowerment Evaluation
- Evaluation '92: Seattle, Washington
1992 President: David Cordray
Conference Theme: Synthesizing Evaluation: Perspectives, Practices, and Evidence
- Evaluation '91: Chicago, Illinois
1991 President: Lee Sechrest
Conference Theme: New Evaluation Horizons
- Evaluation '90: Washington, District of Columbia
1990 President: Yvonna Lincoln
Conference Theme: Evaluation and the Formulation of Public Policy
- Evaluation '89: San Francisco, California
1989 President: Ross F Conner
Conference Theme: New Perspectives from International and Cross-Cultural Evaluation
- Evaluation '88: New Orleans, Louisiana
1988 President: Michael Patton
Conference Theme: Evaluation and Politics
- Evaluation '87: Boston, Massachusetts
1987 President: Robert Covert
Conference Theme: Utilization of Evaluation
- Evaluation '86: Kansas City, Missouri
1986 President: Richard Light
Conference Theme: What Have We Learned
Summer Evaluation Institute History
- Summer Evaluation Institute 2018, Atlanta, GA
Website - Summer Evaluation Institute 2017, Atlanta, GA
Website - Summer Evaluation Institute 2016, Atlanta, GA
Website - Summer Evaluation Institute 2015, Atlanta, GA
Website - Summer Evaluation Institute 2014, Atlanta, GA
Website - Summer Evaluation Institute 2013, Atlanta, GA
