Call for Proposals

The National Association of REALTORS® uses a speaker submission process to evaluate speakers for NAR NXT, The REALTOR® Experience. All speakers who are interested in being considered for a conference session time slot must complete an application.

NAR maintains a strict self-promotion policy. Speakers must agree to provide educational content only and not promote their product or services before, during or at the end of their speaker session. Speakers who are interested in promoting their products and services can exhibit at the NAR NXT Expo; contact the exhibition staff separately at NAR@heiexpo.com. Speakers chosen to participate who have products to promote may receive a discount on a booth.

Speakers who are selected will receive a Speaker Agreement to review and sign, as well as a Speaker Checklist with planning information and deadlines.
Selected speakers agree to provide educational content only and must abide by NAR’s personal, product and services promotion specifications before, during and at the end of the session.

All speakers receive a complimentary Premier Access pass to the 2024 NAR NXT, The REALTOR® Experience and a free recording of their education session after the event. Speakers with products or services to sell may receive a discount booth at the NAR NXT Expo. No additional compensation is provided.

All speakers are responsible for their own travel arrangements and expenses to NAR NXT, The REALTOR® Experience. NAR will provide instructions for registering for the event and booking hotel arrangements through the official registration system Maritz.

The topics below are representative of the subjects presented at NAR NXT, The REALTOR® Experience:

• Managing your business in current market conditions;
• Inclusive strategies to increase your profitability;
• Being a better, inclusive people-leader;
• Tactics for growing your market share across diverse communities;
• Ways to diversify your business;
• Emboldening your brand in culturally responsible ways;
• Communications and relationship-building;
• Lead generation and sales techniques for a modern market;
• Diversity, equity and inclusion topics – including marketing methods, team management, etc;
• Motivational sessions with strategic takeaways;
• Risk management;
• Strategies for managing and growing teams.

You are welcome to submit any topic of your choice, if you feel it would appeal to a portion of the REALTOR® audience.

Approximately 12,000 REALTORS® and guests attend the event for education, networking, motivation, and fun. Attendees come from a wide variety of real estate backgrounds, but they have one thing in common – they are successful in their marketplace. In fact, the typical conference attendee reports making twice as much income from real estate than the average NAR member. Our conference attendees are savvy businesspeople, looking to stay ahead of real estate technology trends, customer service, and legislative changes.