I would like to announce the release of the 2027 Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Conference Call for Proposals. The conference will take place Wednesday, April 14 through Saturday, April 17 (with an opening plenary and top posters session during the evening of Wednesday, April 14).  The submission deadline for session proposals is 5 p.m. ET, Wednesday, October 7, 2026.

The SIOP Annual Conference is the premier and largest scientific meeting of professionals in industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology in the world. This conference has long served as one of the primary avenues for meaningful interaction between practitioners and academics. It provides a unique forum where research informs practice, practical challenges inspire new lines of inquiry, and ideas are refined through thoughtful discussion. By bringing together professionals from diverse backgrounds, organizations, and institutions, the SIOP Annual Conference helps bridge the gap between theory and application in ways that benefit both communities.

I began attending the SIOP Annual Conference in 2007, and I am honored to serve as your Program Chair for the 2027 Annual Conference. Over the years, the conference has changed in various ways (e.g., new session types, conference app, etc.), but beyond the formal program, this conference remains a place where collaborations begin, professional relationships are strengthened, and new perspectives emerge. It is one of the few conferences that provides various opportunities for engagement for both attendees and presenters in every topic area covered by I-O psychology. As an attendee, it is a great event to learn about new research and emerging practices in the field and meet other professionals in I-O psychology. As a potential presenter and a peer reviewer, the SIOP submission process allows you to develop yourself as a researcher, writer, reader, and future presenter.

The Call for Proposals and the program-building process will be very similar to last year and will retain the recent updates made in previous years.

  1. We will continue to use the CTI conference platform launched for the 2025 conference to receive proposal submissions, sign up peer reviewers, and conduct the peer review process.
  2. As was done last year, all sessions will be held in person at the Gaylord Convention Center in National Harbor, MD; there will not be any virtual or hybrid presentations.
  3. In addition, everyone who submits a SIOP proposal will be automatically signed up to be a peer reviewer as part of the submission process.
  4. The updated content areas for SIOP submissions will remain the same as last year. This broader list will help us create a balanced program and make it easier for attendees to find content areas in the conference app.
  5. Similar to last year, we will continue to keep sessions in the same content areas near one another (to minimize the need for attendees to run from session to session).
  6. We will also continue to improve the scheduling of sessions to minimize the number of time conflicts for sessions in the same content area.
  7. We plan to maintain the increased physical space for poster sessions, so that attendees can more easily move around and visit different posters.
  8. We will continue to have a breadth of topics in the 2027 SIOP Program. Our goal is to create a balanced program that represents the different content areas and session types so that attendees with different content interests (e.g., motivation, artificial intelligence, selection) and professional settings (e.g., industry or academia) will have sessions of interest to them.

Putting together a high-quality program is not an easy task, and I need your help with the process. We invite all of SIOP’s members to submit a proposal for the conference, become reviewers, and participate in the amazing conference planned for National Harbor in 2027.

Please consider submitting your recent research as a poster or part of a symposium, or by preparing a debate, panel discussion, master tutorial, or alternative session. We will again need your help with reviewing the approximately 1,500 expected proposals to build a high-quality conference program. Every SIOP member is encouraged to serve as a peer reviewer, even if they are not planning to attend the conference. There will be a separate solicitation for peer reviewers who are not submitting a proposal in the coming weeks.

As you prepare your proposals, please refer to the information in the 2027 SIOP Call for Proposals, but I want to point out a few highlights.

First, when submitting proposals, speaker and nonspeaking contributor roles will need to be assigned. The Rule of Three states that each individual can only be a speaker on three SIOP submissions (regardless of whether the submissions are ultimately accepted or not). This count is based on the number of sessions that an individual is designated as a speaker instead of as a nonspeaking contributor. An individual could be a first author on a submission but not be a speaker. Note that scheduling conflicts are avoided only for speaking roles – an individual may have two sessions at the same time if they are a speaker in one and a nonspeaking contributor in a second session.

Second, SIOP student members may submit a proposal; however, their proposal must have at least one speaker who is a nonstudent member (this rule does not apply to posters).

Third, poster and IGNITE sessions are 50 minutes long. Other submissions can be either 50-minute or 80-minute sessions. Because there are more 50-minute slots in the program schedule, your chances of acceptance are higher if you submit a 50-minute session proposal.

Fourth, please make sure you double check the list of authors you entered into the system and the list in your APA-formatted citation.

Fifth, if you have any special requests in terms of room setup or scheduling (e.g., a speaker cannot speak on a certain day due to religious reasons), there is a special box to make these requests in the submission system.

Sixth, if you submit a poster, please make sure you remove all identifying information (e.g., Authors and Company in file properties) to ensure a masked review.

Finally, ALL accepted session speakers must have a paid registration to attend the conference.

In closing, the following 2027 SIOP Call for Proposals provides information that will help you prepare proposals for the 2027 SIOP Annual Conference. I strongly encourage all SIOP members to participate in the program process by working on proposals, reviewing proposals, and attending the conference.  I look forward to seeing you just outside of the District of Columbia in National Harbor, MD next spring.

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Vipanchi Mishra
2027 SIOP Program Chair