Essential events for your professional growth
Explore the many ways you can feed your creativity, fuel your purpose, and broaden your knowledge. AOTA offers a wide variety of educational programs, events, conferences, and more that are specially created to help you connect with your profession and realize your full potential.
Register today for AOTA INSPIRE 2026!
Join us in Anaheim, CA, April 23-25 for AOTA INSPIRE 2026 | Annual Conference & Expo, where big ideas meet blue skies! You'll earn up to 19 contact hours across hundreds of sessions, connect with thousands of other OT practitioners, and leave feeling refreshed, recharged, and inspired. Registration for INSPIRE and your conference hotels are open now!
AOTA Live Webinar Series
Elevate your practice with the AOTA Live Webinar Series that presents practice-related information and emerging trends—all in a real-time, interactive environment. Not able to attend the live webinars? Register and access these webinars on demand at your convenience after the live presentation.
If you are interested in presenting a Live Webinar, please reach out to conference@aota.org with your topic.
December 16 | 2:00 pm-3:00 pm ET
This course examines wheelchair seating principles focusing on client risk factors, evidence-based practices, and client-centered approaches. Participants will learn to make informed clinical recommendations to improve function and skin/tissue health.
Celebrate occupational therapy all year long!
Though OT Month will continue to be commemorated each April, we believe that the profession deserves year-round celebration in honor of its profound and often life-changing impact on the lives of patients, caregivers, and communities it serves.
New & notable events
Representative Assembly requests for action and reports due
December 31 deadline | Become an active participant in AOTA by submitting a request for action to the Representative Assembly (RA) on professional topics or issues.
Update AOTA profile for 2026 elections
January 5 deadline | Update your AOTA profile or sign up to be an AOTA member to participate in the 2026 AOTA Elections
Upcoming Events
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