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.
AOTA Specialty Conferences
Advance OT education together
The 2026 Education Summit sessions address AI's growing role in curricula and clinical training, new fieldwork models, simulation-based approaches, doctoral capstone design, student wellbeing, professional identity formation, interprofessional collaboration, DEI in the current policy landscape, and community-engaged practice.
Turn the latest pediatric evidence into everyday practice
From infancy to young adulthood, AOTA’s Children & Youth Specialty Conference is designed to strengthen your pediatric occupational therapy practice. Learn new assessment, treatment, and collaboration ideas related to topics like sensory regulation, feeding difficulties, functional cognition, oculomotor development, neurodivergence, play, childhood trauma, socialization, sleep, screentime, and more. Earn up to 10.75 contact hours while connecting with OTs and OTAs who are passionate about pediatric care!
Don't Miss the 2027 Entrepreneurship Virtual Specialty Conference
Join occupational therapy entrepreneurs online January 25–26, 2027, for the Entrepreneurship Virtual Specialty Conference. Learn how to launch, grow, and sustain your practice—from billing and payer contracts to avoiding burnout—and earn up to 8 contact hours.
Move occupational therapy forward at AOTA INSPIRE 2027 in Boston
The full program for INSPIRE is now live. Whether you’re a student, a newer practitioner, or you’ve been in the field for a while, AOTA INSPIRE 2027 has hundreds of sessions that meet you where you are and advance your knowledge to improve client outcomes. Register before November 30 and get a free conference t-shirt!
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. 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.
Celebrate occupational therapy all year long!
Enriching lives through meaningful engagement is at the core of the occupational therapy profession and AOTA’s Vision 2030. This April and all year long, we celebrate OT practitioners and the power of occupational therapy.
New & notable events
Using Smartphones and Smart Home Technology to Expand Occupational Participation
November 10 from 8:00 pm-9:00 pm ET. Please join the RDSIS for an engaging practice chat. Register today!
Call for Papers/Reviewers
Deadline November 10 | Submit a proposal or sign up to be a reviewer for AOTA INSPIRE 2027 and/or the 2027 Technology & Innovation in OT Specialty Conference.
A Light in the Tower: A New Reckoning with Mental Health in Higher Education
November 11 from 7:00 pm-8:00 pm ET. Join the AESIS and MHSIS for an engaging book club (Part 2 of 2). Register today!
Innovative Practice and Entrepreneurship CoP Open House
November 12 from 7:00 pm-8:00 pm ET. Learn about the Innovative Practice and Entrepreneurship Community of Practice!
Upcoming Events
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