BloomCon26 Call for Proposals *Open Until March 8, 2026*
Theme: Bridging the Gap
Bright Insight is seeking proposals for catalyst sessions (keynote speakers), presentations, panels, workshops, roundtables, games, and creative sessions focused on connecting across lived experience, research, practice, and community. Interested individuals may fill out as many proposals as they would like for different sessions. (Please start a new form for each proposal.)
Location:📍 J. Erik Jonsson Central Library in Dallas, TX & Online
Date: 📅 October 8–10+, 2026 (in person)
Along with professional presentations, we welcome interdisciplinary and lived-experience-based work. Priority selection is given to presenters who are BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled, economically disadvantaged, and otherwise underrepresented within gifted and neurodivergent communities, reflecting and attending to their historical exclusion from research leadership, professional conferences, and community meaning-making.
Presenters who pre-record for the online speaker series will receive reduced conference registration pricing.
BloomCon25 was funded by Dr. Patty Gently! If you would like to help her out, please do so here! ANY AMOUNT IS HELPFUL! And be sure to select the friends and family option to avoid fees!
Any donation over $100 will be considered a sponsorship! EMAIL US with sponsorship info!
Last year's BloomCon was like a BITT (Bright Insight Table Talk) mixed with a SENG conference and an in-person Bloomers Pop-Up all in one (in place of the canceled in-person SENG Community Conference)!
We had gifted literature to give away, t-shirts, Intersection of Intensity books, and Dynamism Decks for sale, and games to play! And of course, we enjoyed our “well, actually” together as we connected beautifully as a community of gifted adults!
Reservations were made at The Westin Alexandria Old Town (or nearby lodging in Alexandria, VA) around the dates of July 24-27! Watch for years BloomCon in Dallas, Texas!
For more information, email Dr. Patty Gently at brightinsightadvocate@gmail.com
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