Crisis Comms Speaker Radar: 5 new routes for January–October 2027 (2026)

The first deadlines in this issue fall on 11 August 2026 and 14 August 2026. The event cutoff is hard: only events starting on or after 3 November 2026 qualify. The main list stays short because several relevant events either have no public speaker call, expose a program-building route rather than a normal speaker slot, or do not publish a clear crisis-communication angle. Entries are sorted by event date.

Act first on the AMS submission, then the SMPS SERC call. The clearest specialist crisis-communication CFPs are ICRCC 2027 and CRISIS9; The Conference Board has a confirmed speaking-inquiry route but no public deadline. Dates and deadlines below are taken from the linked organizer material. Where a page does not state a language policy or time zone, that gap is left visible.

Main shortlist

Tier 1 — AMS 107th Annual Meeting: 2nd Annual Disaster & Emergency Management Symposium

Dates: 10–14 January 2027
- Location: Denver, Colorado, USA
- Organizer: American Meteorological Society, organized through its Committee on Emergency Management. 1
- Event language: English in the official submission materials; a formal language policy is not stated.
- Relevant theme: The call includes emergency warnings, risk-based digital communication, public information during disaster response and recovery, AI in disasters, and siren or monitoring systems. 2
- Status and route: CFP open. Deadline: 11 August 2026 at 22:00 in this channel's time zone (5:00 p.m. ET on the source page). Submit an abstract through AMS's official portal. 3
- Fit: The strongest immediate match for a practitioner who can turn warning systems, risk information, or AI-enabled emergency communication into a concrete session rather than a product pitch.

Tier 1 — International Crisis and Risk Communication Conference (ICRCC) 2027

Dates: 1–3 March 2027
- Location: Université de Sherbrooke's Montreal campus, Montreal, Canada
- Organizer: International Crisis and Risk Communication Association (ICRCA). 4
- Event language: English in the official call and conference pages; no separate language policy is stated.
- Relevant theme: Submission categories cover corporate crisis communication, risk communication and community engagement, emergency warnings and disaster response, infodemics, social media, and technology and artificial intelligence. 4
- Status and route: CFP open. Deadline: 15 November 2026 at 18:00 in this channel's time zone (noon EST on the organizer's announcement). The official announcement directs applicants to the ICRCA website; a separate form URL is not published. 5
- Fit: The cleanest specialist route here for research, case studies, or practitioner sessions on risk, crisis, disaster, misinformation, or AI-mediated communication.

Tier 2 — The Conference Board 2027 Corporate Communications & Brand Summit

Dates: 2–3 March 2027
- Location: New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Organizer: The Conference Board. 6
- Event language: English in the official event material; a formal language policy is not stated.
- Relevant theme: The programme names reputation in the age of permacrisis and AI and narrative governance, alongside the changing CCO and CBO mandate. 6
- Status and route: Confirmed event; no public CFP deadline found. Speaker inquiry: speaking@tcb.org. The inquiry address is published on the official event page. 6
- Fit: A credible Tier 2 pitch for senior communicators who can connect crisis readiness, reputation, and responsible AI governance to enterprise decision-making.

Tier 2 — SMPS Southeastern Regional Conference (SERC) 2027, "Make Waves"

Dates: 22–24 March 2027
- Location: Sawgrass Marriott Golf Resort & Spa, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA
- Organizer: SMPS Southeast Regional Conference. 7
- Event language: English in the official call materials; a formal language policy is not stated.
- Relevant theme: The open call asks for communications, branding, digital marketing, AI and emerging technologies, data-driven decision-making, and actionable sessions for AEC marketing and communications professionals. The official call does not name a crisis-communication track. 8
- Status and route: CFP open. Deadline: 14 August 2026 at 23:59 as written in the call; the source does not state a time zone. Submit through the official speaker application form. 7
- Fit: This is a deliberate Tier 2 stretch: pitch only if the proposal makes a clear crisis-comms-and-AI case for professional-services communicators. Do not submit a generic crisis talk.

Tier 1 — CRISIS9, ECREA Risk and Crisis Communication Section conference

Dates: 4–6 October 2027
- Location: Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands; the page does not name a more specific venue.
- Organizer: Department of Media and Communication, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (ESHCC), Erasmus University Rotterdam. 9
- Event language: English, explicitly stated by the organizer. 9
- Relevant theme: Governance under polycrisis, algorithmic mediation, public trust, societal readiness, resilience, responsibility, and democratic legitimacy. 9
- Status and route: Abstracts and panel proposals due 2 April 2027. Submit to crisis9@eshcc.eur.nl with the subject line "Crisis 9 submission." The page accepts both individual abstracts and panels. 9
- Fit: A high-fit, lower-urgency route for speakers with a governance, trust, risk, or crisis-communication argument that can stand up to an academic-practitioner audience.

Flagged review — useful leads, but do not treat them as clean matches

Tier 2 — 38e Forum de la communication publique et territoriale, 1–3 December 2026, Biarritz, France: Organizer: Cap'Com. Event language: French in the official programme. The programme includes "Tirer les enseignements de crises cyber en communication publique" and sessions on AI in public communication. The programme is already published and no CFP or speaker-inquiry route is shown. Speaker route: not found. Manual check: ask Cap'Com whether a late programme suggestion is possible; the official page exposes registration/information rather than a speaker form. 10 11
Tier 1 — NAEMSP 43rd Annual Meeting, 11–16 January 2027, Austin, Texas: Organizer: National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP). Event language: English in the official event material; a formal language policy is not stated. The official page says the abstract call is open through 1 September 2026 and provides an abstract portal. The retrieved event material does not expose a dedicated crisis-communication or emergency-public-information track. Manual check: apply only if the proposed session genuinely fits EMS, disaster medicine, or public-safety education. Deadline conversion: 2 September at 04:55 in this channel's time zone (11:55 p.m. ET on 1 September). 12 13 Abstract submission portal.
Tier 1 — EMS Update 2027, 17–20 March 2027, Seven Springs Mountain Resort, Pennsylvania: Organizer: EMS West, the publisher named on the official speaker-call page; the full host name is not separately stated. Event language: English in the official call; a formal language policy is not stated. The speaker call is open through 11 September 2026 at 23:59 EDT, which is 12 September at 04:59 in this channel's time zone. Topics include resilience, case studies, technology, AI, and innovation in EMS, but the official call does not name a communications track. Manual check: use this only for an emergency-services communication or resilience session that fits the EMS audience. Official speaker call and Sessionize submission route. 14
Tier 1 — EENA Conference & Exhibition 2027, 7–9 April 2027, Malmö, Sweden: Organizer: European Emergency Number Association (EENA). Event language: English in the official event material; a formal language policy is not stated. The event is confirmed and focused on emergency services and communications. The official 2027 page does not yet show a speaker CFP; the separate CFP page currently points to the closed 2026 cycle. CFP/speaker route: not found for 2027. Manual check: monitor the official event page and CFP page before pitching. 15
Tier 1 — Great Lakes Homeland Security Training Conference & Expo, 4–6 May 2027, DeVos Place, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Organizer: Michigan State Police's Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division, the FBI, and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Event language: English in the official page; a formal language policy is not stated. The event is a homeland-security and emergency-management conference. Speaker/CFP route: not found on the retrieved page. Manual check: revisit when the 2027 programme or call for speakers is posted. 16
Tier 1 — ISCRAM 2027, 30 May–2 June 2027, Perth, Australia: Organizer: ISCRAM 2027 organizing committee; the official route uses a Murdoch University address. Event language: English in the official call; a formal language policy is not stated. The call invites track proposals, not a standard speaker application, under "Supporting First Nations and remote communities." It names AI and generative AI for crisis response, crisis informatics and social media, communication resilience, and multi-agency coordination. Deadline: not found; the route is ISCRAM2027@murdoch.edu.au. Treat this as a programme-building or track-chair opportunity, not a confirmed speaking slot. 17