THE CONFERENCE REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) FOR THE 2025 CQI CONFERENCE IS OPEN
Deadline for Submission: May 2, 2025
Conference Dates: October 28 & 29, 2025
Location: IHotel and Conference Center, Champaign, IL
Submit Proposal: https://forms.gle/Z4ui9ykHAtYQYykR8
MISSION OF THE ILLINOIS CQI COMMUNITY GROUP
We are a community of human services professionals working to promote and enhance the value of CQI (Continuous Quality Improvement) by providing opportunities for professional development, peer support, and collaboration.
ABOUT THE 2025 CQI CONFERENCE: "DRIVING CONTINUOUS QUALITY IMPROVEMENT INTO THE FUTURE"
The 2025 Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Conference marks a decade of progress, innovation, and impact. As we celebrate 10 years of excellence, this year's conference is dedicated to celebrating and learning from the past, embracing the present, and shaping the future of quality improvement.
PURPOSE OF THE CONFERENCE AND TARGET AUDIENCE
The CQI Community Group's annual conference is a capacity building and networking event. This milestone event will bring together leaders, practitioners, and visionaries from diverse sectors, including healthcare, social services, education, and business. Through dynamic featured speakers, interactive workshops, and thought-provoking discussions, attendees will gain valuable insights into how continuous improvement principles are shaping the future of work, service delivery, and community impact. Our audience is primarily CQI staff, but also includes leadership and direct-service staff from community-based, academic, state, and government settings. It is an opportunity for people from a variety of professional backgrounds to come together to explore strategies for developing, managing, and participating in the CQI process that will lead to better outcomes for children, adults, families, and communities. The conference will be geared toward attendees with basic to advanced CQI knowledge and skills.
CQI IS FOR EVERYONE
When we say CQI is for everyone, we mean everyone. The CQI Community group promotes diversity among workshop presenters and is committed to building a vibrant and empowered community. We encourage submissions from a variety of professional affiliations (government, academic, corporate, non-profit, or community-based providers), organization sizes (small, medium, or large), experience levels (whether you are a subject matter expert with a research team or a quality improvement peer with a great idea), and geography (both inside and outside Illinois). Collaborative sessions representing multiple organizations are also encouraged. We want to hear from you!
Join us as we reflect on a decade of achievements, share success stories, and set the course for the next era of transformation and innovation to ignite the future of quality improvement.
DEFINING THE DESTINATION: KEY FOCUS AREAS
We are seeking proposals for workshops that feature innovative quality improvement strategies, methods, and tools that are practical, proven, or promising. We are looking for presentations that speak to the impact and/or practical application of the chosen topic and fall into the following presentation styles:
- Informative: This style can be a lecture format or Ted Talk format on how an organization created/implemented a CQI strategy or method, and share successes and challenges in the field.
- Collaborative: This style could include a Think Tank format, Panel, Question and Answer session, roundtables, or group learning with discussion between presenters and attendees.
- Teaching: This style could include step-by-step instructions on how to use a new skill, tool, or technology with demonstrations and hands-on practice. For example, Data Visualization, Data Analysis, Assessment, or a QI Process.
Well-designed workshops will equip attendees with concrete tools and forward-thinking solutions that provide experiences aligning with the significance of our 10-year milestone and beyond. Sessions with similar content or themes may be merged into collaborative panels, sparking dynamic conversations that propel CQI into the future.
ATTEND A VIRTUAL RFP INFORMATION SESSION
Monday, March 24, 2025: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CDT
Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/unFEuF36Q2i9TCebFcJXVQ
Monday, April 14, 2025: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/zaKdfZyqThOpZ9mPCDDfeA
If you would like to download the RFP in a Word document to use as a reference copy before submitting your completed proposal electronically, please click here: 2025 RFP Reference Doc
Note: Only 3 speakers per organization will qualify for the reduced $275 speaker registration fee. To increase accessibility for our community, speakers will be asked to send presentation materials in advance so they can be shared with participants via the CQI Community Website.
Conference Dates: October 28 & 29, 2025
Location: IHotel and Conference Center, Champaign, IL
ABOUT THE 2025 CQI CONFERENCE: "Driving Continuous Quality Improvement into the Future."
The 2025 Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Conference marks a decade of progress, innovation, and impact. As we celebrate 10 years of excellence, this year’s conference is dedicated to celebrating and learning from the past, embracing the present, and shaping the future of quality improvement.
Throughout the conference, we will explore cutting-edge strategies, emerging technologies, and best practices that help organizations continuously evolve and improve. The focus of this year’s conference is to teach valuable lessons and equip attendees with practical tools and forward thinking approaches to:
- Set clear and visionary goals for their organizations
- Adapt to change with flexibility and resilience
- Embrace innovation and take calculated risks to drive progress
- Understand the ripple effects of decisions in quality improvement
- Collaborate effectively to build strong, future-ready teams
- Apply future-back thinking—envisioning the ideal future and mapping a path to achieve it
- Authentically engage lived experience and community members in all aspects of the CQI process
- Use new technology and techniques to turn data into the evidence needed to understand performance and make informed decisions
PURPOSE OF THE CONFERENCE AND TARGET AUDIENCE
The CQI Community Group’s annual conference is a capacity building and networking event. This milestone event will bring together leaders, practitioners, and visionaries from diverse sectors, including healthcare, social services, education, and business. Through dynamic featured speakers, interactive workshops, and thought-provoking discussions, attendees will gain valuable insights into how continuous improvement principles are shaping the future of work, service delivery, and community impact.
Our audience is primarily CQI staff, but also includes leadership and direct-service staff from community-based, academic, state, and government settings. It is an opportunity for people from a variety of professional backgrounds to come together to explore strategies for developing, managing, and participating in the CQI process that will lead to better outcomes for children, adults, families, and communities. The conference will be geared toward attendees with basic to advanced CQI knowledge and skills.
CQI IS FOR EVERYONE
When we say CQI is for everyone, we mean everyone. The CQI Community group promotes diversity among workshop presenters and is committed to building a vibrant and empowered community. We encourage submissions from a variety of professional affiliations (government, academic, corporate, non-profit, or community-based providers), organization sizes (small, medium, or large), experience levels (whether you are a subject matter expert with a research team or a quality improvement peer with a great idea), and geography (both inside and outside Illinois). Collaborative sessions representing multiple organizations are also encouraged. We want to hear from you!
Join us as we reflect on a decade of achievements, share success stories, and set the course for the next era of transformation and innovation to ignite the future of quality improvement.
2025 Conference Hotel Information
Please note that although the IHotel is the most popular hotel due to the location, IHotel only has a limited number of rooms — less than the number of attendees for the conference — and there is another event happening at the Conference Center at the same time as the CQI Conference. If you call, IHotel does have a waiting list available. Other hotels are listed below and are often times less than a mile from the conference location. The IHotel has a large parking lot attached to the conference center and parking is free.
If your team is coming to the conference and the group is larger than 5 people, it will be easier and highly encouraged to arrange your own block of rooms with any of the hotels for direct billing. Heidi Meyer (hrmeyer@illinois.edu) can help facilitate those arrangements and secure the rooms for the entire team separately.
IHOTEL
1900 S FIRST STREET
CHAMPAIGN
Rate: $179.00 King / $199 2 Queens
https://tinyurl.com/yfkcmwm6
Block Code: CQICONF25
Guest Password: !Uvf6
Block dates: Monday, October 27th, Tuesday, October 28th and Wednesday, October 29th
Any guests making reservations by phone at 217-819-5000 must mention the block code CQICONF25 to any of our Guest Service Agents.
Cutoff date for reservations: September 27, 2025
HOLIDAY INN (0.8 miles)
101 TRADE CENTRE DRIVE
CHAMPAIGN
Rate: $110 / night
Block date: Monday, October 27th and Tuesday, October 28th
Cutoff date for reservations: September 27, 2025
Check-in time is 3:00 pm and check-out is 11:00 am
https://tinyurl.com/ydy6m44r
HYATT PLACE CHAMPAIGN (2.2 miles from Illinois Conference Center; located downtown Champaign)
217 N NEIL STREET
CHAMPAIGN
Rate: $135.00 King / $145.00 2 Queens
Booking link for guests to use. The group code for them to use is G-CQI1:
https://tinyurl.com/4cnf5k96
Or call the hotel directly at 217.531.2800 option 0 and ask for the CQI Conference 2025 Room Block.
Block dates: Monday, October 27th, Tuesday, October 28th and Wednesday, October 29th.
Cutoff date for reservations: September 26, 2025.
Cancellations must be 48-hours prior to arrival
Hilton Hotels
HILTON GARDEN INN (0.9 miles)
1501 S NEIL STREET
CHAMPAIGN
217.352.9970
Rate: $179.00 / night
HOMEWOOD SUITES (0.9 miles)
1417 S NEIL STREET
CHAMPAIGN
217.352.9960
Rate: $179.00 / night
Link for both Hilton Garden Inn and Homewood Suites:
https://tinyurl.com/mry8hv2v
Group Code is: Q25
Block Dates: Monday, October 27th, Tuesday, October 28th and Wednesday, October 29th
Cut of date for reservations: September 28, 2025