2024 CQI Conference Registration is Open!
Conference Dates: October 9 & 10, 2024
Location: IHotel and Conference Center, Champaign, IL
Use this link to register for the 2024 CQI Conference:
https://my.socialwork.illinois.edu/eventreg/register.asp?id=2084
Registration includes two full days of educational and networking sessions, plus breakfast, lunch and snacks each day (and CEU’s if applicable).
The Early Bird rate has ended. Registration is $300.
Note: We are unable to offer refunds for cancellation after September 15, 2024.
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ABOUT THE 2024 CQI CONFERENCE: "PRACTICAL CQI: SKILLS AND TOOLS FOR REAL WORLD APPLICATION"
The focus of this year's conference is applying Continuous Quality Improvement tools and skills to the "real world." Workshop sessions will actively engage attendees and provide tools, innovative strategies and ideas for automation they can readily apply in their own organizations.
PURPOSE OF THE CONFERENCE AND TARGET AUDIENCE
The CQI Community Group’s annual conference is a capacity building and networking event. Our audience is primarily CQI staff, but also includes leadership and direct-service staff from community-based, academic, healthcare 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 attendance 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), and geography (both inside and outside Illinois).
2024 Conference Hotel Information
IHOTEL
1900 S FIRST STREET, CHAMPAIGN IL 61820
217.819.5000
https://stayatthei.com/
Area Hotels
The following hotels are less than a mile and walking distance to the I Hotel. The I Hotel has a parking lot if you are driving over.
HOLIDAY INN
101 TRADE CENTRE DRIVE, CHAMPAIGN, IL 61820
https://www.ihg.com/holidayinn/hotels/us/en/champaign/cmitc/hoteldetail
HILTON GARDEN INN
1501 S NEIL STREET, CHAMPAIGN, IL 61820
217.352.9970
https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/cmichgi-hilton-garden-inn-champaign-urbana/
HOMEWOOD SUITES
1417 S NEIL STREET, CHAMPAIGN, IL 61820
217.352.9960
https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/cmihwhw-homewood-suites-champaign-urbana/
The following hotel is in downtown Champaign nearby to restaurants and nightlife and a 10 minute/2 mile drive to the I Hotel.
HYATT PLACE CHAMPAIGN/URBANA
217 N NEIL STREET, CHAMPAIGN, IL 61820
217.531.2800
https://www.hyatt.com/hyatt-place/en-US/cmizc-hyatt-place-champaign-urbana
CQI Conference Sponsorship
Level 1 "Innovate" Sponsors
$500 - $750
Level 2 "Improve" Sponsors
$751 - $999
Level 3 "Impact" Sponsors
$1000 or More
We are seeking sponsors for the 2024 Conference!
Our annual conference is a capacity building and networking event. Our audience is primarily CQI staff, but also includes leadership and direct-service staff from community-based, academic, healthcare 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.
Our 2023 conference welcomed 285 registrants from 17 states and was our largest in-person conference to date! Your generous sponsorship will support CQI professionals to build capacity that will impact the children, youth and communities in Illinois and nationwide.
For more information on the conference, please check out our website:
https://cqi.cfrc.illinois.edu/
You can help with the conference’s success by being a sponsor. Below is a list of benefits for sponsoring at various levels:
If you would like to support this year’s conference at one of the sponsorship levels or would like to suggest another way to contribute to the conference (i.e. sponsoring a lunch, special event, giveaways), please contact Amy Hiles in the Business Office of the School of Social Work at University of Illinois at amyhiles@illinois.edu or (217) 244-8464 to process your transaction.
Featured Speakers for the 2024 CQI Conference
Day 1
17 Key Traits of Data Literacy
Ben Jones, CEO and Founder of Data Literacy
The term "data literacy" is on the rise, but it begs the question: what is it anyway, and what does it look like to have it? In this course and self-assessment, you’ll go beyond a limited focus on data tools and you’ll consider 17 key traits of data literacy divided into categories of Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes and Behaviors.
You’ll also be guided through a process of evaluating your own proficiency in each of these traits so that you can identify your strengths and most significant growth opportunities. This course will broaden your understanding of the overall landscape of data, and it will help you focus your efforts on the next steps in front of you.
Ben Jones is the Co-Founder and CEO of Data Literacy , a training and education company that's on a mission to help people learn the language of data and AI. While leading the popular Tableau Public Platform for several years, Ben recognized the large gap between people's knowledge of data and the data needed to do their job successfully and started Data Literacy to help address this urgent need. Ben also teaches data visualization at the University of Washington Foster School of Business, he's the author of Avoiding Data Pitfalls (Wiley, 2019), Data Literacy Fundamentals (Data Literacy Press, 2020) and Learning to See Data (DLP, 2020), The Introspective Entrepreneur (DLP, 2022) Read, Write, Think Data (DLP, 2022) and ChatGPT Basics (DLP, 2023), Leading in the Age of Data (DLP, 2023) and AI Literacy Fundamentals (DLP, 2024). Ben has presented to, trained or worked with the highest level of the US Intelligence Community, United States Postal Service, NOAA as well as large pharmaceutical companies, global non-profit organizations and many more industries and organizations from big to small. To balance out the digital side of things, he loves hiking and backpacking on the beautiful trails of the Pacific Northwest. Ben holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA (2000) and an MBA from California Lutheran University (2011).
Complete List of Speakers for the 2024 CQI Conference
Click on a presenter to see their workshop details.
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