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2027 NONPF 53rd Annual Conference

NONPF brings nurse practitioner educators together around the work of running an NP program: developing competencies, preparing students for clinical practice, supporting preceptors, and building a durable faculty workforce.

Apr 14-18, 2027 · Sheraton New Orleans Hotel

Visitors expected
700
Show days
5

The conference combines education scholarship with the practical concerns of faculty and program leaders. Its institutional roots run back to the first national meeting of NP educators in 1974, and the organization now represents approximately 96% of US institutions with NP programs. That reach gives the annual meeting a particular place in American NP education.

The conversation extends beyond course design. Clinical partnerships, academic leadership, mentorship, faculty well-being, and policy sit alongside teaching and assessment. The exhibitor program adds educational publishers, simulation providers, and systems for managing clinical education to that exchange. NONPF is a focused meeting for the people who educate NPs, with a national academic audience and an emphasis on translating educational ideas into program practice.

How it compares

  1. Doctoral Education ConferenceCoronado, California
  2. This show: 2027 NONPF 53rd Annual ConferenceNew Orleans, 700
  3. Academic Nursing Leadership ConferenceWashington, DC

The closest alternatives divide along academic responsibility. Academic Nursing Leadership Conference brings AACN member deans, directors, and their senior leadership teams together around nursing education across an institution. It is the stronger fit when the work involves school-wide strategy, leadership capacity, or the wider nursing workforce. NONPF is more directly aligned with NP program faculty and the details of clinical preparation, assessment, and faculty development.

Doctoral Education Conference covers both practice and research doctorates, including enrollment, program rigor, teaching, and research leadership. That breadth matters for institutions balancing DNP and PhD priorities. NONPF places doctoral NP work within the larger task of educating nurse practitioners, including clinical reasoning, experiential learning, and academic-practice partnerships.

For an NP program director comparing where to invest professional-development time, NONPF offers the most concentrated conversation about NP education itself. AACN meetings provide a wider frame for institutional or doctoral leadership. Suppliers face the same distinction: curriculum, simulation, and clinical-placement products fit NONPF’s faculty audience, while institution-wide academic services may benefit from the broader leadership conversations.

NONPF is the right trip for NP faculty and program leaders whose priorities are clinical preparation, competency assessment, and the people who teach them.

Who exhibits

The exhibit program reflects the mechanics of NP education. Exxat and Typhon Group appeared in the 2025 program alongside Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer, linking clinical-education management with teaching resources. Body Interact brought virtual-patient simulation into the same mix. Universities also participated. This is a useful setting for comparing how an educational product supports faculty work and student preparation, with conversations tied closely to NP programs and clinical education.

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2027 NONPF 53rd Annual Conference

NONPF 2027 takes “Igniting Innovation and Excellence in NP Education” as its theme. The program objectives bring emerging teaching technologies and competency development together with clinical education, faculty retention, mentorship, and policy. The faculty leadership mentoring cohort also connects its ongoing work to the annual conference. NP faculty scholarship and DNP projects are part of the conference’s submission program, keeping educational research and practice-focused work in the same conversation.

  • For teaching and assessment work, follow the sessions aligned with competency development and emerging educational technologies; the conference objectives distinguish these from clinical partnerships and workforce leadership.
  • Use the faculty-workforce strand for questions about mentoring, well-being, and retention; these are explicit NP education objectives alongside curriculum and clinical preparation.

What your brief includes

The full exhibitor list, and what to do with it.

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What to ask
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