Please join us for the 2024 National Urban Extension Conference hosted by Tennessee Extension. The professional development conference will be held at the Renaissance Downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The professional development conference will continue to build on NUEL’s (National Urban Extension Leaders) Focus Areas along with an administrative track.

• Strengthen Communities
• Protecting the Environment
• Improving our Health
• Feed the Future
• Enrich the Youth

You will hear from professionals from around the country by participating in various presentations from individual presenters, team presentations, lightning talks, panel presentations, and poster presentations.

You will also get the opportunity to explore the city by participating in several pre/post-conference tours and activities.

NUEL 2024 Schedule

Registration Timeline

Early Registration Rate $500 - August 10, 2023 - October 31, 2023 

Regular Registration Rate $550 - November 1, 2023 - March 1, 2024

Late Registration Rate $600 – March 2 - May 31, 2024

Presentation Update

Individual Presentations: Individual oral presentations on topics related to the conference theme or other topical areas of interest will be 15 minutes in duration. Each room will have a moderator to maintain time restrictions which will allow all presenters to use allotted time and enable attendees to attend multiple sessions. Presentations should be succinct, with well-developed concepts, applications, and results. Presentations will be grouped by topic for 60 minutes sessions.

Panel Presentations: Panel Presentations will be 60 minutes in length with three to five colleagues or peers in an open conversation or discussion on a topic specific to urban communities, and will engage the audience in a question and answer/conversational session.

Lightning Talks: Lightning talks are structured and focused presentations on the conference objectives. Presenters will have exactly 5 minutes to present and may use no more than 20 slides. Take a look at sample presentation and explore a how to video. Each lightning presenter will have a total of 10 minutes – 5 minutes to present, and up to 5 minutes to answer questions.

Poster Presentations: A poster is used for the presenter to describe a project, research results, program summaries or lessons learned as a visual display. The poster includes a brief narrative along with tables, graphs, pictures, and other presentation formats. In PowerPoint, begin by creating a 1-slide presentation. You will have an opportunity to introduce your poster to an audience with other posters of similar subject matter for 5 minutes. You should provide enough information to capture the participant's interest which will lead to a conversation about your poster. Each poster presenter will have a total of 10 minutes – 5 minutes to present, and up to 5 minutes to answer questions.

Use PowerPoint presentation - choose a blank slide. (The entire poster must be contained in only one slide.) Adjust the slide size to make the poster dimensions a maximum of 36″ x 48″ or 48” x 36” or a smaller size if desired. Save your poster as a .pptx file while you are working on it. (When you are all finished and ready to submit your poster, save a copy as .pdf). The poster file size may not exceed 10MB.

Your presentations may be uploaded to this folder by May 15, 2024.

Hotel Information

Click Here to Reserve Your Room at the Renaissance Nashville

If you are planning on coming early or staying later than the conference dates, please email Judy Gero at judy.gero@renhotels.com or Jemma Patel @ Jemma.patel@renhotels.com.

Shipping Information

NUEL Dining Experiences

University of Tennessee Employees:
Please note: The University of Tennessee Conferences and Event Services is responsible for processing all registration fees for this event.
NOTE: University of Tennessee employees should register online and check-out of the site with the Invoice option.  Please send the departmental account number we should charge to email: Conferences@utk.edu. Our office will initiate the payment.
Please do not use a procurement card for your registration fee. If you will be asking for a UT reimbursement for this meeting, please do not register with a personal credit card, register with a departmental account to avoid additional processing fees. For any credit card refunds processed due to not paying with a departmental account number, there will be a 6% credit card processing fee based on the sale amount.  The 6% fee will be withheld from the refund to the card used.