International Field Directors and Technologies Conference (IFD&TC)

We have made the difficult decision to cancel the IFD&TC conference in Providence scheduled for April 27-29, 2025.

New US government restrictions on agency travel budgets and the cancellations of many government contracts resulted in about 60% of our abstracts being withdrawn. Several large member organizations have also let us know they are unable to send any attendees this year or would need to dramatically cut back. With these decreases, we would not be able to meet the contract requirements with our hotel, and we do not have reserves enough to run the conference at such a loss. We considered options for a virtual conference in April, but determined there isn’t enough time to pull that off, especially with the fluid budget situation facing many member organizations.

Look for future updates on the 2026 conference planning or any additional programming. Thank you all for your support!

If you have questions, please contact Registrars Marie Nitschke and Kevin Tharp to learn more.

The IFD&TC provides a unique forum for government, academic institutions and other survey agencies to informally communicate with each other. Attendees include field directors, field technicians and survey managers. There are no membership dues and the only activity is our annual conference. 

To learn more about the purpose of the conference, see the conference charter and bylaws pages. You can also click on the links to the right for details for our upcoming conference as well as past conferences.