This track equips leaders to strengthen organizational capacity, enhance management skills, and grow inclusive, sustainable adaptive sport programs. 

Audience: Executive directors, program directors, senior managers, board members, and emerging leaders seeking to advance leadership skills, organizational impact, and inclusive sport opportunities. 

Session Topic Examples (including but not limited to the following):

• Strategic growth
• Vision setting and scaling programs nationally
• High-level partnerships
• Development and fundraising
• Board governance & succession planning
• Board recruitment and staffing needs
• Goal setting & tracking metrics
• Elevating management skill set
• Decision making under pressure
• Driving team performance
• Employee development and retention
• Boosting team productivity
• Risk management 
• Engaging underrepresented and rural communities
• Building culturally responsive programs
• Authentic communications and advocacy
• Inclusive volunteer recruitment and retention
• Hosting inclusive community events
• Impact measurement
• Developing future leaders
• Building statewide adaptive sports networks

This track explores how coaches, sport leaders and medical professionals contribute to developing athletes across the lifespan. From rehabilitation and first exposure to adaptive sport, to recreation, competition, and high performance. Sessions focus on science-based practices, athlete health, performance, safety, and pathways from rehabilitation to elite competition. 

Audience: Coaches, athletic trainers, physical therapists, occupational therapists, recreational therapists, physicians, prosthetists, orthotists, sport scientists, program leaders, and competition organizers working to advance athlete development in adaptive sport. 

Session Examples (Including but not limited to):  

Coaching Excellence: 

• Teaching sport skills, modifications, and adaptations 
• Athlete centered coaching
• Planning, evaluation, and reflection 
• Feedback

Athlete Development: 

• Grassroots to elite pipeline 
• Competition pathways
• Sport science and performance optimization 
• Injury prevention and conditioning
• Return-to-play protocols 
• Safety & risk management  
• Mental Health 
• Research 
• Measuring health outcomes 
• Clinical Practice 
• Adaptive sport across the continuum of care 
• Pediatric rehabilitation 
• Prosthetics and adaptive equipment 
• Wheelchair seating and positioning 
• Classification 

Recreation 

• Rehabilitation-to-recreation pipelines 
• Recreation therapy as a pathway to lifelong participation
• Hospital Partnerships and referral models 

This track rallies schools and youth programs to join the movement by embedding inclusion across all educational system and community programs, building pathways that connect youth and young adults to lifelong participation. 

Audience: Educators, recreation professionals, coaches, administrators, and community partners (parks & rec, boys & girls clubs, YMCA, municipal recreation, libraries, camps) working to expand access and inclusion in sport programs. 

Session Examples: 

• Adaptive sport in PE and extracurriculars 
• Disability awareness/education through sport
• Partnering with higher education institutions 
• Transitioning youth athletes into adult programs 
• Inclusive events 
• Engaging parents, educators, and administrators as allies 
• Partnering with student organizations & campus recreation 
• Community partnership models 

Description: This track explores how emerging technologies, equipment innovations, and new approaches are shaping the future of adaptive sports to expand access, enhance performance, and transform the athlete experience. 

Audience: Designed for coaches, program leaders, technologists, researchers, and community professionals who want to stay ahead of trends and integrate innovation into adaptive sport. 

Session Examples: 

• Adaptive equipment innovations & customization 
• Digital tools 
• Future trends in accessibility and universal design 
• Sport science – wearable tech, biomechanics, and performance analytics  
• Virtual and hybrid programming opportunities 
• Equipment maintenance 
• Using AI  
• Research & data 

The London 2012 Paralympic Games were a cultural inflection point — packed venues, record broadcast audiences, and a level of public enthusiasm that permanently elevated the Paralympic Movement. That outcome was not accidental. It resulted from visionary leadership, serious investment in storytelling and broadcast coverage, and a deliberate multi-year effort to build alignment across disability communities, athletes, broadcasters, government, and commercial partners. In 2028, we have the opportunity to surpass that example, not merely meet it.  

Expected Audience: LA28 staff, USOPC, and IPC representatives, athletes and athlete leaders, disability community organizations, broadcasters, media, and commercial partners, accessibility leaders, educators, and cultural stakeholders.

Session Examples: 

• LA28 marketing and leadership talks 
• Athlete presentation 
• Games logistics 
• Volunteerism 
• Post-games legacy framework