Planning Michigan Conference
Early Bird Registration Open | Regular registration rate of $490 begins on September 22nd. Late Registration ($25 increase) begins on October 13th.
Full Conference Rates:
Member Rate: $440 | Student Member rate $80 | Non-Member Rate $515
Students: If you have a promo code and it shows as invalid, please contact alarsen@planningmi.org with your APA ID number found by logging in on planning.org.
Planning Michigan Conference 2025 will take place in Kalamazoo at the Kalamazoo Radisson October 22-24, 2025.
Overnight rooms at the Kalamazoo Radisson are $185/night, parking for overnight guests is $10 per night. Check in time is 4 p.m. and check out is prior to noon.
A 4% Kalamazoo County Event and Convention Assessment District (KCECAD) Assessment will be applied to all guest stays. This new assessment is separate from the existing 5% Occupancy Tax and 6% Michigan Sales Tax.
Black Student Conference Scholarship
In 2022, MAP's MDP Career Development Committee launched the Black Student Conference Scholarship program, a non-monetary scholarship that covers all costs to attend the Annual Planning Michigan conference. If you are a Black student studying planning in Michigan, you may be eligible for the scholarship! See below for the application.
Donations to the Black Student Conference Scholarship Fund will be gratefully accepted and are tax-deductible.
MAP is grateful to the following individuals for their very generous donations to this fund: Brian Vosburg, AICP, Christopher LeFlore, AICP, Justin Sprague, David Bee, AICP and Kathleen Duffy, AICP; and to the following firms for their very generous donations to this fund: Farrow Group, Giffels Webster, HNTB Corporation, Williams & Works, Spicer Group, McKenna, Beckett & Raeder, Inc., and OHM.