& We Rise: Together. Forward. Now.
October 13-16
Seattle, WA, USA
What is Workplace Summit?
Workplace Summit is the world’s largest gathering–thousands every year–of committed executives, experts, Employee Resource Groups (ERG) leaders, inclusion and belonging professionals, talent acquisition leads, human resource leaders, and influencers building workplaces of belonging for the LGBTQ+ community, its allies, and for all.
Why Attend?
In a moment when organizations are navigating a complex and ever-changing landscape that impacts their global strategies—spanning talent to innovation and growth—being in community is absolutely critical.
It is why, for more than 25 years, the Out & Equal Workplace Summit has brought together a global community of thought leaders, strategists, and changemakers to:
Don’t miss this opportunity to empower your teams, advance your organization’s key objectives, and shape your future!
This Year’s Theme:
& We Rise: Together. Forward. Now.
The LGBTQ+ movement has been shaped by challenges and victories, fear and hope, loss and endurance.
Today, as policy efforts against and inflammatory rhetoric towards the community reach levels not seen in decades, it’s important we remember those who came before us and dared to dream of being out and equal when just about everything around them said it would be impossible.
They brought our workplaces and communities into forms never seen, and they transformed the lives of countless people. And now it is our turn to take this destruction around us and re-imagine how we move forward.
We do that by being in community. By talking about the heavy things and the hard work we need to do. We tap into our joy, grief, resilience, anger, and light. We remember with every challenge and disappointment, to rise. To keep pushing forward.
Why? Because this movement and this community demand it.
Together is how we meet what lies ahead.
We honor and remember our past to keep pushing forward.
We say here and now, that we are not going anywhere.
Save the date—October 13-16—and get ready to write our next chapter, together.
Submit Your Workplace Summit Learning Session Proposals Now!
Our learning sessions represent the very best in emerging trends and strategies that strengthen businesses, support talent strategies, and build workplaces that will succeed in the global economy of today and tomorrow.
Submit Your Session Proposal Today!The deadline is May 16.
Recognize Impact & Elevate Role Models: The 2025 Outie Award Nomination Process Is Open!
Since its inception more than 20 years ago, Out & Equal has recognized more than 100 individuals, organizations and workplace initiatives, and Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) across a range of categories whose work is proven to have advanced LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion and belonging for all.
The deadline to nominate is Tuesday, July 1
Submit a nomination today!Want to Learn More?
Workplace Summit is an Out & Equal Partner-exclusive event. For more information about joining the Out & Equal Partner community, please reach out to partnerships@outandequal.org.
For additional information about the value and impact of an Out & Equal Partnership click here.