2025 Conference Agenda

Agenda for TAAD’s 44th Annual Conference & Trade Show on Appraisal Administration

February 16-19, 2025, at the JW Marriott Austin in Austin, Texas

Please Note: The conference will not be recorded or offered online. 

(agenda is tentative and subject to change)             (PDF Agenda)

Monday, February 17

7-4:30 Registration

7 – 8 President’s Breakfast 

8-8:30 Welcome/Intros

8:30-9:30 Keynote: Never Give Up – The Survivor Way / Holly Hoffman

8-5 Trade Show

8 – 8 Demo Rooms

9:30–11 Break with Exhibitors

11-12 Texas Ag Lands Update 2025

12-1 Lunch on your own

1 -2 Legislative Plans and Actions

2-3 Be A Coffee Bean

3-4 Break with Exhibitors

4-5 Ethics – Bedrock or Shifting Sands?

Tuesday, February 18

7-4:30 Registration

7:30-8:30 Rise and Shine Breakfast

8-12 Trade Show

8 – 8 Demo Rooms

8:30-9:30 A Visit with The Daytripper / Chet Garner

9:30-10:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS 

  • HR/Employee Retention and Recruitment
  • The Do’s of CAD Board Service
  • The Latest from the Supreme Court

 10:30-11 Break        

11-12 CONCURRENT SESSIONS

  • The Word from PTAD 
  • The Don’ts of CAD Board Service
  • Methods for Ensuring Equity in Appraisal of Multifamily Property 

12:15-1:30 Awards Luncheon

1:35-2:15 Delegate Assembly

1:30-2:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS

  • Best Practices: Building BPP Valuation Schedules, Models
  • Criminal Liability Concerns for CAD Directors
  • Land Valuation: Developing Schedules, Models, Tables When Sales are Scarce

2:30—3 Break 

3-4 CONCURRENT SESSIONS

  • New Exemptions – Childcare Facilities, Temporary Disasters 
  • BOD 2025 – New Rules!
  • Chief Appraiser PVS Topics Panel

4-5 Planning for Growth in Your CAD

Wednesday,  February 19

8-11 Registration

8-9 Farewell Breakfast 

9-10 The Three Amigos Ride Again: CAD Transparency Initiatives

10-11 So You Think You Want to Retire Someday?

11 Conference Wrap-up

Agenda as of January 20, 2025