The following details are requested for any webinar held in the American Trails Advancing Trails Webinar Series. Some items are required in order to add a webinar to our series and are noted below.

All webinars are held on a Thursday starting at 10am Pacific. 

Please note: By completing this form, this does not guarantee a spot in our webinar series. Scheduling is first come, first served with the understanding that we are looking to hold a variety of topics on trails with a variety of presenters, given that there are only a certain amount of slots available every year. If you are selected to be a presenter, a company/organization membership is required.

Main Presenter Contact Details:

It is important to us to work with a diverse group of presenters in the trails industry.

Webinar Details:

We request no more than 4 presenters for a 90-minute webinar (and less for shorter webinars). Please note that your webinar topic may be similar to others that are presented, and therefore may be combined if necessary.

If more than yourself will be presenting you have the option to add additional presenter details below. If you are unsure who those presenters are and your webinar is selected or has a webinar date already scheduled, you can share additional presenter details at that time.

We are particularly interested in topics relating to the Trail Competency Framework (which have been collaboratively developed and are found at the Trail Skills Project). Please note that while it is not required to align with a Core Competency, those webinar topics that do will take priority.

PLEASE SELECT UP TO 3 MAIN SKILLS that will be directly covered in your presentation (please choose no more than 3 as we will only include the first 3 on the Trail Skills website).

All webinars are held on a Thursday starting at 10:00am Pacific. We try to hold one webinar per week, pending availability and avoiding holidays.

Additional Presenters:

Presenter Conditions:

Accessibility: All American Trails webinars are accessible and available on the American Trails Advancing Trails Webinars Series webpage indefinitely. American Trails webinars are FREE and open to all— both live and for 24 hours after airing (to help folks across time zones or busy schedules). PLEASE NOTE: Recorded webinars will move to members-only access after the first 24 hours. Free continuing education credits (CEUs) is a special member benefit. In some instances, American Trails may receive sponsorships for webinars which are used for the promotion of the webinar series and necessary costs associated with each webinar and are not transferrable to a presenter (unless mentioned otherwise).

Promotion: While presenters are not compensated for webinars, American Trails promotes presenters in all marketing efforts and presenters are allowed to reuse any promotional material in their own emails and on their own websites and social media outlets. We promote the webinar to our entire mailing list (40k+) pre and post-webinar. We see an average of 550 attendees per webinar (sometimes closer to 1,600+) with an average of a few hundred downloads/views of webinar recordings every month. Presenters will also receive the attendee list with full contact details as well as any survey responses for their webinar. By registering for our webinars, attendees submit their information to the webinar organizer and associated presenters and sponsors, who may use it to communicate with them regarding this event and their services.

Membership: It is required that if you are selected and agree to present an American Trails webinar that your company/organization must be a current member of American Trails (starting at $250/year).

Other Terms: An American Trails webinar typically lasts between 60 to 90 minutes, with 10 to 30 minutes for Q&A at the end. All webinars are recorded, include real-time captions, and offer learning credits. The webinar recording along with the transcript, resources slide, and learning credit instructions are available on the webinar’s webpage within 2 days post-webinar.

Prior to the webinar, presenters are expected to: 

• Attend a dress rehearsal the week before the webinar.
• Share any slides, documents, links, and a minimum of 10 quiz questions AND their correct answers (required for learning credits) by Monday the week of the webinar. The slides are only shared with American Trails and the closed captioner and are not shared with attendees unless requested.
• Help promote the webinar via email, social media, etc. and tag American Trails!

During your webinar, presenters are expected to:

• Sign on at least 10 minutes before the start of the webinar (all webinars start at 10am PT) to test audio and webcams and practice sharing your screen and slides (the final presentation is not required during the dress rehearsal). The webinar host will explain their role during the webinar and how Q&A will work.
• Present content related to the webinar topic and description, and share your screen and advance your slides.
• If moderating a group of panelists, other management tasks may be involved and will be explained during the dress rehearsal.
• Answer relevant questions from attendees during live Q&A at the end of the presentation. Q&A is moderated by American Trails.

We appreciate your interest in our Advancing Trails Webinar Series!

If you have any questions about American Trails or our Advancing Trails Webinar Series, please email Candace Gallagher, Director of Operations and Webinar Coordinator, at candace@americantrails.org or (530) 645-3096.