2025 Conference Sponsors
2025 California Preservation Conference
Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges
Sacramento Convention Center, Sacramento, Calif. | May 6 to May 10, 2025
Join your colleagues at the Sacramento Convention Center, Sheraton Grand Sacramento, and other sites across the region for insight, enlightenment, and new innovative ideas to build an inclusive future in the nexus between housing and heritage.
The California Preservation Conference brings more than 600 participants from across the state to learn, network, and share successes. The conference will include over 40 sessions, special events, networking activities, and site tours in and around Sacramento.
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Annual Sponsors
Why Attend?
- Obtain Continuing Education Units available for all educational programs at no additional cost (CEUs not available for Doors Open events)
- Network with friends and colleagues across the country and internationally in our unique online, interactive events.
- Keep up with the latest research and scholarship in historic preservation, city planning, equity issues, design, archaeology, and architecture.
- Gain unique and unparalleled access to California’s hidden histories and masterworks of design.
Continuing Education
All live programs qualify for continuing education units through the AIA, AICP, ASLA and CLG. All attendees can take advantage of our continuing education program at no additional cost. Many sessions qualify for Health, Safety, and Welfare units (HSW). Some sessions will qualify for AICP legal and ethics credits.
For More Information
- Call us at 415-495-0349
- Email at cpf@californiapreservation.org
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General Details
Your registration includes full access to our interactive conference mobile app.
Heritage conservation and preservation advocacy play a key role in important and pressing societal challenges, including housing, sustainability, community cohesion, and economic development. Through five tracks and special programs on Housing, Advocacy, and Fire Resiliency, we’ll delve into the challenging crossroads and positive steps taken in “Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges.”
- Over 40 in-classroom sessions and off-site tours and mobile workshops
Network with friends and colleagues at special events and mixers
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Opening Reception at the California State Railroad Museum (5/7)
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Emerging Professionals Mixers at K Street Legacy Bars
- President’s Circle Reception at the Leland Stanford Mansion (5/8)
- 2025 California Preservation Awards Reception & Ceremony at the California Museum (5/9)
Full Conference Schedule
Conference Schedule
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
| 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Special Program |
Housing Summit |
| 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM Tour |
Museum of Science and Curiosity: Touring a Landmark Adaptive Reuse Project |
| 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM Tour |
California State Library and Alfred Eichler Architecture – A Whirlwind Walking Tour |
| 1:30 – 5:30 PM Tour |
Sacramento Central Shops and Railyards Tour |
| 6:00 – 7:30 PM Special Event |
Opening Reception at the California State Railroad Museum |
| 9:00 – 10:30 PM Tour |
Emerging Professionals Mixer – K Street Legacy Bars |
Thursday, May 8, 2025
| 9:00 – 10:30 AM Special Event |
Plenary Session at St John’s Lutheran Church |
| 10:40 AM – 1:30 PM Planning for the Future Mobile Workshop |
Sacramento Historic Districts Tour |
| 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Tech Forward California |
Preserving the Past, Embracing the Future: Immersive Technologies and AI in Heritage Conservation |
| 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Building Inclusive Preservation Programs |
CPF’s Underrecognized California Initiative: Lifting Up Ethnic Historical Resources and Their Powerful Stories |
| 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Central Valley Visions |
Water Infrastructure as a Historic Resource – Challenges and Approaches |
| 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Housing & Heritage |
Public and Non-Profit Partnerships with Historic Tax Credits, how is that possible? |
| 1:30 – 3:30 PM Workshop |
Effective Preservation Advocacy – Training Workshop |
| 1:45 – 5:15 PM Building Inclusive Preservation Programs Mobile Workshop |
Japantown to Chinatown Tour |
| 2:00 – 3:30 PM Planning for the Future |
Navigating through Historic Discretionary Reviews |
| 2:00 – 3:30 PM Central Valley Visions |
Preserving Chicanx and Latinx heritage in the Capital City: What are ongoing efforts in the Community? |
| 2:00 – 3:30 PM Housing & Heritage |
Everything All at Once: Innovative Adaptive Reuse Solutions for the Housing Crisis |
| 3:45 – 5:15 PM Housing & Heritage |
New State Housing Policies: Real Life Implications for Historic Resources |
| 3:45 – 5:15 PM Planning for the Future |
Multicultural Chinatown: Celebrating the Past & Supporting the Future in Salinas |
| 3:45 – 5:15 PM Central Valley Visions |
Synchronicity! The Preservation-positive Update of Memorial Auditorium as Swing Space During SAFE Performing Arts Center’s Rebuild |
| 3:45 – 5:15 PM Housing & Heritage |
New State Housing Policies: Real Life Implications for Historic Resources – |
| 6:00 – 7:30 PM Special Event (Invitation Only) |
President’s Circle Reception at the Leland Stanford Mansion |
| 8:00 – 9:30 PM Special Event |
R Street Legacy Bars Tour |
Friday, May 9, 2025
| 9:00 AM – 12:15 PM Mobile Workshop Housing & Heritage |
Two of Sacramento’s Most Iconic Historic Adaptive Reuse Housing Developments |
| 9:00 – 10:30 AM Planning for the Future |
Getting Creative and Mobilizing the Community to (Finally!) Update Your Preservation Program and Code |
| 9:00 – 10:30 AM Central Valley Visions |
California’s Delta: History and Identity in a Landscape of Change |
| 9:00 – 10:30 AM Building Inclusive Preservation Programs |
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund |
| 9:00 – 10:30 AM Tech Forward California |
Narrative Heritage: Utilizing Media To Advocate For Intangible and Tangible Heritage |
| 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Planning for the Future |
CEQA Historical Resources: Hot Topics and Lessons Learned |
| 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Special Session |
Innovative Student Projects and Efforts |
| 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Building Inclusive Preservation Programs |
Engaging Underrepresented Communities in Historic Preservation: Strategies and Success Stories |
| 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Tech Forward California |
Finding the Right Envelope: Spectacular Hotel Conversions of Underutilized Historic Buildings in Sacramento |
| 12:30 – 1:30 PM | Education Committee Meeting |
| 2:00 – 5:15 PM Special Session |
Safeguarding History: Disaster Preparedness Strategies for California’s Cultural Heritage |
| 2:00 – 5:15 PM Mobile Workshop Tech Forward California |
Bateson Building – Visiting a Recent Past Landmark Known for Its Innovative Energy Conservation |
| 2:00 – 3:30 PM Tech Forward California |
Contextualizing & Caring for Modernist Outdoor Public Art |
| 2:00 – 3:30 PM Building Inclusive Preservation Programs |
Cultural Preservation in Disinvested Communities |
| 2:00 – 3:30 PM Housing & Heritage |
Housing and Historic Preservation: Lessons to Address the Crisis |
| 3:45 – 5:15 PM Special Session |
An Advocate’s Guide to Preservation Historic Rail Stations: Oakland Southern Pacific Station in Focus |
| 3:45 – 5:15 PM Special Session |
Lessons Learned from the Battle to Save the Sacramento State Capitol |
| 6:00 – 10:00 PM Special Event |
Preservation Design Awards at the California State Museum – Exhibits Open – 6:00 – 7 PM – Ceremony – 7 – 8 PM – Reception – 8 – 10:00 PM |
Saturday, May 10, 2025
| 9:00AM – 5:15 PM | Delta Tour {BUS} |
| 9:00 AM – 12:15 PM | Walking Tour of Lavender Library / Lavender Heights + LGBTQ+ Survey |
| 2:00 – 5:15 PM | Terra Cotta Tour |
Hotel Information and Discounted Rates for Conference Attendees
The Conference Hotel is the Sheraton Grand, Sacramento. We have reserved room blocks available at discounted rates for all conference attendees. Room reservations will be required.
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Last Day to Book: Tuesday, April 15, 2025
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Conference Pricing & Ticket Options
Conference Registration
Full registration details and pricing posted by January, 2025!
Conference Tracks
Our conference will include six thematic Tracks:
- Planning for the Future. Examining our existing regulations and planning tools to address challenging preservation problems and to protect and adapt our most valued historic landmarks.
- Tech Forward California. Innovative methods, treatment approaches, and technologies that break new ground or revolutionize preservation practices.
- Building Inclusive Preservation Programs. Ensuring the rich diversity of California’s heritage is recognized and celebrated with creative methods on how to engage underrecognized communities and to make true stakeholders of community partners.
- Central Valley Visions. Approaching the unique challenges of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and Central Valley.
- Housing & Heritage. Expert-led training and case examples drawn from historic preservation practice for the retention and adaptive reuse of historic structures for housing, both market rate and affordable.
Sponsorship
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Volunteer Application
Volunteers receive complimentary access for the same amount of time they volunteer. A full volunteer information packet is available for download here.
All interested volunteers must submit a volunteer application on the form below.
Past Conference Programs
Interested in Our Past Programs?
Click the year of the program below for all the fun details from the last three years at the CPF Annual Conference.
