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Reinventing Quality is now Reimagining Quality.

Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland

October 4-6, 2026

The Reinventing Quality Conference is becoming the Reimagining Quality Conference in 2026, but will remain the RQ Conference! Please bear with us as our branding catches up.

The 2026 RQ Conference continues the longstanding tradition of bringing together leaders, researchers, policymakers, providers, self-advocates, and other professionals committed to improving quality supports and outcomes for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

The 2026 conference is jointly hosted by the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD), the American Network of Community Options and Resources (ANCOR), the Council on Quality and Leadership (CQL), Human Services Research Institute (HSRI), National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals (NADSP), the National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services (NASDDDS), the National Leadership Consortium on Developmental Disabilities, the Research and Training Center on Community Living at the University of Minnesota's Institute on Community Integration, and TASH.

A panel of six people sits before an audience in a large conference room. Amy Hewitt, seated in the center of the panel, speaks into a microphone.

"There's Reason for Hope: Responding to the Workforce Emergency," a panel discussion at the 2022 Reinventing Quality Conference. View the recorded session here .