International City/County Management Association (ICMA) 2026

The 2026 event is at Long Beach Conference Center in Long Beach, California.

ICMA identifies city, town, and county managers as attendees.

It is most useful for city, town and county managers and their senior staff, since the audience is drawn from ICMA's own membership of local government professionals and the speaker list is built around leadership and workplace culture names such as Simon Sinek, Kim Scott and Brady Wilson. Vendors selling to local government will find a focused buyer pool, with sponsors such as MissionSquare, Workday Government and Oracle present; specialists in a narrow technical field, such as engineers or finance staff seeking deep subject training, would get less from a program weighted toward general management and leadership themes.

Attendees at local government manager conferences usually wear business casual to business professional, such as slacks and a blazer or a suit for keynote and plenary sessions. Long Beach in mid-October is mild, so a light layer is enough for air-conditioned halls.