The Midwest Region Winter Conference & Exhibition will be held at Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont, IL on Wednesday, February 5. Join us for various competitions, trade show, and networking opportunity.

The online submissions competitions happen before the event and the winners will be announced on February 5th

Judging Period: January 18 – 31,2026

For this competition you will be judging submissions on our VE Competitions Manager. 

Please register below to be a judge for the following online submission based competitions:

• Sales Material:  Firms create sales materials and upload one of the following: catalog, brochure, direct mail campaign, and/or promotional materials. The materials are evaluated on content, design, salesmanship, and professionalism.
• Email Campaign: Firms create an email campaign providing information about the campaign, target market, and several email examples to demonstrate ability to encourage a customer to take the next step with the company.
• Video Commercial: Each firm must record a 30-to 60-second video commercial promoting the business and/or product(s)/services(s) to attract potential customers.
• Banner Ad:  Each firm is asked to create a 728×90 pixel Banner Ad (sometimes called a “leaderboard”) to spark interest in the firm and attract traffic to a website by linking to the website of the advertiser.