DECA ICDC 2027 Is April 17-20 in Anaheim

DECA Inc. lists the International Career Development Conference for this season as April 17-20, 2027, in Anaheim, California, at the Anaheim Convention Center. That date and city are on deca.org/conferences/icdc, checked 11 November 2026. The same page lists later conferences, including April 22-25, 2028 in Orlando, but those are not this year’s ICDC. Atlanta dates still sitting in older FAQs on that page describe a previous conference. They are not the 2027 dates in the page header.

DECA Month and the chapter-campaign deadlines

DECA Month is November. The 2026 page is dated November 1, 2026, and describes it as the November celebration of the association, including the #DECAMonth social challenge. The five 2026-27 chapter campaigns are Membership, Promotional, Community Service, Innovations + Entrepreneurship, and Advocacy. Membership, Promotional, Community Service, and Innovations + Entrepreneurship are due December 1, 2026. Advocacy takes place in February during Career and Technical Education Month and is due March 1, 2027. Those names and dates are on deca.org/campaigns and DECA Direct’s 2026-2027 chapter campaigns article, both checked 11 November 2026.

Districts and state conferences

DECA does not publish one national weekend for every association’s district or state conference. Chartered associations set those dates. The national calendar is the right place to confirm ICDC and the two campaign deadlines. Your association advisor is the right place to confirm districts. A page that still lists February 2026 state conferences as the current season is describing the year that already ended.

What to practice before districts

Role-play and case-study events include a multiple-choice career cluster exam plus the role-play, which is how DECA describes those events. The clusters named on that page are marketing, business management and administration, finance, hospitality and tourism, entrepreneurship, and personal financial literacy. Cluster exams are not the same document as a prepared-event paper. If you are in a series or team event, split practice between the exam and a timed role-play. If you are in a prepared event, the written project has its own instructions in the DECA Guide.

The DECA calendar and the cluster exam guides use these sources. They do not add association dates that DECA has not published in one national list.