Building Innovation 2020

NIBS virtual meeting keynotes to cover 3D printing, resilience and workforce Looking for creative ways to motivate your workforce during this tough stretch? An upcoming virtual trade show provides ample opportunity to explore new ideas around building resilience, technology and workforce development, presented online for attendees of Building Innovation 2020: Virtual Edition. The annual meeting […]

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Distributed Energy Conference

A number of speakers across digitalization, water, energy sectors show breadth Scheduled for October 19-21 in Chicago, the Distributed Energy Conference is planning as if all systems are go. The breadth of industries covered during this trade show are exemplary of the integration happening in today’s world, with utilities, energy systems, and digitalization. Three keynote […]

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AWWA Virtual Summit

September 23-24 at home office booth near you! The American Water Works Association announced it is backing a full-on virtual blitz to substitute for its an annual convention come September. The AWWA Virtual Summit will take place September 23-24 and sure seems to be planning to pack a ton into those two days. Major themes […]

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AMT’s Congressional Fellow

Tim Shinbara will work with Senate small business committee for 2020-21 Good news from Congress?! Turns out, our governing bodies do get a lot of things right, even when they aren’t making headline news. The Association For Manufacturing Technology (AMT) announced Monday that Tim Shinbara, its VP and Chief Technology Officer, was recently named a […]

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Submit Your Abstracts Now

Deadline for AWWA’s Utility Management Conference is June 26 Have a great approach, practice, process, techniques, or case studies in all aspects of utility management? AWWA members want to hear from you. Special topic sessions and pre-conference workshop submissions are still being solicited for organization’s 2021 Utility Management Conference in Atlanta. Abstracts submitted for 2021 […]

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IMTS Canceled

“Phase 5” prospects end one of last holdouts for season One of the more significant holdouts of the convention world is officially canceled, as IMTS (the International Manufacturing Technology Show) announced it will not take place in Chicago this year. The large, diverse trade show, which had been seeing steady growth over the last five […]

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Organizational Healing

CWIEME, IMTS, others provide options, analysis for tough times In a time of division and uncertainty, it’s easy enough to invoke phrases like “we’re all in this together” or “we stand united”…but let’s take a look at which organizational bodies are actually taking action with regards to the industries employing Electrical Apparatus readers, such as […]

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McCormick Place Debate

Alternate care facility shutting down, leading to questions of necessity Big news from EA‘s local front. McCormick Place, Chicago’s prized convention center and one of the largest in the world, had been used as an emergency hospital over the past month but is now being deconstructed to its original layout. The converted building was housing […]

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Trade Show Carousel

CWIEME, NFPA announce cancellations; IMTS still on The trade show carousel continues…only in this case, a number of horses are choosing to jump off ahead of time in the interest of safety. We have a few new cancellations to report this week, including CWIEME (for the second time in three years in the U.S.), and […]

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Nothing To Show Floor It

Hannover Messe, AWEA Cleanpower, WERC among the casualties of coronavirus Hannover-Messe—essentially an international version of EASA, IMTS, and Automate combined—is canceled. The German mega-show, billed as “the world’s most important industrial fair” primarily due to aligned industry reviews, Hannover-Messe has established itself as a stage for manufacturing technology’s great innovations over the years while holding […]

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