Automotive Conferences & Events in the US
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This US automotive events calendar covers conferences, trade shows, technical meetings, industry workshops, and a public-utility investment-plan workshop. Attendees include automotive engineers, designers, manufacturing and assembly professionals, battery and composites specialists, suppliers, trade association members, investors, and public-agency stakeholders. Recurring themes include vehicle electrification, battery technology, electronics design, commercial vehicles, assembly operations, forging, composite materials, and energy investment planning.
The sample spans major automotive and adjacent manufacturing gatherings in Detroit, Chicago, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Pittsburgh. It includes events organized by SAE International, industry associations, technical institutes, media organizations, and a state public utility commission, reflecting connections among vehicle development, component and materials production, manufacturing processes, investment, and regulatory planning.
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The Battery Show North America · Detroit, MI
Automotive · Batteries & Energy StorageProgram tracks cover Battery Chemistry, Materials & Cell Innovation; Electrified Vehicle Systems & Powertrain Integration; Battery Manufacturing & Supply Chain Industrialization; Energy Storage & Grid Applications; and Advanced Air Mobility & Electrified Aviation. The program includes keynotes, leaders' roundtables, technical sessions and case studies, lightning talks, and workshops. Topics include solid-state commercialization, silicon anodes, sodium-ion technologies, advanced materials, EV architectures, charging, recycling, gigafactory execution, manufacturing scale-up, critical minerals, localization, quality, AI and data-center demand, long-duration storage, BESS economics, grid interconnection, battery certification, thermal safety, and electrified aviation. Featured content includes AI-Enabled BMS Architectures: Real-Time Diagnostics, Control Optimization, and Software Integration; Energy Storage: Technologies, Deployment, and Economics; Engineering Safer Battery Systems: Strategies to Minimize Thermal Propagation; Mixing and Coating Technologies in Battery Electrode Manufacturing; battery traceability; EV battery manufacturing; grid compliance testing; sustainable battery active-material supply chains; sodium-ion systems for grid-scale energy storage; and AI-driven models for predicting battery degradation across chemistries and manufacturers.
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OCT
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Forging Industry Association (FIA) · Pittsburgh, PA
Aerospace & Defense · Automotive · Heavy Machinery & EquipmentFIA member-only conference covering market trends, legislative updates, and business-growth strategies for the forging industry. Industry presentations address human leadership in an automated world, defense market opportunities, materials market forecasts, advocacy and lobbying efforts, automotive and aerospace market trends, artificial intelligence for forging applications, and reshoring for the forging industry. Breakout sessions cover Communication for Authentic and Influential Leadership, The Value of Benchmarking & Data, and Reducing Healthcare Costs Without Reducing Benefits. The program includes an optional plant tour of Ellwood Quality Steels, which produces carbon, alloy, and stainless steel, nickel alloys, ingots, and semifinished products. Its listed melting processes include ladle refining, vacuum degassing, vacuum oxygen decarbonization, vacuum arc remelting, and electroslag remelting. The company is also installing a vacuum induction melting furnace.
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The ASSEMBLY Show
NotableThe ASSEMBLY Show (BNP Media) · Rosemont (Chicago), IL
Automotive · Robotics & Automation · SemiconductorsThe program combines an assembly manufacturing conference and expo with The Quality Show in partnership. Tracks include Automated Assembly, AI in Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement & Operational Excellence, Design, Lean Manufacturing and Workforce Development, Quality Leadership, Culture & Workforce, Quality Systems, Inspection & Compliance, and Soldering. Featured sessions address robotic automation for high-mix, low-volume heat exchanger fabrication; press data and autonomous assembly; AI-driven compliance; shop-floor buy-in and data trust; soft sensors for industrial systems; cost of quality; sensor-driven assembly; machine vision for precision automated metrology; cost engineering; selective soldering; and preparation of the new collar workforce for smart factories. The program also includes an AI in Manufacturing keynote panel with Girish Gopalakrishnan, Roy Devadas, John Platais, and Jung Yoon, plus an Automated Assembly Systems panel with John Sprovieri, Bernard Misiak, Steven Benvenuto, and Tim Tate. Additional programming covers ASQ-MQD subjects including calibration, measurement uncertainty, VDA 5 and AIAG MSA, ISO/IEC 17025, artificial intelligence foundations, internal auditing, and risk management. Embedded guided tours cover fastening and joining technologies, smart assembly automation and robotics, connected factory data and traceability, and quality and process verification. Named presenters include executives, engineers, manufacturing specialists, quality professionals, and technology leaders from General Motors, IBM Supply Chain, ESAB, Stratasys, Milwaukee Tool, ITW, ZF, PPG Industries, Epson Robots, Edgewater Automation, and other manufacturing organizations.
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