Heavy Machinery & Equipment Conferences & Events in the US — 2027
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This 2027 calendar covers US conferences, expos, forums, showcases, and member meetings relevant to heavy machinery and equipment. Typical participants include professionals in steel production, defense, military engineering, shooting-sports supply, materials and process engineering, and additive manufacturing. The listed gatherings take place in locations including Nashville, Huntsville, Honolulu, Washington, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, and Youngstown.
Recurring themes include steel technology, defense and military engineering, supplier relationships, advanced materials, manufacturing processes, and additive manufacturing. The events are organized by industry associations, technical societies, defense forums, a shooting-sports trade show, and the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, reflecting both industrial applications and equipment-related technical exchange.
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Honolulu Defense Forum 2027
NotablePacific Forum — Honolulu Defense Forum · Honolulu, HI
Aerospace & Defense · Heavy Machinery & Equipment · Mining & MetalsHosted by Pacific Forum International, the annual forum focuses on operationalizing solutions to prevail in the Indo-Pacific. It emphasizes practical implementation rather than policy discussion, bringing together operational leaders, policymakers, industry innovators, and investors to field capabilities, integrate partners, strengthen economic resilience, and build the operational networks needed to sustain deterrence and security. Themes include: - Delivering Combat Power Forward: Speed, Scale, and Sustainment, including distributed logistics, forward maintenance, space-enabled sensing, missile defense integration, and authorities and funding mechanisms that affect execution. - Coalition as a Capability: Executing Networked Deterrence, including information-sharing, standard setting, legal authorities, interoperability, Pacific Island participation, and translating exercises into operational change. - Industrial Power as Deterrence: Mobilizing Capacity, including production and repair acceleration, commercial integration into operational planning, acquisition and contracting, allied industrial capacity, and private capital for defense production. - Decision Advantage: AI, Data, and the Information Domain, including AI, data integration, decision-support tools, information operations, cognitive warfare, and integration of classified, commercial, and allied data. - Economic Resilience in Action: Securing Supply Chains and Strategic Resources, including supply chain resilience, access to critical resources, public-private partnerships, manufacturing and energy investment, and economic resilience in deterrence and defense planning. The forum will convene government, industry, allies, and venture capital; identify policy, legal, financial, and operational barriers; connect investors with government challenges; and produce actionable recommendations and a final report for policymakers, planners, and industry.
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AISTech 2027
NotableAssociation for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST) · Nashville, TN
Heavy Machinery & Equipment · Mining & MetalsAISTech 2027 combines the Iron & Steel Exposition with a technology conference covering the full steelmaking process. The program features hundreds of technical presentations, an expansive exhibition floor, technology committee meetings, the Howe Memorial Lecture, the President's Award Breakfast, a Town Hall Forum, a Town Hall Lunch, the AIST Foundation Steel to Students Roundtable and Reception, technical sessions, the Graduate Student Poster Contest, the Undergraduate Student Project Presentation Contest, and plant tours.
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America Makes (National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute) · Youngstown, OH
Aerospace & Defense · Heavy Machinery & Equipment · Robotics & AutomationMMX is America Makes’ annual member-centric event for strategic discussions, presentations, and panels on additive manufacturing, Institute accomplishments, technology adoption, and the U.S. industrial base. The program includes an America Makes State of the Union; a panel on the polymer AM crisis and opportunity; the next phase of the Institute and contracts; the Defense Logistics Agency’s advanced manufacturing program and how to sell to DLA; additive production of airworthy parts; CMMC requirements and implications; 3D printing for drones; industrial competitiveness in a new manufacturing era; and updates on America Makes technology, industrial-base integration, education and workforce development, the Youngstown Innovation Hub, and project calls. The program is open to members and nonmembers.
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