2027 MPMA Annual Meeting

The program focuses on clean-energy project performance, resource optimization, data tracking, and energy-assessment accuracy for solar, wind, and storage projects. Topics include solar design, module and system performance and degradation, modeling practices, soiling, capacity testing, and climate impacts; wind modeling, lidar and remote sensing, turbine and blade losses, equipment-failure prediction, IEC standards, FAA permitting, layout optimization, and repowering; and battery degradation, performance metrics, and pairing generation and storage with data-center loads. Additional topics include uncertainty modeling, AI applications, GIS and site planning, complex terrain and land cover, time-series data, co-located wind, solar, and battery storage modeling, climate impacts on energy assessments, renewable revenue and market outlooks, and storage revenue modeling. Proposal types include speaking and poster presentations, as well as sponsored software and tool review presentations or demos.

Programming topics include permitting and regulatory pathways, federal policy updates, development on federal lands, environmental permitting and agency consultation, state and regional policy trends, and state and local policy barriers. Technical and applied topics include AI, GIS and outreach tools; agrivoltaics and solar on agricultural lands; land-use and conversion impacts; soil health, stormwater and SWPPP; vegetative screening and habitat; end-of-life, recycling and circularity; repowering existing projects; FAA, DoD and DOT updates; transmission siting and permitting; and energy storage siting and compliance. Community engagement topics include pre-project engagement, building engagement programs, coalition building and local approvals, listening to local leaders, model ordinances and decision-making tools, community benefits and financial support models, responding to moratoria and restrictive zoning, measuring community acceptance, misinformation and public perception, and clean-energy and data-center partnerships. The case-study showcase covers project development journeys, ownership and lifecycle transitions, responsible development, permit-compliance success stories, and emerging research and technologies. The conference is co-located with ACP PEAK, with distinct programming for each conference.

The event features manufacturing, distribution, and supply-chain equipment and systems, hands-on demonstrations of equipment and technology, expert-led educational sessions, and in-person business connections. Featured keynote themes include the 2027 MHI Annual Industry Report, innovation at scale, and teamwork and leadership.

The meeting brings together executives, decision-makers, and technical experts from refining businesses, technology providers, contracting and consulting firms, and equipment manufacturers. Sessions are designed to examine policies, regulations, geopolitics, and disruptions affecting the downstream sector.

The meeting brings together executives, decision-makers, and technical experts from refining businesses, technology providers, contracting and consulting firms, and equipment manufacturers. Sessions address policies, regulations, geopolitics, and disruptions affecting downstream businesses. The agenda includes general sessions, concurrent breakout sessions, and a Government Relations Breakfast.

Content for association CEOs and senior-level association executives focuses on emerging industry, business, technology, and association management trends. The conference includes table discussions on trending issues and crowd-sourced solutions, general sessions, Conversessions, and CEO and staff roundtables. A New CEO Breakfast features discussion of strategies for establishing leadership in a new role. Registration is for trade association leaders and their staff.

Exclusive to FIA members. Featured keynotes, economic updates, and panel discussions will offer perspectives to help members navigate change and plan for the future. A dedicated Next Gen workshop for attendees under age 35 focuses on professional development and building a successful career in forging.

The program includes keynotes, panels, breakouts, and interactive roundtables on steel-industry conditions; fabrication businesses, leadership, and industry outlook; AI and digitization in manufacturing; shop-floor equipment use cases and return on investment; and manufacturing’s economic and financial outlook. Sessions also address profitability, capital investment, business growth, tariffs, steel, leadership development, recruitment, small- and midsize-manufacturer growth, and potential changes to tax policy, OSHA and EPA regulations, and tariffs. Roundtable topics include culture, marketing, AI, and operations.

The annual member-centric event brings together the additive manufacturing community for high-level conversations, presentations, and panels. Discussion covers Institute accomplishments and future direction, information sharing about additive manufacturing advances, and increasing adoption of additive manufacturing in the U.S. industrial base. The event aims to foster collaboration and build a competitive American additive manufacturing industrial base.

The annual IEEE PES General Meeting is a forum for power engineers and academics to share research and developments in electrical power engineering. Its broad focus includes power systems and energy technologies, challenges facing electric grids and utilities, and technical direction and standards within IEEE PES.

The meeting showcases IACMI road-mapping efforts, advances in its technology areas, member successes, technical project updates, and workforce development initiatives. It connects decision-makers from major OEMs, small and midsize companies, government agencies, and academic institutions.