Downtown Columbus, across from the Greater Columbus Convention Center.
FMA Executive Summits · by the Future of Manufacturing Alliance
Your plant is losing money right now. Fix it in two days.
You don’t have time to find the people who can fix it. We bring them to you.
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Why sponsors come backTwelve past sponsors, in their own words.
35 summits. Over 17,000 meetings. It works.
Or pick your industry’s filmWhy sponsors come back. Twelve past sponsors, in their own words. Or pick your industry’s film
Pick your industry. Hear it from your colleagues.
People who sell what you sell, on camera: who they met at an FMA summit, what came of it and why they came back. Then open your industry’s summit.
Past sponsors include
HVAC Summit for Manufacturing Plants
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For plant leaders
Two days. Back with names and next steps.
Why plant leaders come to FMAGeneral Motors, Estée Lauder and Sanofi, in their own words.
- 20-minute sessions led by other plant leaders
- Meet only the vendors you choose, at times you accept
- Energy cost, uptime, maintenance and AI on the plant floor
- Within driving distance of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Pennsylvania
Why now: industrial electricity in Ohio averaged 9.89¢ per kWh in June 2026, up about 14% from a year earlier, while plants are losing the maintenance knowledge that keeps lines running. Source: U.S. EIA, monthly average industrial electricity price, Ohio.
For solution providers
Meetings with the people who run the plant.
Buyers on the vendors they met at FMAPast delegates on why they come, the vendors they met and the work that came of it.
- Pre-scheduled 1-on-1s at your own dining table
- Capped at 20 sponsors, each solving a different problem for the people in the room
- A 20-minute presentation and a furnished exhibit area
- No vendor theater. No expo hall.
Who has come, industry by industry.
Past speakers and delegates at FMA summits since 2007, with their titles as they registered.
Manufacturing1,431delegates from 492 companies, and 66 speakers
See who attends
Commercial Facilities600delegates from 288 organizations, and 86 speakers
See who attends
See who attends
Commercial Facilities600delegates from 288 organizations, and 86 speakersSee who attends
Companies and organizations whose people spoke at or attended past FMA summits. Not the 2027 list.
Get in front of the decision makers, not the crowd.
Each summit is capped at 20 sponsors. The full package is $39,000 for one category at one summit.
- A 20-minute presentation
- Speak to the whole room, one session at a time. Past sponsors say traffic to their booth goes up the minute they finish talking.
- 15 guaranteed meetings
- Sit down with plant leaders who asked to meet you, booked before the summit. A booked meeting that doesn’t happen is added to your next summit.
- A furnished exhibit
- In the room where the cocktail hour happens.
- Your own dining table
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner, with assigned seating.
- Three people, full access
- Every session, every meal and the cocktail hour. Vendors attend only as sponsors: nobody walks the show.
Book both 2027 summits, Columbus and Detroit, at $29,000 each.
Want the category to yourself? Each summit is capped at 20 sponsors. To talk about your category, .
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Is an FMA summit worth the investment?The old way of selling against the FMA way, with the numbers, from past sponsors.
“We go through two dozen prospects here and get almost two dozen good qualified leads that turn into business.”
Wayne Perry, Technical Director, Kaeser Compressors
Columbus in spring. Detroit in fall.
Downtown Detroit, on the river.
Venue photos via Wikimedia Commons: Hilton Columbus Downtown by Ɱ (CC BY-SA 4.0); Renaissance Center by Crisco 1492 (public domain).
“The right kind of people.” What the buyers say.
“The people that I’ve had interaction with are the right kind of people that I want to talk with.”
Kevin ButtGM & Chief Environmental Officer, Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America“Most of all I enjoy meeting the different vendors and understanding what new technologies are on the market.”
Steve DriverEnergy Manager, Sanofi. Ten FMA summits.“The networking piece has been very advantageous: a focused way to get to know vendors instead of walking an exhibit hall.”
Al HildrethGlobal Energy Manager, General Motors
Real FMA Summit rooms. No stock photography.
Columbus, April 29–30, 2027. Detroit, October 28–29, 2027.