12 – 2:15 pm ET
Free event
Opens with networking lunch from 12-1 pm ET
Join this interactive session to help launch the groundbreaking U.S. Standards Strategy 2025—a roadmap for advancing U.S. technological innovation and global competitiveness. As rapid technological change reshapes international markets, this strategy positions standards as essential tools for driving U.S. economic growth, strengthening national security, supporting public health and safety, and maintaining technological excellence.
Your voice matters. We are seeking input from industry leaders, technical experts, standards developers, and members of consumer advocacy groups, academia, and government on how to effectively communicate and implement this critical strategy following its publication in January 2026. Your recommendations will directly influence how ANSI and the broader standards community roll out initiatives that drive innovation, open global markets, and enhance U.S. competitiveness across sectors.
2:30 – 5 pm ET
Free event
Closes with networking reception from 4-5 pm ET
Discover how standards serve as the invisible force powering progress across every sector—from breakthrough technologies to innovations that transform how we live and work.
Standards Power Progress is an immersive showcase where innovators and industry leaders reveal the compelling stories behind standardization breakthroughs. Through dynamic presentations, demonstrations, and interactive exhibits, you will experience firsthand how standardization becomes the catalyst for innovation that transforms markets, saves lives, and shapes our future.
Rate before 9/8: $299; ANSI Member: $240
Rate after 9/8: $359; ANSI Member: $285
Includes breakfast, lunch, and networking breaks. Begins with networking breakfast at 8 am.
Morning Keynote: Elham Tabassi, Director, Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative; Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development, The Brookings Institution
MORNING PANEL: From Pilot to Production: Scaling AI across Systems and Supply Chains
As manufacturers contend with supply chain disruptions, material shortages, rising costs, and workforce gaps, AI has evolved from “nice-to-have” to business-critical—but scaling it beyond a successful pilot remains a big challenge.
This interactive session features manufacturing leaders, AI innovators, and supply chain experts sharing real-world insights from their successful scaling journeys. Through compelling case studies, demos, and data-driven visuals, you'll see how companies turned promising pilots into enterprise-wide transformations. Panelists will share integration strategies, relevant standards, measurable outcomes, and lessons learned along the way for challenges like coordinating across global supply networks, managing automated logistics systems, connecting disparate technologies and data, overcoming legacy infrastructure challenges, and mitigating disruption and risk.
AFTERNOON PANEL: The Smart Manufacturing Toolkit: Standards, Resources, and Roadmaps for Success
Building on the morning’s discussions, this session examines the essential tools, frameworks, and standards that enable sustainable AI transformation in manufacturing. While technology captures headlines, success depends on the underlying infrastructure of standards, best practices, and industry resources that many companies struggle to navigate-and identifying what’s missing from the toolkit.
This collaborative panel features leaders from key standards organizations and industry practitioners who will explore the current landscape of available resources while identifying gaps that need attention. From mobility and automotive standards to advanced manufacturing centers of excellence, panelists bring diverse perspectives on what’s working, what’s needed, and how the standardization community can better serve manufacturers. Key topics include leveraging existing standards; accessing federal and industry resources; aligning cross-industry efforts for maximum impact; and identifying gaps and accelerating standards development for emerging technologies. Through interactive discussion and real-time audience input, we’ll connect today’s available tools with tomorrow’s needs.
Rate before 9/8: $165; ANSI Member: $130
Rate after 9/8: $199; ANSI Member: $155
(Reception 6-7 pm; Dinner: 7-9 pm)
Join ANSI in honoring outstanding achievements in standards, conformity assessment, and workforce development at the 2025 reception, dinner, and ceremony.
Registration for the awards ceremony will close on October 15.
Rate before 9/8: $299; ANSI Member: $240
Rate after 9/8: $359; ANSI Member: $285
Includes breakfast, lunch, and networking breaks. Begins with networking breakfast at 10 am.
Morning Keynote: Miranda Means, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
MORNING PANEL: Navigating the Emerging Frontier of Artificial Intelligence
As AI capabilities accelerate at breakneck speed, legal and regulatory frameworks are racing to keep pace. From copyright and fair use to broader operational integrity and legal defensibility, individuals and organizations are left dealing with host of critical questions. This tension is especially evident at the crossroads of standards development, conformity assessment and AI. This panel will take a deep dive into the evolving legal and regulatory landscape and unpack emerging AI governance frameworks, intellectual property implications for AI-generated content and the development of industry standards and conformity assessment processes. Attendees will walk away with clear insights into the risks, responsibilities, and opportunities facing standards bodies and conformity assessment organizations in the age of AI.
Afternoon Keynote: Cary Coglianese, Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science; Director, Penn Program on Regulation, University of Pennsylvania
AFTERNOON PANEL: Pioneering the New Wild West: Standards and Self-Governance After Deregulation
With a sweeping range of deregulatory policy moves, the Trump Administration is reshaping the standards and conformity assessment arena. As federal regulations are rolled back at an unprecedented pace, the standards ecosystem is forced to grapple with shifting priorities - creating both uncertainty and opportunity across industries. In this new reality, a key question emerges: In the absence of regulation, is there a greater need for standards and conformity assessment? Panelists will explore the evolving role of the standards and conformity assessment community in a regulatory vacuum, and how it can respond, adapt, and lead when formal oversight contracts.
CLE Credits: ANSI is pleased to offer a total of 4.2 Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits for this conference. CLE is professional education for attorneys following their admission to the bar. Attendees seeking CLE credits must complete required sign-in and sign-out procedures at the conference.
10/21-10/23
Rate before 9/8: $540; ANSI Member: $435
Rate after 9/8: $650; ANSI Member: $515
Open to individuals with 8 or fewer years of experience in standards and conformity assessment, this 3-day workshop will prime emerging standards professionals with the skills they need to be successful in International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) activities. Participants will network with industry leaders, gain insights into the standards development and conformity assessment processes, and attend valuable trainings to advance their careers and the work of their organizations. Participation in all three days of this program is required.
Demonstrate your support of the standardization community and stand out as an ANSI Innovation Summit sponsor in 2025! Several ANSI Summit sponsorship opportunities are available, all of which will grant your organization ample exposure to attendees and guests. The deadline to register as an ANSI 2025 Innovation Summit sponsor is September 19.
Book your hotel now for the 2025 Summit
ANSI has arranged for a room block at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center from Oct 20 – Oct 24 at a discounted rate of $279/night. Please note that the deadline to reserve the room has passed, and the availability of rooms and discounted rate are not guaranteed.
Separate from the ANSI Innovation Summit events, but held during the same timeframe, the U.S. Celebration of WSD is hosted by a committee of standardization community partners. ANSI and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) co-chair the WSD planning committee. IAPMO is serving as the administrating organization for the 2025 U.S. Celebration of World Standards Day
Looking for the previous proceedings? Visit the Spring 2022, Fall 2022, 2023, and 2024 event pages.
