Call for Speakers: IndustryWeek Operations Leadership Summit
We invite experts and deep thinkers to join us in South Carolina in October for the second IndustryWeek Operations Leadership Summit, a three-day event to explore how manufacturers can thrive in today’s difficult manufacturing environment.
We invite speaker submissions on the show’s three topics: operational excellence, technology adoption and safety leadership. The 45-minute sessions will be followed by Q&A panels to explore new and interesting ideas.
Event Information
Event: IndustryWeek Operations Leadership Summit
Date: Oct. 20-22, 2026
Location: 920 Milliken Rd, Spartanburg, SC 29303
Facility: Performance Solutions by Milliken’s headquarters
If you are interested in presenting, click here to submit your ideas. Our IndustryWeek editorial team will evaluate each submission and select top entries for the show. Proposals are due by April 15, 2026.
As presenting sponsor, Performance Solutions by Milliken will host the Oct. 20-22, 2026, event at its Spartanburg, South Carolina, headquarters.
Last held in 2024, the Operations Leadership Summit gathers plant managers, vice presidents of operations, manufacturing business owners, safety professionals and manufacturing technology leaders to discuss best practices, hear from peers on important topics, network and tour world-class manufacturing operations.
Plant tours this year include BMW’s massive car assembly facility in Spartanburg and Spartanburg Steel Products, a high-volume stamping facility.
Registration for the event opens in March, but please sign up today to receive updates and reminders.
I look forward to seeing you in the Palmetto State this fall.
—Robert Schoenberger, IndustryWeek Head of Content
About the Author
Robert Schoenberger
Robert Schoenberger was chief editor of IndustryWeek from 2021-2026, and has been writing about manufacturing technology in one form or another since the late 1990s. He began his career in newspapers in South Texas and has worked for The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi; The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky; and The Plain Dealer in Cleveland where he spent more than six years as the automotive reporter. In 2014, he launched Today's Motor Vehicles (now EV Manufacturing & Design), a magazine focusing on design and manufacturing topics within the automotive and commercial truck worlds. He joined IndustryWeek in late 2021.