EtherDirect Trade Show Calendar
Every show worth considering for EtherDirect customer discovery and OEM lead generation — grouped by who you actually meet, laid out month by month. Dates tagged Verified were read off the official site on 7 Sep 2026; the rest are from prior knowledge and still need confirming.
Time-critical: IMTS opens 14 September 2026 at McCormick Place — one week out. PACK EXPO International follows 18–21 October, also Chicago. If either matters this year, registration and travel need deciding this week.
Top three picks
1 · Component ecosystem
SPS Nuremberg
24–26 Nov 2026. The densest room on earth for control cabinet building. If EtherDirect lives inside a panel door, this is the ecosystem that decides what goes in there.
2 · Pain-point interviews
CSIA Conference
Spring 2027. No show floor to speak of and expensive — but these are literally the firms whose truck rolls we are trying to eliminate. Best discovery interviews available anywhere.
3 · US OEM channel
Automation Fair
November 2026, Rockwell. The entire Rockwell partner channel — distributors, OEMs, panel shops — in one room at once.
Calendar view
Panel builders & integrators
Enclosure & wiring trades
Machine builders / OEMs
Vertical end-markets
Dashed = month not yet confirmed
Every show in detail
WhatsApp version
EtherDirect trade show shortlist 📅 ⚡ URGENT: IMTS is Sept 14-19 in Chicago — next week. Top 3 for us: • SPS Nuremberg, Nov 24-26 2026 — densest panel/cabinet component room on earth • CSIA Conference, spring 2027 — the integrators who actually wire the boxes • Automation Fair (Rockwell), Nov 2026 — US OEM + distributor channel Near-term US floor time: • IMTS — Sep 14-19, Chicago • WEFTEC — Sep 26-30, New Orleans • PACK EXPO Intl — Oct 18-21, Chicago • ASSEMBLY Show — Oct 27-29, Rosemont IL Full list + calendar: https://artifact.sahirm.com/a/etherdirect-trade-shows/
Notes & confidence
- Six entries are hard-verified against the official site today: IMTS, WEFTEC, PACK EXPO (all editions through 2028), The ASSEMBLY Show, and SPS. Treat those dates as bookable.
- Correction to an earlier note: PACK EXPO International 2026 is 18–21 October, not November as I first said. That moves it six weeks earlier than assumed.
- Unverified entries are placed in their historically typical month so the calendar reads sensibly. Automation Fair, Hannover Messe, FABTECH, Automate, EWPTE, INTERPHEX and ATX all still need a date confirmed off the official site — several are behind Cloudflare and need the browser rather than a plain fetch.
- PROCESS EXPO appears to have been rebranded. The old URL now redirects to Messe Frankfurt's Food Production Solutions Show, so its cadence may have changed entirely. Worth a proper check before planning around it.
- ProMat / MODEX alternate. ProMat 2027 is Chicago; MODEX 2028 is Atlanta. Same audience, so only one of the two is ever needed.
- Cheapest way to test the pitch is a regional ATX edition or The ASSEMBLY Show — small, low booth cost, engineers on the floor — before committing budget to SPS or IMTS.