Best Practices 2026 EXPO & Conference Registration Opens
Best Practices 2026 EXPO & Conference will take place Oct. 13-15 in Indianapolis, IN.
Registration is open for the 9th annual Best Practices 2026 EXPO & Conference at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, IN, Oct. 13-15. Designed for facility maintenance, plant engineers, energy managers and distributor sales engineers, this event is devoted to sustainable, safe and reliable on-site industrial plant utilities powering automation – including compressed air, nitrogen, HVAC/process cooling and blower/vacuum systems.
Facility maintenance and engineering will discover how to save energy and water, increase uptime and reduce product rejects. Educational sessions are led by industry experts, with hands-on workshops, certification opportunities and networking. Earn up to 12 PDHs.
“Facility engineering and maintenance attend to improve plant profitability,” said Roderick M. Smith, Publisher, Best Practices Magazines & EXPO. “Distributor sales engineers improve technical knowledge and territory management skills.”
At the 2025 event, Mark Allen Roberts, CEO, OTB Solutions, introduced a sold out Sales Engineering Workshop. Sales Foundations will return for 2026, covering the formal sales process, earning meetings with new prospects, discovery questions, qualifying questions and closing skills. Precision Prospecting will be added, focusing on identifying ideal targets, crafting outreach that earns responses and creating a repeatable process for filling the sales pipeline.
Facility maintenance will interact with fully operational table-top compressed air labs with pneumatic circuits to learn how to reduce the demand of compressed air at Compressed Air Demand Reduction Workshop led by experts from SMC, Gentex and The Analysts.
Industrial Chilled Water Workshop designed for facility engineering focuses on chiller and cooling water systems. It’s led by experts from 3M, EVAPCO and Integrated Services Group. Pneumatic Conveying Workshop covers dilute and dense phase fundamentals, and the instructor is Jonathan McPherson, Director of Advanced Manufacturing and Bulk Solids Technology Center, Kansas State University.
The Compressed Air & Gas Institute will offer the Certified Compressed Air System Specialist Exam on-site at the event at a reduced price. Compressed Air Challenge will host its Level 1: Fundamentals of Compressed Air Systems course, teaching how to achieve 10-30% cost savings through more effective production and use of compressed air.
More than 80 global compressed air, nitrogen, HVAC/process cooling and blower/vacuum OEMs will be exhibiting on the EXPO floor. There will be further educational opportunities at the New Technology and Leak Detection Pavilions.
Register at https://cabpexpo.com/registration-2026.
About Best Practices 2026 EXPO & Conference
The Best Practices 2026 EXPO & Conference is the leading North American event focused on sustainable, safe and reliable on-site utilities powering automation. The event takes place Oct. 13-15, 2026, at the Indiana City Convention Center in Indianapolis, IN. Attendees come from engineering firms, manufacturing plants and equipment companies responsible for specifying, purchasing, operating, selling and maintaining on-site utility equipment in industrial compressed air, nitrogen, blower/vacuum and HVAC/process cooling systems.