Manufacturing Momentum Summit 2024 VIRTUAL Registration

Attention! An event agenda and Zoom webinar link will be distributed closer to the day of the event. For questions, please reach out to AMCC Operations Director, David Van Siclen at [email protected]. Please register asap!

Overview: AMCC, NACo, federal agencies, and other partners are convening in Washington D.C. on December 12, 2024 for a Manufacturing Momentum Summit Workshop bringing together federal, state, public and private sector partners to accelerate the pace of regional and national manufacturing revitalization.

American regions are at a crucial inflection point implementing historic federal investments that are revitalizing domestic manufacturing through CHIPS, IRA, ARPA, and BIL. Each region, composed of public and private actors, must navigate a complex landscape of funding and other opportunities from siloed agency interventions to deliver value for small and medium sized manufacturers in their regions, especially as it relates to supply chain improvements, technology transfer and other Big 6 regional manufacturing ecosystem needs. Time and again, these regional leaders face the same set of interconnected challenges related to weaving together appropriate funding, building the capacity to organize and maintain a collaborative regional network, turning their funding into impact, and effectively measuring their outcomes. Without an interconnected group of leaders across federal, state, and regional entities, the massive collective impact potential provided by these “generational” federal investments may not be fully realized.

Summit Objectives:

1. Convene regional stakeholders leading consortia initiatives with reps from key federal agencies that have important roles in revitalizing manufacturing (e.g. NIST, EDA, DOD, DOE, NSF, SBA, DOL, Treasury) in a workshop setting focused on advancing manufacturing outcomes in priority sectors and technology areas made by SMMs and their ecosystems of support.
2. Showcase for a key set of regional and interagency stakeholders the benefits of government research and work in technology, standards and best practices in supporting manufacturing and regional development.
3. Workshop next steps for improving manufacturing related federal and state place-based initiatives that will improve standards setting and best practices for regional economic and sustainable development.
4. Institutionalize this event, and the resultant working network, as a cross-government, stakeholder-led, manufacturer-informed nexus of national leadership that stakeholders will want to participate in from year to year.

Host or Publisher American Manufacturing Communities Collaborative (AMCC)