U.S. Celebration of
World Standards Day

Event Overview

The U.S. Celebration of World Standards Day (WSD) is an annual event recognizing the importance of various stakeholder groups across the standards community, including business leaders, industry, academia, and government. The event features a yearly theme relevant to the broader community and its priorities, and includes presentation of the Ronald H. Brown Standards Leadership Award.

The 2022 U.S. Celebration of World Standards Day will take place on Thursday, October 13, as an in-person event in Washington, DC. The International Code Council (ICC) is the 2022 administrating organization.

To sponsor/attend the U.S. Celebration of World Standards Day, please click here.

WSD 2022 Theme: Sustaining the U.S. Standards Model and American Standards Leadership

For more than a century, voluntary codes and standards created by non-profit standard development organizations have protected public health, safety, and security, constituted a backbone of commerce, provided the building blocks for innovation, and served as the basis for quality and interoperability. This is the result of one of the most successful public-private partnerships in history. America’s leadership is driven by non-governmental SDOs, harnessing private sector speed and flexibility to enable consensus-based and market driven standards that keep pace with technology, foster economic growth, and save government partners and taxpayers billions. The U.S.’s unique SDO partnership must be both supported and protected, and SDO’s time and investments valued. The World Standards Day 2022 theme – Sustaining the U.S. Standards Model and American Standards Leadership – draws attention to and supports this public-private partnership which has ensured America’s continued standards development leadership on the global stage.

U.S. WSD Planning Committee

World Standards Day was initially launched in 1970, and is now recognized and celebrated by nations around the globe. U.S. activities are organized annually by a planning committee consisting of representatives from the standards and conformity assessment community. Participation in the U.S. World Standards Day Planning Committee is open to all. If your organization is interested in joining the WSD Committee and being part of the annual U.S. Celebration of World Standards Day, please reach out to Stephanie Carroll (scarroll@ansi.org; 212-642-4890). The WSD Committee meets monthly.

WSD Paper Competition

WSD Event Sponsorship

Sponsorship opportunities are available for the 2022 WSD celebration on October 13, 2022. Click here for sponsor registration.

$9,100: Recognition in all promotional materials, tabletop exhibition space during networking reception and 30 seats for the WSD dinner

$5,850: Recognition in all promotional materials, tabletop exhibition space during networking reception and 20 seats for the WSD dinner

$3,250: Recognition in all promotional materials, tabletop exhibition space during networking reception and 10 seats for the WSD dinner

$1,950: Recognition in all promotional materials, tabletop exhibition space during networking reception and 5 seats for the WSD dinner

$1,300: Recognition in all promotional materials, tabletop exhibition space during networking reception and 2 seats for the WSD dinner

$253: Individual ticket – Industry: entrance to reception and 1 seat for the WSD dinner (does not include tabletop exhibition space)

$65: Individual ticket – Government: entrance to reception and 1 seat for the WSD dinner (does not include tabletop exhibition space)

$75: Individual ticket – Reception only: entrance to reception (does not include tabletop exhibition space or a seat for the WSD dinner)

For questions, contact ANSI senior meetings & events manager Stephanie Carroll at scarroll@ansi.org.

The U.S. Celebration of World Standards Day is a widely attended event that is co-sponsored and attended by federal government agencies to recognize and honor the many contributions of the U.S. standards and conformity assessment community.