ANSI Innovation Summit: Key Speakers Announced, Early Bird Registration Extended to September 8!

Registration is now open for ANSI’s inaugural ANSI Innovation Summit: Where Standards Power Progress—an exploration of standards and the future of innovation. Experience dynamic panel sessions on hot topics from scaling AI across manufacturing systems to navigating the new regulatory landscape, innovation showcases, and valuable networking opportunities. Register by September 8 to take advantage of early bird pricing.

Dates: October 21-23
Location: Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center in Rockville, MD.
Details: www.ansi.org/Summit

What is the ANSI Innovation Summit?

The ANSI Innovation Summit, formerly World Standards Week, is an annual event hosted by ANSI that brings together the Institute’s members and private- and public-sector stakeholders from across the standards and conformity assessment communities to engage on priority issues and celebrate standardization achievements. View the full schedule of events.

Hear from Renowned Industry Voices

ANSI is excited to announce that three prestigious industry experts will be keynote speakers at the Summit.

• Elham Tabassi, director of the Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative and senior fellow, Global Economy and Development for The Brookings Institution, will deliver a keynote at the Summit’s conference on AI and manufacturing: Manufacturing Revolution: Building on AI Success in Smart Production and Supply Chains. Tabassi joined Brookings following a distinguished career at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), where she most recently served as the NIST’s chief AI advisor; in 2023, TIME named her one of the 100 most influential people in AI.
  
  
• Miranda Means, partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, will provide the morning keynote at the October 23 ANSI Legal Issues Forum, ahead of the panel, “Navigating the Emerging Frontier of Artificial Intelligence.” Her practice focuses on litigation and counseling in the fields of copyright, trade secret, trademark, right of publicity, art, internet and advertising law, and American Lawyer named her as a “Litigator of the Week” in connection with her work on the first AI copyright fair use case in United States legal history.
  
  
• Cary Coglianese, Edward B. Shils professor of law and professor of political science, and director of the Penn Program on Regulation, University of Pennsylvania, will give the afternoon keynote at the Legal Issues Forum, introducing the panel, “Pioneering the New Wild West: Standards and Self-Governance After Deregulation.” Coglianese specializes in the study of administrative law and regulatory processes, with an emphasis on the empirical evaluation of alternative processes and strategies and the role of public participation, technology, and business-government relations in policymaking.

ANSI Innovation Summit Sponsorship Opportunities

Sponsorship opportunities are available! Register to be a sponsor by following the link on ansi.org/summit. Questions may be directed to Stephanie Carroll, ANSI’s associate director of meetings and events, at [email protected].

Book Your Hotel in Advance! ANSI Room Block Reservations

A block of rooms for Summit attendees is available at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center in Rockville, MD, from October 20–24 at a discounted rate of $279/night.

Please note the reservation deadline of September 29, 2025; after this date, the discounted rate is not guaranteed. As this is a busy season in the DC area, it is highly recommended for attendees to book early in order to secure their room. Please use this link to make your reservation.