CAMX - Composites and Advanced Materials Expo 2026

What makes CAMX 2026 a distinct composites industry event?

CAMX is the Composites and Advanced Materials Expo, promoted by its organisers as the largest, most comprehensive composites and advanced materials event in North America. The conference runs September 21 to 24, 2026, and the exhibition follows September 22 to 24, 2026 at Georgia World Congress Center, Building C.

The American Composites Manufacturers Association and the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering own and produce CAMX equally. Gardner Business Media is the official media partner. That ownership connects the technical conference, exhibit floor and trade media within one industry-led event.

Which technical and commercial teams fit CAMX 2026?

CAMX names industry professionals, researchers, technicians and business leaders as core attendees. Its market list reaches aerospace, automotive, energy, marine, construction, infrastructure, medical, space and sports equipment. In 2025 registration data, composite manufacturers, fabricators and molders were 39 percent of company type, while suppliers were 18 percent.

The event therefore fits manufacturers, materials suppliers, equipment vendors, engineering firms, testing providers and technical services that can tie an offer to an actual composites application. Teams without a credible advanced-materials buyer or partner case have a weaker reason to exhibit.

When do the CAMX conference and exhibit hall run?

The CAMX conference runs September 21 to 24, 2026, while the exhibition runs September 22 to 24, 2026. Floor hours are Tuesday 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Wednesday 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM and Thursday 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Wednesday is the longest published floor day.

The organiser states that the schedule is subject to change. Monday is conference and move-in time rather than an open exhibit day, so attendee calendars and booth staffing should distinguish the four-day conference from the three-day exhibition.

How does the CAMX week change from Monday through Thursday?

Monday is reserved for tutorials, association activity and exhibitor move-in. Tuesday opens with the 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM general session and keynote, then the exhibit floor runs 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM before a 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM welcome reception.

Wednesday supplies the longest exhibit window, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, and includes the 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM Young Professionals Meet-Up in The Hive. Thursday narrows to a 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM floor window with breakfast and show-floor conference programming.

Where inside Georgia World Congress Center is CAMX 2026?

CAMX 2026 is in Georgia World Congress Center, Building C. The published address is 285 Andrew Young International Blvd, NW, Atlanta, GA 30313. The official mobile app adds interactive maps and floor plans, which are the most direct way to move between booths, education areas and networking spaces.

Building C is the stable location reference for travel, freight and attendee wayfinding. The app map should be treated as the working floor layer because booth assignments and displayed routes can change closer to the event.

What does the prospectus say about flying into Atlanta?

The 2026 prospectus describes Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport as serving 150-plus U.S. destinations and more than 70 international destinations. It also reports an average of 2,100 arrivals and departures per day and says the airport is within a two-hour flight of 80 percent of the U.S. population.

Those are promotional connectivity figures, not door-to-door travel times. They support Atlanta's accessibility case, while each traveler still needs flight-specific buffers, local transport time and a contingency for arrival-day congestion.

Which CAMX registration option matches each job to be done?

Registration is open. A Full Conference Pass includes all conference sessions, the General Session, Welcome Reception, exhibit hall and new show-floor education. Early pricing is $695 for members and $995 for non-members. Expo Hall Plus costs $95 through regular registration and $105 onsite.

Tutorials are a separate $225 purchase. Groups buying five or more Full Conference registrations can receive a 20 percent discount. Buyers should match the pass to required sessions and floor access before comparing the price columns.

Which attendance, cancellation and press rules affect CAMX plans?

CAMX attendees must be at least 16 years old, and anyone under 18 is barred from the show floor during move-in and move-out. Business casual dress is suggested. Written cancellation requests are due August 21, 2026, and accepted refunds carry a $100 processing fee.

Press can request a complimentary press pass, subject to approval. These rules separate ordinary attendee access from move-in restrictions, cancellation administration and media credentialing, so each traveler should use the registration type that matches the work they will perform.

How should CAMX travelers use the official Atlanta hotel block?

Conference Direct is the only authorised CAMX hotel reservations contact. The organiser lists September 6, 2026 as the group-rate deadline, with hotel-specific cutoffs possible. Published examples range from $195 plus taxes and fees at Holiday Inn Express to $256 plus taxes and fees at Omni Atlanta.

CAMX shuttles will serve selected hotels within the official block. Booking through the named housing channel reduces exposure to unauthorised solicitations and keeps shuttle eligibility tied to the published hotel network.

What dates anchor a workable CAMX arrival and departure plan?

The conference runs September 21 to 24, 2026, and the exhibition runs September 22 to 24, 2026. Conference Direct controls the official room block, whose published group-rate deadline is September 6, 2026. CAMX Shuttles will serve selected hotels in that room block.

Conference participants need Monday access, while exhibit-only travelers may not need the same arrival pattern. Departure planning should protect Thursday's abbreviated floor schedule and account for hotel, shuttle and airport transfer time after the 1:00 PM close.

What is verifiable about the CAMX 2026 exhibitor base?

The official hotel page promotes 500-plus exhibiting companies, while the 2026 prospectus says 500-plus companies already make CAMX part of their strategy. The mobile app says users can search hundreds of exhibitors and products. Exhibitors receive listings in the app, online directory, MyCAMX planner and printed directory.

These claims establish scale and discovery channels, but they do not substitute for a captured full roster. Account research should begin with the current planner and record company-level evidence as the directory becomes accessible.

How complete is the public CAMX 2026 exhibitor directory?

Evidence status: CAMX provides a live 2026 planner and points visitors to its exhibitor list and floor plan, but the fetched public view does not expose a complete company roster or a reliable count. The page therefore reports the organiser's promotional scale separately and does not present a fabricated directory total.

The app can still search hundreds of exhibitors and products, so the absence is an extraction limitation rather than proof that the directory is empty. A named-account list needs a fresh export or manual review of the live planner.

Which CAMX 2026 program elements deserve protected calendar time?

Kevin Gaskell leads the 2026 opening general session. The organiser promotes more than 100 sessions and over 10 live demonstrations. Featured sessions move onto the CAMX Innovation Stage in the Awards Pavilion, placing technical programming directly on the show floor.

The program mixes keynote content, reviewed technical papers, education sessions, tutorials and live process demonstrations. A useful itinerary protects a few application-specific sessions while leaving room for supplier discovery and scheduled conversations.

Where are the strongest published meeting windows during CAMX?

Tuesday offers a 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM floor window after the keynote, followed by the 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM Welcome Reception. Wednesday supplies 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM on the floor and the 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM Young Professionals Meet-Up. Thursday closes at 1:00 PM.

The 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM Tuesday keynote is a natural boundary before booth activity begins. Meetings that require product inspection belong during open-floor hours; broader relationship conversations fit the reception or The Hive.

What does prior registration data reveal about CAMX buyer fit?

The organiser describes a mix of industry professionals, researchers, technicians and business leaders. In 2025 registration data, composite manufacturers, fabricators and molders were 39 percent of company type, while suppliers were 18 percent. Engineers were 21 percent of job function, as were sales and marketing roles.

Presidents, CEOs and owners represented 18 percent of the same job-function view. The mix supports technical validation and commercial conversations, but the figures describe the prior edition and should be labelled that way in account planning.

What does CAMX promotional scale imply for account prioritization?

CAMX promotes 6,500-plus industry professionals and leaders alongside 500-plus exhibiting companies. Dividing 6,500 by 500 gives roughly 13 professionals per exhibiting company. Because both inputs are rounded promotional minimums, the ratio is directional, not a forecast of booth traffic or attainable meetings.

See the scale-ratio method before converting organiser reach into a target-account list.

Which planning tasks belong in the CAMX 2026 mobile app?

The CAMX app can build and manage a personalized event schedule, browse the complete conference program, speakers and education sessions, and search hundreds of exhibitors and products. It also provides interactive maps and floor plans, connections with exhibitors, speakers and fellow attendees, plus important event updates and real-time notifications.

Those functions make the app useful for agenda and navigation work. They do not prove badge scanning, lead qualification, CRM export or follow-up ownership, so those workflows require separate evidence and tooling decisions.

Does the CAMX planner also document lead-capture operations?

Evidence status: the official app documents schedules, exhibitor search, maps, connections and notifications, while the public planner exposes event discovery pages. Neither the checked 2026 pages nor the public exhibitor resources identify a current lead-retrieval product or describe its capture workflow, so planning and scanning cannot be treated as the same function.

The unresolved boundary includes badge compatibility, qualification fields, exports, device rules and support. Those details remain open until an organiser order form or service-kit page documents them.

Which CAMX exhibit and sponsorship prices are publicly verified?

The 2026 prospectus lists 100 to 1,000 square feet at $41 and 1,100 square feet and above at $40. A corner carries a $410 charge. Sponsorship levels range from Contributor at $4,999 and under to Elite at $30,000-plus. These are published line items, not bundled quotes.

These are verified line items, not a complete event budget. Freight, labour, electrical, travel, graphics, equipment, insurance and lead-retrieval charges still need current quotes before an exhibitor can model total spend.

How many open-floor hours must a CAMX booth team cover?

Tuesday runs 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM for 7 hours, Wednesday runs 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM for 8 hours, and Thursday runs 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM for 4 hours. Together, CAMX publishes 19 exhibit-hall hours across three days.

Use the floor-coverage worksheet to turn those 19 hours into shift, break and account-coverage decisions.

Is a named CAMX 2026 lead-retrieval product publicly verified?

Evidence status: no current public CAMX order form, organiser page, prospectus section or planner page names a 2026 lead-retrieval product. Older contractor references cannot establish this edition's vendor. The correct draft treatment is an unresolved tool field, not a borrowed brand name or a guessed scanner.

Exhibitors need the current service kit or an organiser-issued ordering link before purchasing hardware, assigning licenses or writing operational instructions around badge capture.

Which scanner fields, exports and device limits are public for CAMX?

Evidence status: the checked sources do not publish 2026 lead-capture fields, qualifier limits, note support, export formats, offline behavior, rental-device terms or bring-your-own-device rules. Since the underlying product is also unnamed, feature-level statements would be speculation rather than event guidance.

The missing specification should be resolved from a current order form or product page before a booth runbook depends on scans, CSV exports or CRM handoff.

Can B2Brain be compared fairly with the official CAMX scanner?

Evidence status: no official CAMX scanner has been verified for 2026, so a product-by-product comparison would create claims about an unknown tool. B2Brain can be described only through approved brand evidence; the event-side column must remain unfilled until a named product and its documented capabilities are available.

This avoids implying that the mobile planner is a badge scanner and prevents current workflow decisions from inheriting another event's vendor setup.

What evidence is missing before choosing a CAMX capture tool?

Evidence status: a defensible choice still needs the official product name, order deadline, license price, supported devices, captured fields, offline mode, export route, CRM options and onsite support terms. None of those inputs were verified on the public 2026 CAMX pages reviewed for this draft.

Until the organiser releases those details, the team can define internal qualification requirements without pretending the event tool meets them.

Which qualification fields fit the CAMX audience and market mix?

Useful fields should identify role, company type, end market, current material or process, project stage and agreed next step. CAMX names industry professionals, researchers, technicians and business leaders across aerospace, automotive, energy, marine, construction, infrastructure, medical and space markets. Prior data lists manufacturers at 39 percent, suppliers at 18 percent, engineers at 21 percent, sales and marketing at 21 percent, and presidents, CEOs and owners at 18 percent.

That evidence supports event-specific qualifiers such as material system, manufacturing method, qualification barrier, production volume and timing. It does not justify guessing budget or purchase authority when the attendee has not supplied it.

How much of the prior CAMX job-function mix maps to commercial conversations?

The 2025 profile lists engineers at 21 percent, sales and marketing at 21 percent, and presidents, CEOs and owners at 18 percent. Their sum is 60 percent. The result describes a selected prior-edition job-function mix, not the share of qualified leads an exhibitor will capture in 2026.

Apply the audience-prioritization worksheet to separate useful role coverage from a conversion forecast.

When should Thursday CAMX conversations enter follow-up?

The exhibition runs September 22 to 24, 2026, and Thursday floor hours are 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Using the approved two-hour response window, the first follow-up deadline is 3:00 PM on September 24. A one-week comparison point lands on October 1, 2026, preserving both a same-day action point and a later decay check.

Use the post-show timing checklist to assign owners before the final floor window ends.

Can the public CAMX figures support a verified ROI model?

Evidence status: the prospectus supplies exhibit-space, corner and sponsorship prices, but public sources do not supply a complete CAMX spend or a defensible average contract value for each exhibitor. A numeric ROI result would therefore combine verified costs with invented commercial inputs, which this draft does not do.

The verified prices remain useful budget components. ROI should be calculated only after the exhibitor adds labour, services, travel and other costs plus its own accepted pipeline and revenue assumptions.