Foundation Events
The 2018 Center Best Practice Conference, is scheduled for Sept. 12-14 at the Kansas City Marriott Downtown in Kansas City, Missouri. This biennial conference will serve as a training venue for the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Centers to share and receive best practice(s) with MEP Center colleagues.
Attendees of this event, will include the national network of hundreds of MEP specialists who understand the needs of America’s small manufacturers. The nationwide network consists of manufacturing extension partnership centers located in all 50 states and Puerto Rico, offices of which work with more than 30,000 manufacturers per year.
The CBPC is MEP Center-driven, and MEP Center-led; meaning the MEP National Network of manufacturing specialists, determine the tracks and best practices that be showcased. The attendees help structure the content of the conference and the Foundation simply facilitates it.
