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AMCA Issues Call for Presenters

for 2024 AHR Expo

For five days in January, Chicago will be the center of the HVACR universe, with the colocation of the 2024 ASHRAE Winter Conference (Jan. 20-24, Marriott Marquis Chicago) and the 2024 International Air-Conditioning, Heating, Refrigerating Exposition (AHR Expo) (Jan. 22-24, McCormick Place). With the alignment of these “stars,” which are expected to draw approximately 75,000 buildings professionals—engineers, OEMs, wholesalers, distributors, contractors, facility managers, and more—into their orbits, AMCA is setting a course to engage and looking to recruit some stars of its own to illuminate a path to improved comfort, health, and safety of the built environment.


AMCA is looking to present a full slate of sessions (approximately 14) as part of the 2024 AHR Expo’s Free Industry Seminar Program, which is made up, according to the show website, of “noncommercial educational/training presentations that are open for all AHR attendees to attend free of charge and without separate registration.”


After presenting three free educational sessions at the 2020 AHR Expo in Orlando, Fla., AMCA presented or co-presented nine at the 2022 AHR Expo in Las Vegas (the 2021 AHR Expo was cancelled because of COVID-19) and 14 at the 2023 AHR Expo in Atlanta.


Sessions should address subjects directly related to the HVACR industry and may include business-related topics. It is encouraged that they address one or more of the following “trending topics” established for the 2024 AHR Expo:


  • “Decarbonization: Why we have to get there, how do we get there, and at what cost? What role do customer demand and industry collaboration play in the game?
  • “Ventilation and Indoor Air: What’s all the fuss about, why should we care, what do we do about it? What do customers need, what do they want, and what effect does that have on industry design, demand and integration?
  • “AI & Controls: The changing role and increased responsibility of controls in meeting the demands of today’s economic and social climate. Where does AI fit in with it all?
  • “Plumbing: not your father’s plumber. How plumbing is keeping up with the technology and changing times and the integration of plumbing and HVAC as a whole (heat pumps, hydronics, etc.).
  • “Refrigeration & Refrigerants: How will coming changes in regulations affect each of us, predicted long term benefits or concerns, short term struggles and strategies for mitigating transition and changes?”


Sessions must be noncommercial in nature; they may not directly endorse companies, products, or organization membership. No products or equipment are permitted in the meeting rooms.


Half-hour and one-hour time slots are available (AMCA prefers proposals for one-hour sessions). Requests for longer sessions will be considered by show management.


AMCA will award professional-development hours (PDH) for each of the sessions it sponsors.


The deadline for submitting session applications to AHR Expo management is Friday, Aug. 4. If you are interested in presenting an AMCA-sponsored session, please submit a proposal to AMCA Senior Manager of Industry Engagement and Content Scott Arnold at sarnold@amca.org by the close of business on Monday, July 31. Include in your proposal:


  • The title of your session (limit: 80 characters and spaces).
  • The name(s) and title(s) of the presenter(s).
  • A one-paragraph summary establishing the relevance of the topic and describing the main points the session will cover.


If your proposed presentation fits under one of the trending topics above, please indicate that in your proposal.


For more information, contact Scott Arnold at sarnold@amca.org.

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