This is your chance. Your get-in-on-the-ground-floor moment.
Registration for ASCE2027: The Infrastructure and Engineering Experience is now open.
It’s a first-of-its-kind event, bringing infrastructure professionals across sectors under one very large roof, March 1-5, in Philadelphia.
“Civil engineers rely on one another to create the best possible outcomes for communities across the nation, and ASCE2027 provides a groundbreaking space for professionals from across each discipline to congregate,” said Marsha Anderson Bomar, ASCE president. “The larger forum will also create more opportunities to hear from voices outside of our profession that can contextualize the needs of the communities we serve.”
As you plan your program (and there are a lot of choices), here is everything you need to know about ASCE2027:
Engineering is a team sport
It’s never been more apparent that infrastructure is a group activity, requiring input from and collaboration with professionals across multiple industries – from, yes, civil engineering, to finance, policy, and social science.
ASCE2027 is uniquely positioned to gather those industry leaders to look at infrastructure from a high level and go beyond the math equations and get to the heart of the matter: finding big solutions to big challenges.
Deep dives
Perhaps the real beauty of the ASCE2027 model is that even while infrastructure professionals are attacking challenges from a cross-cutting perspective, the program also offers engineering-discipline-specific deep dives. Each ASCE institute will have a hub at ASCE2027 – providing the opportunity to connect with leaders in each particular field. The result is a chance to get the cutting-edge updates in your chosen specialty before lunch, and bring that knowledge to a conversation about the big-picture future of infrastructure before supper.
Thought leadership
ASCE2027 is loaded with big ideas. The program is arranged around seven essential themes: AI-driven design and cyber-resilience; autonomous and smart tech frontiers; engineering at the edge; future materials and construction methods; rethinking infrastructure finance and policy; the future workforce and practice; and deep technical dives.
The keynotes alone (and look for an announcement about the opening speaker later this year) will fill you with ideas to take back to your work.
Ayanna Howard, newly appointed president of Spelman College, is a pioneering AI researcher. Award-winning journalist Jake Bittle is the author of The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration. And David Macaulay is the esteemed author and illustrator of Cathedral, Underground, The Way Things Work, and many others.
Philadelphia is the ideal setting
ASCE2027 is in Philadelphia. Philadelphia is in eastern Pennsylvania. Eastern Pennsylvania is a veritable hub of infrastructure, industry, innovation, and history – the perfect setting for a gathering of infrastructure professionals.
Technical tours include the groundbreaking I-95 Central Access Project, the unique historic-modern blend of the Amtrak 30th Street Station, and a major modernization of one of the largest transportation hubs in the country: Philadelphia International Airport; among others.
Explore the ASCE2027 program and register today. The first 175 registrants will be entered to win an array of prizes, including free registration to ASCE2028 in Seattle.
