SE Manufacturing Technology Show 2026
The Southeast's regional gathering for manufacturing and automation buyers.
What is SE Manufacturing Technology Show 2026?
The SE Manufacturing Technology Show 2026 runs October 20–21 at Nashville's Music City Center — a regional trade show for manufacturing and automation buyers across the Southeast, with 140+ exhibitors and roughly 6,500 attendees.
A regional show where the buyers are local plant and operations leaders — smaller, but high-intent.
Regional manufacturing shows over-index on decision-makers who came specifically to source equipment and software. Lower foot traffic, higher purchase intent per conversation.
What's on the floor
Full session-by-session schedule for this edition is being confirmed. Tracks below.
The audience your booth is buying access to
Is your buyer here?
If you sell to Southeast US plant and operations leaders, this is a concentrated regional buying audience. Nationally-focused vendors may find the volume too low to justify a large booth.
Do the booth math before you commit the budget
Regional booths here typically run $3K–$9K before travel and staff.
Booth ROI inputs
Everything you need before you fly in
Getting there
BNA airport is 15 minutes from Music City Center in downtown Nashville.
Lead retrieval
The organizer offers a basic badge scanner add-on. Confirm pricing with the sponsorship team. Almost none of the badge scanner apps and devices get you Context. They also tend to be 30–60% more expensive than B2Brain, per seat.
Turn SE Manufacturing Technology Show 2026 from "event spend" to Pipeline Channel
Pull the 140-exhibitor and attendee list. Filter to your ICP. Land with briefings.
Even at regional scale, walking in with a ranked list beats working the floor cold.
Take a demo, learn how, and go back with the list for free.Voice in, CRM record out. Book the meeting before they walk away.
Offline-ready capture matters in convention-center dead zones.
Morning-after report. Pipeline tied to the booth.
Sync every conversation with context so the regional show earns its budget line.
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Questions buyers actually ask
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