September 23-25: NMW/AT/Quality EXPO , Donald Stephens Convention Center , Rosemont , Ill. , www.tsnn.com
September 30-October 1: Center for Automotive Research's Roads to Renewal: A Summit on the Midwest's Industrial Future , Renaissance Chicago Hotel, Chicago , www.cargroup.org
October 4-7: Southern Economic Development Council's Annual Conference, Hot Springs , Va. , www.sedc.org
October 19-22: International Economic Development Council's Annual Conference , Hyatt Regency, Atlanta , www.iedconline.org
October 21-22 2008 Global Forecasting & Marketing Conference , sponsored by the Association For Manufacturing Technology, the National Tooling & Machining Association, and the American Machine Tool Distributors' Association, Cleveland, InterContinental Hotel.
November 4-7: SEMA Show , Las Vegas Convention Center , Las Vegas , www.semashow.com
November 11-14: 2008 National SBIR Conference , Open Innovation, Commercialization and Doing Business , hosted by the Connecticut Center for Advance Technology, Hartford , Conn.
December 1-4: Defense Manufacturing Conference 2008 , Defense Manufacturing: Are We Ready to Provide Affordable Warfighter Capabilities ?, Disney's Coronado Springs Resort, Walt Disney World Resort, Fla.
December 10-12 : The Second Annual Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum , The Champions That Are Remaking Our World , The Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C., www.cg-la.com/global2