The ANSI Innovation Summit, formerly World Standards Week, is an annual event

hosted by ANSI that brings together the Institute’s members and private- and public-sector stakeholders from across the standards and conformity assessment communities to engage on priority issues and celebrate standardization achievements.

https://www.ansi.org/events/standards-events/ansi-innovation-summit/2025

The week’s highlights include:

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21

U.S. Standards Strategy: Your Role in Shaping Innovation and Competitiveness
12–2:15 p.m. ET 
Opens with networking lunch from 12-1 p.m.
Free event 

 

Join this interactive session to help launch the groundbreaking U.S. Standards Strategy 2025 (now open for public comment)—a roadmap for advancing U.S. technological innovation and global competitiveness. As rapid technological change reshapes international markets, this strategy positions standards as essential tools for driving U.S. economic growth, strengthening national security, supporting public health and safety, and maintaining technological excellence.

Your voice matters. We are seeking input from industry leaders, technical experts, standards developers, and members of consumer advocacy groups, academia, and government on how to effectively communicate and implement this critical strategy following its publication in January 2026. Your recommendations will directly influence how ANSI and the broader standards community roll out initiatives that drive innovation, open global markets, and enhance U.S. competitiveness across sectors.

Standards Power Progress: Innovation and Transformation Showcase
2:30–5 p.m. ET
Closes with networking reception from 4–5 p.m.
Free event

Discover how standards serve as the invisible force powering progress across every sector—from breakthrough technologies to innovations that transform how we live and work. Standards Power Progress is an immersive showcase where innovators and industry leaders reveal the compelling stories behind standardization breakthroughs. Through dynamic presentations, demonstrations, and interactive exhibits, you will experience firsthand how standardization becomes the catalyst for innovation that transforms markets, saves lives, and shapes our future.

ANSI is now seeking presenters for this exhibition. Learn more.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22

Manufacturing Revolution: Building on AI Success in Smart Production and Supply Chains
8 a.m.–4 p.m. ET
Includes breakfast, lunch, and networking breaks. Begins with networking breakfast at 8 a.m. 
Rate before 8/31: $299; ANSI Member: $240
Rate after 8/31: $359; ANSI Member: $285

• PANEL: From Pilot to Production: Scaling AI across Systems and Supply Chains
  
  As manufacturers contend with supply chain disruptions, material shortages, rising costs, and workforce gaps, AI has evolved from “nice-to-have” to business-critical—but scaling it beyond a successful pilot remains a big challenge.
  
  This interactive session features manufacturing leaders, AI innovators, and supply chain experts sharing real-world insights from their successful scaling journeys. Through compelling case studies, demos, and data-driven visuals, you'll see how companies turned promising pilots into enterprise-wide transformations. Panelists will share integration strategies, relevant standards, measurable outcomes, and lessons learned along the way for challenges like coordinating across global supply networks, managing automated logistics systems, connecting disparate technologies and data, overcoming legacy infrastructure challenges, and mitigating disruption and risk.
   
• PANEL: Human + AI Teams: The Smart Manufacturing Workforce
  
  The rise of AI systems in manufacturing has fundamentally shifted the workforce landscape. The question isn't whether humans will work alongside intelligent systems—it's how to build effective human-AI partnerships that maximize machine capabilities and human expertise. The future of manufacturing depends on creating collaborative teams where AI augments rather than replaces human skills.  The challenge will be the upskilling and reskilling of the current workforce and ensuring training is kept up to date on an ongoing systematic basis for those entering the industry.
  
  This dynamic session brings together workforce development experts, manufacturing innovators, and reskilling pioneers to explore how roles are evolving and what skills will be most valuable in AI-augmented workplaces. Through practical case studies and real-world examples, you'll discover how companies are successfully transitioning their workforce to thrive in smart manufacturing environments. Panelists will share strategies for reskilling workers, fostering human-AI collaboration, and building the adaptive capabilities needed for tomorrow's factory floor. Discussion topics include identifying the right roles for AI partnership, creating training programs for AI collaboration, building career pathways in AI-enhanced manufacturing, measuring human-AI team outcomes, and leveraging standards to accelerate success.

2025 ANSI Leadership and Service Awards Ceremony
Reception 6–7 p.m.; Dinner: 7–9 p.m.
Rate before 8/31: $165; ANSI Member: $130
Rate after 8/31: $199; ANSI Member: $155
 

Join ANSI in honoring 20 awardees and their outstanding achievements in standards, conformity assessment, and workforce development at the 2025 reception, dinner, and ceremony.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23

ANSI Legal Issues Forum: AI and Deregulation—Standards at a Crossroads
10 a.m.–4p.m.
Includes breakfast, lunch, and networking breaks. Begins with networking breakfast at 10 a.m.
Rate before 8/31: $299; ANSI Member: $240
Rate after 8/31: $359; ANSI Member: $285

• PANEL: Navigating the Emerging Frontier of Artificial Intelligence
  
  As AI capabilities accelerate at breakneck speed, legal and regulatory frameworks are racing to keep pace. From copyright and fair use to broader operational integrity and legal defensibility, individuals and organizations are left dealing with host of critical questions. This tension is especially evident at the crossroads of standards development, conformity assessment and AI. This panel will take a deep dive into the evolving legal and regulatory landscape and unpack emerging AI governance frameworks, intellectual property implications for AI-generated content and the development of industry standards and conformity assessment processes. Attendees will walk away with clear insights into the risks, responsibilities, and opportunities facing standards bodies and conformity assessment organizations in the age of AI.
   
• PANEL: Pioneering the New Wild West: Standards and Self-Governance After Deregulation
  
  With a sweeping range of deregulatory policy moves, the Trump Administration is reshaping the standards and conformity assessment arena. As federal regulations are rolled back at an unprecedented pace, the standards ecosystem is forced to grapple with shifting priorities - creating both uncertainty and opportunity across industries. In this new reality, a key question emerges: In the absence of regulation, is there a greater need for standards and conformity assessment? Panelists will explore the evolving role of the standards and conformity assessment community in a regulatory vacuum, and how it can respond, adapt, and lead when formal oversight contracts.