AME Milwaukee 2026 International Conference
Call for Submissions
Showcase your best practices, tools and ideas to your target audience
At AME Milwaukee 2026, you can open your doors for a tour, share knowledge through a workshop, or offer a presentation or interactive session. Review out the details below, and submit your proposal through the links below. We encourage thought leaders to submit content ideas, and we will work with you on the format.
Tours
Tour hosts open their facility doors to conference participants to showcase their best practices and leading-edge lean and continuous improvement solutions. As part of AME's approval process, our best practice tour committee will want to visit your facility to audit your submission. Your tour must:
- Provide you lean journey story: problem identification, lean tool selection, success verification and innovative applications.
- Share examples of leadership that drove outcomes.
- Help inspire others towards world-class competitiveness.
- Be aligned with one or more of the program themes.
- Support AME’s conference goals and adhere to the established code of ethics.
Submit your proposal:
Workshops
Our pre-conference workshops allow conference participants to take a deep dive into a topic. Workshops are an additional fee and may be offered by consultants. Your workshop must:
- Be four, six or eight hours in length.
- Be interactive (e.g. simulations) and include specific takeaways that participants can apply in their job.
- Help inspire others toward world-class competitiveness.
- Be aligned with one or more of the program themes.
- Support AME’s conference goals and adhere to the established code of ethics.
Submit your proposal:
Presentations
Your presentation must:
- Be offered by a practitioner with proven, real-world results (no consultants.)
- Be 45-minutes in length.
- Provide your lean journey story: problem identification, loan tool selection, success verification and new knowledge and cutting-edge application results.
- Help inspire others towards world-class competitiveness.
- Be aligned with one or more of the program themes.
- Support AME’s conference goals and adhere to the established code of ethics.
Submit your proposal:
Interactive Sessions
Interactive sessions focus on prominent issues facing our members. As an interactive session leader, you may introduce a topic, but the goal is to facilitate a discussion among conference participants rather than present to them. Interactive session presenters are invited to participate by the program committee. The sessions must:
- Be led by a facilitator who spends less than 20 percent of the time talking and more than 80 percent of the time engaging the participants in discussion and meaningful dialogue.
- Be led by practitioners who have actually achieved results.
- Be an interactive/in-depth topic of special interest to conference participants
- Be aligned with one or more of the program themes.
- Support AME’s conference goals and meet its code of ethics.
Submit your proposal: