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title: Industry Insights from 2024 AMPP Conference + Expo 
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With AMPP’s annual show officially completed for 2024, here’s our recap of highlights and key takeaways from New Orleans.

| View in browser Bayou Buzz: AMPP Members Jazzed After 2024 Show AMPP’s annual conference reflects the connectedness, passion, and strength of its members and constituents. This year, approximately 6,000 attendees came together to showcase the technical acumen, innovation, product development capabilities, and comradery that makes the materials protection and performance industry the unique and special community it is today. Read More AMPP Announces 2024 Student Poster Session Winners On Wednesday in the Exhibit Hall, a special ceremony was held to recognize this week's best student posters. With prize money at stake, the poster session featured research projects from undergraduate and graduate students around the world. Read More Intumescent Coatings Forum Provides Checklist for Successful Inspections Plural-component intumescent coatings serve in harsh and demanding environments and must be able to perform while subject to fire and explosions. That makes attention to detail during application and inspection processes critical, per Russell K. Norris, fire protection market manager at Sherwin-Williams. Norris presented his analysis at AMPP’s 2024 show. Read More Don’t Fear AI: AMPP’s 2024 Keynote Addresses Artificial Intelligence Dr. Michio Kaku, a professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York, served as this week’s keynote speaker at AMPP’s 2024 conference. In his remarks, Kaku presented his vision of a future paved by artificial intelligence (AI) and nanotechnology. Read More 2024 Honoree Night Celebrates AMPP’s Annual Awards As the global authority in materials protection and performance, AMPP proudly announced the recipients of its 2024 service and technical awards. These awards were presented and celebrated at Wednesday’s Honoree Night, held at the World War II Museum. Read More Photo Gallery from 2024 AMPP Annual Conference + Expo Each year, AMPP’s industry conference offers everything attendees valued from the legacy CORROSION and Coatings+ events, including technical exchange and innovation, networking activities, and collaboration. Attendees enjoy invaluable programming from technical sessions, standards and administrative meetings, and an exposition featuring hundreds of global exhibitors within the materials protection and performance space. View Complete AMPP 2024 Photo Gallery 2024 AMPP News Coverage Previous AMPP Show Dailies   Saturday, March 3   Sunday, March 4   Monday, March 5   Tuesday, March 6   Wednesday, March 7 FUTURE AMPP EVENTS (Updated schedule, locations)   Coatings for the Non-Coating Inspectors April 30-May 1 in Houston, Texas   AMPP Advocacy Day May 15-16 in Washington, DC   AMPP Gulf Coast Conference August 5-7 in Houston, Texas   AMPP Eastern Conference October 14-16 in Grand Rapids, Michigan   AMPP Western Conference November 4-6 in San Diego, California   AMPP Annual Conference + Expo 2025 April 6-10, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee   AMPP Annual Conference + Expo 2026 March 15-19, 2026 in Houston, Texas   AMPP Annual Conference + Expo 2027 April 11-15, 2027 in Columbus, Ohio   AMPP Annual Conference + Expo 2028 March 5-9, 2028 in San Antonio, Texas SPONSORED CONTENT How Regulatory Changes Could Affect Industrial Painters and Beyond In a crowded meeting room, Alison Kaelin of ABKaelin, LLC, presented this week’s “Regulatory Update” forum. Topics included an update on new and upcoming U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations, as well as potential enforcement actions related to industrial painting and beyond. Read More American Water Works Association Hostx Joint Workshop with AMPP In a joint workshop, leaders from AMPP and the American Water Works Association (AWWA) came together to discuss common approaches and synergies to achieve shared goals for water/wastewater infrastructure asset management and sustainability. This can be done by optimizing life-cycle costs through proper corrosion control strategies. Read More AMPP Debuts Industrial Coating Application Training Program  AMPP’s new Industrial Coating Application (ICA) training program is an instructor-led, subscription-based, globally offered program built around the NACE No. 13/SSPC-ACS-1 standard. It was formally introduced last fall, and this week, AMPP representatives hosted a presentation to showcase it to the conference audience. Read More Marketing Specialists: Use Video to Emotionally Connect with Customers “With the unprecedented growth in video content, it really necessitates a shift in digital marketing strategies where we have to prioritize video to engage effectively with our audience,” Lydia Prazak, AMPP’s senior manager of marketing technology, said in Wednesday’s presentation from the association’s annual conference in New Orleans. Read More AMPP Announces Appointment of Chief Financial Officer Recently, AMPP announced Jennifer Colunga as its new Chief Financial Officer. With over 20 years of progressive experience in finance and operations management, Colunga brings a wealth of expertise to lead AMPP’s financial strategy while driving continued growth. Read More Wi-Fi Access Free WiFi is accessible to all attendees in most common areas of the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Please use the following login credentials: Wi-Fi Name: AMPP2024 Password (case sensitive): iupatfti Wi-Fi Sponsored by The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades FEATURED LINKS EXHIBITS FINAL PROGRAM MOBILE APP - APPLE MOBILE APP - GOOGLE PLAY FLOORPLAN Thank you to our sponsors AMPP Annual Show Daily Editorial Staff   Editor Ben DuBose   Production Manager Lauren Reyes   Writers Stephanie Chizik, Gretchen Jacobson, Jean Broge, Rebecca Bickham, Anthony Punt, Kerry Cole                    © AMPP \| Association for Materials Protection and Performance Our mission is to advance the corrosion prevention and coatings industry through member and workforce development, technological innovation, and global standardization to protect people, assets, and the environment.    15835 Park Ten Pl Houston, TX 77084 USA 800 Trumbull Dr. Pittsburgh, PA 15205 USA   Manage your email preferences or unsubscribe from all future emails.   Privacy Policy   |
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