ATTEND THE 2025 EXPO & CONFERENCE
Education, certification & networking at the Best Practices 2025 EXPO & Conference!
Join us October 21-23, 2025 at the Kansas City Convention Center. The only entrance to our event is at the intersection of Central Street and West 13th Street on the northern end of the Kansas City Convention Center.
The 8th Annual Best Practices 2025 EXPO & Conference will convene Equipment Sales Engineers and Manufacturing Personnel interested in Optimizing and maintaining the On-site Utilities Powering Automation – including Industrial Compressed Air, Vacuum, Blower and Comfort/Process Cooling Systems.
Three Key “Best Practices” Topics
- Sustainability: Learn to dramatically reduce energy and water consumption in plants through System Assessments.
- High-Quality and Safety: Protect food products or high-tech equipment from contamination. Learn how to set a specification and verify compliance.
- Reliability: Maximize Up-time through proper sizing, system design and monitoring instrumentation.
Why You Should Attend
Four Attendance Options for all Budgets!
- FULL CONFERENCE attendees receive access to all networking events, conference (up to 12 PDH Credits awarded) and EXPO events – PLUS the Compressed Air Challenge Level 1 Workshop and the Hard Hat Compressed Air Maintenance Workshop.
- EXPO-ONLY attendance is a favorite for Distributor Sales Engineer Teams and for Manufacturing Production/Maintenance Teams! For only $55 you can:
- Learn from our keynote speakers at the Opening and Plenary Sessions.
- Receive education in the EXPO Classrooms.
- Make Discoveries and Solve Issues at the EXPO.
- Participate in the Daily EXPO $1,000 Energy Treasure Hunt RAFFLE! – limited to Sales Engineers, Service Technicians and Manufacturing Personnel!
- Make new connections at the Networking Event
- CERTIFY your knowledge by taking the Certified Compressed Air System Specialist (CCASS) Exam offered by the Compressed Air & Gas Institute (CAGI). To register for the exam at Best Practices 2025 EXPO & Conference, visit https://cabpexpo.com/us-cagi-ccass-certification/
TESTIMONIALS
“Our customers expect good quality. Say we have a broader issue in one of our air lines: We want to be able to establish where it is to make a fix as soon as possible,” Sean Ferris, Senior Manager Ride/Show – Facility Interface, Universal Creative.
“We’ve talked to Bobcat, Kaeser Compressors and Ace Compressor. We’ve talked to a lot of different vendors on instrumentation,” Chris Rohman, Utilities Building Maintenance Tech, Bio Products, Archer Daniels Midland Company.
“I’m very pleased with the event. The level of innovation and expertise at the show made it very worthwhile. I also really enjoyed meeting new vendors”. Technical Lead, Samsung Austin Semiconductor.
“Attending the Best Practices EXPO was one of the best moves we could have made for our business. We see it as a necessary part to growing our business by meeting face-to-face with vendors we interact with”. Kevin King, Chief Operations Officer, Connecticut Compressor.
“We received about 70 leads today!” Pascal van Putten, CEO, VPInstruments.
“The Best Practices conference shows a lot of different innovative products. I’ve found many energy and sustainability items I will be pursuing to implement in our plant operations.” Jesse Scott, Facilities Engineer, MAGNA.
“I think it’s great. Being here with industry leaders and learning best practices – learning how to identify leaks, artificial demand and all sorts of things around your facility – is really beneficial. I’d recommend all manufacturing plants attend the show. I’m looking forward to networking with industry leaders. We’re doing upgrades to our facility, so I’m mostly interested in networking experiences here.” Cale Farnsworth, Project Engineer, West Fraser.
“Thank you Compressed Air Best Practices for a great time and a well done show. We appreciate how you equip us to serve our customers better”. Sales Manager, Air Compressor Distributor.
“This was my first CABP Expo and I thoroughly enjoyed it, along with my team mates. Most of the track speakers were brilliant, the expo floor was impressive, and the agenda/venue was easy to navigate”. Taylor Patz, Training Manager, Sullair/Hitachi Global Air Power US, LLC.
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VENUE INFORMATION
Kansas City Convention Center
301 W 13th
Kansas City, MO 64105
The only entrance to our event is at the intersection of Central Street and West 13th Street on the northern end of the Kansas City Convention Center.
EXPO HOURS
October 21 and 22, 2025
12:00 – 6:00 pm
HOTEL & TRAVEL
Our Host Hotel, the Kansas City Marriott Downtown. For more information and booking, click here.
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