Green Truck Summit to Become Future Truck Summit in 2027

INDIANAPOLIS, IN — Inexperienced Truck Summit, the industrial car expertise convention that launches Work Truck Week®, will broaden and be renamed Future Truck Summit starting in 2027.

The occasion’s new path displays a broader focus on rising applied sciences shaping the industrial car business, together with evolving fuels, software program, related techniques and superior on-car expertise. The expanded program is being developed by means of a collaboration between NTEA – The Work Truck Affiliation and NAFA Fleet Administration Affiliation (NAFA).

Emily Korns, NTEA Board member, Chair of NTEA’s Schooling Committee and President of J&J Truck Our bodies and Trailers, introduced the change throughout this 12 months’s Inexperienced Truck Summit.

Increasing Focus Past Different Fuels

Since debuting in 2009 as a single-day program centered on hybrid vehicles and different fuels, Inexperienced Truck Summit has steadily broadened its scope as new applied sciences reshape the industrial car panorama.

Latest periods have explored matters such as related automobiles, synthetic intelligence (AI) and leveraging car knowledge. As Future Truck Summit launches in 2027, the program will place better emphasis on vehicle-particular applied sciences such as sensors, superior driver help techniques (ADAS), light-weight supplies, superior composites and energy administration.

“As we evolve the content material, we are additionally evolving the title to replicate that the Summit has turn out to be about a lot extra than different fuels,” says Steve Carey, NTEA president & CEO. “Future Truck Summit will present attendees with contemporary views and insights into quickly altering car expertise, {hardware} and gasoline sorts so they can efficiently place their companies to capitalize on the alternatives that will be introduced over the subsequent 5 years and past.”

Collaboration Expands Academic Alternatives

Future Truck Summit will proceed to take place at JW Marriott Indianapolis on the Tuesday of Work Truck Week, the day earlier than The Work Truck Present® exhibit corridor opens.

The occasion will retain its conventional construction, starting with a keynote tackle and normal periods in the morning adopted by lunch and breakout periods in the afternoon. With NAFA becoming a member of NTEA in program growth, organizers count on a important enhance in the quantity of technical breakout periods.

“The collaboration between NAFA and NTEA will consequence in an unmatched academic program for anybody concerned in the work truck business,” says Invoice Schankel, CEO of NAFA. “Combining our fleet data and expertise with NTEA’s deep connections to the producer and upfitter segments of the business will allow us to create periods that ship cutting-edge technical info, real-world purposes and actionable steps for fleet managers, upfitters, truck sellers and different industrial car business professionals.”

Work Truck Week Continues to Develop

NTEA produces Work Truck Week, held yearly at Indiana Conference Middle in Indianapolis. The business occasion consists of Inexperienced Truck Summit, The Work Truck Present®, the NTEA Annual Assembly, Work Truck Week Trip & Drive and a full academic program.

Work Truck Week 2026 runs March 10–13.

Future Truck Summit will formally debut March 9, 2027. Registration is scheduled to open this fall.

For extra info, go to worktruckweek.com. For extra details about NAFA, go to www.nafa.org.