Meet the Experts at GFAB
Leading partners in glass fabrication head to Chicago for the NGA Glass Fabricator Conference (GFAB)
The challenges facing fabricators today—economic pressures, workforce development, evolving technology, and more—require real solutions. The National Glass Association is launching a new event for fabrication companies, to help leaders from across the business address those challenges head on—GFAB, the NGA Glass Fabricator Conference.
From June 14-17 in Chicago, glass fabricators and their supplier partners will gather for GFAB. The conference will deliver hands-on training, strategic insights, and networking that directly impact fabricator success. Key to that success is connecting fabricators with experts in the field, including technical experts, fabrication machinery and equipment solution providers, technology partners, and more.
Below, learn more about some of those experts who will be onsite in Chicago. Behind every precision-cut panel, every code-compliant application, every automated fabrication line is a person who has spent years—sometimes decades—mastering their craft. Yet in an industry that moves fast and demands constant innovation, connecting the right knowledge with the right audience is not always easy.
That’s where Glass Magazine’s Meet the Expert program comes in. Meet the Expert gives companies the opportunity to put their people front and center. Not their products. Not their logos. Their people. The program highlights the subject matter experts who answer strategic, technical, and business leadership questions and solve real problems for fabricator customers every day.
Each profile invites experts to share their top areas of expertise, give readers a reason to seek them out at the show and pull back the curtain on what their companies actually do. It’s part industry education, part thought leadership—and wholly human.
At its core, GFAB is about exactly what Meet the Experts is about: getting the right knowledge in front of the right people. We’re aiming to create essential educational programming for fabricator decision makers, one-on-one direct networking between fabricators and their key suppliers, a venue for NGA’s advocacy and technical work, and hands-on learning for the fabricator audience. These are not abstract ambitions. They’re the kinds of outcomes that happen when industry experts—the same ones featured in these pages—are given the platform and the audience to do what they do best.
Meet the Experts and GFAB are, in this sense, cut from the same cloth. Both recognize that the glass industry’s greatest asset is not any single piece of equipment or technology. It’s the people who understand how to use it, improve it and pass that knowledge on.
If you’re a fabricator looking to build a stronger, more profitable operation, Chicago this June is the place to be. And between now and then, keep reading. The experts are already talking.
Introducing GFAB
The National Glass Association is launching a brand new event for glass fabricators, the NGA Glass Fabricator Conference (GFAB), June 14-17 at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Chicago. This three-day conference is designed to address real-time challenges for every part of your fabrication business, from the C-suite to the production floor.
3 education tracks. 1 powerful event
Executive Track–Strategic sessions for decision makers, including top trends in glass, insights from design leaders, need-to-know market updates, technology and AI in the glass factory, and more.
NGA Glass Conference Track–All the technical depth you love from NGA Glass Conference: committees, task groups, advocacy, and expert-led discussions.
GFAB Workshop–Quality Control in Glass Tempering–Hands-on learning at Skyline Architectural Glass in Chicago, for leaders on your production team, covering quality control, glass tempering essentials, ROI considerations for the plant and more.
Networking and connecting
GFAB Lab–A brand new interactive tabletop networking zone with competitions, prizes, new technologies on display and more.
Event activities–Opportunities to connect and network at GFAB receptions, the GFAB Chicago Architectural Boat Tour, the NGA Annual Fun Run/Walk, the NGA Volunteer Awards Dinner.
