About FMA Summits
A small private room for the people who run facilities.
Since 2007, FMA has run invitation-only summits where facility, energy and sustainability leaders hear how their peers fixed a problem, and meet only the solution providers they choose.
- 2007founded, in Montreal
- 35summits since then
- 605facility leaders have come
- 28past summits had these facility leaders in the room
It started in Montreal.
The first FMA Summit was at the Hyatt Regency in Montreal, August 5–7, 2007. In the room: the U.S. Department of Energy, the EPA, Natural Resources Canada, GM, Caterpillar, IBM, Boeing, Alcoa, Subaru and Michelin.
34 summits followed, on energy, sustainability, future facilities and microgrids, across the United States and Canada. Universities, schools, hospitals, companies and public agencies sent facility leaders to 28 of them.
In 2027 the 11th Future Facilities Summit brings that room to Columbus and Detroit, for the people who run universities, schools, hospitals, office towers, data centers and public buildings.
How it works for you.
The format has not changed since 2007, because it works.
- Every delegate is invited.
- Facility, energy and sustainability leaders with a problem to solve this year: people like you, from facilities like yours.
- One room, no competing tracks.
- 20-minute talks by the people who ran the project. Everyone hears every talk.
- You choose who you meet.
- At most 20 solution providers at each summit, each solving a different problem, and you pick the ones you want. Every meeting is booked before you arrive.
- No solution provider walks the room.
- Solution providers attend only as partners of the summit. One that isn’t a partner cannot register or attend, so nobody chases you in the hallway.
- Assigned tables at meals.
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner are seated, so you meet people working on the same problems.
- Thursday and Friday.
- Two days. Friday ends with lunch, and you’re on the road by mid-afternoon.
The kind of solution providers you can meet.
Solution providers who work with facilities, on camera at past FMA summits, one film per kind of solution. In 2027 you choose which ones you meet.
Armstrong Fluid Technology, Cypress Envirosystems, Smardt Chiller Group, LG Electronics, Degree Controls and STEP Warmfloor 4:02
Cypress Envirosystems (5 FMA summits), Johnson Controls, Chelsea Group and PureChoice 4:13
US LED (18 FMA summits), LG Electronics, GE Lighting, Energy Bank and Eco-Shift Power 4:20
Ameresco, RC Cubed, Chelsea Group and QFB Energy 4:12
Solution Dynamics (14 FMA summits), Constellation, Equidex Energy, MPC Energy, Hess Corporation and QFB Energy 4:09
Solar UV Solutions, KDC Solar, GE Solar, Energy Bank, Green Earth Energy and SolarDock 4:16
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PowerSecure, GE, GE Solar, LG Electronics and MTU Onsite Energy 4:17
PowerSecure (5 FMA summits), GE and MTU Onsite Energy 3:28
Advanced Power Technologies (10 FMA summits), Sustainable Management Solutions and PowerSecure 3:34
LG Electronics, Degree Controls and Smardt Chiller Group (8 FMA summits) 1:34
Cypress Envirosystems (5 FMA summits), Badger Meter and Corus360 3:38
Badger Meter, Sloan Valve and APANA 3:54
BASF (7 FMA summits), West Roofing Systems and Protective Industrial Polymers 2:22
RC Cubed and Degree Controls 3:15
Run by the person who started it.
Joe Piazza founded FMA in Montreal in 2007 and runs every summit himself, from the invitation list to the seating plan: 35 summits and 17,000+ meetings so far.
Your proposal or your invitation request goes to him.
Headquarters: Montreal, Quebec. Summits are held across North America.
Who has spoken.
Facility, engineering and energy leaders from these organizations have presented their own projects at FMA summits.
- Texas Wesleyan University
- University of Iowa
- Anthem
- Turner Properties
- Wyndham Worldwide
- Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
- NYC Mayor's Office of Sustainability
- Maryland Energy Administration
Your facility fixed something. Tell the room how.
Propose a 20-minute talk, or register your team. Write to Joe Piazza at info@fmasummits.com.