If you look closely at many of today’s fastest-growing technologies, you’ll find industrial gases behind nearly all of them.

Semiconductor fabrication. Artificial intelligence infrastructure. Advanced manufacturing. Hydrogen development. Aerospace. Medical technology.

The innovations making headlines often depend on technologies, processes, and supply chains that most people never see. Yet behind every microchip, data center, advanced manufacturing facility, and emerging energy solution are industrial and specialty gases enabling those systems to operate safely and reliably.

That reality is one of the reasons the Compressed Gas Association is launching TECH26 with a broader vision than ever before.

For years, CGA’s Technical Summit served as a gathering place for technical experts, committee leaders, and industry professionals to share knowledge and advance safety and operational excellence. While that mission remains unchanged, the audience and conversation are expanding.

Today’s industrial gas industry sits at the center of unprecedented growth and technological transformation.

The rapid expansion of semiconductor manufacturing across North America has created new demand for specialty gases, advanced delivery systems, supply chain resilience, and technical expertise. At the same time, AI-driven data center growth, clean energy initiatives, advanced materials development, and domestic manufacturing investments continue to reshape the industrial landscape.

These trends create opportunities, but they also raise important questions:

• How do we build resilient gas supply chains for critical industries?
• What technologies are driving the next generation of gas production, storage, and delivery?
• How can industrial gas providers support the unique requirements of semiconductor and advanced manufacturing facilities?
• What role will safety, standards, and workforce development play in sustaining long-term growth?

TECH26 was designed to help answer those questions.

Taking place Nov. 3–5, 2026, in Phoenix, Arizona, TECH26 brings together leaders from across the industrial and specialty gas value chain, along with professionals from the industries that rely on these products every day.

Attendees will hear from executives, technical experts, engineers, manufacturers, and innovators discussing topics that are shaping the future of our industry. Sessions will explore emerging technologies, supply chain challenges, operational best practices, safety, risk management, and the growing relationship between industrial gases and advanced manufacturing.

The event will also feature the TECH26 Innovation Showcase, creating opportunities for attendees to connect directly with companies developing the equipment, systems, technologies, and services supporting the industry’s evolution.

Most importantly, TECH26 is designed to foster conversations between groups that do not always have the opportunity to sit at the same table. Gas producers, equipment manufacturers, semiconductor professionals, end users, engineers, regulators, and technology providers all face interconnected challenges and opportunities. Bringing those perspectives together helps strengthen the entire ecosystem.

The industrial gas industry has always enabled innovation. Today, that role is becoming more visible and more important than ever.

TECH26 is where those conversations will happen.

Join us in Phoenix as we explore the intersection of industrial gases and innovation—and the technologies shaping what comes next.

Learn more and register at CGATECH26.com.

Join the innovation showcase by emailing Paul Pflieger at ppflieger@cganet.com. Space is limited and filling fast!