Connect 2026

Showcase Your Solutions. Connect with Decision-Makers.

Connect with more than 500 educators, workforce leaders, and industry professionals from across the country. Our exhibit hall is designed as a hub for discovery — with dedicated traffic drivers like a Wednesday evening reception and refreshment breaks held inside the hall — giving you direct access to an audience that is ready to engage.

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More than 500 teachers, coordinators/directors, counselors, administrators, employers, and workforce development staff

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Attendees include leading education purchasers and decision-makers.

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Multiple time slots set aside for attendees to visit the exhibit hall

Attendee Interests

  • Career Exploration, Development, and Guidance
  • Career Pathways/Adult Career Pathways
  • Certification/Credentials
  • College and Career Readiness
  • Connections between Mental Health and Career Development
  • Contextualized Learning
  • Curriculum for Secondary and Postsecondary Educators
  • Educational Training Equipment/Technology Labs
  • Integrated Education and Training (IET)
  • Latest Trends in Technology for Teaching
  • Supporting Special Populations
  • Trends in STEM Education
  • Using AI in the Classroom
  • Workforce Development

Attendee Profile

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Exhibit Schedule

Tentative schedule — subject to change. Please check back for updates.

Wednesday, February 18
2:00–4:30 p.m. Exhibitor set up
6:00–7:30 p.m. Wednesday Welcome Reception

Thursday, February 19
7:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Exhibits Open
7:30–8:30 a.m. Breakfast in Exhibit Hall

Friday, February 20
7:30–11:00 a.m. Exhibits Open
7:30–8:30 a.m. Breakfast in Exhibit Hall
11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. Exhibitor Tear down

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Convention Handling Services
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210-247-2641

Exhibit Booths ($1750 ea)

  • 10′×10′
  • Free WiFi in exhibit booth
  • 2 Registrations for Full Conference
    (Value = $775/registration)
  • 8′ high back drape
  • 3′ side drape
  • One 6′ skirted table
  • Two side chairs
  • Wastebasket
  • 7” x 44” Company identification sign

Selling on the Exhibit Hall Floor

Cash and credit sales are permitted. Licenses, taxes to sale, payment of sales tax, and other legal business requirements are the responsibility of the exhibitor. Purchasers must be furnished with a bill of sale or receipt.

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CONTACT

Linda Locke, NCPN Exhibit Coordinator, llocke@cord.org or 254-741-8334.

Past Exhibitors

  • ACT, Inc.
  • AdvanceNet Technology Services
  • Amatrol, Inc.
  • American Welding Society
  • Anatomage
  • Ancora Training
  • ASVAB Career Exploration Program
  • AVID for Higher Education
  • Aztec Software
  • Bio-Rad Laboratories
  • Biotility, University of Flordia
  • Bring Your 'A' Game
  • Build and Soar
  • Burlington English Inc.
  • Center for Global Health Innovation
  • Center for Work Ethic Development
  • Certiport, a Pearson VUE business
  • CEV Multimedia
  • Chad Foster
  • CompTIA
  • Couragion
  • Craft Education
  • CTECS (Career and Technical Education Consortium of States)
  • DECA Inc.
  • Edge Factor
  • EdITS Publishing LLC
  • eGrove Education, Inc.
  • eScholar
  • Essential Education
  • ETA International
  • Fablicator 3D Printers by K&L Services Group Inc.
  • Future Plans USA
  • Geographic Solutions
  • Goodheart-Willcox Publisher
  • IACMI
  • iCEV
  • InnovATEBIO
  • Jobspeaker, Inc.
  • Manufacturing Skill Standards Council (MSSC)
  • Mastery Coding
  • Microburst Learning
  • MINDS-i Education
  • MiniOne Systems
  • miniPCR bio
  • Moore Solutions Curriculum
  • NASCO
  • Nashville Hub
  • National Career Academy Coalition
  • National Geographic Learning/Cengage
  • NC3T
  • NSF ATE Community
  • Oxford University Press
  • PAIRIN
  • Pathful - Dallas, TX
  • Paxton Patterson
  • Prince George's Community College
  • Ready for Industry
  • Realityworks Inc
  • Safal Partners
  • Seamless WBL
  • SkillsUSA
  • Southern Regional Education Board
  • StockTrak Inc. dba PersonalFinanceLab
  • Stukent, Inc.
  • Transeo
  • Virtual Enterprises International
  • Visible Body
  • XPRIZE
  • zSpace, Inc.