AMUG 2027 Registration Is Open in Atlantic City With Two New Tracks

The Additive Manufacturing Users Group has opened registration for its 2027 Education and Training Conference, scheduled for March 14 to 18 at Harrah's Resort Atlantic City. Early registration runs through December 11, 2026 at $1,295, with the event capped at employees of organizations that directly use additive manufacturing.

What Changed for 2027

AMUG is adding two new subject tracks next year: simulation and AI, and safety and cybersecurity. The simulation and AI track formalizes content that has already appeared at past conferences in scattered sessions. The 2025 event, for example, included a Flow Science engineer presenting melt pool simulation work validated against physical experiments and in-situ X-ray data. That talk previewed the kind of content the new track will centralize.

Safety and cybersecurity is a genuinely new direction for AMUG. As more printers connect to factory networks and production workflows, the attack surface grows. A dedicated track signals that the users group is treating those risks as first-class topics, not afterthoughts.

The Bigger Pattern

This is the latest in a series of AMUG program overhauls. The 2026 Reno conference was restructured into 14 topical tracks meant to mirror how the industry is organized around applications and vertical markets. The 2027 additions narrow the focus further, carving out emerging subject areas instead of simply expanding the number of general sessions.

Registration includes catered meals, networking receptions, a Wednesday evening Special Event and Dinner, and the twelfth annual Innovators Showcase, an on-stage interview format that brings in an industry figure to discuss their career. Space for sponsors and exhibitors is limited, and AMUG is encouraging early commitment from companies that want floor presence.

Who Should Go

AMUG is not a sales floor. It is a practitioners' conference, which means the conversations skew toward what is actually working on the shop floor rather than what a vendor claims on a spec sheet. If you are running production AM cells, troubleshooting material behavior, or qualifying parts for aerospace or medical use, the peer content is hard to find elsewhere at this price.

The $1,295 early rate is roughly half what a typical trade-show badge costs when you factor in hotel and travel. For anyone in automotive, aerospace, medical, or consumer product manufacturing who relies on additive processes, it is one of the higher-ROI weeks of the year.