October 15-16, 2025 – Nashville, Tennessee

OCTOBER 15-16, 2025 – NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

The event for the access industry

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About Working at Height

October 15-16, 2025

Music City Center, Nashville, USA

The Working at Height Conference & Awards will champion the safe and effective use of mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs), covering the latest innovations in technology and work practices that will deliver safe, on time and profitable worksites.

Co-organized by Access, Lift & Handlers (ALH) magazine and the International Powered Access Federation (IPAF), the event will comprise an evening networking event followed by a world-class conference and evening awards dinner to celebrate industry best-practices.

The event is for:

  • Equipment rental managers & owners
  • Safety professionals in the construction industry
  • Access rental specialists
  • Safety consultants
  • MEWP OEMs & distributors

Organized by

Conference

Working at Height will address technology and work processes that create safe and productive working environments, including

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

KEYNOTE: Norty Turner, President, Sunstate Equipment
TOPIC: Building a safety culture in a rental business

Chastity Williams-Lasley, Early Career Development Manager, JCB
TOPIC: Recruitment challenges and solutions in the construction sector

Brian Parker, Head of Safety and Technical, IPAF
TOPIC: Best practices for work at height rescues

Pat Schmetzer, Director of Safety & Training, MEC AWP
TOPIC: Equipment innovation and evolution in MEWPs

Nicole McGregor, Managing Principal, Ducker Carlisle
TOPIC: Trends and forecasts for the US MEWP rental market

(Note: Presentation titles are provisional.)

OTHER TOPICS

• Future technology, including AI, connectivity and autonomous operation
• Management of workplace health and safety
• Training of MEW operators and managers
• Panel on working at height: safety and productivity

Awards

The award categories will cover products, technologies, work processes and programs that enable safe and productive working at height. The awards are free to enter and all shortlisted companies will receive two complementary tickets.

Be sure to enter the 2025 awards, entry forms will be available soon.

Why attend

Network with like-minded Professionals

Learn about key industry issues

Generate Ideas

Identify Opportunities

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Venue

Music City Center

201 Rep. John Lewis Way South
Nashville, TN 37203

Music City Center is Nashville’s convention center located in the heart of downtown. The 2.1 million square foot facility opened in 2013 and was built so that Nashville could host large, city-wide conventions in the downtown area.  

EVENT HOTEL

Caption by Hyatt Downtown Nashville – The Gulch

118 12th Avenue South
Nashville, Tennessee 37203 United States

Discounted hotel room rates are available at the hotel and are available by clicking the link below. The link offers rooms at an event rate of $239 per night for delegates. 

Room rates available between, Tue, Oct 14, 2025 – Fri, Oct 17, 2025