PEACHTREE CITY, GA – Abstracts for next year’s PCB East technical conference are due September 5, the Printed Circuit Engineering Association announced today. The conference, the largest of its kind in New England, takes place next spring in the Boston suburbs, and focuses on training and best practices for printed circuit board design engineers, electronics design engineers, fabricators and assemblers.

The four-day technical conference will take place April 27 - May 1, 2026, at the DCU Center in Worcester, MA. The event includes a one-day exhibition on April 28.

Papers and presentations of the following durations are sought for the technical conference: one-hour lectures and presentations; two-hour workshops; and half-day (3.5-hour) and full-day seminars.

Preference is given to presentations of two hours in length or more, and no presentations of less than one hour will be considered.

Abstracts of 100-500 words and speaker biographies should be submitted to PCEA. Papers and presentations must be noncommercial in nature and should focus on technology, techniques or methodologies related to printed circuit board design, fabrication, assembly, test, components or packaging, artificial intelligence, and additive manufacturing.

Submit abstracts at https://pcbeast.com/abstract-submission-guidelines by September 5. No emailed abstracts will be accepted. Submitters will be notified in mid-November if their abstract has been accepted. Presentations are due April 10, 2026.

Presenters of accepted abstract(s) for the 2026 program receive complimentary access to the online proceedings and a complimentary pass to the technical conference.

For more information about PCB East, visit pcbeast.com or contact conference director Mike Buetow at pcea@pcea.net.

About PCB East

PCB East is the Electronics Industry’s East Coast Conference and Exhibition. This four-day technical conference takes place April 28 - May 1, 2026, at the DCU Center in Worcester, MA with a one-day exhibition on April 29. The show includes a range of suppliers from the ECAD, PCB design service, fabrication, and assembly supply chain. For more information about PCB East, visit pcbeast.com.

About Printed Circuit Engineering Association, Inc.®

Printed Circuit Engineering Association (PCEA)® (pcea.net) is a nonprofit association that promotes printed circuit engineering as a profession and encourages, facilitates, and promotes the exchange of information and integration of new design concepts through communications, seminars, workshops, and professional certification through a network of local and regional PCEA-affiliated groups. PCEA serves the global PCB community through print, digital and online products, as well as live and virtual events. PCEA publishes PRINTED CIRCUIT DESIGN & FAB (pcdandf.com) and CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY (circuitsassembly.com), as well as the PCB UPdate (pcbupdate.com) e-newsletter. PCEA also produces the PRINTED CIRCUIT UNIVERSITY (printedcircuituniversity.com) online training platform, and trade shows and conferences, including PCB East (pcbeast.com), PCB West (pcbwest.com), PCB2Day workshop series, and PCEA Training (pceatraining.net), the industry leading training and certification program.

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