WE Annual Conference 2026

The 2026 conference is held in Boston, Massachusetts.

It is most useful for women engineering students and early to mid-career professionals in SWE, since the audience spans collegians and professionals and the sponsor list includes employers such as 3M, ABB, Abbott, Airbus and Amazon that recruit engineers. Speakers come from aerospace, advanced manufacturing and water utilities, which gives breadth across engineering fields; specialists wanting a single-discipline technical program would get less.

Attendees at large engineering society conferences usually wear business casual, with students and job seekers often in blazers or more formal outfits for career fair meetings. Boston in early November is cold, so a coat and comfortable shoes for moving around the convention center are sensible.