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My first real job was working in a B. Dalton Booksellers store in Prairie Village, Kansas. My manager was John Hamann.

A letter from the Chair and advice on how to build industrial expertise with PILLAR, IAMC’s new professional education programming.

As spring inched toward summer this year, milestones kept accumulating. Births, deaths, graduations, anniversaries of events resounding with joy or grief, all piling up like the mountain of prayer stones left at the Iron Cross along the French way of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela.

A Letter from the Chair, reporting on IAMC’s 2026 Spring Forum host community of Little Rock, and more about future IAMC events.

OUT HERE IN THE FIELD

A Letter from the Chair and a digest of IAMC’s 2025 Annual Report and recent project impact.

A Letter from the Chair and a look ahead at IAMC events in 2026.

Every year about this time, while the inbox floods with holiday greetings and most of those around us begin to frolic, our team is focused on completing production of this issue right around the winter solstice. Which makes sense: The shortest day of the year serves as an annual reminder that we’re running out of time.

Tribute to a Friend

A letter from the Chair, and National Manufacturing Day is celebrated.

In October I attended the final convening of the ECMC Foundation CTE Leadership Collaborative in Austin, Texas. The funding is sunsetting for this family of six fellowship programs focused on furthering career and technical education.

A letter from the Chair, IAMC International Forum takeaways, new staff members and IAMC’s new social media spotlight — “I am IAMC.”

A letter from the Chair, IAMC International Forum takeaways, new staff members and IAMC’s new social media spotlight — “I am IAMC.”

The Site Selection team pays a lot of attention to all the data and analysis out there in order to direct your attention to the data, analysis and storytelling in here.

A Letter from the Chair; award winners; a Q&A with AI expert Zack Kass.

A letter from the Chair and an interview with water expert James Eklund.

If you build it … chances are you’ll expand it later.

Years ago, I was invited to a major Canadian city to present our competitiveness award for province-level success.

A Letter from the Chair; the return of the member profile; and snapshots of FDI involving IAMC member organizations.

In 1983 when our founder Mac Conway launched SiteNet, he had already helmed the magazine and Conway Data for 29 years and published tens of thousands of pages of reports and directories. I can see them on our office shelves, bound in books. I was 19 years old then, a sophomore in college and bound […]