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    NeoCon, June 9-11, Chicago, Illinois

  • 9 June 2025 To 11 June 2025
  • Start time : 09:00 AM
  • End time : 03:00 PM
  • Event Host : NeoCon
  • Event Location : The Mart, 222 Merchandise Mart Plaza, Suite 470, Chicago, IL, 60654, United States
NeoCon 2025
Event Description

NeoCon has served as a world leading platform and important event of the year for the commercial design industry since 1969. A launch pad for innovation—NeoCon offers ideas and introductions that shape the built environment today and into the future.  

The industry’s major manufacturers, as well as the latest emerging companies, will showcase thousands of new products and services in categories including Furniture, Fabrics, Flooring, Interior Building Products, Interior Finishes, and Technology.

Design professionals representing markets ranging from Workplace, Healthcare, Hospitality, Retail, Education, Public Space, and Government, converge each year at NeoCon to connect, learn, and do business.

The NeoCon exhibition is complemented by first-class educational and inspirational programming offering expertise and insight into the most relevant topics in the industry today.

While not a sustainability-focused show, many exhibitors and presenters will showcase healthier and more sustsinable offerings.  Sustainable show elements include:

  • The METROPOLIS Sustainability Lab at NeoCon is an immersive exhibit designed to inspire and empower attendees to drive positive change for people and the planet. This vibrant space showcases the latest innovations, pioneering initiatives, and essential resources to support and elevate sustainable design practices.
  • Some educational sesssions, including:
    • "Scaling Sustainability Through Design and Technology" explores how integrating tools like virtual reality and sustainable materials can drive eco-friendly practices in architecture and interiors.
    • "Building Products Selection & Procurement" discusses the updates in LEED Version 5, focusing on material selection and procurement strategies to maximize sustainability in building projects.
  • The Best of NeoCon 2025 awards will feature products across 43 categories, with a focus on innovations that advance sustainability in commercial design.
  • Keynote speeches by Annie Jean-Baptist and Alice Rawsthorn that touch on inclusivity, and top social, economic, and ecological challenges. 
  • Sustaianable-focused exhibits include:
    • Turf has unveiled the Turf Design Experience Center, a 20,000-square-foot space dedicated to innovative acoustic solutions that prioritize sustainability.
    • Green Hides is presenting sustainable leather solutions in its expanded showroom, emphasizing eco-conscious materials. 
    • Andreu World has expanded its showroom to 20,000 square feet, showcasing its commitment to a fully circular economy and sustainable business growth. 
    • The TOCCO hardware collection by pba is highlighted for its use of recyclable materials like ECONYL® nylon, emphasizing design with end-of-life considerations for products.


What additional sustsinable NeoCon elements are you aware of that you can share?

  • Host Company/Organization Name
    • NeoCon
  • Speakers / Presenters
    • Keynote Speakers:

      Annie Jean-Baptiste, Author, Building for Everyone
      Designing for Global Innovation

      Design is the undercurrent to our lives. But how do you create experiences that touch myriad people, with different needs, goals, and interests? Today, innovation in design is critical to the lifeblood of creators, and a top priority for clients and consumers alike. Creating and designing inclusive spaces and experiences doesn't happen by accident. Come learn practical tips and hear relevant use cases to create for multifaceted consumers.


      Alice Rawsthorn, Author of Design as an Attitude and Co-Founder of Design Emergency Podcast
      Design as an Attitude

      Design is one of the most powerful forces in our lives, and the most exciting. Alice Rawsthorn, author of Design as an Attitude and cofounder of the Design Emergency Podcast, will share her vision of design at NeoCon 2025 as an eclectic, open-ended agent of change that can help us all to live safely, fairly, and prosperously by developing ingenious solutions to the complex social, economic, and ecological challenges we face. She will also explore how the NeoCon community can benefit from this new concept of design at a time when we are becoming increasingly sophisticated in our expectations of the spaces where we work and play.


      Chris Barton, Founder & Creator, Shazam

      Technology & A.I. are dramatically changing what’s possible in our world. Our challenge as we create new things is to dislodge from the comfort of what we already know. Chris created Shazam after being told by every “expert” that his outlandish idea was impossible. It was an idea far ahead of its time – eight years before iPhone apps even existed. In this presentation, Chris helps audiences imagine and then create new visions for the future. He inspires with jaw-dropping stories about creating Shazam and shows how innovation comes from not just an idea, but from a series of insights to overcome obstacles along the way.
      Bring Impossible Ideas to Life
  • Event type
    • Conference

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