Building the future of continuous improvement
The AME Western Regional Board is beyond thrilled to welcome you to Seattle, Washington for the AME Seattle 2027 Lean Summit!
The future of operational excellence will be built where people, process, and technology reinforce one another.
Join us on Wednesday, February 24 - Thursday, February 25, 2027. The AME Seattle 2027 lean summit will bring practitioners and leaders together to explore what becomes possible when lean thinking, engaged people, and practical AI work together to strengthen problem solving, decision-making, learning, and performance.
Come be inspired to learn how to engage and develop your people, solve problems in your workplace and drive continuous improvement in your business.
See where AI actually helps in daily management and problem solving. Practitioners will show real uses, what worked, and what didn’t, so you can pick a starting point for your own team.
People create the capability. Process provides the discipline. AI expands the possibility.
Objectives
- Bringing lean and AI together
- Explore how AI can elevate, not replace, lean thinking, problem solving, daily management, and continuous learning while keeping people closest to the work at the center.
- Building capacity for people-centered leadership
- Strengthen leadership, engagement, coaching, trust, and responsible technology adoption as foundations for lasting progress, learning, and organizational capability.
- Learning from some of industry's best practitioners
- Share practical use cases, lessons learned, and approaches that participants can adapt and apply in their own organizations, moving beyond theory to real operational value.
- Expanding possibilities for real and practical solutions
- Connect people, process, data, and technology around real customer and business problems while learning across industries and identifying new opportunities to improve.
Best practice benchmarking tours
- Kaas Tailored - first AME Excellence Award recipient in Washington - see how people-centered lean, daily improvement, and enterprise excellence come together in practice. kaastailored.com
- Fluke - 30+ years on its lean journey - explore how continuous improvement is sustained, adapted, and strengthened over time through leadership, systems, and learning. fluke.com
Destination: Seattle, Washington
Join us in Seattle, Washington, a fun city full of parks, coffee shops, restaurants, microbreweries, and wineries. Surrounded by mountains, forests, waterfalls and wine country.
Discover the future of lean in Seattle
Seattle — a city known for Mt. Rainier, coffee shops, Pike Place Market, Alki Beach, ferries, beautiful islands, restaurants, and national parks, will host the AME Seattle 2027 Lean Summit. As we explore “Building the future of continuous improvement,” attendees will engage with a vibrant community of manufacturing, technology and operational excellence leaders. The summit features hands-on workshops, keynote presentations and top-tier facility tours that showcase practical lean applications.
Beyond the summit, Seattle invites you to explore three national parks all within reach, head to Kerry Park for great city views, visit Snoqualmie Falls for a spectacular waterfall just 30 minutes from town, or take the ferry to Bainbridge Island and stroll its landscaped gardens and trails. For a more authentic-to-Seattle experience, take in the iconic Space Needle before exploring the architecture in the famous Queen Anne neighborhood below. But most of all, make sure to work in some time to just hang out. Seattle has so many eclectic shops, restaurants, and bars to check out. And of course, you can't skip the coffee: Grab some as you snack and shop at Pike Place Market or dip into one of the many indie cafes around town (the city really knows how to amp up the coziness so there's always a great spot to settle into, rain or shine).
Contact AME with questions by calling 224-232-5980 or emailing events@ame.org.