IMTS 2026 Floor Planner

McCormick Place · Chicago · Sep 14–19
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How to use this planner

1 · Before the show (laptop)

Type your name top-right. In Explore, search words that matter to you (e.g. workholding, vacuum chuck, deburring) or use the flags, hall and sector filters. Tap the stars on each row: ★5 must visit · ★3 can see · ★1 only if time; skip greys it out so you don't reconsider it. Tap a row for details, a note ("ask about…"), a show day and a person.

2 · Plan the days

In Plan, set a day for each starred exhibitor (or bulk-assign, e.g. all ★5 in West L3 → Tuesday). Each day card shows stops and estimated hours; it warns when a day is over 8 h. Add team names and assign booths to people.

3 · At the show (phone)

Open the same link on your phone. Map: pick the hall; starred booths are coloured with the exhibitor name on them; tap a booth for details. Press 📍 and type the booth you are standing at (or ◎ for GPS), then Route from here for a nearest-first path along the aisles. Walk lists today's stops per hall — tick each booth as you leave it; the tick shows on the map and to your colleagues. Record who you met and the follow-up in the booth's details; Export CSV in Explore gets everything into Excel.

Sharing

If the top-right dot says synced, everyone opening this link sees the same marks live. If it says local only, marks stay on this device — use Copy plan code / Paste plan code in Plan to hand a plan to a colleague (WhatsApp works). Star ratings, notes, days and visits all travel with the code.

Recording a booth conversation

Open the exhibitor → Record conversation → tick consent → ●. The audio is saved on this phone only (works with no signal). Later, on Wi-Fi, go to Meetings → Settings → paste your own free Gemini API key → Transcribe. You get a transcript and minutes (people met, products, prices & lead times, who promised what, follow-ups, open questions) which you can share, email or download. Nothing is ever sent to Blue Photon.

Tips

Booth numbers encode the building: 1xxxxx East, 2xxxxx North, 3xxxxx South, 4xxxxx West; the second digit is the level. Indoor GPS is often 20–50 m off — trust the booth you typed over the blue dot. The page works offline once loaded; your marks are kept on the device and re-sync when you're back online.