Welcome to the third Diesel Progress Summit (DPS), a unique one-day conference and awards dinner for the engine and powertrain technology industry.

The Summit will cover off-highway machinery used in construction, agriculture, mining, forestry, and marine, as well as on-highway commercial vehicles. It will focus on the dramatic changes in engines and powertrains that are being driven by emission regulations and advances in hybrid, electrification and other technologies.

There has never been a greater need for relevant and authoritative information.

DPS 2021 follows the very successful first event in September 2019 and the online event in 2020, and is for machinery and vehicle OEMs, equipment owners, engine manufacturers and distributors, and component and powertrain suppliers.

If you work in engines, powertrains and new power technologies, this is an essential event.

Health and Safety

The health and safety of The Diesel Progress Summit attendees, speakers, sponsors and show staff is of utmost importance. We continue to monitor and follow guidelines from the CDC, State of Illinois and Loews Hotels.

As of August 11, 2021, here is what you can expect at the Diesel Progress Summit

• Masks and facial coverings: To maximize protection from the Delta variant and prevent possibly spreading it to others, the CDC and Illinois Department of Public Health recommends everyone, regardless of vaccination status, wear a mask indoors if in an area of substantial or high transmission. Cook County (which consists of Chicago and Rosemont, IL) currently has a community transmission rate that is considered SUBSTANTIAL.

• Hand sanitizer will be available throughout the venue and conference areas.

• Wash hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds.

• Loews Hotels has created safety protocols that will apply at the event hotel: click here

• Frequent cleaning and disinfecting of high-touch areas as well as meeting rooms, corridors and public areas by Loews Hotel staff.

• The Chicago Department of Public Health has issued a travel advisory based on cases per state. The list is updated every other Tuesday. To view the list, click here. Any unvaccinated people traveling from these states and territories are advised to obtain a negative Covid-19 test result no more than 72 hours prior to arrival in Chicago or quarantine for a 10-day period upon arrival. Vaccinated individuals do not need to quarantine or receive a negative test.

• Masks are required on planes, buses, trains and other forms of public transportation traveling into, within or out of the U.S.