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Drive Innovation. Shape the Future. Present at GDISâ„¢ 2027.

Are you advancing automotive design, product development, or manufacturing with steel? Submit an abstract to present at Great Designs in Steel™ 2027—the 25th Annual GDIS™ Symposium and the premier forum for practical automotive steel applications across vehicle design, production, and manufacturing.

GDISâ„¢ 2027 welcomes abstracts from OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, steel producers, and research institutions that highlight practical steel applications, architecture and design insights, manufacturing solutions, and real-world case studies. Submissions do not need to feature a new OEM product launch; strong abstracts may show how steel and related solutions enable OEM design, product performance, manufacturing execution, or application-level problem solving.

GDIS Presentation Topics May Include:

• Innovative steel applications in vehicle architectures, including body structure, closures, chassis, battery enclosures, and other systems where design and manufacturing decisions affect performance
• Lightweighting strategies that connect material selection, part design, joining, forming, manufacturability, cost, and vehicle-level performance
• AHSS and UHSS applications that demonstrate performance, manufacturability, durability, crash energy management, or production-readiness in an OEM context
• Advanced joining, forming, tooling, assembly, and manufacturing solutions that show how steel innovations are implemented in production or near-production environments
• Body-in-white, vehicle architecture, and system-level design approaches that connect steel solutions to OEM performance, manufacturability, assembly, and cost objectives
• Sustainability and lifecycle performance of steel solutions

Event & Presentations Format:

GDIS™ features three concurrent technical tracks, offering a full day of presentations from across the automotive and steel industries.

Potential session formats include technical presentations, co-presented sessions, technical panel discussions, architecture or application-focused presentations, and vehicle and sub-component exhibits. Suppliers are encouraged to submit application-focused case studies and, where practical, co-present with OEMs to demonstrate how steel solutions are implemented in a production vehicle or manufacturing context.

Submit your abstract and help showcase the practical OEM design, product, and manufacturing applications shaping tomorrow’s vehicles.

Complete the and email it to present@greatdesignsinsteel.com by Dec. 5, 2026.