Next week, the global standards community will gather in Scottsdale, AZ, for the 51st annual Standards Publishing Advisory Board (SPAB) meeting (February 23 – 25, 2026). What began as a meeting of five people in Denver organized by Information Handling Services has grown into the industry’s most influential summit for the key stakeholders who define our technical future.
The last decade of the Standards Publishing Advisory Board (SPAB) has been defined by professional resilience. As the host and organizer of SPAB, Accuris has worked to ensure this community has a steady platform to navigate the “Winds of Change” (the 2016 theme).
In the world of engineering, we often talk about “the edge” – the edge of discovery, the edge of the grid, or the edge of a network. But that edge is only as stable as the standards supporting it. This February, we are honored to name IEEE as our Publisher of the Month.
As the new millennium dawned, the professional focus of the Standards Publishing Advisory Board (SPAB) shifted from “distribution” to “integration.” This was the era of the Engineering Workbench vision – a time when the industry realized that simply providing a document was no longer enough.