The EDS Summit at the Mirage in Las Vegas

EDS is billed as the premier electronics distribution event. Here you will find all the resistor, capacitor, inductor, connector, wire, fuse, fan, relay, switch, crystal, antenna, instrument, and heat sink manufactures in one place — along with all their distribution partners. 

The summit is May 12 – 15. On Tuesday May 12^th there is an all industry reception from 4 to 6 p.m. The Conference Center Area is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, and 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Friday. Virtually all of the manufactures will have their top technical sales and marketing people there and you can work on the entire supply chain for all your components. For the most part, this event does not include semiconductor manufactures. See http://edsconnects.com.