International Mass Timber Conference 2026
March 31 @ 8:00 am - April 2 @ 5:00 pm
$1375
Overview
The International Mass Timber Conference is having its year at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. This is a deal because it brings together over 3,000 professionals from the forest products, manufacturing, architecture, engineering, development, and construction sectors. The International Mass Timber Conference is the yearly meeting that is only about the mass timber supply chain.
The International Mass Timber Conference is put on by Trifecta Collective and WoodWorks. They talk about all kinds of engineered wood products like laminated timber, nail-laminated timber, glulam, mass plywood panels, dowel-laminated timber and laminated veneer lumber at the International Mass Timber Conference. The conference has a lot going on over three days. They have five topics with over 60 expert presentations, plus keynotes, workshops, building tours and networking receptions, at the International Mass Timber Conference.
Focus
The 2026 program is about mass timber. It looks at timber as a material to build with and as a part of the market. The program has sessions on designing with timber, how to build with it getting mass timber from one place to another helping developers pay for it and some really technical stuff about mass timber.
The main ideas of the program are broken down into a groups. These groups are about designing with timber and the market for it people who build with mass timber getting mass timber and managing the supply chain things that developers care about and some advanced ideas and real life examples of using mass timber.
Some of the talks are about using mass timber to build affordable houses how to make sure mass timber is affordable dealing with moisture when building with mass timber building with mass timber in a factory combining steel and mass timber, designing buildings that can withstand bad weather using mass timber in hospitals and making emergency structures with mass timber. The 2026 program also looks at how big companies like Amazon and Google’re using mass timber in their buildings. There is a special talk on Thursday, about what these companies will be doing with sustainable building over the next ten years.
A greater use of cross-laminated timber and other mass timber products is the innovative, disruptive, modern, and sustainable choice necessary for building in a fast-growing world.
IMTC 2026 Program Statement
Program
Tuesday, March 31 — Pre-Conference + Opening
The day begins with optional pre-conference activities: mass timber building, manufacturing, and forestry tours in Portland and surrounding areas (6:45 am–3:30 pm, $350 per tour, sold separately), and two workshops — a Life Cycle Assessment fundamentals and modeling workshop led by CINTRAFOR, and the Mass Timber Boot Camp on fundamentals of design and construction by WoodWorks ($125, 2.75 PDH credits).
The main program opens at 2:00 pm with the Tuesday keynote “The Boardroom: From Pitch to Capital,” in which developers pitch real mass timber projects to a live investor panel. The Welcome Reception follows from 4:00–6:30 pm in the exhibit halls, with the Mass Timber Mingle continuing the evening at Hotel Eastlund’s Metropolitan Tavern.
Wednesday, April 1 — Main Conference Day One
The day opens with the headline keynote: “Buildings That Breathe: A Conversation with Kengo Kuma” (8:00–9:15 am, 1.0 AIA/CES LU). Kuma, founder of Kengo Kuma & Associates, makes his first appearance at IMTC. Five concurrent track sessions run through the morning and afternoon, covering topics from affordable housing and cost clarity to Amazon and Google case studies and advanced engineering applications. A Happy Hour Reception closes the exhibit hall from 2:45–6:00 pm.
Thursday, April 2 — Main Conference Day Two
The Thursday keynote “Big Tech, Big Timber: The Next Decade of Sustainable Innovation” (8:00–9:15 am, sponsored by Skanska) features speakers from Amazon and Meta examining how climate commitments and data-driven design are shaping their building programs. Track sessions run through midday on topics including supply chain resilience, hybrid steel and timber collaboration, mass timber financial feasibility, and climate resilience design. The Women in Timber Power Hour (1:00–2:00 pm) returns for its fourth year. The conference closes at 3:00 pm; the 2027 edition is announced for March 16–18, 2027.
New in 2026: NoteAffect
A new AI-powered tool, NoteAffect, allows attendees to interact with live presentation content on personal devices during and after sessions, replacing passive note-taking with an integrated digital engagement layer across the full conference program.
Speakers
Audience
The conference draws professionals from across the full mass timber industry: architects, structural engineers, contractors, developers, investors, manufacturers, foresters, and policy specialists. The five-track structure serves both practitioners seeking CEU credits and business decision-makers evaluating market entry or project pipeline expansion. Students attend at a significantly reduced rate of $250.
The convergence of corporate real estate (Amazon, Meta, Google, HP, Atlassian) with material and construction research reflects the conference’s dual positioning as both a technical forum and a market development platform.
Event Details
| Dates | March 31 – April 2, 2026 (pre-conference tours: March 31) |
| Venue | Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon, USA |
| Edition | 10th Annual |
| Full Pass | $1,375 general / $965 exhibitors / $700 educators & nonprofits / $250 students |
| 1-Day Pass | Tuesday $540 / Wednesday $750 / Thursday $540 |
| Building Tours | $350 per tour (sold separately, Tuesday March 31) |
| Workshops | LCA Workshop: $0–$100 by category / Boot Camp: $125 |
| CEUs | AIA/CES LUs, PDH credits, ICC credits available across sessions |
| Exhibitors | 200+ |
| Attendees | 3,000+ expected |
| Producers | Trifecta Collective LLC + WoodWorks |
✦ ArchUp Editorial Insight
At its tenth edition, IMTC has consolidated into the primary annual market event for mass timber globally — less a conference in the academic sense than a supply chain summit where deals are structured and investment theses tested. The Boardroom keynote format makes this explicit: live developer pitches to investors signal that mass timber has moved from a design conversation to a capital allocation one. The prominent presence of Amazon and Meta raises a structural question the conference does not fully address: whether big tech’s adoption of mass timber buildings accelerates the material’s mainstream trajectory or simply absorbs it into a corporate sustainability branding apparatus with its own logic.
Closing Note
Ten years in, IMTC reflects how rapidly mass timber has shifted from a niche material interest to a legitimate structural and investment category. The 2026 program’s emphasis on financial feasibility, supply chain resilience, and tech-sector adoption suggests the industry is now navigating the challenges of scale rather than those of legitimacy. Whether the material can sustain that momentum across housing affordability, climate resilience, and manufacturing capacity simultaneously is the question the conference raises without definitively resolving.
