SPIE Advanced Lithography + Patterning 2027San Jose exhibitor guide: booth costs, dates and deadlines

SPIE Advanced Lithography + Patterning 2027 runs February 21–25, 2027 in San Jose, California, per spie.org. The exhibition is open two days: Tuesday, February 23 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Wednesday, February 24 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

SPIE's exhibition page places the 2027 meeting in downtown San Jose at the McEnery Convention Center on West San Carlos Street. San Jose Mineta International Airport is the closest major airport.

Exhibitors are lithography and EUV tool suppliers, resist and patterning materials companies, mask makers, and metrology, inspection and computational lithography vendors. Visitors are the engineers and managers who qualify those products at chipmakers, foundries and research labs.

The exhibition is a compact two-day floor inside a five-day technical week, February 23–24, 2027. We size the booth to the conversations you want on that floor rather than to the biggest neighbor.

SPIE publishes 2027 space rates on the exhibition page. Our 10×20 rental with backlit data graphics runs $7,500 to $15,000 and a custom 20×20 island $50,000 to $120,000; a laser demo or a closed meeting room is what moves the number.

The exhibitor certificate of insurance is due January 22, 2027, per SPIE's exhibition page. Lasers, radiation-producing devices and similar equipment need special Fire Marshal approval at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, requested in writing 60 days before the first move-in day. We send our own contractor insurance at the same time so install is not held up.

The San Jose McEnery Convention Center requires special Fire Marshal approval for lasers, radiation-producing devices and similar equipment, requested in writing 60 days before the first move-in day. We file the request with your equipment details.

Full-time employees of exhibiting companies may hand-carry materials without carts or other handling equipment, one person and one trip per booth, and may not use the loading dock or freight doors, per Team San Jose's facilities guide. Elevators are off limits for heavy carts.

Single-level covered booths, two-story booths and platforms over 500 sq ft need prior approval, with plans certified by a licensed engineer, smoke detectors under the structure and a 2A 10BC extinguisher per level. We engineer and submit the package.

Helium tanks and helium balloons are not permitted in the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. Limited drone use is allowed inside the expo halls after an application through the event manager, and never outside the building.

SPIE, the international optics and photonics society, runs the meeting, its technical conferences and the exhibition. SPIE also runs Photonics West in San Francisco a few weeks earlier and SPIE Defense + Security in April.

Advanced Lithography + Patterning reaches a narrow, senior patterning audience in February; SEMICON West, March 30–April 1, 2027 in Phoenix, reaches the whole fab supply chain. Patterning suppliers often do both, and we can build one kit that works at each.

We store the kit in Fishkill, NY or Las Vegas between shows and ship it to each advance warehouse. A 10×20 built for San Jose fits SEMICON West in Phoenix or SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco with new graphics.

SPIE arranges a hotel block for the meeting, and its 2027 details are not confirmed yet. San Jose Mineta International Airport (SJC) is the closest major airport to the downtown convention center.