Lift Industry Newsletter
November 2025
The Lift & Escalator Symposium Trust are delighted to announce the 17th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies. Hear leading experts present peer reviewed papers and enjoy the opportunity to share research and knowledge and to network with colleagues from across industry. Abstracts are welcome from professionals, academics and post graduate students.
Save the date: The symposium will take place on the 16-17th September 2026 at Kettering Park Hotel & Spa, Kettering, UK. It was a sell out event this year so don’t miss out, we will open registration in January.
If you would like to submit a paper, the first step is to submit an abstract of up to 300 words.
Lift and Escalator Symposium 2026
The abstract should state the authors' names, affiliations and email address, the title of the paper, the objectives, methodology employed, the main results and the conclusions of the research. Abstracts cannot include a product or service name: we welcome you writing about the technology you are applying, but advertorials will not be accepted. Once you have submitted an abstract, you can expect to hear from us according to the following timetable. Please help us to run the Symposium efficiently by meeting all the submission deadlines.
Submit Abstract - 31 March 2026
Notification of Abstract Acceptance - 30 April 6
Submit extended abstract (six pages) or full paper (ten pages) - 31 May 2026
Notification of acceptance of full paper - 30 June 2026
Submit final paper incorporating comments & feedback from reviewers - 31 July 2026
Short abstracts of up to 300 words can be submitted HERE.