AMERICA INNOVATES FROM FORBES & AMERICA250

America Innovates Presented By Forbes & America250

America250 partners with Forbes to co-host and amplify “America Innovates” throughout 2026. “America Innovates” is a free, open to the public, for all ages, three-day experience featuring an immersive walk-through exhibit highlighting innovations of the past, present, and future; along with livestreamed on-stage conversations with leaders across industries, including honorees of the Forbes list of 250 greatest living American innovators.

EVENT FEATURES

America250 and Forbes co-host “America Innovates” and invite all to join us. The event is a free, open-to-the-public, family-friendly, three-day experience featuring an immersive walk-through exhibit. Experience innovations of the past, present and future, along with on-stage conversations with business leaders in every industry – from transportation and finance, to retail and consumer technology, and much more.

Programming includes demonstrations and discussions with honorees of the Forbes Innovator 250 list of the greatest living American innovators – who are advancing the American Dream in bringing their breakthroughs to market, transforming entire industries and creating new ones. May marks National Inventors Month, an observance established in 1998 to commemorate George Washington’s founding of the U.S. patent office.