A Monday Morning Check-In Wave
Furnaces North America 2026 runs at the Indiana Convention Center, 100 South Capitol Avenue, with a forecast attendance of 1,500 and Exhibit Hall B as the show floor. The venue lists Monday 12 to Thursday 15 October 2026. The Metal Treating Institute holds its 2026 Fall Meeting alongside the show.
Registration and badge pick-up opens at 7:00 a.m. Monday outside Hall B. Exhibitor move-in runs 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the same hall. The institute's YES IV management training runs 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday at the Marriott, for members. The Kickoff Welcome Reception runs 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Monday at the Marriott.
Front office leads read the queue from those clocks. A delegate who wants the 8:00 a.m. Monday training needs Sunday night or a pre-dawn Monday flight. Arrivals front-load into Sunday evening and the small hours of Monday.
The Nights the Programme Requires
The programme's first clock is 7:00 a.m. Monday. Its last is the Metal Treating Institute Final Night Dinner, running 7:30 to 11:00 p.m. Wednesday at the Marriott. Between them sit two expo days, Tuesday 11:15 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Wednesday 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., with technical sessions at 8:00 a.m. on both mornings.
A Monday arrival and a Thursday departure hold three nights: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. A four-night midweek stay holds Sunday 11 October through Thursday 15 October. Quote the four-night figure only against that Sunday arrival.
What the $229 Block Prices Against
The host hotel is the Marriott Downtown Indianapolis at 350 West Maryland Street. The published block rate is $229, with a booking deadline of 25 September 2026. Four nights on that rate come to $916.
Downtown market figures give the block a reference point. The Downtown Indy Alliance snapshot, citing CoStar and STR, puts downtown occupancy at 64.7 percent, the U.S. average at 62.4 percent, the downtown average daily rate at $209.11 and downtown revenue per available room at $135.20. Bradford Allen published those figures on 19 March 2026. The block rate sits $19.89 above the downtown average daily rate.
Measure the group against the room base. A forecast 1,500 delegates is 21.1 percent of the 7,100 downtown rooms the venue lists. The venue puts 4,700 of those rooms on the skywalk network, 66.2 percent of the downtown total.
The Weekend Before Holds the Month's Heaviest Nights
The venue calendar lists 12 events from 22 September to 15 October 2026. Friday 9 and Saturday 10 October hold the closing days of the American Dental Association Scientific Sessions at a forecast 4,000 and the FullScale Symposium at a forecast 1,000. The ABC Health & Fitness Expo runs Saturday 10 October at a forecast 2,000.
Sunday 11 October carries no listed anchor. That puts the softest night of the block immediately before the hardest check-in morning.
The Date Conflict for the Front Desk
The venue page and the Metal Treating Institute's association page both give Monday 12 to Thursday 15 October. The show's own site heads every page October 12-14, 2026, and its schedule closes Wednesday 14 October with exhibitor move-out from 2:30 p.m. and the members' dinner to 11:00 p.m.
Tell the front desk the programme's last content day is Wednesday 14 October. Thursday 15 October is the checkout morning.