iTherM Thermal Management Industry Conference & Exposition 2026Dates, Registration & Visitor Guide

What is iTherM Thermal Management Industry Conference & Exposition?

iTherM ("insight Thermal Management") is a conference-plus-expo on keeping electronics, batteries and data centres cool. Its organizer is DT New Materials, a Ningbo-based firm that runs industry platforms for new materials and also organises the Carbontech carbon-materials show. The December 2026 event at Shenzhen World in Bao'an is the 7th edition. The organizer plans about 20,000 m² of exhibits, more than 350 exhibitors and a conference of 2,000+ delegates. In 2026 the brand also held a separate liquid-cold-plate show in Shanghai in June, and the Shenzhen edition in December concentrates on consumer electronics, AI servers, communications and the low-altitude economy.

The floor is organised by layer. The materials zone has metals, ceramics and ceramic substrates, diamond and graphite, thermal-interface materials, phase-change materials, insulation and coolants. The components zone covers fans, heat sinks, heat pipes and vapour chambers, cold plates and pumps. Solution zones cover consumer electronics, data-centre cooling (cold-plate and immersion liquid cooling, CDUs, quick connectors), and EV, battery and energy-storage thermal systems. A fourth zone is for production equipment and test instruments: brazing, skiving, sintering, leak testing, thermal analysers and IR imaging. Exhibitors at the 2025 show included the German instrument makers NETZSCH and Linseis, Indium Corporation, the diamond producers Huanghe Whirlwind and SINOMACH Diamond, the thermal-materials firms Boen and HFC, graphene maker Hangzhou Gaoxi, and Shenzhen Xihe, which 3D-prints copper cold plates.

The audience is technical: thermal and mechanical engineers, materials scientists, buyers at device, EV and battery makers, and university researchers. The organizer said a BYD procurement team came to the 2025 show with specific projects to discuss. The event puts extra weight on moving lab results to market, with startup roadshows, new-product launches and investor matchmaking.

The conference is a major part of iTherM. In 2025 it had forums on thermal science, radiative cooling, thermal-interface materials, carbon-based materials, thermal design and simulation, consumer electronics, batteries and data-centre cooling. Academics from Tsinghua, HUST, Tianjin University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences served as advisers and session chairs. For Shenzhen's phone, wearable, drone and AI-server makers, heat is now a design limit, and this is a focused place to find TIM, vapour-chamber and liquid-cooling suppliers and to hear the research behind them.