Like
early bird shoppers descending on Black Friday sales, the 2023
International Roofing Expo was a cavalcade of attendees who filled
Dallas’ many downtown hotel rooms for the industry’s premier yearly
event showcasing new products, myriad information seminars and countless
social events.
On the heels of last year’s IRE in New Orleans —
the first in-person industry event after the world skidded to a stop
from the COVID-19 pandemic — anticipation for 2023 was palpable. At
press time, Informa Markets, producer of the expo, had not yet released
final attendance numbers. Still, if the volume of exhibitors,
programming and education classes offered at the Kay Bailey Hutchinson
Convention Center during the three-day event is any gauge, it will
surely be a record-breaker. More than 60 educational sessions taught by
industry experts, 500-plus exhibitors and 45 full conference programs
set new benchmarks for the expo, with its roots dating back more than a
century.