Agenda:  Monday, May 3 - Wednesday, May 5

Watch Your Step: Optimizing Your Enterprise Footprint 

As manufacturers consider ways to transform business models and gain competitive advantage through continuous improvement processes, enterprise footprint optimization, the process of adopting a more strategic and holistic approach to how and where assets are deployed, has been brought into sharp relief. How can enterprise footprint optimization help your organization reduce costs, improve operating efficiency and flexibility, and become more responsive to immediate opportunities, crises, and unpredictable market conditions?

Speakers:
Tim Hanley, Vice Chairman and US Process & Industrial Products Leader, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Darin Buelow, Principal, Strategy & Operations, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Welcome & Opening Remarks: Seizing the Future: Leadership Strategies for the Recovery and Beyond

As the manufacturing industry emerges from the Great Recession, manufacturers in every sector have a rare opportunity to re-start growth by transforming business models, driving innovations in new products, making better use of automation and IT, and attracting a new generation of energetic and motivated leaders.

David R. Brousell, Editor-in-Chief, Managing Automation Media

Featured Presentation: Manufacturing’s Agenda Today

Decisions by the federal government on issues such as taxes, international trade, energy and infrastructure will directly affect U.S. manufacturing competitiveness and the economic outlook. John Engler, the president of the National Association of Manufacturers, will discuss NAM's positions on these issues as well as what the association is doing to improve overall U.S. industrial competitiveness.

Speaker: John Engler, President of the National Association of Manufacturers, and  former three-term Governor of Michigan

Panel: Manufacturing 2010 and Beyond: The Economic Context

What do the numbers – on production, capacity utilization, exports, employment levels – tell us about manufacturing today and what do they portend for the future? An expert panel of manufacturing industry economists will analyze current trends and predict their direction over the next couple of years.

Moderator: Jeff Moad, Executive Editor, Managing Automation
Panelist: David Huether, Chief Economist, National Association of Manufacturers

Alan Tonelson, Research Fellow, U.S. Business and Industry Council

Mark Doms, Chief Economist, Department of Commerce

Lunch and Personal Networking

Fireside Chat: Greater Business Agility Through IT

The keys to success in today’s volatile and highly competitive manufacturing environment are collaboration and innovation. Manufacturers must better leverage the expertise and knowledge possessed by their manufacturing personnel. Learn how Chevron is using a high-fidelity 3D virtual model of its manufacturing facility to enable collaboration and spur growth.

Moderated by Paul Tate, Executive Editor, Manufacturing Executive
Speaker: Joanne Tyree, Group Vice President of IT and Network Services and CIO, Panduit Corporation

The Mobility Mandate
Whether they are production managers on the plant floor or sales executives in the field, all manufacturing personnel today require access to data at all times in order to do their jobs. It should come as no surprise, then, that managers increasingly see wireless technologies and mobile-enabled applications as strategic investments. Yet, it is not a plug-and-play set up, and it requires some infrastructure understanding of the network and the devices (cellular vs. Wi-Fi, for example).  This panel discussion will focus on how manufacturers can determine the best solution based on their business needs, providing real world examples of how manufacturers are using a wide range of mobile and wireless technologies to streamline plant operations, improve customer service, and achieve competitive advantage in a variety of other ways.

Sponsor Workshops

• Sustainability and SAP; The Next Level of Business Excellence
  SAP has developed a strategy to both be more sustainable as well as enable our customers to be more sustainable in achieving their objectives.  Learn how our customers are working with SAP to make progress towards their goals as well as hear how SAP products can help you achieve your sustainability objectives for performance management, carbon and energy management and EHS risk management and compliance
  

Speaker: Neil Krefsky, SAP, Marketing Director for Sustainability Performance Management

• Clone Your Experts with Mobile Video Collaboration and Mobilized Manufacturing Applications 
  Does increasing productivity, quickly resolving problems regardless of the location, leveraging expertise across plant operations and reducing downtime, sound too good to be true?  With today’s communication technologies, it’s just the beginning.  Come learn how real-time mobile video collaboration can clone your experts, reduce travel budgets and resolve problems on the spot. We’ll also cover how securely mobilized manufacturing applications such as Maintenance, Repair, and Operations, Executive Dashboards, and Inventory/Asset Tracking can improve efficiencies and reduce costs.
  

Speakers:

Sandeep Saxena, Principal Consultant, Manufacturing, Sprint 

Michael Langlinais, Industry Solutions Manager, Manufacturing, Sprint

• Achieving Supply Chain Excellence Post M&A
  Hear how HP utilized the SCOR (Supply Chain Operation Reference Model) to determine how to best merge two large and disparate Supply Chains (HP and Compaq) and achieve significant savings.
  

             Speaker:

             Neal Streit, Principal, Supply Chain Practice, HP Enterprise Solutions

• Innovation in Manufacturing: The Collaboration Imperative
  Transforming the Business with People, Process and Technology 
  The ability to find, create, and capitalize new product and service ideas sets highly successful manufacturing companies apart, especially in complex, fast-moving global markets. To sustain a high level of innovation, successful companies bring together people, process, and technology and look beyond their walls for expertise and ideas. Cisco is widely recognized for its ability to continuously launch highly innovative products in its core markets, as well as enter or create new markets. Join us for a discussion on how a collaboration strategy can help drive significant improvement in the top five manufacturing imperatives; Cost & Productivity, Customer Intimacy, Risk Mitigation, Green and Innovation
   
  
  Speaker:

 Robert Dean, Director, Cisco Systems Manufacturing Industry Center of Excellence

• Best Practices for Mobilizing Your Workforce:  A look into the future of where technologies will drive innovation in manufacturing mobile deployments

Mobilize Your Workforce to gain efficiency, productivity and real-time access to backend systems.  Gain insight into the latest innovations in business process mobilization.  Participate in “A Day in the Life” of a field automation deployment using a variety of the latest devices on AT&T’s Mobile Enterprise Application Platform.  Hear Siemens Medical share best practices from their field service deployment.  Be present for a chance to win a great prize.

Speakers:

Meredith Powers, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, AT&T

Dan Miller, Manufacturing Industry Solutions Director, AT&T

Jon Duncan, Sr. Technical Engineer, Antenna

Morten Pedersen, IT Manager, Siemens Medical

Bishan Dass, Director IT, Siemens Medical

Progressive Insights: A PM100 Case Study on Innovation

A 2009 Progressive Manufacturing award winner will share insights on how they transformed a key business process to create a new competitive advantage.

Speaker: Chris Summersgill, Vice President of Operations, Big Belly Solar

Presentation: Sustainability — The Opportunity Ahead

Social and environmental responsibility in manufacturing, symbolized by the green movement, has become a mandate for manufacturers. But competitive advantage will be attained by those that put in place holistic, enterprise-wide sustainability programs. This in-depth discussion will focus on how manufacturers can build the culture, processes and best practices necessary to make sustainability a success.

Chris Chiapinelli, Online Editor, Managing Automation

Panelists:
Tom Dadmun, Vice President, Program Management Office, AdTran
Jeff Lail, Corporate Manufacturing Systems Quality Manager, Hickory Springs Manufacturing Co.

John Gagel, Manager of Sustainable Practices, Lexmark

Featured Presentation: Collaborative Innovation

Bureaucracy is the biggest barrier to innovation. Manufacturers are banging the drum about the need to get new ideas to market faster, but they are still constrained by the organizational layers that block their ability to build a process around idea generation. InnoCentive built the first global web community for open innovation, enabling scientists, engineers, professionals and entrepreneurs to collaborate to deliver breakthrough solutions for innovative R&D-driven organizations. This session will focus on how to drive innovation from all levels of the organization and beyond.

Speaker: Dwayne H. Spradlin, President and Chief Executive Officer, InnoCentive Inc.

Scorecard: Lessons from Day One of the Summit

David R. Brousell, Editor-in-Chief, Managing Automation Media

Depart for Evening Reception-

Cruise around the Intercoastal  Waterways of Palm Beach aboard the Windridge Yacht

M2M, 4G and Beyond: Transforming Manufacturing

Speaker:  Wayne Ward, VP of Emerging Solutions, Sprint

Welcome to Day Two of the Summit
David R. Brousell, Editor-in-Chief, Managing Automation Media

Featured Presentation: Breakthrough Innovation in Manufacturing

What types of innovations can produce “game-changing” advantages for manufacturers?
And how do companies generate and bring to market such ideas? These are
pivotal questions for many as the industry embraces innovation as a central
competitive strategy in the increasingly global marketplace of the early 21st century.
Drawing on her experiences at General Motors and Ford Motor Co., Adriana Karaboutis,
Dell Computer’s new Vice President of IT, describes how key innovation enablers
such as culture, organization, technology and leadership must come together
for any company to rise to the next level in the innovation game.

Speaker: Adriana Karaboutis, Vice President of IT, Dell

Panel: Achieving Supply Chain Breakthroughs

As manufacturers emerge from the recession, they are realizing that their supply networks can be gold mines of operating efficiencies, cost savings and even new business opportunities. But they must have the right vision and strategy for architecting it, extracting the right information from it and making sound business decisions based on that information. This panel of supply chain experts will discuss how to turn supply networks into sources of new competitive advantage.

Moderated by Jeff Moad, Executive Editor, Managing Automation

Panelists:
Mark Lynch, Director, Supply Chain Development, Coca Cola
Carlos Rubio, Director of Finance and Operations, Grayling Industries

Timothy E. Carroll, Vice President, Global Supply Chain Operations, ISC, IBM 

Sponsor Workshops

• Seizing New Opportunities In a Recovering Economy
  In today’s volatile economy, manufacturers must be able to sense and rapidly respond to changes in their business whether it is a shift in customer demand, supplier disruptions, line shut-downs, or quality problems. In 2010, businesses must not only invest to meet short term challenges, but also lay out the foundation for growth.  Learn about how SAP is helping manufacturers meet the challenges of the “new normal” through a modular, yet integrated portfolio of solutions and industry-specific best practices that drive immediate insight into action.
  

Speaker: Vivek Bapat, SAP, Vice President, Manufacturing Industries Solutions Marketing

• Clone Your Experts with Mobile Video Collaboration and Mobilized Manufacturing Applications 
  Does increasing productivity, quickly resolving problems regardless of the location, leveraging expertise across plant operations and reducing downtime, sound too good to be true?  With today’s communication technologies, it’s just the beginning.  Come learn how real-time mobile video collaboration can clone your experts, reduce travel budgets and resolve problems on the spot. We’ll also cover how securely mobilized manufacturing applications such as Maintenance, Repair, and Operations, Executive Dashboards, and Inventory/Asset Tracking can improve efficiencies and reduce costs.
  

Speakers:

Sandeep Saxena, Principal Consultant-Manufacturing, Sprint 

Michael Langlinais, Industry Solutions Manager - Manufacturing, Sprint

• Alternative Thinking about Imaging and Printing: Impacting Core Manufacturing Processes  
  Imaging and Printing is one of the most commonly overlooked areas for process improvements in Manufacturing & Energy environments. Whether your organization is an Oil & Gas E&P company looking to increase producing wells 3-5%, a discrete manufacturer wishing to optimize plant availability 2-6%, or a process manufacturer trying to cut 20-30% out of your regulatory compliance and legal costs, today’s imaging and printing solutions are capable of helping your organization accomplish those goals. Join HP to learn how your Imaging and Printing environment can drive performance in business processes typically overlooked when considering an output strategy, and help drive revenue, speed time to market, ensure regulatory compliance, reduce maintenance time & cost and shorten start-up time.

Speakers:

Dr. Andrew Gaiziunas, Business Process Consultant, HP

• Innovation in Manufacturing: The Collaboration Imperative
  Transforming the Business with People, Process and Technology 
  The ability to find, create, and capitalize new product and service ideas sets highly successful manufacturing companies apart, especially in complex, fast-moving global markets. To sustain a high level of innovation, successful companies bring together people, process, and technology and look beyond their walls for expertise and ideas. Cisco is widely recognized for its ability to continuously launch highly innovative products in its core markets, as well as enter or create new markets. Join us for a discussion on how a collaboration strategy can help drive significant improvement in the top five manufacturing imperatives; Cost & Productivity, Customer Intimacy, Risk Mitigation, Green and Innovation
   
  
  Speaker:
  
  Robert Dean, Director, Cisco Systems Manufacturing Industry Center of Excellence
  
• Best Practices for Mobilizing Your Workforce:  A look into the future of where technologies will drive innovation in manufacturing mobile deployments
  Mobilize Your Workforce to gain efficiency, productivity and real-time access to backend systems. Gain insight into the latest innovations in business process mobilization.  Participate in “A Day in the Life” of a field automation deployment using a variety of the latest devices on AT&T’s Mobile Enterprise Application Platform.  Be present for a chance to win a great prize.
  
  
  Speakers:
  
  Meredith Powers, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, AT&T;
  Dan Miller, Manufacturing Industry Solutions Director, AT&T;
  Jon Duncan, Sr. Technical Engineer, Antenna

Featured Presentation: Emerging Technologies: A Walk in the Cloud

Is there a fundamental change occurring in how computing resources and applications will be delivered to manufacturers? Is so-called Cloud Computing at the heart of this shift? Marks, the author of a new book, The Executive’s Guide to Cloud Computing, will explain this new computing model and its implications for manufacturing in the years ahead.

Speaker: Eric Marks, President and Chief Executive Officer, AgilePath Corp. 

Featured Presentation: Deepening Customer Relationships

Today, listening to customers just isn’t enough. To fully leverage the creativity, insights and experiences of customers requires true collaboration and integration of information about customers, their markets and their customers in your business processes. This session will provide insights on how to make customers a central part of your business model.

Speakers:
Timothy Fleming, VP and CIO, Industrial Technologies Sector, Ingersoll Rand Company
Brad Heath, President, Virtex, and 2009 Progressive Manufacturer of the Year winner.

Panel: Things to Come: A Peak Into the Future of Manufacturing

What are some of the ideas and technologies that will drive business change for manufacturers in the years ahead? What will the structure of the industry look like, how will manufacturing companies be organized, and what technologies will provide competitive advantage? MA’s annual gathering of analysts and researchers will share insights about what’s around the corner.

Moderator: David R. Brousell, Editor-in-Chief, Managing Automation Media

Panelists:
Julie Fraser, President, Cambashi
Andy Chatha, President and Founder, ARC Advisory Group
Sath Rao, Director, Industrial Automation and Process Control, Frost & Sullivan

Joe Barkai, Practice Director, Product Lifecycle Strategies

Final Scorecard: Key Takeaways from the Summit

David R. Brousell, Editor-in-Chief, Managing Automation Media