*Times, speakers and sessions are subject to change
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Monday, May 9, 2011
7:00am – 6:00pm
Registration Opens
7:00am – 12:00pm
VIP Golf Tournament
Don’t miss a terrific opportunity to meet and network with fellow executives at the VIP’s Golf Tournament! Attendees of all skill levels are invited to take part in this fun and worthwhile event. Green fees, golf cart, range balls, tournament services, and scoring are included in the complimentary registration. A continental breakfast and a boxed lunch will be provided after the tournament. Participation is FREE for registered Summit attendees.
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2:00pm – 4:00pm
Manufacturing Leadership Council Spring Meeting in the Gold Room
*An invitation-only closed-door meeting for Council members, this year’s session will bring together some of the best minds in manufacturing to debate some of today’s critical issues including Factories of the Future, Collaborative Innovation, Rebranding Manufacturing, and Service Innovation and setting the agenda for the next 12 months.
4:00pm – 5:00pm
VIP Tour of Sponsor Marketplace in the Venetian Ballroom
*Invitation Only
5:00pm – 7:00pm
Around the World Opening Cocktail Reception at the Mediterranean Courtyard
Take a journey with us to sample different foods from around the world. This will be a great opportunity to meet with and hear from our featured sponsors of the event.
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7:00pm – 9:00pm
Sponsor Private Dinner
*Invitation Only
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
7:30am – 8am Networking Breakfast in Summit Marketplace
8am – 8:15am Summit Opening & Welcoming Remarks: The Value-Added Revolution in Manufacturing
David R. Brousell, Editor-in-Chief, Managing Automation
8:15am – 9:00am Analytics in Manufacturing: Smarter Decisions, Better Results
Today’s global business environment demands greater speed. Whether it is in new product creation, bringing a product to market or servicing customers, success depends upon being able to sense and respond quickly to often rapidly changing market conditions. But how do manufacturers move faster but with even greater precision? The answer is in the transformative power of analytics. Tom Davenport, noted business author and President’s Distinguished Professor in Management and Information Technology at Babson College as well as Senior Advisor to Deloitte, will reveal how companies can achieve breakthroughs in decision-making through the smart use of analytics.
Tom Davenport, President Chair, Information Technology and Management, Babson College
9:00am – 9:45am Keynote: Creating Value One Plant at a Time
Over the past eight years, Serious Materials has transformed from a slow-growing automotive accessories company into a leading light of sustainable manufacturing. Serious Materials’ CEO—and Inc. Magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year—shares his formula for innovation-led transformation and tells how he’s helping to revive manufacturing one plant at a time.
Kevin Surace, CEO, Serious Materials
9:45am – 10:30am Panel: The Value of Reinvention
Many product companies, particularly in the automotive sector and in consumer product markets, are using new technologies and design concepts to reinvent a product category. This panel session will explore how they are redefining the types of products as well as pricing models that consumers want.
Moderator:
Jeff Moad, Executive Editor, Managing Automation
Panelists:
Bob Dean, Director of the Manufacturing Industry Vertical,Cisco
Michael Jacks, Senior Manager, Logistics Systems, Coca-Cola Refreshments
Joan Magrath, Vice President, Sales & Engineering, Mack Molding
Vikram Sinha, Vice President and Head of Car Production, Tata Motors
Clifton Vann IV, President, Livingston & Haven
10:30am – 12:00pm Refreshment Break and Speed Networking Meetings
12:00pm – 1:00pm Networking Lunch
1:00pm – 1:45pm Enabling Growth Through Innovation
How can global manufacturers achieve sustained growth in increasingly global environments? At Eaton's Vehicle Group, innovation, supply chain efficiencies and technology integration, as well as standardization, have transformed everything from the shop floor to how Eaton provides value to customers.
John M. Gercak, Vice President, Information Technology, Eaton Corporation's Vehicle Group
1:45pm – 2:30pm Future Value: GE's New Manufacturing Technology Development Strategy
GE is recommitting itself to manufacturing. Recognizing the importance of a strong manufacturing base to support the next generation of aviation products, GE has launched an Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center that will demonstrate manufacturing technology readiness for state-of-the-art technologies. Learn what manufacturing technologies GE is investing in and how the industrial leader will transition these technologies to full-rate production.
Douglas J. Dinon, Advanced Manufacturing Technology Leader, GE Global Research Center
2:30pm – 3:00pm Progressive Manufacturing 100 Case Study Presentations
A select group of this year's PM100 Award winners will describe the projects and business strategies that led to positive change for their companies.
Presented by:
General Motors
Honeywell FM&T
3:00pm – 3:15pm Networking Break
3:15pm – 4:00pm Think Tank Roundtable Discussions
• What are the Limits of Enterprise Mobility?
• Is Collaborative Innovation Sustainable?
• Can More Value Really be Found in the Plant? 
4:00pm – 4:30pm Panel: What's the Smart Grid's Value Proposition?
The smart grid holds the promise of creating new efficiencies from power lines as well as the development of renewable energy sources, driving new value for both consumers and industry. This idea of a more efficient electricity supply chain is already attracting huge investments from telecommunications companies, technology suppliers and industrial companies. This session will explore what value the smart grid can deliver to manufacturing companies and how they can best take advantage of it.
Moderator:
Chris Chiappinelli, Editor, Managing Automation
Panelists:
Andy Chatha, President, ARC Advisory Group
Dan Maheu, President & COO, SMART Papers Holdings LLC
Laura V. Raymond, Business Development Executive, Smart Grid, OSIsoft, LLC
4:30pm – 5:15pm Special Keynote: Why Not Your Best!
At a time when business is experiencing very serious challenges, perhaps it’s time to go back to basics and take a closer look at what makes people successful despite disappointment, adversity and relentless competition. Legendary Hall of Fame Quarterback Terry Bradshaw, a success both on and off the field, shares with audiences his strategies for maintaining success through persistent self-improvement. All of us, he says, want to better ourselves, to learn about ourselves and to apply that learning towards a common goal. Bradshaw invites audiences to think in new ways about sacrifice, pain, competition and adversity, while giving specific examples of how to focus the power of dreaming, thinking and strategizing towards goals and success.
Terry Bradshaw, Co-host and Analyst, FOX NFL Sunday and NFL Legend
5:15pm – 7:00pm Summit BBQ Party
It won’t be cold out, and football will still be months away but would those be reasons not to tailgate at our barbecue? Join your fellow manufacturing executives, Summit speakers, sponsor reps, and Terry Bradshaw at this unofficial tailgate barbecue being held at the Grand Lawn at The Breakers Garden. Celebrate the end of your first day with a waltz through the end zone — a chance to network in a casual, enjoyable setting with key industry players you’ll want to talk to.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
7:45am – 8:30am Breakfast Presentation: High Performance Manufacturers: What Separates the Best from the Rest?
The global manufacturing industry is undergoing a transformational shift that will reshape drivers of economic growth, wealth creation, national prosperity, and national security. This session will leverage the insight , based on a multiyear research initiative, of nearly 400 CEO’s around the world and three dozen additional in-person CEO interviews in the U.S. regarding the key drivers of Manufacturing Competitiveness and explore why the push for top talent, advanced IT capabilities and globalizing sales/marketing capabilities will truly set your organization above the rest.
Tim Hanley, Vice Chairman and U.S. Process & Industrial Products Leader, Deloitte LLP
Craig Giffi, Vice Chairman and U.S. Consumer & Industrial Products Leader, Deloitte LLP
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8:30am – 8:35am Day One Recap
David R. Brousell, Editor-in-Chief, Managing Automation Media
8:35am – 9:05am Manufacturing Means JOBS: A Manufacturing Strategy for Jobs and a Competitive America
The goal of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), the largest manufacturing association in the U.S., is to make the U.S. the best country in the world to headquarter a company, to innovate and to manufacture products and create jobs. The NAM’s new President and CEO, Jay Timmons, will explain the NAM’s plan to achieve this goal through a combination of tax, energy and trade policies, regulatory reform, improvements in education and a greater emphasis on research and development.
Jay Timmons, President & CEO, National Association of Manufacturers
9:05am – 9:45am Keynote: Extending Value: Serving the Customer's Customer
As a leading global manufacturer of medical diagnostic, medical imaging and surgical products, Hologic has a clear mission and focus to help women everywhere lead longer, healthier lives. To do so requires a deep understanding of the medical equipment needs of its customers, but it also demands that the company constantly identifies ways to add value to those relationships. Today, Hologic is embracing social networking, enterprise mobility concepts and business intelligence techniques to get closer to its entire customer value chain.
David M. Rudzinsky, SVP, Information Services and CIO, Hologic, Inc.
9:45am – 10:30am Panel: Discovering New Value Through Service Transformation
The business of manufacturing is not just about making and selling a product anymore. Now, the creation and delivery of value-added services holds not just the prospect of additional revenue opportunities, but much more satisfied customers over the long term. This session will explore how manufacturers are rethinking the service component of their businesses to drive greater value to customers and the bottom line.
Moderator:
Paul Tate, Executive Editor & Leadership Council Editorial Lead, Manufacturing Executive
Panelists:
Dennis Pappas, Senior Director, Service Operations, Hologic, Inc.
Paul Alwin, Senior Vice President, Operations, c3controls
Jay White, Mobility Architect, First Solar
10:30am- 12:00pm Refreshment Break and Speed Networking Meetings
12:00pm – 1:00pm Networking Lunch
1:00pm – 1:30pm Panel: Unlocking Value: Continuous Improvement of Profitability
For more than two decades the concept of continuous improvement has been evolving in industrial operations, from early SQC programs through TQM, 6 Sigma and Lean. While the concept has demonstrable validity, most programs have been treated tactically rather than as integral aspects of the business. As a result, their impact on profitability has been elusive. This session will explain how to put CI programs on a more strategic footing by focusing their improvements for bottom-line impact.
Moderator:
Stephanie Neil, Senior Editor, Managing Automation Media
Panelists:
Iggy Javellana, Senior Director, Application Delivery and Services, Land O'Lakes
Peter G. Martin, Vice President Executive Business Consulting, Invensys Operations Management
Larry Schwartz, President & COO, Okuma America
Sath Rao, Vice President, Industrial Automation and Process Control, Frost & Sullivan
1:30pm – 3:00pm Progressive Manufacturing 100 Case Study Presentations
A select group of this year's Progressive Manufacturing Award winners will describe their projects and business strategies that led to positive change in their companies.
Presented by:
The Boeing Co.
Steinwall, Inc.
Saint-Gobain Inc.
Applied Materials
Lion Vallen Industries
IBM
3:00pm – 3:15pm Refreshment Break
3:15pm – 4:00pm Think Tank Roundtable Discussions
• Is There a PC in Your Future?
• How Resilient Can a Supply Network Get?
• What's Required to Manage a Real-Time Enterprise?
4:00pm – 4:45pm Building World-Class Manufacturing Value
Xerox is one of the world's most recognized brands, but it also has rich heritage in manufacturing and supply chain excellence. Mr. Appelo will reveal how his company is harnessing technology, innovation and globalization in order to develop and maintain world-class manufacturing operations that serve the needs of today's businesses and their customers. He will also provide insights into how Xerox is changing and adapting to 21st century challenges in order to continuously improve and bring new value to its markets.
Willem Appelo, President, Global Business & Services Group, Xerox
4:45pm – 4:50pm Summit Concludes & Final Thoughts
David R. Brousell, Editor-in-Chief, Managing Automation Media
7:00pm – 8:00pm PM100 Awards Opening Reception
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8:00pm – 10:00pm PM100 Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony
10:00pm – 12:00am Post Gala Reception
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