Factories of the Future: What Does the Future Workforce Look Like?

• Dr. Irene Petrick, Market Innovation Director Industrial Solutions Division/Internet of Things Group, Intel Corporation
  

An internationally recognized expert in strategic road mapping, Dr. Irene Petrick has worked with a wide variety of companies ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 companies, and the U.S. military. As Director of Business Strategy for Intel's Industrial and Energy Solutions Division in the Internet of Things Group, she provides leadership in the integration of business and technology strategy to develop solutions. Her presentation will focus on the future of manufacturing and the manufacturing workforce.

Trends in Additive Manufacturing

• Todd Grimm, Founder and President T.A. Grimm & Associates, Inc.
  

What are the trends in additive manufacturing (AM), and what impact on your business or operations will they have? Is it a threat or opportunity? In this discussion, Todd Grimm will offer insights on the AM industry and high-level guidance that will assist thermoprocessing and finishing business leaders in devising strategy and tactics to leverage, or counter, AM's impact. Addressing metal and non-metal AM, this presentation will cover the landscape - in terms of trends, technology, applications and capabilities - and observations that will assist in planning for AM's growing impact on engineering and manufacturing.

Manufacturing USA Initiatives: What They Are and How You Can Benefit

• Thomas Kurfess, Ph.D., P.E., HUSCO/Ramirez Distinguished Chair in Fluid Power and Motion Control and Professor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology
  

Manufacturing USA is an initiative focused on coordinating public and private investment in emerging advanced manufacturing technologies that bring together industry, academia, and government partners to leverage existing resources, collaborate, and co-invest in advanced manufacturing innovation. Dr. Kurfess will provide an overview of these initiatives and how manufacturers can benefit from these efforts.

Trump's Washington: The New Normal?

• Omar Nashashibi, Founding Partner The Franklin Partnership
  

President Trump has kept his campaign promise to shake up Washington and it is anything but business as usual in the nation's capital. Omar S. Nashashibi lobbies Congress, the White House, and federal agencies on behalf of manufacturing companies and other groups. This is your chance to hear directly from a Washington insider about the latest on trade, workforce training, regulations, and implementation of the new tax law, among other timely issues.

Driving Consistent Performance Excellence

• Dr. Amber Selking, Founder Selking Performance Group
  

From the manufacturing floor to the football field, delivering consistent performance excellence is critical to team success. Through her experiences working in manufacturing for SPX Corporation and as the mental performance consultant for the University of Notre Dame football team, Dr. Amber Selking will share insights from the field of human performance psychology that will help you deliver your best on a more consistent basis. The mind is an often untapped and unrealized source of energy, efficiency, and effectiveness. This presentation will lead you to discover the power of your mind and share strategies to help you deliver your absolute best, consistently.

Cybersecurity: Keeping Your Business Secure

• Chad Hunt, Supervisory Special Agent FBI Atlanta Office

SSA Hunt leads a team of agents and analysts who conduct investigations in support of the FBI's Cyber Division mission to identify, pursue, and defeat cyber adversaries. As manufacturing becomes increasingly digitized, industrial internet hacking is of rising concern to businesses. Learn how the FBI is addressing this important issue.

Managing in an Unpredictable Economy

• Chris Kuehl, Co-founder and Managing Director Armada Corporate Intelligence
  

As Armada's economic analyst, Chris Kuehl has worked with a wide variety of private clients and professional associations. His presentation will focus on economic trends and their impact on manufacturers. He serves as CCAI & IHEA's economist and delivers monthly updates on a variety of economic indices that impact manufacturing.

Tomorrow's Talent Today

• Noel Ginsburg, CEO CareerWise Colorado
  

Even in times of low unemployment, skilled labor is difficult to find and keep, in part because our education system is not preparing students with skills that translate directly to the manufacturing workforce. This presentation outlines the skilled-workforce shortage facing manufacturing today, and how the CareerWise modern youth-apprenticeship program can help address it by moving business from being merely a consumer of talent to becoming a producer of talent. With elements of the Swiss model, Colorado's modern youth apprenticeship system is designed to be industry-led and mutually beneficial to both businesses and apprentices, with each realizing a meaningful, tangible benefit.

OEM Manufacturing Perspective

Several representatives of major OEMs will share their insights on the state of manufacturing in their industries. Confirmed participating companies include:

• Susanne Lauda, Director, Global Advanced Manufacturing Technology AGCO

  Through well-known brands including Challenger®, Fendt®, GSI®, Massey Ferguson® and Valtra®, AGCO Corporation delivers agricultural solutions to farmers worldwide. Representing product lifecycle management implementation at all global sites, Susanne is one of the drivers behind AGCO's global strategy for Manufacturing 4.0, managing a team that investigates additive manufacturing, collaborative robots, automatic guided vehicles and wearable technologies. Susanne will discuss the agricultural equipment market and AGCO's "Design Anywhere Build Anywhere" strategy.

  
• Brian Westfall, Vice President Advanced Manufacturing Engineering TRANE

  An international leader in the HVAC industry, Trane (a division of Ingersoll Rand) strives to enhance air quality, occupant comfort, and energy efficiency in homes and buildings. With more than three decades of experience with Trane, including involvement in product engineering, product management, production operations, manufacturing engineering, and leading four plant startups, Brian is well positioned to share insights relating to manufacturing and market trends in the commercial HVAC industry.

  

Transitioning Your Business to the Next Generation

• Mike Brown, Founder The Brainzooming™ Group
  

It's no secret that US manufacturing stands to lose an enormous amount of business intelligence and knowledge via retirements occurring in the next 5 to 10 years. Are your company executives thinking about this? Can you fill the increasing gap by connecting upper management and your workforce to recharge your organization? This presentation is designed to help you develop a plan that every manufacturer should be implementing now.