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Agenda - 2011 Event

Wednesday, September 21, 2011
7:30 - 8:30am	Breakfast and Registration
8:30 - 8:45am	Opening Remarks
8:45 - 9:45am	Achieving Success Built to Last in the Lean Workplace - Mark Thompson, bestselling author of 'Now, Build a Great Business' and 'Success Built To Last'
	INCREASING PROFITABILITY AND CASH FLOW	DRIVING CULTURE CHANGE	BEYOND THE BASICS	SUPPORTING GROWTH INITIATIVES
10:00 - 11:00am	Implementing Lean Within the Sales Department Brad Skinner, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Milbank Manufacturing Company	How Graphic Packaging Sustains Results - The Evolution from Six Sigma to Policy Deployment Phil Geminder, VP, Graphic Business System, Graphic Packaging International, Inc.	Using Lean Six Sigma Methodologies to Go Faster without Sacrificing Quality Bonnie Smith, LeanSigma Master Black Belt, TBM Consulting Group, Inc.	Technology Demo - Dploy Solutions Michael Hunt, Director, Dploy Solutions
11:15 - 12:15pm	Getting Lean in Non-Manufacturing Environments Robert Abel, Director of Global Process Improvement, Armstrong World Industries, Inc.	Creating a Lean Extended Supply Chain Kraig L. Koehler C.P.M., Manager - Corporate Supply Management, Pella Corporation and Laura Jackson, Director - Project Data Management, Phifer, Inc.	Environmental Sustainability Tom Shehy, Corporate Lean Sigma Manager, Seaman Corporation	Using Operational Excellence to Achieve Growth Objectives in a Heavily-Regulated Environment Bill Mazurek, CIT Champion, ConMed Linvatec
12:15 - 1:15pm	Lunch
1:30 - 2:30pm	Innovative Use of Process Improvement to Reduce Energy Consumption Fred Early, Environmental Engineering Manager, Global Operations, Vermeer Corporation	So you want to change the culture? How caring, coaching and conversation moves the needle. Herb Brown, Director of Lean Enterprise, Steris Corporation	Using SigmaKaizen to Drive Groundbreaking Innovations Michel Saba, Senior Director LSS Productivity and Mojisola Ogunbiyi, R&D Technical Manager, Portfolio Management, PepsiCo R&D	Strategy Deployment and Management System Implementation Steve Hadfield, Business Improvement Manager, ALSTOM Transport Ltd.
2:45 - 3:45pm	Value Added Selling Camilla Dibarra, COS Business Process Kaizen Manager, Carlisle Food Service Products	Restructuring Incentive Compensation to Drive Culture Change in a Lean Organization Dina Kostakis, Site General Manager, Catalent Pharma Solutions	Value Stream Transformation: Dell's Journey John D'Andrea, Director of Supply Chain Program Management, Dell, Inc.	Embracing an Enterprise Operating System Grounded in Lean Mike Voigt, Vice President, Carlisle Operating System, Carlisle Companies Inc.
4:00 - 5:00pm	General Session - Michael Gerster, President, WIKA Instrument Corporation
5:30 - 7:30pm	Reception
Thursday, September 22, 2011
7:30 - 8:30am	Breakfast
8:30 - 9:30am	General Session - Anand Sharma, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TBM Consulting Group, Inc.
9:30 - 9:45am	Presentation of Perfect Engine Site Award
	INCREASING PROFITABILITY AND CASH FLOW	DRIVING CULTURE CHANGE	BEYOND THE BASICS	SUPPORTING GROWTH INITIATIVES
10:00 - 11:00am	Preventative Maintenance and Profits John Kravontka, President, Fuss and O'Neill Manufacturing Solutions, LLC	Managing for Daily Improvement: Leadership Standard Work & Visual Performance Tools Ryan Boyce, COS and Manufacturing Operations Manager, Carlisle Interconnect Technologies	Using Kaizen to Align Information Systems with Business Processes Laura Jackson, Director - Project Data Management, Phifer, Inc.	UsingStrategy Deployment to Consistently Achieve Breakthroughs Kevin Quinn, Vice President of Operations and Engineering, Pactiv Corporation
11:15 - 12:15pm	Supply Chain: Alliances for Progress Robert Wieclaw, Supplier Development Manager, Armstrong World Industries, Inc. and Michael Brewster, F6 Manufacturing Engineer, Owens Corning	LeanSigma Champion Selection: It's a Process and Job Fit Matters David Jensen, Vice President and Consultant, Personalysis Corporation	Adopting a DMAIC Framework to Leverage CI Benefits Bill Remy, Senior Vice President, TBM Consulting Group	Using Operational Excellence to Achieve Growth Objectives in a Heavily-Regulated Environment Bill Mazurek, CIT Champion, ConMed Linvatec
12:15 - 1:15pm	Lunch
1:30 - 2:30pm	Technology Demo - Dploy Solutions Michael Hunt, Director, Dploy Solutions	Visual Process Problem Solving through Gemba Eyes Rob Ledbetter, Director of Operations, STERIS Corporation	Using Lean Six Sigma Methodologies to Go Faster without Sacrificing Quality Bonnie Smith, LeanSigma Master Black Belt, TBM Consulting Group, Inc.	Rapidly Integrating a Newly Acquired Business Felix Brockmeyer, Vice President of Operations, 3D Instruments, LLC
2:45 - 4:15pm	Senior Leadership Panel Discussion - Building the Lean Management System, Moderated by David Drickhamer, former editor of Industry Week Magazine
4:15 - 4:30pm	Conclusion