MANUFACTURING LEADERSHIP SUMMIT

AGENDA

MONDAY, MAY 6

5:30 – 6:30 pm

Welcome Reception

7:00 – 8:30 pm

Dutch Dinners for interested attendees

TUESDAY, MAY 7

8:00 – 9:00 am

Networking Breakfast

9:00 – 9:10 am

Welcome

9:10 – 10:00 am

Cleveland-Cliffs: How a 150-year-old Company Embraces Innovation

A fireside chat with Lourenco Goncalves, the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Cleveland-Cliffs 

10:00 – 10:50 am

AI Gets Real in Manufacturing

10:50 – 11:10 am

Networking Break

11:10 am – Noon

Untapped Talent: The Underused Secrets to Win the Labor War

Noon – 1:30 pm

Lunch and Concurrent Roundtables

  • M&A 
  • Cybersecurity  
  • Sustainability/Energy Efficiency  
  • Robotics 
  • Lemon Law Liabilities 

1:30 – 2:30 pm

Concurrent Roundtables (select a 2nd topic)

  • Workforce 
  • Automation 
  • Supply Chain 
  • ERP Implementation Realities 
  • Anatomy of a Manufacturing Site Selection 

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Networking Break

3:00 – 5:30 pm

Offsite for Tour of Cleveland-Cliffs

5:30 – 8:00 pm

Networking Reception and Dinner

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8

7:30 – 8:30 am

Networking Breakfast

8:30 – 8:40 am

Welcome

8:40 – 9:30 am

Architecting a Transformation

9:30 – 10:20 am

Turning Worker Risks into Resiliency

10:20 – 10:40 am

Networking Break

10:40 – 11:30 am

The Future Supply Chain: Asking “What If” to Decide “What’s Next”

11:30 am – Noon

Boxed Lunches and transportation to optional tour

Noon – 2:00 pm

Offsite Tour to be announced

Bhargava is not your garden-variety industrialist. The 70-year-old former monk ran a family plastics factory in Indiana for a while but then, about a quarter-century ago, invented energy “shots” — those two-ounce cans of caffeine, taurine and vitamins that people buy at convenience-store checkouts for mental clarity and focus, or just to get through the day without nodding off. Bhargava’s 5-hour Energy brand still manufactures its own shots, and larger energy drinks, but with the first $1 billion in proceeds from inventing the energy-shot category Bhargava has pivoted to becoming a different kind of industrialist: continuously creative, serially innovative, earnestly philanthropic, who wants to solve the world’s problems with technologies, devices and systems that he helps design, market and deploy. Join us for this extraordinary session, with plenty of lessons to unleash more creativity, innovation and entrepreneurial spirit in your organization.

Manoj Bhargava

Founder and CEO, 5-hour Energy

12:30 - 3:00 pm

Offsite Factory Tours

 

Manoj Bhargava’s entrepreneurial breakthroughs stem from a homegrown innovation culture that’s focused on tackling tough challenges without being held captive to old thinking, downsides and impossibilities. In this exclusive tour of his R&D skunkworks, we’ll see how he’s scaling that mindset to build the next generation of manufacturing excellence, where unprecedented speed and agility are the result of an engineering and product focus unlike any you’ve seen before. 

From their audacious assault on full vertical integration to solve supply chain problems to their psychological development program to build the next generation of young “can-do” engineers, you’ll see—in person—how Bhargava’s team is able to do the near impossible, like designing and bringing entirely new, complex medical manufacturing facilities online in just 6 months. You’ll have the opportunity to explore the pilot plant where his groundbreaking medical and water devices are built and understand the thinking behind it, witness firsthand how R&D is revved up within their factories while maintaining operational efficiency and see how they find new ways to assess and tackle problems that stall and stump other organizations. It’s unlike any other facility in America, and it’ll challenge you and your team to “think different” about how you approach your future.

Tour At Capacity

We’ll go inside one of metro Detroit’s newest, most exciting factories, for a look at how one of the top 100 automotive suppliers in the world is bringing their just-launched facility to life. It’s a live, in-person case study of ramping up a new factory to supply some of the most difficult and exacting customers at a time of tremendous change and disruption in the mobility industry.

Roundtable

Strategic Planning Workshop

1:00 - 5:00 pm

Over 70% of Executives Surveyed Agree: Many Strategic Planning Efforts Lack Systematic Approach Tips for Enhancing Your Strategic Planning Process

Executives expressed frustration with their current strategic planning process. Issues include:

  1. Lack of systematic approach (70%)
  2. Laundry lists without prioritization (68%)
  3. Decisions based on personalities rather than facts and information (65%)

 

Steve Rutan and Denise Harrison have put together an afternoon workshop that will provide the tools you need to address these concerns.  They have worked with hundreds of executives to develop a systematic approach that will enable your team to make better decisions during strategic planning.  Steve and Denise will walk you through exercises for prioritizing your lists and steps that will reset and reinvigorate your process.  This will be a hands-on workshop that will enable you to think about your business as you use the tools that are being presented.  If you are ready for a Strategic Planning tune-up, select this workshop in your registration form.  The additional fee of $695 will be added to your total.

To sign up, select this option in your registration form. Additional fee of $695 will be added to your total.

New York, NY: ​​​Chief Executive's Corporate Citizenship Awards 2017

Women in Leadership Seminar and Peer Discussion

2:00 - 5:00 pm

Female leaders face the same issues all leaders do, but they often face additional challenges too. In this peer session, we will facilitate a discussion of best practices and how to overcome common barriers to help women leaders be more effective within and outside their organizations. 

Limited space available.

To sign up, select this option in your registration form. Additional fee of $495 will be added to your total.

Golf Outing

10:30 - 5:00 pm
General’s Retreat at Hermitage Golf Course
Sponsored by UBS

General’s Retreat, built in 1986 with architect Gary Roger Baird, has been voted the “Best Golf Course in Nashville” and is a “must play” when visiting the Nashville, Tennessee area. With the beautiful setting along the Cumberland River, golfers of all capabilities will thoroughly enjoy the golf, scenery and hospitality.

The golf outing fee includes transportation to and from the hotel, greens/cart fees, use of practice facilities, and boxed lunch. The bus will leave the hotel at 10:30 am for a noon shotgun start and return to the hotel after the cocktail reception following the completion of the round.

To sign up, select this option in your registration form. Additional fee of $295 will be added to your total.