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Track
1: Critical Management Issues
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Mergers, Acquisitions & Business Growth Panel
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Moderator: Robert Grace,
Editor/Associate Publisher, Plastics
News
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| 9:00-10:30 am |
• Bill Hobbs, CEO, Trend
Technologies Inc.
• John Mack, CEO, U.S.
Business Exchange
• Jim Swartwout, Chairman & CEO,
Summa
Industries
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| 10:30-10:45 am |
Break |
The Value of Strategic Planning
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| 10:45-12:00 pm |
• "When Any Road Won't Do"
Mike Noggle, President, Engineered Solutions |
Track 2: New Technology Trends
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Putting a New Spin
on Controls
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| 9:00-9:30 am |
• "IntelliMold closed-loop
injection molding process
control" Jerry Mosingo, Executive VP - Manufacturing,
Textron
Automotive Co.
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| 9:30-10:00 am |
• "Remote press control using the
Internet-based
Cell-Net system" Fred Humbert, VP - Sales & Mktg.,
American
MSI
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| 10:00-10:30 am |
• "Taking shop-floor press
controls to the Xtreem"
Ron Sparer, Manager - Controls & Automation Development,
Ferromatik
Milacron Inc.
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The Value of Strategic Planning
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| 10:45-12:00 pm |
• "When Any Road Won't Do"
Mike Noggle, President, Engineered Solutions
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| 10:30-10:45 am |
Break
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Processing Developments
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| 10:45-11:15 am |
• "MuCell microcellular injection molding"
Bob Alvarez, VP - Technology, United
Plastics Group Inc.
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| 11:15-11:45 am |
• "Wood flour/plastic composite extrusion"
Michael Wolcott, Research Director, Wood
Materials & Engineering Lab, Washington State University
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| 11:45-12:00 pm |
Discussion/Q&A
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| 12:15-1:30 pm |
LUNCHEON WITH KEYNOTE SPEAKER
• "The Rise of Contract Manufacturing &
Its Impacton the Global Plastics Industry" Paul Santina,
VP-Business Development & Global Plastics, Flextronics
International |
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SPI Economic Report
Update
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| 9:00-9:25 am |
• "California & the West - Packing
a Plastics Punch"
Lori Anderson, Director - Economic & International Trade
Affairs, Society
of the Plastics Industry Inc. (See also the
SPI Economic Report.)
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Recycling Challenges - What Looms
Ahead?
Moderator: Steve Toloken, Reporter, Plastics
News
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| 9:30-10:30 am |
"Assessing Recycling & Bottle Bill Prospects"
• Tim Shestek, Manager - State & LocalPublic
Affairs, American Plastics Council (Shestek replaces APC's Roger
Bernstein)
• Mark Murray, Executive Director, Californians
Against Waste (Murray replacesPierre Ferrari, Chairman
of Businesses& Environmentalists Allied for Recycling)
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| 10:30-10:45 am |
Break
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Managing Through California's
Energy Crisis
Moderator: Howard Fine, Staff Reporter, Los Angeles
Business Journal
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| 10:45-12:30 pm |
"Energy Crisis Panel"
• Jack Kyser, Director of Economic Research
&Chief Economist, Los Angeles CountyEconomic Development Corp.
• Randall Phillips, Project Engineer, Republic
Tool & Manufacturing Corp., Scotts Co.
• Dan Donaldson, Director of Energy Services,
URM
Energy Services Inc.
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| 12:45-2:00 pm |
LUNCHEON WITH KEYNOTE SPEAKER
• "Southern California's Economic Prospects"
Jack Kyser, Director of Economic Research & Chief Economist,
Los Angeles County
Economic Development Corp. |
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| 8:30-9:30 am |
Continental Breakfast
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| 9:00-9:30 am |
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
• Gerald Braga, Corporate Manager of Procurement
- North American Parts Operations, Toyota
Motor Sales U.S.A. Inc.
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GENERAL SESSIONS
E-Business 2.0 - Collaborating & Managing Via the Internet
Design Collaboration
Moderator: Joseph Pryweller, Senior Reporter, Plastics
News
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| 9:45-10:45 am |
"Leveraging the Internet to Speed Product Development
& Improve Communication"
• Tom Podesta, Vice President, Conferos
Inc.
• Dave Roe, Engineering Director, Tech
Group
• Rick Stadterman, Director - Global Engineering,
Schick
Wilkinson Sword Division, Pfizer Inc.
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| 10:45-11:00 am |
Break
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Supply
Chain Management Panel
Moderator: Joseph Pryweller, Senior Reporter, Plastics
News
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| 11:00-12:30 pm |
"Connect Your System With Customers -- Without
Breaking the Bank"
• Chris Colyer, Industry Marketing Manager for
Manufacturing, Microsoft
Corp.
• Jay Gardiner, Director - Business Development,
ECOutlook
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| Lunch on the Plastics Encounter show
floor follows |
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