| Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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| 10:00 am - 12:00 pm | Registration |
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| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Lunch |
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| 1:00 pm - 1:15 pm | Opening Remarks
Rodger Pinney, President & CEO, United Grinding
Chairman, AMT Economics & Statistics Committee |
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| 1:15 pm - 2:05 pm | Keynote
Leslie Schweitzer, Senior Trade Advisor, U.S. Chamber of Commerce |
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| 2:05 pm - 3:00 pm | Global Forecast
John Walker, Chairman, Oxford Economics
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| 3:00 pm - 3:20 pm | Break |
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| 3:20 pm - 4:10 pm | Aerospace - Roadmap of the Industry
Richard Aboulafia, Vice President, Analysis, Teal Group Corporation |
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| 4:10 pm - 5:00 pm | Machine Tool Forecast and General Industrial Machining Outlook
Eli Lustgarten, Senior Vice President, Longbow Securities |
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| 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Alternative Energy Vehicles
Ken Knight, Executive Director Worldwide Facilities, General Motors |
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| 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Reception |
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| 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Dinner |
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| Wednesday, October 22, 2008
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| 7:00 am - 8:00 am | Continental Breakfast |
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| 8:00 am - 8:15 am | Opening Remarks
Robert J. Rubenstahl, President & CEO, Command Tooling Systems LLC
Chairman, AMT Global Marketing & Sales Committee
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| 8:15 am - 9:15 am | Capital Spending Survey & Forecast for the Machine Tool Industry
Steven R. Kline Jr., Market Analyst, Gardner Publications Inc. |
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| 9:15 am -9:25 am | Break |
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| 9:25 am - 10:10 am |
| Manufacturing Outlook for the Orthopedic Device Market
Jean-Paul Burtin
President
JP Consulting | Strategies to Improve the Effectiveness of Your Website
Thad Kahlow
Managing Partner
BusinessOnLine | Sales Channels for Capital Equipment
Bryan Shirley
President/CEO
MANA | China Market Reports
Power Generation
Auto Parts
Aerospace
Sean Jiang
Business Development Manager
AMT China | |
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| 10:10 am - 10:20 am | Break |
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| 10:20 am - 11:05 am |
| Capital Spending Survey for the Job Shop Industry
Robert Akers
Operating Manager
National Tooling &
Machining Association (NTMA)
| Results-Oriented Advertising, Marketing and Web Design
Mike McCloud
President & CEO
MMA Creative | Capital Spending Survey for Mexico and Brazil
Alfredo Domador
Operations & Marketing VP
B2B Portales, Inc. | Resurgence in White Goods
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| 11:05 am - 11:15 am | Break |
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| 11:15 am - 12:15 pm | Materials / New Technology
Dr. Thomas R. Kurfess, Ph.D., P.E., Director - Campbell Graduate Engineering Center, International Center for Automotive Research, Clemson University |
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| 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | Lunch |
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| 1:15 pm - 2:00 pm |
| Transplants in the U.S.
Mario Winterstein
Business Development Director - Americas
AMT
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James T. Diederich
VP Marketing
Assembly & Test Worldwide, Inc. | Off-Road & Highway Construction
James P. Meil
Chief Economist and Vice President
Eaton Corporation | Planning with Information - A Distributor's Point of View
Robert A. Johnson
Vice President
J & H Machine Tools, Inc. | New Directions and Opportunities in India
Arun Mahajan
General Manager
AMT India Representative Office
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| 2:00 pm - 2:10 pm | Switch |
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| 2:10 pm - 2:55 pm |
| China Advanced
Jon Anderson
Partner-in-Charge
Shanghai Office
Lake Point Partners, LLC | Data Uses Bob Albaugh
Senior Market Analyst
Hurco Companies, Inc.
Joe Braun
President
Braun Machinery | New Directions and Opportunities in Russia Malcolm Mason
Business Development Director - AMT
Hubert Sawicki
AMT Central Europe Director | Where to Look for Business at Small and Mid-Size Manufacturing Companies in Mexico Carlos Mortera
General Manager
AMT - Mexico Office
Rodrigo Alpizar
National VP of Financing and Support Programs
CANACINTRA | |
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| 2:55 pm - 3:15 pm | Break |
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| 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm | Wind Energy
Diane S. Holody, Director of Operations, Great Lakes WIND Network |
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| 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Automotive Industry Outlook
Kim Korth, President & Owner, IRN, Inc. |
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