Tuesday, March 10, 2009

7:30am	Opening Remarks
8:00am - 9:00am	Finance and Accounting: Mr. H. Thomas Johnson, Professor of Business Administration, Portland State University and author of several publications including, Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting
9:15am - 10:15am	Human Resource Development: Steven Spear, PhD Senior Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of several publications including "Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System", Harvard Business Review (1999)
10:15am - 10:35am	Refreshment Break
10:35am - 11:35am	Engineering Operations: Dan Dimancescu, M.A.L.D Founder and President, Technology and Strategy Group and author of several publications including, The Lean Enterprise: Designing & Managing Strategic Processes for Customer Winning Performance
11:45am - 12:15pm	Lean and Green: George Wyeth, Director, Policy and Program Change Division, Office of Policy, Economics and Innovation, United States Environmental Protection Agency
12:15pm - 1:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm - 1:45pm	Quality Assurance: Robert Cole, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley and author of several publications including, Managing Quality Fads; How America Learned to Play the Quality Game
1:55pm - 2:40pm	Supply Chain Management: David Freni President, The Freni Group, Inc. and former Head of Strategic Planning - Operations, adidas - Salomon
2:40pm - 3:00pm	Refreshment Break
3:00pm - 3:45pm	Manufacturing Operations and Materials Management: David Rowland, Director of the Milliken Performance System, Milliken and Company
3:55pm - 4:40pm	Maintenance Operations: Charles J. Robinson Regional Director, Productivity Asia and author of Implementing TPM: The North American Experience
4:45pm - 5:30pm	Marketing and Sales: Thomas L. Jackson, PhD Principal, Rona Consulting Group and author of several publications including, Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

7:30am	Daily Remarks
8:00am - 8:45am	Information Management: Jean Cunningham President and Founder, Jean Cunningham Consulting and author of several publications including, Easier, Simpler, Faster: Systems Strategy for Lean IT
8:55am - 10:00am	Management: Jack Hockema, CEO, Kaiser Aluminum Corporation
10:00am - 10:30am	Refreshment Break
10:30am - 5:30am	Lean Management System Workshop