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2013 Conference Schedule

Tuesday, May 14
7:00 - 8:00 am	Registration and Breakfast
8:00 - 8:55 am	Keynote: The Convergence of Factory Automation and Enterprise IT                                         Jeff Russell, Operations Manager, Factory Floor Automation,                                         and Bryan Cleal, Infrastructure Engineer, PepsiCo
8:55 - 9:45 am	Revolutionizing the Manufacturing Space using Mobile and Cloud Arnav Anand, The Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology                                           at UC Berkeley
9:45 - 10:15 am	Break in Expo Area
10:20 - 11:05 am	Keynote: Unicorns and Air Gaps – Do They Really Exist? Eric Byres, CTO and VP of Engineering, Tofino Security
11:05 - 12:00 pm	Keynote: The Next Industrial Revolution Mitch Free, Chairman and CEO, MFG.com
12:00 - 1:00 pm	Buffet Lunch
1:00 - 1:45 pm	Manufacturing / Packaging Track Processing Track Automated, Wireless Way to Bring Packaging Materials to Packaging Lines Perry Picard, Business Process Architect and Trent Martin, Lean Sigma Black Belt, Perrigo Asset Management in Continuous Process Ralph Whitney, NOVA Chemicals and Blair Fraser, Lead Process Automation, Lifecycle Services, Lakeside Process Controls
1:45 - 2:30 pm	Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence and Cloud Computing Joe Sanguinetti, Manufacturing Information Systems Manager, General Mills Integrating a Quality Management System into the Process Management Environment Tom Walther, President and CEO, ESE Inc.
2:30 - 3:00 pm	Break in Expo Area
3:00 - 3:45 pm	Manufacturing / Packaging Track Processing Track Centralized or Decentralized: Application-Specific Drive Strategies Tom Jensen, Manager, OEM Business Development Team, Lenze Americas How Coca-Cola Uses Cloud Computing for Automation System Maintenance Kai Mariappan, Plant Controls Specialist/Senior Controls Engineer, Coca-Cola Company
3:45 - 4:30 pm	Managing Equipment Risks for Today's Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Manufacturers Shane Loughlin, SL Controls ISA-95 for the Continuous & Process Industries: Interpreting and Applying the Standards in Specific Case Studies Cliff Pedersen, CIO, North West Redwater Partnership and MESA
4:30 - 5:30 pm	Ask the Expert: Ethernet on the Plant Floor Presenters include representatives from Belden, Moxa Inc., TURCK, Red Lion Controls, EtherCAT, Hilscher North America, Inc., Opto 22, Invensys and Profinet Ask the Expert: Practical Security Solutions for Automation Systems Eric Byres, CTO and VP Engineering, Tofino Security
5:30 - 7:00 pm	Cocktail Reception

Wednesday, May 15
7:00 - 8:00 am	Registration and Breakfast
8:00 - 8:55 am	Energy Efficiency and Manufacturers: An Unrealized Opportunity Thomas Cushing, Managing Director, Delta Institute and Howard Skolnik, President and CEO, Skolnik Industries
8:55 - 9:45 am	Keynote: How New ARM Technology Will Impact Factory Automation System Design and Capabilities                                     Suhel Dhanani, Industrial Business Unit, Altera
9:45 - 10:15 am	Break in Expo Area
10:20 - 11:05 am	How to Select a System Integrator and Manage the Relationship                                     Robert Lowe, Exec. Director, CSIA; Steve Goldberg, Matrix                                     Technologies; Jim Sellito, Martin Control Systems; Eduardo                                     Acosta, Omnicon; Ed Diehl, Concept Systems
11:05 - 12:00 pm	How Higher Education's Fatal Flaw Impacts Manufacturing Gary R. Bertoline, Ph.D., Purdue University, College of Technology
12:00 - 1:00 pm	Buffet Lunch
1:00 - 1:45 pm	Manufacturing / Packaging Track Processing Track Applying IT in Manufacturing: The Good, Bad and Really Ugly Dennis Brandl, Founder, BR & L Consulting, Inc. Capturing Process Data to Improve Manufacturing Performance Tom Braydich, Director of Controls and Maintenance Systems Engineering, Campbell Soup Company
1:45 - 2:30 pm	Technology Training for a Manufacturing Company Simon Nance, Manager--Learning & Development, STIHL Inc. Why Calibration is Important to Process Controls Automation Paul R. Selzer, Principal Calibration Engineer, Baxter Bioscience
2:30 pm	Adjourn

PLEASE NOTE: This program is subject to change; check back for periodic updates.

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