m a n u f a c t u r i n g i n n o v a t i o n s s c h e d u l e - a t - a - g l a n c e

S A T U R d A y M A y 1 4 , 2 0 1 1

S U n d A y M A y 1 5 , 2 0 1 17:00 AM - 8:00 AM 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM 5:00 PM -

6:00 PM6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Breakfast

NIST MEP Advisory Board Meeting

Networking Reception

Focus on the Front of the Room: Tips & Tools for Facilitators

Deepening Your Business Relationship: The Partner Coach in Action

MEP Center Board Workshop

How to Utilize the Green Certification Program to Engage Clients & Generate Results

Lunch

GreenT: Opportunities to Create Sustainable Growth

Lean Office: Elevating Your Service Opportunities Beyond the Shop Floor

MEP Enterprise Information System (MEIS) Hands-On Reporting Training

Doing Business with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)

Strategies for Meeting the MEP Mission through Financial Fundamentals

MEP Center Reporting, Dun & Bradstreet Overview

The Latest Tools & Techniques for Accelerating Innovation Engineering System Success

Successfully Open the Door to New Opportunities through Technology Driven Market Intelligence

Commercializing Technologies through Effective SBIR Relationships & MEP Support

Meals, Keynote Sessions & networking ReceptionsLeadership & Talent

Green & Sustainabilitynew Growth Opportunities

Strategy & AnalysisTechnology & Innovation

s c h e d u l e K e Y : t r a c K s

M O n d A y M A y 1 6 , 2 0 1 17:00 AM - 8:30 AM

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Breakfast Welcoming Keynote

Hon. Rick Scott Florida Governor

Roger KilmerDirector of the

Manufacturing Extension

Partnership

Opening Keynote

Doug WoodsPresident of the Association for Manufacturing

Technology

Break Creating a World Class Organization

Lunch & Keynote

Phil SingermanAssociate Director

Innovation and Industry Services, National Institute

of Standards & Technology

The Family Challenge: Tools for Helping Family Businesses in Transition

Bringing Out the Best in Your Board!Break

Moving from Strategy to Implementa-tion in the MEP Center Environment

GreenLean 101The Strategic Management, Attraction

& Retention of Talent

My Journey to Becoming Sustainable & Profitable

How to Pay for Energy Diversification, Equipment Acquisition & Capital

Creating Sustainable Manufacturing

Facilities

Improving the Competitiveness of U.S. Supply Chains

Assessing the “Strategic” in Strategic Partnerships

Aligning Center Strategic Plans & Panel Reviews

Promoting Business Excellence Using “World Class” Assessment

The Expanded

MEP University

Recalibrate Your Revenue EngineTransforming Your Organization to Engage Clients & Generate Results

Seeing the Future: New Trends in Developing Sustainable Growth

How to Increase Innovation Speed to Market While Decreasing Risk

Reframing Our National Manufacturing Conversation

State of the States

How to Jump Start Your Product Devel-opment Strategy

Social Media: Going Further & Adding Value

The Way to Wealth Using the Innovation Engineering System

8:00 AM - 12:00 PM 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Exhibit Hall Setup

Registration Desk Open

MEP Center Board Orientation Workshop (begins 2:00p)

Hands-On Reporting: Dun & Bradstreet / MEIS Open House

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T U e S d A y M A y 1 7 , 2 0 1 17:00 AM - 8:30 AM

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Breakfast Keynote

One-to-One Business Connections

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Lunch & Keynote

Deputy SecretaryJohn D. Porcari

U.S. Dept of Transportation

One-to-One Business Connections

Offsite Networking Reception

MEP Emerging Leaders Discussing System Trends

Innovation Engineering Jump Start

Regional Clusters, Innovation & Job Creation

Investment Framework: Key Organizational Issues

Break

Partnering with Workforce Boards to Save Jobs

Energy Efficiency Through Lean

E3 & GSN: Learning, Evolving & Expanding

Sustainability Standards: the Product & the Process

Greenovation Exporting Basics Export Trade Finance

State of Manufacturing: Challenges & Opportunities

Dept of Homeland Security Critical Mfg Partnership

Improving the ExporTech Business Model

Successful Strategies & Practices for Export Growth

Building Business Opportunities

Serving the Public Mission: What Does it Mean?

Understanding the Cost of Offshoring

Growth FinanceWebsite Design for the Global

Marketplace

Technology Acceleration: A Critical Means

Mapping Desire to Strategy to Action

How to Increase Innovation Speed to Market

The Way to Wealth Using the Innovation Engineering

Connecting Manufacturers Technologies & Opportunities

Assisting Manufacturers in Their Leverage of Technology

Cyber Security in the Global Marketplace

How to Sell More Innovation Projects

W e d n e S d A y M A y 1 8 , 2 0 1 17:00 AM - 8:30 AM 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Breakfast

Model Based Enterprise (MBE) Summit

Keynote Break

One-to-One Business Connections

Lunch

One-to-One Business Connections

New Market Panel: Aerospace & Defense

New Market Panel: High Speed Rail

New Market Panel: Clean Energy

New Market Panel: Medical Devices

Meals, Keynote Sessions & networking ReceptionsLeadership & Talent

Green & Sustainabilitynew Growth Opportunities

Strategy & AnalysisTechnology & Innovation

s c h e d u l e K e Y : t r a c K s P a r t i c i P a t i n g i n o n e - t o - o n e B u s i n e s s c o n n e c t i o n s

Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)

Minority Business Development Agency (MDBA)

CommerceConnect

Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC)

U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce

Lockheed Martin

NASA

U.S. Commercial Service