Monday, February 12
8:00 A.M. – 9:00 A.M.
Keynote Address
David Everitt
President, Agricultural Products, (North America/Asia/Australia) Implement Sourcing,
Deere & Company
9:15 A.M. – 10:15 A.M.
Networking break and product demonstrations with sponsors, exhibitors and attendees
10:15 A.M. – 11:15 A.M.
Optimizing Black Belt Selection and Development (A2)
Bruce DeRuntz, Ph.D., CQE,
Southern Illinois University – Carbondale
Dynamic Process Control for Six Sigma (A3)
Madhav Phadke, Ph.D.,
Phadke Associates, Inc.
Kedar Phadke, Phadke Associates, Inc.
Larry Smith,
Design and Innovation
Analysis of Historical Data in Six Sigma Projects (A4)
Louis Johnson,
Minitab, Inc.
11:30 A.M. – 12:30 P.M.
Developing a Sales Pipeline Process (B1)
Lee Lavi,
Quest Diagnostics
Robert Morrone, Quest Diagnostics
Beyond Six Sigma – The Next Step (B2)
Kay Kendall,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Growth Through Integration of Six Sigma and PM (B3)
Anne Foley,
International Institute for Learning
Simply Sampling (B4)
Mona Draper,
Consensus Strategies
Heather Gamber, Ph.D., Quality Decisions, LLC
12:30 P.M. – 1:45 P.M.
Networking Lunch and Presentation by Mr. Paul Sheehy
2:00 P.M. – 3:00 P.M.
Combining Lean and Six Sigma for Project Success in Healthcare (C1)
Wendy Novicoff,
University of Virginia Medical Center
Jonathon Andell, Creative Healthcare
Six Sigma Strategic Sourcing (C2)
David Maley,
Limited Brands, Inc.
Probabilistic Lean Six Sigma: The Integration of Probabilistic Technology into the Lean Six Sigma Process (C3)
Mohammed Khalessi,
Prediction Probe, Inc.
Robert Kuper, United States Army RECOM
Design of Experiments Versus Historical Data Mining - Both/And, not Either/Or (C4)
Steven Bailey, Ph.D.,
DuPont
3:00 P.M. – 3:30 P.M.
Networking break with sponsors, exhibitors and attendees
3:30 P.M. – 4:30 P.M.
Value Stream Mapping as a Valuable Toolset (D1)
Liz Keim,
Integrated Quality Resources
INtrapreneurship: Applying Lean Six Sigma to Run IT Like a Business (D2)
David Wile, Liberty Mutual Group
Vision and Organizational Buy-In for Six Sigma and Process Improvement Concepts (D3)
Harry Rever,
International Institute for Learning
It’s OK to be Nonnormal (D4)
Andy Sleeper,
Successful Statistics, LLC
4:45 P.M. – 5:30 P.M.
General Session Address
Nicholas Kunesh, Deputy Assistant SECNAV (Logistics)
5:30 P.M. – 7:00 P.M.
Evening Reception
