Jay Timmons President and CEO National Association of Manufacturers
Panelists:
Dr. Detlef Zuhlke, Honorary Board Member, SmartFactory-KL; retired Professor for Industrial Automation / TU Kaiserslautern; Member, MLC Board of Governors
Dr. Jim Davis, Vice Provost, Information Technology and Chief Academic Technology Officer, UCLA; Member, MLC Board of Governors
Stephan Biller, CEO and Founder, Advanced Manufacturing International
Rebecca Teeters Supply Chain, Lean Six Sigma & Manufacturing Director 3M
In conversation with:
Dr. John Banovetz, Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer and Environmental Responsibility; Senior Vice President, Innovation and Stewardship 3M
Please note that all times listed are in CST.
Jay Timmons
President and CEO
National Association of Manufacturers
David R. Brousell
Co-Founder
Manufacturing Leadership Council
Dr. Mauro F. Guillen
Dean, Cambridge Judge Business School
Professional Fellow, Queens College
Author of “2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything”
What are the megatrends that will drive business, markets, work, society, and economies by the end of the decade?
Moderator: David R. Brousell, Co-Founder, Manufacturing Leadership Council
Panelists:
Dr. Stefanie Tompkins
Director
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
What technologies are being worked on today that could influence the future of manufacturing? DARPA, which for more than 60 years has made pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security, is working on a host of future capabilities that could impact manufacturing in the years ahead. Among them are AI, quantum sensing and computing, microelectronics, and even bioengineered systems. This session will provide insight into relevant DARPA programs and how they can help the U.S. continue to lead the world in driving innovation.
Felipe Bezamat
Head of Advanced Manufacturing Industry, Strategy & Operations
World Economic Forum
With manufacturing operations serving as a role model, what are the opportunities and challenges for digitizing the entire value chain of the manufacturing enterprise and, in the process, creating new business models for the future?
Moderator: Paul Tate
Co-Founding Executive Editor & Senior Content Director
Manufacturing Leadership Council
Panelists:
What do Lighthouse award-winning executives envision as the next dimension of value for their businesses in 2030?
Moderator: David Brousell
Co-Founder
Manufacturing Leadership Council
Panelists:
By 2030, digital competencies will empower the workforce. How should manufacturers plan their skills inventories and how should workers expect to interact with AI, robots, and other digital technologies?
Rebecca Teeters
Supply Chain, Lean Six Sigma & Manufacturing Director
3M
In conversation with:
Dr. John Banovetz
Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer and Environmental Responsibility; Senior Vice President, Innovation and Stewardship
3M
Is this the next big opportunity for manufacturing? How will industrial sustainability initiatives and Net Zero decarbonization targets define and drive operational strategies by 2030?
Barbara Steel
Managing Director | People Advisory Services
Ernst & Young (EY)
What talents, traits, and behaviors will manufacturing leaders need to succeed in 2030?
As executive vice president, chief technology officer and environmental responsibility, Dr. John Banovetz leads more than 8,000 scientists who connect 3M’s 51 technology platforms to solve the real-world needs of customers around the world. John and his team also oversee 3M’s environmental responsibility efforts, with a focus on advancing environmental stewardship and accelerating 3M’s environmental commitments. In this role, he leverages his many years of experience as both a technology and business leader.
John came to 3M in 1995 as a research chemist in the corporate R&D organization, working primarily on acrylic adhesives and tapes. In 2003 he joined McKinsey & Company, and in 2007 rejoined 3M and assumed responsibility for the overall planning and implementation of corporate strategic initiatives. He served in that role until 2012, when he became global business director for 3M’s Industrial Adhesives and Tapes Division. Three years later, he was tapped to lead 3M’s corporate research lab.
In 2016, John moved to West Europe to serve as managing director of 3M’s D-A-CH region, which represents the company’s combined operations in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. He was appointed 3M’s chief technology officer and senior vice president of research and development in July 2017.
In his position, John remains focused on driving change, challenging the status quo and helping develop the 3M leaders of tomorrow. “Leadership is about serving more than yourself,” he says. “It’s about creating an environment that unlocks the full potential of teams and individuals and, as a result, achieves even higher performance and more engaged employees.”
John has a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from Stanford University, and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Hamline University. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his wife and three kids, as well as a variety of outdoor activities including hiking, biking and fishing.
Doug’s key responsibilities include operational excellence in Manufacturing and across the Supply Chain, leading the digital transformation in Manufacturing as well as developing and implementing P&G’s future of Manufacturing program. In his 31 years with Procter & Gamble, Doug has held numerous leadership roles across the supply chain including manufacturing, new product initiative design and delivery, supply network design, integration of a joint venture, and leading global supply network operations for a $7.5B business. Doug holds an MBA from McMaster University and a BASc. In Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife and four children. Doug has a passion for ice hockey and enjoys outdoor adventures.
Felipe is the Head of Advanced Manufacturing Industry and Global Leadership Fellow at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland. He is an expert in new business and operations strategies for manufacturing and industrial companies, and has guided multiple organisations through their digital transformational journeys. Prior to joining WEF, Felipe has worked at Empresas Copec and Entel, where he specialized in corporate strategy and M&A, and for the Chilean Minister of Transport and Telecommunication as Chief of Staff. He holds MBA from INSEAD, and Masters in Economics and Finance and BSc in Industrial Engineering both from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, where he has also been an Adjunct Professor. Areas of Expertise: Innovation and Pioneer Technologies in Advanced Manufacturing, Operations and Supply Chains Disruptions, Resilient Value Chains, Biomanufacturing, ESG in Advanced Manufacturing, New Value through Data Sharing in Manufacturing.
Dr. Stephan Biller is the CEO and Founder of Advanced Manufacturing International, a not-for-profit that aids Small and Medium Manufactures with their Digital Transformation. Prior to that he was the VP of Product Management for AI and IoT at IBM, the Senior Technology Director and Chief Manufacturing Scientist at General Electric and a Tech Fellow and Global Group Manager at General Motors. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
David R. Brousell is an accomplished publishing and research executive with nearly 40 years of experience building loyal audiences through prestigious web and print publications, targeted research, and thought-leadership events and conferences.
A professional journalist since 1975, Brousell currently serves as Vice President and Executive Director of the Manufacturing Leadership Council (MLC), a division of The National Association of Manufacturers. He oversees all content for MLC’s website, the Manufacturing Leadership Summit, the Manufacturing Leadership Journal, the Manufacturing Leadership Council, and the ML Awards program.
The Manufacturing Leadership Council’s vision is to create and inspire a global community of manufacturing executives who believe in the proposition that manufacturing is the fundamental driver of economic and social prosperity, and that its growth will lead to a better future and a higher standard of living for all people. The Council’s mission to enable manufacturing executives to achieve transformational growth for themselves, their companies, and for the industry at large through enlightened leadership.
Brousell leads a team of experienced technology and manufacturing professionals that provides thought-leadership content on a member-defined set of “Critical Issues” facing manufacturing, virtual meetings and discussions on those issues, and lives conferences and plant tours. The “Critical Issues” are part of the Council’s focus on Manufacturing 4.0, the next wave of industrial progress based on the Internet.
In his nearly four-decade career, Brousell has served in numerous leadership positions in companies large and small. In the early 1990s, he served as Editor-in-Chief of Datamation Magazine, which was the standard of excellence in the IT magazine field for many years. In the mid to late 1990s, he served as Vice President and Editorial Director at Sentry Publishing Co., in charge of that firm’s Software Magazine, Client-Server Computing Magazine and Sentry Market Research publications. In 1997, he became Vice President of Strategy at Softbank Comdex, the organizer of the huge Comdex technology trade show and conference.
In 1998, Brousell was named Editor-in-Chief of Managing Automation Magazine, part of Thomas Publishing Co. of New York. He later became Vice President & Editorial Director of Managing Automation Media, where he co-founded the Manufacturing Leadership Council in 2008.
After starting her career in sports journalism focused on Major League Baseball and the NFL, Penelope Brown has expanded her expertise to include marketing and public relations strategy, social media campaigns, digital media, and working as both a live and on-camera presenter. Prior to joining the MLC she worked for USA TODAY, Commonwealth Business Media, and AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology.
Originally from Ohio and now a resident of the Washington, D.C., area, Penelope spent many years moonlighting as a fitness instructor and now enjoys hiking, reading, swing dancing, and travel.
Gardner Carrick is the Vice President of Strategic Initiatives for The Manufacturing Institute at the National Association of Manufacturers. Mr. Carrick leads the Institute’s efforts to create a world class workforce for the U.S. manufacturing sector. He oversees the Institute’s award-winning FAME education program which is delivering global best entry-level technicians to hundreds of manufacturers nationwide. He is creating a new national recognition program for the industry-based credentials used in most manufacturing education programs. And, he is leading a public-private partnership to determine the outcomes of manufacturing education programs and develop solutions to improve their results.
Previously, Mr. Carrick led the Institute’s research activities including partnerships with internationally recognized consulting firms to produce a regular series of reports on the U.S. manufacturing sector. This included the Skills Gap series in partnership with Deloitte that first identified the talent shortage that manufacturers are now facing. He also led the Institute’s military-to-manufacturing program to support transitioning service personnel.
Prior to joining the Institute, Mr. Carrick worked at the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration where he served as the Communications Director, Chief Speechwriter, and Special Projects Director for the agency. He began his career at a consulting firm serving federal and state government clients focused on education and workforce development programs.
Jim Davis is Vice Provost IT Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC) with broad responsibilities for data and technology solutions in support of UCLA’s research mission and its broadly defined communities engaged in the impacts of digital research and scholarship.
Jim has program oversight and is vice chair of the Governance Board for DOE’s Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII), the 9th national Manufacturing USA Institute to be awarded. He co-sponsors UCLA’s Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) and is program sponsor of Innovate@UCLA (formerly IS Associates), a partnership of the IT leadership from 40 companies in Southern California engaged in research exchanges and professional development programs in IT leadership for executives, women in technology, young professionals, and students.
OARC comprises research scientists, system and policy specialists, operations staff, and the leadership and staff of several public private partnerships. OARC programs bring together a rich array of scaled R&D capabilities, research data lifecycle support, shared data partnerships, and IT policies. OARC specializes in advanced data architectures and platforms; statistical methods and data analytics; GIS and visualization; mobile research, cloud and IoT data; research data, web platforms, and web accessibility; and advanced computation and HPC systems.
Jim was formerly the CIO at UCLA and The Ohio State University, and was Board Chair of the Corporation of Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC). He has past work experience with Amoco Chemicals. He is Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and is currently on the Board of Governors of the Manufacturing Leadership Council.
Jim is a Professor in UCLA’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering where he does research and consults extensively on AI, machine learning, intelligent systems, monitoring/control, and data/modeling systems across manufacturing industries including chemicals, refining, paper, packaging, metals and glass.
Paul Mefford
Senior Director, Strategic Projects and Change Management in Operations
Dow
Brian Peters is Chief Marketing Officer at Protolabs, a global digital manufacturing company. Brian is responsible for driving the strategic go-to-market efforts of sales and marketing. He also leads Protolabs product management teams across the U.S., Europe, and Japan. Prior to joining Protolabs, he served as CMO at Cambria, a leading brand in the solid surface industry, and previous to that, he had a progressive 20-year career at General Mills in various marketing leadership roles. Brian also has 10 years of board experience as former Vice Chairman of the Board for a Minneapolis-based financial institution.
Julie Shah is a Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and director of the Interactive Robotics Group, which aims to imagine the future of work by designing collaborative robot teammates that enhance human capability. She is expanding the use of human cognitive models for artificial intelligence and has translated her work to manufacturing assembly lines, healthcare applications, transportation and defense. Before joining the faculty, she worked at Boeing Research and Technology on robotics applications for aerospace manufacturing. Prof. Shah has been recognized by the National Science Foundation with a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award and by MIT Technology Review on its 35 Innovators Under 35 list. Her work on industrial human-robot collaboration was also in Technology Review’s 2013 list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies. She has received international recognition in the form of best paper awards and nominations from the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, and the International Symposium on Robotics. She earned degrees in aeronautics and astronautics and in autonomous systems from MIT.
Barbara Steel is a Managing Director in EY’s People Advisory Services and serves as the Central Region Culture Leader. She built a reputation for her expertise having functioned both in industry executive human resource practitioner roles and in people advisory consulting leader roles with an emphasis in aligning people strategy to strategic business priorities for more than 20 years. She has devoted her career to leading organizations through organizational structure and redesign, culture transformation, organizational development, people experience, and organizational change management. Barbara is a published author and co-wrote the best-selling business book, How to Be Exceptional: Drive Leadership Success by Magnifying Your Strengths.
Barbara has extensive consulting experience in leading transformation engagements for culture, leadership, DEI, and performance for clients adopting a new business operating models, digital transformation strategies, and new go to market strategies. She has led culture change projects that include evolving the existing culture and embracing a new culture anchoring on behaviors such as client service, risk taking, inclusion, and learning agility. Culture change outcomes resulted in organizations being more market responsive, providing improved client experience, and delivering higher performance and teaming. In addition, Barbara has led engagements that integrated leader capability building, workforce development, organizational people experience, and change management to fully enable the expected culture change outcomes. In the area of performance management, she has led redesign efforts that enabled organizations to abandon dated, biased models for evaluating performance and reimagine human-centric designs which emphasized employee development and growth, career, and high performance grounded in growth mindset. Barbara is also known for her deep DEI expertise and has led numerous consulting engagements leveraging data analytics, research, and cognitive social neuroscience to formulate DEI philosophy and strategy, cultivate an inclusive culture, employ habit activation, and transform processes and systems to reduce cognitive bias and other systemic inequities. Her client engagements have afforded her opportunities to work with global organizations representing the financial, professional services, technology, oil and gas, utilities, healthcare, entertainment, and telecommunications sectors.
Barbara’s industry experience includes serving as Head of Human Resources, Head of Organization and Leadership Effectiveness and Head of Learning. Her practitioner approach emphasized using human-centric models that positively impacted business results in the areas of increased productivity gains, improved employee engagement, enhanced people experience, improved retention, and higher overall business performance. Her expertise and skill set include talent strategy, talent management, performance and rewards, organizational design, culture and change, leadership and learning development, DEI, and compliance. Barbara is a global speaker, presenter, and panelist for numerous clients, organizations, and conferences and is known for her engaging, dynamic style. In 2022, she will be presenting at the Future of Work Conference on the “Hybrid Return to Office Model.” Some of her prior speaking engagements include being a recurring speaker on culture, DEI, leadership and performance for the NeuroLeadership Institute (NLI). She served on a “Strategically Impact Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” panel with Dr. David Rock (NLI, CEO), award-winning journalist, Soledad O’Brien, Linda Leonard (Bristol Myers Squibb) and Ester Neznanova (NLI) at an annual NLI conference. She presented the “Neuroscience of Mitigating Bias” at a conference for the Conference Board. She’s also been a speaker for the Association for Talent Development and the Society for Human Resource Management in addition to being a recurring speaking at the International Leadership Association conference for the past six consecutive years.
Barbara is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Values-Driven Leadership at Benedictine University. She received her MBA in Organizational Behavior and Marketing from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BBA in Management Science from the Loyola University of Chicago. Barbara is a certified executive coach in brain-based coaching and has coached hundreds of executive leaders throughout her career. She is also a lifelong meditation practitioner, a certified mindfulness meditation teacher, and a member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association.
Paul Tate has over 30 years of high-level experience as a ground-breaking senior international business and technology editor, research consultant, and communications specialist focusing on the impact of advanced new technologies on global industries, business, and society.
He helped develop and launch the Manufacturing Leadership Council in 2008 and is directly involved in delivering member content, research projects, live events, webinars, online materials, exclusive Journal cover Dialogue interviews, and other membership activities. He also directs the Manufacturing Leadership Council’s Board of Governors, the Council’s annual member-driven Critical Issues Agenda process, and the Manufacturing Leadership Research Panel.
Previous roles include founding Executive Editor of Information Strategy Magazine for The Economist Group in London, Vice President of Communications for global technology consortium X/Open, and International Editor at the computer industry’s bible, Datamation Magazine.
He has also won a number of prestigious business journalism and editorial awards, including the U.S. Jesse H. Neal Editorial Excellence Award for Outstanding Journalism.
Dr. Rebecca Powers Teeters, holds a PH.D., in Chemistry from the University of Missouri-Columbia and brings 20 plus years of dedication, commitment and leadership to 3M. She has served in a variety of roles of increasing responsibility over the course her career including Manufacturing Forensic Chemist, SS Black Belt, Plant Manager, Manufacturing and Supply Chain Director for several businesses, and Global Enterprise Operations Director for Strategy and Execution.
Rebecca now serves as the Senior Vice President of Fluorochemical Stewardship where she leads 3M’s commitment to environmental stewardship and compliance related to fluorochemicals.
Jay Timmons is president and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers and chairman of the board of The Manufacturing Institute, the NAM’s workforce development and education partner. The NAM is the largest manufacturing association in the United States, representing small and large manufacturers in every industrial sector, and Jay is a leading advocate for the more than 12 million men and women who make things in America.
Since Jay took the helm, the NAM has nearly doubled in size, dramatically expanded its issue advocacy and enhanced the organization’s influence and mobilization efforts outside of Washington, D.C. He led the NAM to create the Manufacturers’ Center for Legal Action and acquire the Manufacturing Leadership Council. With manufacturers facing an urgent need for talented and skilled workers, Jay is also a champion for connecting more Americans with rewarding careers in modern manufacturing and for closing the opportunity gap. He has expanded the reach and impact of The Manufacturing Institute and launched an unprecedented, multimillion-dollar workforce development campaign, Creators Wanted. The NAM has become the one-stop shop for manufacturers in advocacy, legal action, workforce development, operational excellence and news and insights.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Jay guided the NAM as it took on a new role in supporting disaster relief. Under Jay’s leadership, the NAM mobilized and helped facilitate the distribution of tens of millions of pieces of personal protective equipment, while also helping manufacturers protect employees from the spread of COVID-19 and continue delivering essential products. The NAM’s policy proposals during this time were pivotal in shaping COVID-19 relief legislation. Jay leveraged manufacturers’ influential voices to lead by example, encouraging smart health practices and advocating widespread vaccine acceptance.
Jay is recognized as a forceful and effective leader of the business association community. Recent recognitions include:
In 2019 and 2020, Jay served on the Department of Commerce’s American Workforce Policy Advisory Board. He is also a member of the Bryce Harlow Foundation Board of Directors.
Driven by the values instilled in him by his roots in the manufacturing town of Chillicothe, Ohio, where his grandfather worked at the Mead plant for nearly four decades, Jay witnessed manufacturing’s ability to raise the quality of life for families and communities.
His knowledge and expertise are sought and respected by influential policymakers on both sides of the aisle. He and the NAM team have proven effective time and again at navigating the complexities of policymaking in the nation’s capital to deliver real results for the NAM’s 14,000 members.
Prior to his appointment as NAM president and CEO in January 2011, Jay’s roles at the organization included service as executive vice president and senior vice president of policy and government relations. His previous experience includes serving as chief of staff to Congressman, Gov. and Sen. George Allen (R-VA) from 1991 to 2002 and as executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee during the 2004 election cycle. When he first came to Washington in the 1980s, he served as press secretary to Congressman Jim Martin (R-NC) and later to Congressman Alex McMillan (R-NC). Jay attended The Ohio State University.
Jay is active in numerous charitable endeavors, including promoting the adoption of companion animals. He served for seven years as the chairman of the Washington Humane Society Board of Directors and led the successful effort to merge WHS and the Washington Animal Rescue League to create the Humane Rescue Alliance in order to save more animals.
A passionate advocate for families and children, Jay and his husband, Rick Olson, turned adversity for their own family into triumph for others. They fought tenaciously and eventually won a landmark legal case for parental rights involving their son. They then successfully advocated for the protection of parental rights over other children born through surrogacy with the bipartisan passage of a Virginia statute known as “Jacob’s Law,” which was named after their son by the bill’s sponsor.
Jay and Rick reside in Virginia with their three children, Catherine, Ellie and Jacob, and an assortment of rescue dogs and other critters.
Dr. Stefanie Tompkins is the director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Prior to this assignment, she was the vice president for research and technology transfer at Colorado School of Mines.
Tompkins has spent much of her professional life leading scientists and engineers in developing new technology capabilities. She began her industry career as a senior scientist and later assistant vice-president and line manager at Science Applications International Corporation, where she spent 10 years conducting and managing research projects in planetary mapping, geology, and imaging spectroscopy. As a program manager in DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office, she created and managed programs in ubiquitous GPS-free navigation as well as in optical component manufacturing. Tompkins has also served as the deputy director of DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office, director of DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office – the agency’s most exploratory office in identifying and accelerating breakthrough technologies for national security – as well as the acting DARPA deputy director.
Tompkins received a Bachelor of Arts degree in geology and geophysics from Princeton University and Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in geology from Brown University. She has also served as a military intelligence officer in the U.S. Army.
Paul is the Vice Chairman for the US Industrial Products sector, and the Managing Principal for the Cleveland Market for Deloitte. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Deloitte Foundation. Paul is often quoted on topics ranging from Smart Manufacturing to the Skills Gap.
Prior to joining Deloitte 30+ years ago, Paul worked for TRW Inc. in a variety of manufacturing, engineering, and strategic planning positions.
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