Monday, March 2, 2009

7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast with Sponsors and Exhibitors

7:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Internet Café Open

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Monday Opening Keynote SpeakerBrett Browchuk, Senior Vice President of Service Operations, CIGNA Healthcare

9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Networking Break with Sponsors, Exhibitors and Product Demos

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions Block B

B1: Leveraging Performance Improvement to Transform an Organization
Doug Sears

B2: Future Sigma- The Next Generation of DFLSS: The Axiomatic Design Component (continuation of A2) (B2 consists of two sessions)
Basem El-Haik and Paul Chiodo
FutureSigma - The Next Generation of DFLSS: Technology & Product Development Process Integration
Clyde Creveling and Kevin Hayes

B3: Be Your Own Champion
Jack West

B4: Social Responsibility Through Lean Enterprise
Chad Vincent

B5: Improving Knowledge Work: Organizing Around Flow
Robert Damelio

B6: Past/Present/Future of 6Sigma at Presrite Corporation
Phillip Diemer and Gary Davis

12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Networking Lunch sponsored by Minitab Inc.


3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Networking Break with Sponsors and Exhibitors


3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions Block D

D1: Keeping the Seats Cold through Outpatient Flow Management
Roger Noble and Jean Tauber, MS, FACHE

D2: The Six Sigma Remedy to the Weakest Link in Organizational Performance
Rob Reul and Leo Wright

D3: Measuring LSS Program Deployment
Michele Burk

D4: Enterprise Lean Six Sigma Metrics and Project Selection
Forrest Breyfogle

D5: Beyond Cost of Quality to Cost Effectiveness
Russ Russo

D6: Lean Enterprise Division Networking Session
Wayne Paupst and Robert Johnson

4:45 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Monday Closing Keynote Session – Jason Gerros, Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)


5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Conference Networking Reception