Collaboration on Quality in the Space and Defense Industries Forum
March 14 - 16, 2023
Cape Canaveral, Florida
2023 CQSDI
Quality's New Norm: Agility, Adaptability, and Transformation… Quality Professionals’ Keys to success
The 30th CQSDI delivers content that is of interest to a broad range of quality and engineering professionals and is ASQ’s longest running Division event.
The program includes a variety of industry key note and featured speakers, panels, as well as interactive workshops.
We have an option to once again do a half-day on Thursday, March 16. Please check back on this site or follow us on LinkedIn for updated information.
Speakers:
Senior level key note and featured speakers from NASA, MDA, DCMA, JPL, Commercial Space companies, Space Force, and Aerospace industry partners:
- Mike Shields, Executive Director of Quality Assurance, DCMA
- Gina Woullard, VP, Mission Assurance, Aeronautics Systems, Northrop Grumman
- Timothy McRae, Program Director, Ground-based Midcourse Defense, MDA
- Wayne Monteith, Retired Brigadier General
- Brian Kubik, VP of Quality for Missiles and Fire Control, Lockheed Martin
- Willie Lyles, Director, Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate, NASA Johnson Space Center
- Christopher Deluca, Director Specialty Engineering, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Research & Engineering
- Michelle Miller, Senior VP of Security and Mission Assurance, Ball Aerospace
- Steve Shih, Associate Administrator, Diversity and Equal Opportunity, NASA
- Mark Bontrager, Technical Director, Launch and Range Operations, United States Space Force
Panel Topics:
Making the Case for Early Engagement of Quality in Program Lifecycle
- Jeannette Plante, NASA Technical Fellow for Quality Engineering at NASA HQ
- Derek Garcia, Procurement Quality Assurance Group Supervisor at Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Pamela Carvell, Quality Assurance Sr. Manager at Pfizer
- Greg Schlegel, founder of the Supply Chain Consortium
- Mike Kahler, Engineer, Ball Aerospace
- Kanitra Tyler, Supply Chain Risk Management Service Element Lead, NASA
- Craig Bennett, Chair, Joint Strategic Quality Council (DCMA HQ NASA SME)
- Ann Jordan, ASQ CEO
- Susie Neal, IAQG Sponsor and DCMA Industry Focal
- Rick Roelecke, Chair, AIA Quality Assurance Council (Senior Engineering Manager, Supplier Assurance, Ball Aerospace)
- Gery Mras, Director Lifecycle Management/ Aerospace Industries Association
- John O’Donnell, Quality Assurance Section Manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Mike Kelly, Chief, Technical Excellence Office, NASA Safety Center
- Bill Harris, Chief, Safety, Quality and Mission Assurance, MDA, GMD
- Ashley Chonko, GBI QE Lead, Boeing GMD
- Jason DeNovellis, MDCDP Participant, MDA/BCQ
- Victoria Poitier, S&MA Aerospace Engineer, NASA KSC
- Ron A. Davis, Chief Information Security Officer, Huntington Ingalls Industries
- Jacob Horne, Chief Security Evangelist, Summit 7
- Noble Dean, Director of Governance, Risk and Compliance, L3Harris Technologies
Keeping Up with Supplier Risk Management
Industry Associations and Their Role in the QA Universe
Mentor/Mentee Panel: Challenges with Retention and Recruitment of the QA Workforce
New/Young Quality Professionals
A Quality Mindset for Cybersecurity Challenges
Interactive Workshops:
Supplier Evaluation – Basics to Hidden Secrets
- Ed Mitchell, Space Mission Assurance, John Hopkins, Applied Physics Laboratory, Assistant Group Supervisor
- Bruce Netherton, Lockheed Martin Supply Chain Manager
- Richard Bandy, Ball Aerospace Principal Supplier Quality Engineer
- Will Conn, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Supply Chain Manager
Successful Strategies to Enable a Quality Culture
- Kim Withers, The Aerospace Corp. Principal Director, People and Organization Development
- James Wade, Raytheon Technologies Engineering and Mission Assurance Leader
Audit Best Practices, Defect Trends and Corrective Action Tips
- Fred Martin, Lockheed Martin Supplier Quality Manager
- Maytelin Herrera-Batista, Lockheed Martin Staff Quality Auditor
Event Location
Radisson Hotel Conference Center
8701 Astronaut Boulevard
Cape Canaveral, FL 32920
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