World Conference on Quality and Improvement
Realize Your Impact
The fourth industrial revolution is well underway, carving a digital path toward optimized, enterprise-wide data analytics, design, cloud computing, AI, machine learning, and IoT applications. The journey, however, is a long one, with only a fraction of organizations fully engaged in a Quality 4.0 initiative. For quality professionals, the opportunity to impact an organization’s digital transformation has never been greater. For organizations, the need to leverage the skills and abilities of quality teams has never been more urgent.
WCQI 2020 will inform and guide attendees in their mission to assess, increase, and leverage their expertise in the quality arena. The knowledge and insights shared at WCQI will identify how the quality professional can significantly influence transformation initiatives at the individual and enterprise level and offer the appropriate tools and strategies to affect change, increase value, and drive an organization toward its quality goal.
Quality Foundations
As organizations increasingly rely on quality practices to navigate through today’s digital challenges, it is essential for attendees to have a firm grasp upon how, when, and why to apply those fundamental tools and techniques within their own teams and organization. These sessions will emphasize quality’s nuts and bolts, such as:
The Lighthouse Series
Explore leading-edge approaches to quality program implementation and get insight into how industry frontrunners leverage best practices, emerging technologies, and advanced statistical tools to enhance results. Topics will include:
Beyond Technical: Driving Quality Through Soft Skills
Without soft skills in the mix, most organizations never fully realize their potential as a quality-driven entity. A Quality 4.0 initiative supported only by technology and process will face immediate and significant implementation barriers as teams struggle with unclear objectives, lack of teamwork/leadership, and gaps in skills required for the scope of transformative work. This area of focus targets key facets that support a holistic quality strategy, including:
Sustaining Innovation
What does it take to establish and maintain a culture of continual improvement? This set of sessions explores the tools and strategies needed to create and support an everlasting commitment to quality processes—and prepare for the next disruption. Topics include:
ASQ’s landmark event brings together thousands of quality professionals seeking insight and strategies to optimize their organizations and their careers. Through relevant conference sessions ranging from introductory to expert, attendees will gain a thorough understanding of how and why to incorporate quality practices and strategies at all levels of the organization. Share your expertise that will deepen the understanding and application of current and emerging innovations across industries.
Your session proposal should integrate the conference theme, Realize Your Impact, with one or more of the focus areas outlined below.
Focus Areas:
- Quality Foundations
- The Lighthouse Series
- Beyond Technical: Driving Quality Through Soft Skills
- Sustaining Innovation