Join Your Quality Peers in Denver at the 2025 World Conference on Quality and Improvement

The World Conference on Quality and Improvement (WCQI) stands as a premier global forum dedicated to driving excellence in quality management, continuous improvement, and organizational success. Each year, it brings together industry leaders, practitioners, and visionaries who are united by a shared commitment to innovation, collaboration, and impactful results. By fostering a dynamic exchange of ideas, tools, and best practices, WCQI empowers participants to tackle complex challenges, seize new opportunities, and inspire positive transformations within their organizations and communities. This event is not just a conference—it's a catalyst for meaningful progress and a testament to the power of collective expertise.

Learn more from Susan Gorveatte, WCQI Technical Program Chair:

Why WCQI

Are you using quality concepts and tools in new or unique ways or in new or non-traditional industries or environments?  How are your quality efforts driving bottom line results? Are you working to grow and diversify the quality community? Are you and your team exploring and developing new quality procedures? At the 2025 World Conference on Quality & Improvement, come share how you are taking quality to new heights and experience how others are doing the same.

 

Professionals like you are using quality concepts and tools in new and unique ways every day and expanding the reach of quality practices into non-traditional industries and environments. The quality community is expanding and diversifying, bringing fresh perspectives to established processes. New quality procedures are being developed to meet modern challenges. At the 2025 World Conference on Quality & Improvement, passionate professionals will come together to take quality to new heights.

This year we are hosted by the beautiful city of Denver Colorado, a vibrant outdoor city, basking in 300 days of sunshine. With a walkable downtown, diverse neighborhoods, a thriving arts and culture scene, chef-driven dining and a stunning Rocky Mountain backdrop, The Mile High City is the perfect place to take quality to new heights! 

Who Should Attend WCQI?

ASQ WCQI 2025 will bring together thousands of professionals representing manufacturing, consulting, health care, government, education, aerospace, and more for 3+ days of learning that will produce long-term gains in an organization’s quality mission. From emerging quality practitioners to experienced professionals, WCQI 2025 offers meaningful networking, education, and product discovery to help individuals and organizations pursue excellence through quality. 

Need help convincing your manager to approve your WCQI travel budget? Download our Business Case for WCQI tool kit including a ready-made email template sure to convince your boss.

 

AGENDA

What You'll Learn

Propelling People to the Summit - This focus area shifts the spotlight to elevating human performance within the context of quality. Processes and tools are inanimate entities until they are utilized by people.  In these sessions learn how to motivate your workforce to take production from mediocre to extraordinary.  Develop high-performing teams including strategies for fostering collaboration and communication within teams focused on quality improvement. Build resilience and agility within the workforce by hearing how organizations are expanding the pool of quality professionals across generations of people. Finally, practice the skills necessary to make your workplace an employer of choice by harnessing the power of well-being for quality that supports sustained high performance. 

Topics include: Winning management and leadership practices; team building, dynamics, and performance; recruitment and retention strategies; project and change management, career development.

Achieving Peak Process Performance - Get ready to map the ascent through Process Mapping and Analysis. These sessions will focus on techniques for effectively mapping existing processes to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement. Processes define everything we do in an organization. Discover the latest in process performance enhancement, process monitoring, corrective and preventative action, and key performance indicator (KPI) development and response. Participants will learn how to foster collaboration in process improvement including strategies for building effective cross-functional teams with diverse expertise to tackle complex process improvement challenges.

Topics include: Process design; key performance indicators (KPIs); measuring the impact of process improvements, data analytics dashboards, eliminating waste; reducing variability.

Tools and Tech for the Trek - This focus area concentrates on the role of tools and technology in the pursuit of quality. These sessions will delve into the use of data analytics tools and dashboards to gain insights, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions for quality improvement. Learn to navigate with precision using data analytics for quality improvement and utilize technology to enhance quality processes while showcasing how technology can be leveraged to streamline quality processes, including automation tools, workflow management platforms, and defect tracking software. These sessions can also explore the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for automating tasks, predicting quality risks, and optimizing quality control processes. See the latest in tools and tech and learn how legacy tools are being utilized in new ways in the current environment.

Topics include: Classic quality tools; statistical methodologies; software tools; artificial intelligence and machine learning; data analysis.