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7:30am - 8:30am

Registration and Breakfast

8:30am - 8:45am

8:45am - 9:45am

Keynote 1: Future of Quality

Mr. Paul E. Borawski, Chief Executive Officer, American Society for Quality (ASQ), Milwaukee, Wisconsin

9:45am - 11:00am

Leadership Excellence Panel

Moderator: Dr. Paul Prabhaker, Associate Dean, Northern Illinois University College of Business, DeKalb, Illinois

Mr. Paul E. Borawski, Chief Executive Officer, American Society for Quality (ASQ)

Dr. Cecilia Kimberlin, Vice President, Strategic Deployment, Abbott Quality and Regulatory, Abbot Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois

11:00am - 11:15am

Networking Break

11:15am - 12:30pm

Supply Chain Excellence Panel

Moderator: Dr. Shailesh Godambe, President, Optimum Supply Chain, Inc., South Barrington, Illinois 

Mr. Justin Heffernan, Business Development Manager, SuperValu, Itasca, Illinois

Mr. Michael Hugos, Chief Information Officer, Systems Innovation, Chicago, Illinois

12:30pm - 1:15pm

Networking Lunch

1:15pm - 2:15pm

Keynote 2: Journey of Excellence at Anderson Packaging, Inc.

Mr. Charles Aubrey, Vice President, Anderson Packaging, Inc., Rockford, Illinois

2:15pm - 3:30pm

Social Media Excellence Panel

Moderator: Dr. Lauren Labrecque, Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University, College of Business, DeKalb, Illinois 

Mr. J.D. Gershbein, Chief Executive Officer, Owlish Communications, Northbrook, Illinois

Ms. Laurel Nelson-Rowe, Managinig Director, American Society for Quality, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

3:30pm - 3:45pm

Networking Break

3:45pm - 5:00pm

Lean and Six Sigma Excellence Panel

Moderator: Mr. Steven Schuelka, Assistant Professor, Calumet College of St. Joseph, Whiting, Indiana 

Mr. Kam Gupta, President, Continuous Technology, Inc.,
Buffalo Grove, Illinois

Mr. Douglas Hlavacek, Lean Six Sigma Deployment Leader, Ecolab, Inc., Eagan, Minnesota