Regional Panel 1: Advanced Manufacturing Success Stories

* Moderator: Karen Mills, Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration * Guy Broadbent, President and CEO, Xcellerex, Inc. * Jill Becker, CEO, Cambridge NanoTech * Michael Casper, Founder, President and CEO, UltraSource, Inc. * Joanna Dowling, Director, The ...

Regional Panel 2: University Activities and Partnerships

* Moderator: Suzanne Berger, MIT's Raphael Dorman-Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science and Co-chair of the Production in the Innovation Economy (PIE) project * Mark Trusheim, Bio-manufacturing Executive in Residence, UMASS Dartmouth * Bernhardt Trout, ...

Regional Panel 3: Regional Government and Policy

* Moderator: David Hart, Assistant Director of Innovation Policy, Office of Science and Technology Policy * Gregory Bialecki, Secretary of Housing and Economic Development, MA * Lawrence Miller, Secretary, Agency of Commerce and Community Development, VT * George ...

Overview of AMP

White House Perspective Jason Miller, Special Assistant to the President for Manufacturing Policy Summary of AMP Workstreams * Carrie Houtman, Senior Public Policy Manager, The Dow Chemical Company * Ben Wang, Chief Manufacturing Officer, Georgia Institute of Technology

Federal Government Panel

* Moderator: Susan Hockfield * Subra Suresh, Director of the National Science Foundation * Patrick Gallagher, Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology, NIST Director * Ken Gabriel, Deputy Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency * Henry Kelly, Acting Assistant ...

Welcome and Overview

* Susan Hockfield, President of MIT * The Honorable Deval Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts * Video: Andrew Liveris, Chairman and CEO of The Dow Chemical Company

LMP Summit Speaker Panel

MEng and New Models of Industry / Academia Collaboration

Innovation in Manufacturing: The Small Business Conundrum

Perspective from Daktari

Overview of MIT's Production in the Innovation Economy (PIE) Initiative

Invitation to LGO Ambassador Day 2011

The MIT Leaders for Global Operations Program will host prospective students at its annual Ambassador Day and Information Evening on Monday, November 7 at MIT. By sitting in on a class, having lunch with current LGO students and admissions staff, or participating in a student-run panel ...

Dean Ian Waitz, MIT School of Engineering, on LGO: "Addressing ...

Dean Ian Waitz of the MIT School of Engineering describes the Leaders for Global Operations program, which he says provides "world-class education to develop future leaders in advanced manufacturing and operations." Dean Waitz touches on the unique three-way ...

Dean David Schmittlein, MIT Sloan School of Management, on LGO: "A ...

Dean David Schmittlein of the MIT Sloan School of Management describes the Leaders for Global Operations program: the collaboration of MIT Sloan and MIT Engineering, the qualities of LGO students, and the partnership with global leaders in industry. The Dean states ...

GE Develops Manufacturing Tools to Improve Jet Engines

During a recent tour, General Electric showed off a slew of manufacturing and production innovations aimed at staying competitive in one of its core businesses.