Conference speakers and videos

Daron Acemoglu (Moderator)

James R and Elizabeth Killian Class of 1926 Professor in Applied Economics
MIT Department of Economics

Panel Discussion: "Challenges and Opportunities in Manufacturing"
Day 1, 9:30 am

K. Daron Acemoglu is Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the Economic Growth program of the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research. He is also affiliated with the National Bureau Economic Research, the Center for Economic Performance, the Center for Economic Policy Research, and Microsoft Research Center.

He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the European Economic Association, and the Society of Labor Economists.

Daron Acemoglu has received a BA in economics at the University of York, 1989, M.Sc. in mathematical economics and econometrics at the London School of Economics, 1990, and Ph.D. in economics at the London School of Economics in 1992. Since 1993, he has held the academic positions of Lecturer at the London School of Economics, and Assistant Professor, Pentti Kouri Associate Professor and Professor of Economics at MIT.

He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the award for best paper published in the Economic Journal in 1996 for his paper "Consumer Confidence and Rational Expectations: Are Agents' Beliefs Consistent With the Theory?", the inaugural T. W. Shultz Prize from the University of Chicago in 2004, and the inaugural Sherwin Rosen Award for outstanding contribution to labor economics in 2004, Distinguished Science Award from the Turkish Sciences Association in 2006, the John von Neumann Award, Rajk College, Budapest in 2007.

He was also awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, given every two years to the best economist in the United States under the age of 40 by the American Economic Association, and holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Utrecht.

He has given numerous seminars and keynote addresses, including the Review of Economic Studies lecture at the Royal Economic Society in 2001, the Alfred Marshall Lecture at the European Economic Association in 2003, the Astro-Zeneca Lecture in Stockholm in 2003, the Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures at the London School of Economics in 2004, Society of Economic Dynamics Conference, 2004, European Association of Labor Economists Conference, 2004, Gaston Eyskens Lectures at the University of Leuven, Belgium, 2005, Dunaway Lecture at the Michigan State University in 2005, McKay Lecture, University of Pittsburgh in 2005, Woodward Lecture at the University of British Colombia in 2006, the David Kinley Lecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2006, and keynote addresses to the Midwest Macroeconomics Conference, 2004, the Clarendon Lectures, Oxford University, 2007, the Inaugural Pareto Lecture, College Carlo Alberto, Torino in 2007, the Annual DEFAP Lecture, Milan Catholic University in 2007, the Calderwood Lecture, Wellesley College in 2007, the Malim Harding Lecture, University of Toronto in 2008.

His work has been published in leading scholarly journals, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal Economics and Review of Economic Studies.

Daron Acemoglu's research covers a wide range of areas within economics, including political economy, economic development and growth, human capital theory, growth theory, innovation, search theory, network economics and learning.

Daron Acemoglu is also the co-editor of Econometrica and of the National Bureau of Economic Research Macroeconomic Annual.

Daron has recently completed a new book, along with Professor James Robinson (Harvard University), entitled Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty.

Robert Bradway

President and COO
Amgen

Transforming Biotechnology Manufacturing: Adapting Technology to a Changing Environment
Day 1, 2:15 pm

Robert A. Bradway became president and chief operating officer of Amgen in May 2010. In this role, he is responsible for the company's Global Commercial Operations, Manufacturing Operations, Information Technology, Global Government Affairs, Communications and Philanthropy, and Worldwide Compliance and Business Ethics organizations. He was appointed to the Amgen Board of Directors in October 2011.

James Breen

Vice President of Supply Chain Network Management
Johnson & Johnson

Panel Discussion: "Challenges and Opportunities in Manufacturing"
Day 1, 9:30 am

Jim is presently the Vice President of Supply Chain Network Management at Johnson & Johnson responsible for the internal and external manufacturing network strategy. Jim has held prior roles as VP of Project Management in Worldwide Engineering and Technical Operations responsible for the planning and execution of large projects across J&J, and as VP of Engineering in the Global Biologics Supply Chain (GBSC). Jim started his J&J career in 1997 in Shanghai, China as Manager of Engineering for the Asia Pacific Operations.

Rodney Brooks

Panasonic Professor of Robotics Emeritus, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Co-Founder, iRobot Corporation
Chairman and CTO, Heartland Robotics

Will Our Consumer Goods Always Be Manufactured By Hand?
Day 1, 8:45 am

Rodney Brooks is the Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus) at MIT.

He is a robotics entrepreneur and Founder, Chairman and CTO of Heartland Robotics, Inc. He is also a Founder, Board Member and former CTO (1991 - 2008) of iRobot Corp (Nasdaq: IRBT). Dr. Brooks is the former Director (1997 - 2007) of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and then the MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He received degrees in pure mathematics from the Flinders University of South Australia and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1981. He held research positions at Carnegie Mellon University and MIT, and a faculty position at Stanford before joining the faculty of MIT in 1984. He has published many papers in computer vision, artificial intelligence, robotics, and artificial life.

Dr. Brooks serves as a member of the International Scientific Advisory Group (ISAG) of National Information and Communication Technology Australia (NICTA), and on the Global Innovation and Technology Advisory Council of John Deere & Co. He is an Xconomist at Xconomy and a regular contributor to the Edge.

Dr. Brooks is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), a Founding Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (AAAS), a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (the other AAAS), a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science (AAS) and a Foreign Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE). He won the Computers and Thought Award at the 1991 IJCAI (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence). He has been the Cray lecturer at the University of Minnesota, the Mellon lecturer at Dartmouth College, and the Forsythe lecturer at Stanford University. He was co-founding editor of the International Journal of Computer Vision and is a member of the editorial boards of various journals including Adaptive Behavior, Artificial Life, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Robots and New Generation Computing. He starred as himself in the 1997 Errol Morris movie "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control" named for one of his scientific papers, a Sony Classics picture, available on DVD.

John Bryson

United States Secretary of Commerce

Towards a Renaissance in Manufacturing
Day 1, 11:00 am

John Bryson was appointed by President Obama as the 37th Secretary of Commerce and sworn into office on October 21, 2011. Bryson has nearly three decades of business experience, including 18 years as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Edison International.

Secretary Bryson is a key member of President Obama's economic team working to implement the administration's top economic priority: accelerating job creation. He works to strengthen the economic recovery and U.S. competitiveness, and he serves as the voice for the business community in the President's Cabinet.

As Commerce Secretary, Bryson oversees an agency charged with helping make American businesses more innovative and successful at home and more competitive abroad. Bryson's priority as Commerce Secretary is to help American businesses "build it here and sell it everywhere."

He is focusing in particular on three areas that create more American jobs: supporting advanced manufacturing, helping U.S. companies increase exports, and encouraging more companies to invest in or expand operations in the U.S. First, as co-chair of the White House Office of Manufacturing Policy, he is coordinating government-wide efforts to support and strengthen America's manufacturing sector, especially advanced manufacturing. Second, he is leading the president's National Export Initiative to double U.S. exports and create millions of jobs. Third, he is driving the federal effort to increase business investment in the U.S. through SelectUSA, America's first-ever national investment advocacy program.

In addition, Secretary Bryson is working to implement historic reforms to the U.S. patent system; foster "clusters" that create jobs by maximizing strengths in U.S. regions; strengthen online security and privacy for both businesses and consumers; and, invest in coastal communities, weather, and oceanic sciences.

Before becoming Commerce Secretary, Bryson served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Edison International, the parent company of Southern California Edison and Edison Mission Group, from 1990 to 2008. At Edison, he led the utility through the California energy crisis. As CEO, he created a competitive power subsidiary, the Mission Group, which expanded across the U.S. and was a global leader in the privatization of power plants and electric systems in Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, the Philippines and several European countries.

Bryson has also served as a director on several public, educational and nonprofit boards, including The Boeing Company and The Walt Disney Company. He has also served as an adviser and a director of entrepreneurial and start-up companies including Coda Automotive, Inc. and BrightSource Energy. He was a senior adviser to the global investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR).

Prior to joining the private sector, Bryson served as president of the California Public Utilities Commission and chairman of the California State Water Resources Control Board. He was also a partner in the law firm of Morrison and Foerster. Shortly after earning his J.D. from Yale law school, he and some classmates received a grant from the Ford Foundation to form the Natural Resources Defense Council in 1971.

Bryson is a graduate of Stanford University. He and his wife Louise have four daughters.

Tim Copes

Vice President
Manufacturing & Quality
Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Panel Discussion: "Innovation in Manufacturing"
Day 1, 4:15 pm

Tim Copes leads the Manufacturing and Quality organization and function for Boeing Commercial Airplanes. He is responsible for ensuring the Commercial Airplanes global production system consistently operates in an aligned, integrated and effective manner. He was named to his position in January 2010.

From May 2007 until January 2010, Copes served as president of Boeing Shared Services Group (SSG), reporting to the Boeing Chief Financial Officer. In this assignment, Copes was responsible for leading the 8,000-person, multi-billion dollar SSG team that provides more than 130 different internal services in support of Boeing's global business. Under his leadership, SSG successfully integrated the management of its internal services into the management systems of the Boeing business units while driving both service improvement and a step improvement in productivity.

From 2005 to 2007, Copes served as vice president of the Technical Services business within Commercial Aviation Services, Commercial Airplanes. In that role, he led a team that sold, developed and delivered a broad range of service solutions to Commercial Airplanes customers worldwide-including passenger-to-freighter conversions, airplane upgrades, maintenance services and crew-information services.

From 2002 to 2004, Copes served as vice president of Quality and Mission Assurance for Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (IDS, now Boeing Defense, Space & Security) where he led the development, integration and implementation of IDS strategies for quality and mission assurance to support IDS's broad line of defense and space products and services.

Copes joined Boeing in 1992. From that time through 2002, he held a series of manufacturing, quality and engineering leadership roles within Commercial Airplanes. He served as director of manufacturing for the Sonic Cruiser and 747X development airplane programs in 2001 and 2002. In the prior nine years, Copes held key assignments on the 777 program during the entry into service of the 777-200, 777-200ER (Extended Range), and 777-300 models and the production ramp-up to seven airplanes per month. The leadership positions he held on the 777 program included director of manufacturing, director of quality, director of body-structures/systems installations manufacturing business unit, senior manager of production control and senior manager, manufacturing engineering for electrical systems.
Before joining Boeing, Copes held several management positions in engineering and program management with International Business Machines.

Copes holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin and master's degrees in mechanical engineering and management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Olivier de Weck

Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems
Executive Director, MIT Production in the Innovation Economy (PIE) Study
Co-Director, Center for Complex Engineering Systems at KACST and MIT
Secretary and Treasurer, Council of Engineering Systems Universities (CESUN)
MIT Engineering Systems Division

Production in the Innovation Economy (PIE): A new MIT study on the current state and future of U.S. manufacturing
Day 2, 9:15 am

Prof. Olivier de Weck's research is in Systems Engineering. He focuses on complex man-made systems and how we can design them to maximize lifecycle value. Specific research results include methods such as Time-Expanded Decision Networks (TDN), the Delta-Design Structure Matrix (DSM) and the Technology Infusion Analysis (TIA) process that have been demonstrated on systems of real-world complexity in space exploration (NASA), oil and gas exploration (BP) as well as complex electro-mechanical products (e.g. Xerox, UTC). He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA, and serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets and the Journal of Mechanical Design. He won the 2008 and 2010 best paper awards from the journal Systems Engineering and the 2010 Capers and Marion MacDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring

Cindy Estrada

Vice President, United Auto Workers

The Role of Labor in the Manufacturing Economy After the Financial Crisis
Day 2, 10:30 am

Panel Discussion: "Workforce of the Future"
Day 2, 11:15 am

Cindy Estrada was elected a UAW vice president on June 16, 2010, by delegates at the union's 35th Constitutional Convention in Detroit.

Estrada, a longtime union organizer and social activist, is the first Latina elected to serve as a UAW vice president.

A member of UAW Local 174 in Romulus, Mich., since 1995, Estrada previously served as director of the union's National Organizing Department. Appointed in 2008 by then-UAW President Ron Gettelfinger, her responsibilities included directing the union's organizing staff in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. She joined the UAW international staff in 2000 when she was appointed by then-UAW President Stephen P. Yokich.

Estrada developed a passion for the labor movement while growing up listening to stories from her grandparents and other relatives recounting working in the fields as farm workers and as factory workers.

In 1993 she earned a degree in education from the University of Michigan, and then worked with the United Farm Workers of America.

In 1995 Bob King, then-director of UAW Region 1A, assigned Estrada to assist with the Mexican Industries organizing drive in southwest Detroit. In 1999 Estrada led organizers in bringing about one of the largest victories in manufacturing of Spanish-speaking workers for the UAW.

She has worked with the AFL-CIO training new organizers and on several high-profile organizing campaigns; worked to coordinate the Michigan Organizing Center in Lansing, Mich., and helped UAW regional directors establish programs in organizing, recruitment, training, planning and campaigning.

Before becoming director of National Organizing, then-UAW Vice President Terry Thurman named Estrada the department's top administrative assistant. She played a key role in developing and implementing innovative strategies to assist UAW organizing efforts.

Her responsibilities included directing the organizing staff in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, and for giving quarterly reports to the UAW International Executive Board.

Estrada, a lifelong Democrat, is an active member of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) and the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA). She is involved in numerous charitable organizations.

Estrada resides in Whitmore Lake, Mich., with her husband, Frank White, and their children, Jason and Jesse. She is stepmom to Tracy, Jodi, Tara and Taylor, and the grandmother of Alexis, Bradon, Delaney, Cadance and Carter.

Charles Fine

Chrysler Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management and Engineering Systems
Professor of Operations Management and Engineering Systems
Co-Director, International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP)
MIT Sloan School of Management

Wrap-up
Day 2, 2:15 pm

Professor Charles Fine teaches operations strategy and supply chain management at MIT's Sloan School of Management and directs the roadmapping activities in MIT's Communications Futures Program (http://cfp.mit.edu/). His research focuses on supply chain strategy and value chain roadmapping, with a particular focus on fast-clockspeed manufacturing and service industries. His work has supported design and improvement of supply chain operations and relationships for companies in electronics, automotive, aerospace, communications, construction, energy, and consumer products.

William D. Green (Moderator)

Executive Chairman
Accenture

Panel Discussion: "Workforce of the Future"
Day 2, 11:15 am

Bill Green is the Executive Chairman of Accenture, a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. He represents Accenture with clients around the world and with business and government leaders.

David Hardt

Ralph E. and Eloise F. Cross Professor of Mechanical Engineering
MIT Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity

Panel Discussion: "Challenges and Opportunities in Manufacturing"
Day 1, 9:30 am

Professor Hardt is a graduate of Lafayette College (BSME, 1972) and MIT (SM, PhD, 1978). He has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering faculty at MIT since 1979. His disciplinary focus is system dynamics and control as applied to manufacturing. His teaching focuses on control, dynamics and manufacturing processes. His disciplinary focus is system dynamics and control, as applied to manufacturing at both the process and system level.

John Haydon

Executive Vice-President and Global Head, Philips Group Operations
Executive Vice-President and Global Head, Healthcare Operations
Royal Philips

Panel Discussion: "Innovation in Manufacturing"
Day 1, 4:15 pm

John B. Haydon became executive vice president and global head of Operations, Philips Healthcare in May 2009. In this role, he is responsible for the company's Healthcare Global Commercial Operations, Industrial Operations, Purchasing, Information Technology, Real Estate, Business Excellence, Quality and Regulatory and Change Management programs.

Susan Hockfield

President
MIT

Opening Remarks
Day 2, 9:00 am

Susan Hockfield has served as the sixteenth president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since December 2004. A strong advocate of the vital role that science, technology, and the research university play in the world, she believes that MIT can best advance its historic mission of teaching, research, and service by providing robust and sustained support for the ideas and energies of its faculty and students.

A noted neuroscientist whose research has focused on the development of the brain, Dr. Hockfield is the first life scientist to lead MIT and holds a faculty appointment as professor of neuroscience in the Institute's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

Dr. Hockfield encourages collaborative work among MIT's schools, departments, and interdisciplinary laboratories and centers to keep the Institute at the forefront of innovation. She believes that MIT's strengths in engineering and science uniquely position the Institute to pioneer newly evolving, interdisciplinary areas and to translate them into practice. Together with MIT's traditions of excellence in architecture and planning, management, and the humanities, arts and social sciences, these strengths will allow the Institute to continue to develop powerful solutions to our era's greatest challenges.

Under her leadership, MIT has launched a major Institute-wide initiative in energy research and education and continues to expand its activities at the intersection of the life sciences and engineering, with a particular focus on cancer research. The Institute has also embarked on a sustained effort to strengthen support for student life and learning, including undergraduate curriculum renewal, and is undertaking major campus construction and renovation projects with a combined value of approximately three-quarters of a billion dollars.

Believing that MIT has a responsibility to help develop new models of teaching and research for a global age, Dr. Hockfield has also worked to extend the university's long tradition of international engagement through initiatives in education and scholarship with partners around the world.

Before assuming the presidency of MIT, Dr. Hockfield was the William Edward Gilbert Professor of Neurobiology and provost at Yale University. She joined the Yale faculty in 1985 and was named full professor in 1994. While at Yale, she played a central role in the university's leadership, first as dean of its Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1998-2002), with oversight of over 70 graduate programs, and then as provost, the university's chief academic and administrative officer.

Dr. Hockfield's research has focused on the development of the brain and on glioma, a deadly kind of brain cancer. She pioneered the use of monoclonal antibody technology in brain research, leading to her discovery of a protein that regulates changes in neuronal structure as a result of an animal's experience in early life. More recently she discovered a gene and its family of protein products that play a critical role in the spread of cancer in the brain and may represent new therapeutic targets for glioma.

Dr. Hockfield earned her B.A. in biology from the University of Rochester and a Ph.D. from the Georgetown University School of Medicine, while carrying out her dissertation research in neuroscience at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at San Francisco in 1979-80, and then joined the scientific staff at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York in 1980. She served as director of the Laboratory's Summer Neurobiology Program from 1985 to 1997, concurrent with her teaching post at Yale, and more recently as a trustee of the laboratory.

Dr. Hockfield holds honorary degrees from Brown University, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Tsinghua University (Beijing), University of Edinburgh and the Watson School of Biological Sciences at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her other honors include the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal from the Yale University Graduate School, the Meliora Citation for Career Achievement from the University of Rochester, and the Charles Judson Herrick Award from the American Association of Anatomists for outstanding contributions by a young scientist.

Dr. Hockfield is a director of the General Electric Company, a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and a member of the Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She has served on the National Advisory Neurological Disorders and Stroke Council of the NIH, as well as a number of other advisory boards. Her memberships in professional societies include the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society for Neuroscience.

Dr. Hockfield lives in Cambridge with her husband, Thomas N. Byrne, M.D., and their daughter, Elizabeth.

Joseph Jimenez

Chief Executive Officer
Novartis

A Defining Moment: The Future of Manufacturing in the US
Day 2, 1:30 pm

Joseph Jimenez is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Novartis since February 1, 2010. Mr. Jimenez is responsible for leading the company's diversified healthcare portfolio of leading businesses in innovative pharmaceuticals, eye care, generics, consumer health, vaccines and diagnostics.

Denise Johnson

General Manager, Specialty Products
Caterpillar, Inc.

Panel Discussion: "Workforce of the Future"
Day 2, 11:15 am

Denise Johnson is the General Manager for Specialty Products, Caterpillar Remanufacturing and Components, with responsibly for 17 facilities across the Americas, Europe and Asia, including product and aftermarket responsibility for Caterpillar's construction and mining components. Product lines include couplings and fittings, oil coolers, plastics and rubber products, seals and gaskets, pins, fluids and filters, tubes, bearings, fasteners, and tires and rims. Additionally, Johnson oversees key divisional functions such as Caterpillar Production System, 6 Sigma, Purchasing and Quality.

Thomas Kochan

George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management
Professor of Engineering Systems
Co-Director, Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER)
MIT Sloan School of Management

Panel Discussion: "Workforce of the Future"
Day 2, 11:15 am

Thomas A. Kochan is the George M. Bunker Professor of Work and Employment Relations at MIT's Sloan School of Management, Co-Director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research, and Chair of the MIT Faculty. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Relations from the University of Wisconsin in 1973 and served on the faculty of the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations from 1973 to 1980.

Martin Mrugal

Head of Mfg Industries and Solutions
SAP AG

Panel Discussion: "Innovation in Manufacturing"
Day 1, 4:15 pm

Martin Mrugal is a Global Executive with SAP, the worldwide leader of business management software, and currently leads the Manufacturing Industries and Solutions business globally. Previously he was on assignment for the SAP Executive Board working on a global change program. Prior to his Board assignment Martin held the position of National Vice President and General Manager responsible for Mid-sized Enterprise Solutions and Products. In this role, he directed the North American strategy, launch and execution of a new software as a service (SAAS) solution called Business By Design.

Martin joined SAP in October 1998 as a Business Development Manager - Manufacturing, where he played a pivotal role consulting with SAP manufacturing customers to transform their businesses using SAP software solutions. Client deliverables included detailed studies on total cost of ownership, return on investment and business strategy.

In January of 2000, Martin was promoted to Director of eBusiness, Manufacturing, working with Fortune 200 clients to develop and implement innovative business and technology strategies. In 2002, as Director of Presales Solutions, he was responsible for the management and direction of the Procurement and Sourcing business development, marketing and solution engineering functions. In 2003, he was promoted to the position of Industry Principal, Aerospace and Defense. As an Industry Principal, Martin was responsible for overall marketing strategy, business development and channel execution in the Aerospace/Defense and Department of Defense vertical markets. Later he was promoted to Vice President Discrete Manufacturing Sector and responsible for the strategy and execution of marketing and portfolio management in six vertical markets for North America.

Prior to joining SAP, Martin spent 12 years at Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), where he held a variety of roles of increasing responsibility in sales, marketing, finance, and logistics strategy. He successfully started new lines of business, analyzed complex supply chains for industrial manufacturing companies, and developed new distribution strategies and facilities for them. Examples of the clients he worked with include DuPont, GM, Ford, Chrysler and American Honda.

Martin holds a master's degree in Business Administration (summa cum laude) and an undergraduate degree in Marketing from The Pennsylvania State University. He completed SAP's Global Leadership Development Program at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France and resides in the United States with his wife and two children.

Narendra Mulani

Managing Director – Accenture Analytics & Marketing Services

Panel Discussion: "Challenges and Opportunities in Manufacturing"
Day 1, 9:30 am

Narendra Mulani is the managing director-Accenture Analytics and Marketing Services. In this role, he is responsible for driving Accenture's strategic agenda for growth across digital and traditional marketing, sales and customer service, and business analytics. He leads an integrated community of over 15,000 management consulting, technology and outsourcing people who are serving clients across industries around the globe. Following his passion to stay close to the voice of our customers, Narendra is also responsible for Accenture's global relationship with Procter & Gamble.

John Reed

Chairman of the MIT Corporation

Welcome
Day 1, 8:30 am

John S. Reed, retired chairman and CEO of Citigroup and former chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, was elected to serve as Chair of the MIT Corporation, the Institute's governing body beginning on July 1, 2010. Reed received his B.S. in 1961 and S.M. in 1965 from MIT.

Reed succeeded Dana G. Mead, who had announced in fall 2009 that he would step down as Corporation chair at the end of June 2010.

Much of the MIT Corporation's work is conducted through its various committees. The MIT Corporation chair is, by virtue of the position, a member of the Executive Committee and the Investment Management Company board. The MIT Corporation chair also presides over all Corporation meetings and chairs the Corporation Development Committee and Membership Committee.

Reed, a life member of the Corporation, serves or has served on the visiting committees for the Engineering Systems Division, the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Office of Sponsored Research. He currently chairs the Mathematics Visiting Committee.

Born in Chicago in 1939, Reed was raised in Argentina and Brazil, where his father was an executive with Armour and Co. He received joint S.B. and B.A. degrees from MIT and Washington & Jefferson College before serving for two years as an officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Reed earned his master's degree in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1965 and joined Citibank shortly thereafter.

Over the next 35 years, Reed became known for ushering in many banking innovations in the United States and for raising Citibank's profile in emerging Asian and Latin American markets. He became the bank's chairman and CEO in 1984.

After the bank merged with the Travelers Co. in 1998, Reed served as chairman and co-CEO of the new company, Citigroup. He retired from Citigroup in 2000, and then served as chairman of the New York Stock Exchange from September 2003 until April 2005. During this time, he helped establish new governance rules as the NYSE became a public corporation. More recently, Reed has voiced support for reforms intended to safeguard America's financial system.

Reed has broad experience in the governance of corporate and academic institutions. He has held long tenures on the boards of Philip Morris, United Technologies and Monsanto. Reed is currently a director of MDRC, a nonprofit, nonpartisan social policy research organization. He was chairman and a trustee of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was a board member at the Russell Sage Foundation, which supports research in the social sciences, and at the Spencer Foundation, which funds research aimed at improving education. He is a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society, and is an overseer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

In addition to his work with the MIT Corporation, Reed serves on the MIT Energy Initiative's external advisory board and the Center for International Studies advisory board.

Reed and his wife, Cynthia, live in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and have a townhome in Boston.

Donald Rosenfield

Director, Leaders for Global Operations Program
Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management

Welcome and Introduction
Day 1, 8:15 am

Dr. Rosenfield holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Stanford University. He is co-author of Operations Strategy, Competing in the 21st Century and Modern Logistics Management, and has written articles for a number of journals, including Harvard Business Review, Operations Research, Management Science, and Sloan Management Review.

William Ruh

Vice President of Software
GE

Panel Discussion: "Challenges and Opportunities in Manufacturing"
Day 1, 9:30 am

In his role, Ruh is responsible for setting and leading the software services and solutions portfolio strategy, development and operations across all of GE. His team develops software to power the Industrial Internet, a living network of intelligent machines and systems designed to advance industry and improve lives. These systems and solutions put data to work for GE's customers, giving businesses insight to make more intelligent, sustainable and safe products.

Martin Schmidt

Associate Provost
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Director, MEMS@MIT Center
MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Panel Discussion: "Innovation in Manufacturing"
Day 1, 4:15 pm

Martin A. Schmidt received his BS degree from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1981 and his SM and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983 and 1988 respectively. Since 1988 he has been a faculty member in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT. From 1999 to 2006 he served as the Director of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) at MIT. MTL is an interdepartmental laboratory that provides shared research infrastructure for all of the campuses activities in micro and nanotechnology, and supports the research of approximately 500 students and staff. In July of 2008 he assumed his current position as Associate Provost at MIT. In his role as Associate Provost, he manages the Institute's space and the renovation/renewal budgets. He also co-led the Institute's Task Force on Budget in response to the 2008 financial crisis. Currently, he is the faculty lead for the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP), a recently announced White House initiative.

David Simchi-Levi

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems
Co-Director, Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) Program

Is it Time to Rethink Your Manufacturing Strategy?
Day 1, 3:30 pm

David Simchi-Levi is a Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT and is considered one of the premier thought leaders in supply chain management.

Diana Tremblay

Global Chief Manufacturing Officer, General Motors

Global Manufacturing: Challenges, Opportunities and Impact for the U.S.
Day 1, 1:30 pm Panel Discussion: "Workforce of the Future"
Day 2, 11:15 am

Diana Tremblay is currently the Global Chief Manufacturing Officer at General Motors. In this role, she has responsibility for 65 facilities in North America and more than 60,000 employees world-wide. Tremblay also serves as the global process guardian for GM's global manufacturing system.

Jeffrey Turner

President and Chief Executive Officer
Spirit AeroSystems, Inc.

Transforming through the Challenges in Large Commercial Aerospace
Day 1, 11:45 am

Jeff Turner was named President and CEO of Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., in June, 2005, upon the divestiture of the Boeing Commercial Airplanes Wichita Division, where he had served as Vice President-General Manager since November 1995. As Spirit AeroSystems CEO, he successfully led the transition from Boeing Division to an independent company completing the company's Initial Public Offering (IPO) in November 2006. Spirit AeroSystems (SPR) is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Tana Utley (Moderator)

Chief Technology Officer
Vice President, Product Development & Global Technology Division
Caterpillar, Inc.

Panel Discussion: "Innovation in Manufacturing"
Day 1, 4:15 pm

Tana L. Utley is chief technology officer and vice president with responsibility for the Product Development & Global Technology Division at Caterpillar Inc. Caterpillar is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. With 2010 sales and revenues of $42.588 billion, the company also is a leading services provider through Caterpillar Financial Services, Caterpillar Remanufacturing Services, Caterpillar Logistics Services and Progress Rail Services.

Tana joined Caterpillar in 1986 as an entry-level engineer in the college graduate training program, after receiving her Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Bradley University. Her career at Caterpillar has been focused primarily on solving the technical challenges of reducing diesel engine emissions in accordance with U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and equivalent global regulations. Since 1991 she has played a leading role in developing the technical solutions and performance and product validation efforts required to reduce criteria emissions from diesel engines to near zero levels.

Tana is best known for leading the team that developed ACERT™ Technology-a breakthrough engine system solution that redefined Cat® engine products. ACERT integrates key technology building blocks-the fuel system, air system, electronic controls and aftertreatment-to provide clean power without sacrificing performance or efficiency. When introduced to the market in 2004, ACERT engines positively impacted Caterpillar's position in on-highway engines. ACERT Technology was named Innovation of the Year by Equipment World Magazine in 2004, and remains the foundation for diesel engine development and emissions reduction programs at Caterpillar.

In 2006 Tana was offered the opportunity to pursue an advanced executive leadership degree and was accepted into MIT's Sloan School of Management. As a Sloan Fellow, Tana pursued the Master of Science in Management track. Her thesis, entitled "A Systems View of Quality," studied the effects of market, customer, application, and organizational dynamics on product quality through the lens of systems dynamics. Upon graduation in 2007 she was named Caterpillar vice president and Chief Technology Officer.

As vice president Tana leads the Product Development & Global Technology Division (PD>), Caterpillar's research & development arm, with more than 3500 employees working in multiple technical centers in the US, Europe, China and India and product proving grounds in the US and China. PD> manages a wide variety of engineering processes and services that support execution of product development programs in the company's machine, engine and power systems business divisions. These processes and services include the New Product Introduction process, global emissions and product performance validation, product development information management and analytics, engineering standards, and engineering talent recruiting and development. PD> also conducts research and advanced engineering in the areas of energy and power systems, machine systems, and automation in support of the company's technology strategy. Caterpillar is currently executing the largest product development effort in its history as new products are introduced to comply with the most recent diesel engine emissions regulations in the U.S., E.U. and Japan. Tana's team governs this company-wide effort, along with executing the development and validation of the emissions reduction technology and product designs.

As Chief Technology Officer, Tana is accountable for sustaining Caterpillar's global technology leadership. She oversees the company's research and development investment-$1.9 billion in 2010-in accordance with Caterpillar's technology strategy, and is a steward of the global technical community which includes more than 10,000 engineers and technologists. Her position has afforded her the opportunity to bring the story of Caterpillar's legacy of innovation to life for countless internal and external audiences. She is a sought-after speaker on the topics of emissions reduction regulations and technology solutions, global engineering education and talent development, and the integration of innovation, diversity of thought and business objectives in a global enterprise. As a result of her work at MIT Tana is keenly interested in the dialogue surrounding global climate change. She is Caterpillar's lead executive contact with the U.S. EPA in discussions surrounding engine emissions regulations. In this capacity she serves as the Caterpillar representative to the Diesel Technology Forum and regularly interfaces with industry and government in discussions on the business of sustainable development.

In recognition of her contribution to the field of engineering and technical management, Tana received the Suzanne Jenniches Upward Mobility Award from the Society of Women Engineers in 2011. The award recognizes extraordinary leadership charting a path to success by merging technology and business goals, while creating a nurturing environment for other women to rise within the organization. Tana is also the recipient of an honorary Doctor of Technology degree from Loughborough University. She is a member of the Executive Advisory Council for the Bradley University College of Engineering and Technology, the Board of Directors of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and the Board of Directors of Peoria NEXT-an economic development organization dedicated to growing and commercializing new technologies in Central Illinois.

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