Appendix A
Workshop Agenda
Innovation Policy Forum
Securing Advanced Manufacturing in the United States:
The Role of Manufacturing USA
May 23, 2017
National Academies Keck Center
Room 100
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC
AGENDA
9:00 AM | Welcome: David Hart, George Mason University and Innovation Policy Forum co-chair |
9:05 AM | Opening Keynote: Jeffrey Wilcox, Lockheed Martin |
9:35 AM | Panel I: A Roundtable on the Manufacturing USA Institutes |
Moderator: Ravi Shanker, Dow Chemical | |
Lawrence Brown, LIFT | |
Yoel Fink, AFFOA | |
Maj.-Gen Nickolas Justice, USA, Ret., PowerAmerica | |
Kelvin Lee, NIIMBL | |
10:50 AM | Coffee Break |
11:00 AM | Panel II: Manufacturing USA and Regional Economic Development |
Moderator: David Hart, George Mason University and Innovation Policy Forum co-chair | |
Workforce Development and the Institutes | |
Brennan Grignon, Department of Defense | |
State Perspective | |
Katie Stebbins, Commonwealth of Massachusetts | |
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises | |
Jennifer Hagan-Dier, MEP Tennessee | |
Economic Development: Lessons from New York | |
Charles Wessner, Georgetown University | |
12:30 PM | Lunch |
1:30 PM | Panel III: Assessing the Manufacturing USA Initiative |
Moderator: Brett Lambert, Northrop Grumman | |
The Role of the Federal Government in Strengthening American Manufacturing | |
Susan Helper, Case Western Reserve University | |
Bringing R&D Innovation to Manufacturing | |
Mark LaViolette, Deloitte | |
Strengthening Collaboration | |
Christopher Murray, Government Accountability Office | |
From Concept to Practice: The Manufacturing USA Annual Report | |
Mike Molnar, National Institute of Standards and Technology | |
3:00 PM | Coffee Break |
3:15 PM | Panel IV: Advanced Manufacturing Strategies around the World |
Moderator: William Bonvillian, MIT | |
Manufacturing Abroad and Innovation in the United States | |
Erica Fuchs, Carnegie Mellon University | |
Germany’s Industry 4.0 Initiative and Fraunhofer Institutes | |
Patrick Bressler, Fraunhofer USA | |
China's Specialization in Innovative Manufacturing | |
Jonas Nahm, Johns Hopkins University | |
4:30 PM | Panel V: Policy Roundtable |
Moderator: Michael Russo, GLOBALFOUNDRIES | |
André Gudger, Eccalon | |
Sridhar Kota, University of Michigan and MForesight | |
Kirk McConnell, Senate Armed Services Committee | |
Arun Seraphin, Senate Armed Services Committee | |
5:30 PM | Adjourn |