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
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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 |