AME Dallas 2022 | Association for Manufacturing Excellence | 17 October 2022 | Sheraton Dallas Hotel, 400 Olive St, Dallas, TX 75201, USA

This will bring together lean practitioners from the front office to the front lines and from every industry and every corner of the earth. See operational excellence in action on local tours, learn from fellow continuous improvement practitioners during presentations and interactive sessions, hear from inspiring keynote speakers, grow your professional network, and much more.

Realize the power of disruption, from advancing technology, diverse and inclusive thinking, a desire for purpose and sustainability, and a holistic enterprise-wide picture.

IT'S A BIG, BRASH WORLD, AND YOU CRAVE THE INSPIRATION FOR BIG, COURAGEOUS ACTIONS
So much is changing rapidly. You recognize the undeniable significance of the trends disrupting our world and industries today, and you’re eager to help your organization make sense of these developments so you can serve your current customers and attract new ones. Forward-thinking enterprises that own disruptive forces have an advantage. So much is changing, and you can’t afford to be left behind. The future is now and the AME conference will give you a road map so that you and your organization can thrive.

DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
Explore technologies that are changing the way work is done. At 2022 event, you’ll talk with practitioners who are using Industry 4.0 to bring amazing changes to their businesses, and to manufacturing. This track highlights technologies that are currently in use (no theory here) and that we expect to be in widespread use among the best manufacturers worldwide within 3-5 years.

State-of-the-art 3D printing creates new possibilities. Mobile on the shop floor, co-bots and AI prescriptive analytics are just a few technologies that help employees do the work that is so important to success. Converging information technology (IT) and operations technology (OT) and product technology (PT) data is the first step in creating a true digital transformation. Cyber security of end-point devices cannot be overlooked, and it won’t be. Join us in learn how to escape pilot purgatory and turn your manufacturing business into leading edge excellence.

THE POWER OF A PURPOSE-DRIVEN COMMUNITY
You’re always looking for ways to improve your organization, your team, yourself and your community. That’s the continuous improvement mindset that you take into each day. You seek out excellence and a higher purpose in everything you do.

At the 2022 AME International Conference, you’ll be immersed in a community that values knowledge sharing and will help you take your next steps — no matter where you are on your enterprise excellence journey. Here you’ll find like-minded practitioners from the C-suite to the frontline and everywhere in between, all focused on optimizing performance, improving leadership skills, and engaging employees so that your organization can contribute to a better society. You’re not just going to a conference, you’re joining a movement to improve manufacturing, health care, the public sector and other industries in ways that are human and make people’s lives simpler, easier and safer.

2022 Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Bhavana Bartholf
Chief analytics and innovation officer at Bank of America

Sarah Boisvert, Amy Gowder and Deondra Wardelle
Keynote panel: Embracing cultural disruption

Larry Culp
Chairman and CEO at GE and CEO, GE Aerospace

Paolo Dal Cin
SVP operations and supply chain at Raytheon Technologies

Michael Lamach
Executive chair and CEO (retired) of Trane Technologies

Mindy Lubber
President and CEO of Ceres (virtual only)

Gary S. Michel
Chairman, president and CEO (retired) of JELD- WEN, Inc.

Torbjørn Netland
Professor and head of chair of production and operations management in the department of management, technology and economics at ETH Zurich in Switzerland

David C. Woessner
Co-founder and partner at FutureOf

Lisa Yerian, MD
Chief improvement officer and a gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary pathologist at the Cleveland Clinic

Matthew Zeiler
Founder and CEO (virtual only)

2022 Sponsors

• Adonis Partners
• Auros Knowledge Systems
• Avanade
• Business Engineering America
• ComplianceQuest
• Creato
• Dozuki
• eLogic
• Flexpipe
• GBMP
• Gemba Academy
• Generac
• Implecho
• Insperity
• International Thought Leader Network
• KaiNexus
• Lean Enterprise Institute
• Lean Focus
• Lean Solutions
• LeanDNA
• MadeinUSA.com
• Marathon Staffing
• Microsoft
• Minitab
• MoreSteam
• Olympus Controls
• Poka
• QAD
• S A Partners
• Shingo Online MBA & the Shingo Institute at Utah State University
• Siemens Smart Infrastructure
• Simpler Consulting, an IBM Company
• SparkCognition
• Spot AI
• Stream Innovation
• The Ohio State University MBOE
• TKMG Academy
• Tooling U-SME
• TWI Institute
• Nexus at University of Michigan Engineering
• Valiot
• Veryable
• Victory Packaging
• VKS - Visual Knowledge Share