CRU SMU Steel Summit 2024 | CRU Group | 26 August 2024 | Georgia International Convention Center, 2000 Convention Center Concourse, College Park, GA 30337, USA

The Summit has gone from strength to strength over the last few years, growing from 434 attendees in 2016 to more than 1400 in 2023. Representing more than 500 companies from the North American Steel Market, this is the event to learn what the future holds and to network and do business.

What can you expect?
• Networking: The Summit has an intimate and safe environment where people can meet to develop or cement relationships. It’s the perfect place to showcase your products and services to an engaged audience who come to the event with a ‘ready to do business’ mindset

• Insights and analysis: learn from experts in the fields of economics and market analysis, banking, commodities, international trade and regulation, steel, and the auto, construction and energy markets, about topics critical to the North American Steel Market, to apply to your strategy and decision-making.

• Understand where steel prices, supply, and demand are headed for the balance of 2024 and into 2025.

• Conveniently located at a world-class conference facility, adjacent to the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport: low airfares, and easy access.

Who attends?
In 2023, the conference attracted over 1400 attendees. 95% of attendees are actively associated with the flat rolled steel industry in North America and around the world: they are decision-makers from manufacturing companies, distribution, trading, steel mills, wholesalers, toll processors, and logistics.

Whilst the vast majority of attendees are based in the US, the Summit also has attracted attendees based in Canada, South America, Europe, India, and the Middle East.

2024 Speakers

Michael Smerconish
Nationally-Syndicated SiriusXM Radio Host, CNN Host and Contributor, Newspaper Columnist, and New York Times Best-Selling Author

Dr. Anirban Basu
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Sage Policy Group, Inc.

Dr. Alan Beaulieu
President and Principal, ITR Economics

Pam Heglund
CEO, Mill Steel Company

Barry Schneider
President and Chief Operating Officer, Steel Dynamics Inc.

Brenda Petrilena
Director - Global Decarbonization & Program Management, United States Steel Corporation

David Stickler
CEO, Hybar LLC

Barry M. Zekelman
Chairman and CEO, Zekelman Industries

Alan Kestenbaum
Executive Chairman and CEO, Stelco

Daniel R. Needham
Executive Vice President Commercial, Nucor Corporation

Timna Tanners
Managing Director, Equity Research, Wolfe Research

Dean Kanelos
Market Development and Product Applications Manager, Nucor

Michele Arbaugh
Senior Global Category Manager Carbon, Stainless Steel and Raw Wire, Electrolux

Dan Bowerson
Vice President, Energy and Environment, Alliance for Automotive Innovation

Chris Shipp
President, Reibus

Shep Hickey
Founder/CEO, Bryzos

Josephine D’Amico
Vice President, Goldman Sachs

Dallas Hogenson
Co-Founder & CEO, Felux

Frank Williams
General Manager of E-Commerce, Marketing and Communication, Ryerson

Lynn Lupori
Head of Consulting - Americas, CRU

Kerry Deal
Director, Flack Global Metals

Alex Alcantara
Director, Metals Products, CME Group

Andrew Pappas
Managing Director - Head of ABL Special Industries Group, BMO Bank, N.A.

Michael Davenport
Executive Director & President, Auto/Steel Partnership

Adina Renee Adler
Executive Director, Global Steel Climate Council (GSCC)

Steve McNair
President, Cardinal Steel

Nicola Coslett
Chief Executive Officer, CRU Events, CRU

Joe Pickard
Chief Economist and Director of Commodities, Recycled Metals Association (ReMA)

Tom Knippel
Vice President, Industrial Marketing, SA Recycling

Stephen Miller
Scrap Reporter, Recycled Metals Update

Vincent Pappalardo
Managing Director & Principal, Brown Gibbons Lang & Company

Aaron Pollock
Vice President of Sales - North America, CRU

Gabriella Vagnini
Senior Editor, Recycled Metals Update

Alexandra Anderson
Senior Analyst - Steel, CRU

Stephanie Ritenbaugh
Scrap Reporter, Recycled Metals Update

Eric Letz
CEO, Willbanks Metals Inc.

Spencer Johnson
Head of Ferrous Trading, StoneX Financial Inc.

David Schollaert
Senior Analyst/Editor, Steel Market Update

Tony Barnes
Principal, Crowe

Josh Spoores
Head of Steel Americas Analysis, CRU

Alex Hacking
Head of Steel & Mining Research, Citi

Ryan McKinley
Senior Analyst, CRU

Brian Schwadron
Principal Consultant, CRU

Rich Wrightington
Executive Director – Sourcing, GE Appliances

Kevin Dempsey
President and CEO, American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI)

Philip K. Bell
President, Steel Manufacturers Association (SMA)

Lewis Leibowitz
Trade Attorney, The Law Office of Lewis E. Leibowitz

Alan Price
Partner and International Trade Group Practice Co-Chair, Wiley Rein LLP

Alan Amici
President & CEO, Center for Automotive Research (CAR Group)

Geoff Gilmore
President and CEO, Worthington Steel

Thad Solomon
President and CEO, Steel Technologies

Michael Cowden
Managing Editor, Steel Market Update

Tristan Gresser
Head of Steel Equity Research, BNP Paribas Exane

Chris Garrett
VP of Information Services, Flat Rolled, Olympic Steel

2024 Sponsors

PLATINUM SPONSOR:
• Red Bud Industries

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Bank of America
• Crowe
• Flack Global Metals
• Heidtman Steel
• International Steels Limited
• Kore Machinery
• Mill Steel Company
• Ranger Steel
• Ternium
• United States Steel Corporation

SILVER SPONSORS:
• BMO
• CME Group
• Felux
• Magic Coil Products LLC
• Priefert Steel
• PSI Metals
• Reibus
• SMA (Steel Manufacturers Association)
• Stella Source
• StoneX Group Inc.
• Target Steel

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• Acero Prime
• American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI)
• AkzoNobel Coatings Inc.
• Alliance Steel
• Brown Gibbons Lang & Company
• Fifth Third Bank
• Friedman Industries
• Modern Metals
• George North America Inc.
• Paragon Steel
• Steel Warehouse
• Steel Dynamics Inc