2006 MIT Manufacturing Summit:

Bartos Theater, MIT
April 26-28, 2006

 

Thursday, April 27

8:30 am – 9:00 am

Registration and Check-In

9:00 am – 9:30 am

Plenary Session: Overview and Vision


Jung-Hoon Chun, MIT
Catherine L. Mann, Institute for International Economics
Nam P. Suh, MIT

9:30 am – 10:30 am

New Directions for Manufacturing Research and Education


David E. Hardt, MIT
Glen Pearson, Eastman Kodak Company (Retired)
Ed Constantine, CEO and Founder, Simpler, Inc.
Gerald Graves, Sr. Vice President, Advanced Technology Institute

10:30 am – 10:50 am

Break

10:50 am – Noon

Panel Discussion: New Directions for Manufacturing Research and Education


All Speakers

Noon – 1:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Manufacturing Systems and Information Technologies


Bimal Dey and Tony Maggi, Intel Corporation
Troy Niehaus, Metronor and Joseph Pritchett, Lockheed Martin
Sal Calta, Vice President of Manufacturing, IBM

7:00 pm

Dinner

Friday, April 28

The Role of Manufacturing in Renewable Energy

9:00 am – 10:05 am

Introduction and Wind Energy


James Lyons, GE Global Research
Daniel Laird, Sandia National Laboratories

10:05 am – 10:15 am

Break

10:15 am – 12:30 pm

Photovoltaics


Roger Green, First Solar, LLC
Heiko Moritz, GT Solar Technologies, Inc.
William Mulligan, Sunpower Corp.
Andrew Gabor, Evergreen Solar, Inc.

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm – 1:45 pm

Photovoltaics


Emanuel Sachs, MIT

1:45 pm – 3:00 pm

Panel Discussion: Challenges to Manufacturing Common Across Technologies


All Speakers