Main Conference DAY 2: Wednesday, December 9, 2009

7:45 Registration And Coffee

8:15 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

8:30 Keynote: ETF Charter Of Institutional Adaptation (IA)

  • Improving ARFORGEN
  • Adopting an enterprise approach
  • Reforming the requirements and resourcing processes

Lieutenant General Robert Durbin
USA, Special Assistant to Secretary and Chief of Staff, Army for Enterprise Management
U.S. Army

9:10 Keynote: LSS Deployment Overview Within G-8

  • Successes and mishaps
  • Future initiatives planned

Don Tison
SES, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, G-8
Department of the Army

9:50 Networking Break

10:35 USMC CPI Program

  • Overview of setup
  • Challenges and successes

Joel Eissinger
Program Manager, CPI Program
USMC

Michael Levy
Deployment Manager, CPI Program
USMC

11:15 Challenges Of Maintaining Momentum Of An Agency Level LSS Program

  • Selling without over selling
  • Producing results while simultaneously training and mentoring
  • Finding and completing high value projects
  • Communication to leadership, workers and "Belts"
  • Where to next - maintaining a vision

Jerry Sharp
Chief, Performance Management
Defense Intelligence Agency

11:55 Lunch

1:10 Sustaining Your Initiatives Post-Implementation

  • Keeping interest and intent alive
  • Engaging your entire team in process improvement
  • Mitigating losses due to inexperience

David Kling
Director, Continuous Process Improvement Office, Internal Review
Defense Contract Management Agency

1:50 Successfully Ending Your Defense System With LSS Methodologies

  • Maximizing your time by instituting a smooth transition to your next project
  • Strategies and tools for most effective process extinction

Bill O’Donnell
Deputy Associate Director, Business Enterprise
Defense Threat Reduction Agency

2:30 Networking Break

3:00 Industry Perspective - Designing Process Improvements And Quality Control

  • Moving toward a more cohesive structure
  • Overview of internal process changes
  • Exploring challenges and opportunities

Tim Leach
Director, Affordability and Competitive Excellence
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems

3:40 DAU Transformation Overview

  • Turning data into business intelligence
  • Creating business systems to monitor performance
  • Establishing shared data and data driven decisions

Mark Whiteside
Director, Performance and Resource Management
Defense Acquisition University

Dr. Chris Hardy
Director, Strategic Planning
Defense Acquisition University

4:20 End Of Main Conference

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