Conference Day One: Tuesday, December 9, 2008

7:15 Registration & Coffee

8:00 Welcome And Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

Monica Painter
Associate Partner, Public Sector Operations Strategy Leader & Global Lean Six Sigma Leader
IBM Global Business Services

8:15 Keynote: DoD Lean Six Sigma Deployment

Focusing on a vision: broaden and accelerate improvement activity
Driving consistency of approach and leveraging replication while enabling autonomy across the enterprise
Aggressively engaging a wide array of processes
Applying the most appropriate techniques

J.D. Sicilia
Director, Department of Defense
Lean Six Sigma Program Office

8:55 Continuous Process Improvement At FRCSE

Leveraging partnerships for CPI Expertise
Containment: maintaining focus alignment and accountability
FRC Transformation: high velocity repair loops

CAPT Timothy S. Matthews, USN
Commanding Officer
Fleet Readiness Center Southeast

9:35 Networking Break

10:20 Driving Efficiency, Improving Value And Increasing Net Income

Methods Of Planning

Implementing Project Management And Delivery

Mentoring And Support Services

Deisell M. Diaz
Partner & MBB
DEIVIN

11:00 Leveraging LSS As An Organizational Strategy

Wayland E. Parker
Senior Program Management Analyst/LSS BB, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Army
SAFM-CE

11:40 Lunch

Special Event: DEIVIN will be releasing their newest book at their booth: Simple Lean Six Sigma! By Deisell M. Diaz. You can purchase your copy for a special offer of $23.99 and have it signed by the author at DEIVIN’s booth!

1:00 Future Transformation: Setting The Standard

Elizabeth McGrath
Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Business Transformation
Department of Defense

1:40 Building An Enterprise-Wide Culture Of Continuous Process Improvement

Joseph Perovich
Vice President
Celerant Government Services

2:20 Networking Break

2:50 Program Analysis & Implementation: Supporting Lean Six Sigma Deployment

Demonstrating urgency of service-wide deployment ROI for LSS applications
Changing the organizational language toward continuous improvement
Overcoming the cultural divide

Rosye Cloud
Lean Six Sigma Deputy Deployment Director
US Army

3:30 Collaborative Decision Support

Rich Dougherty
Vice President
Expert Choice

4:10 Sustaining CPI Transformation – Panel Discussion

Moderated by:

Mike Bresko
Managing Director and Principal Consultant
General Physics Corporation

4:50 Chairperson’s Closing Remarks