Managers Forum Schedule

Presented by the Raymond E. Pritchard Hall of Fame Council

March 8, 2021 — Central Time (–6 GMT) Theme: Managing Challenges in Periods of Transition Delegates: Members of Management in Electronic Manufacturing

8:45–9 a.m. 15 John Mitchell, IPC President and CEO Welcome to all IPC Monday meeting attendees

9:03 a.m. 2 Gene Weiner, IPC Ambassador Call to Order

9:05 a.m. 30 Chris Mitchell, IPC VP Government Relations Seizing the Moment: Catalyzing Government Support for Industrial Base Resiliency, Security, and Innovation

Joint Keynote 9:35 a.m. 30 Jeanie Wade, Vice President Operations, Lessons Learned in Times of Crisis (OEM View) Northrop Grumman—Joint Meeting Keynote

10:05 a.m. 75 Mark Wolfe, EMS Chairman, moderator EMS/HoF joint panel: Lessons Learned in Panel of 5 composed of EMS, component, Times of Crisis fabricator, material, and OEM executives

Brad Bourne, CEO/president of FTG (Firan Tech): Fabricator

Group VP Rogers Corp.: Material Supplier David Patterson, Cirtronics Jeanie Wade, Northrop Grumman: OEM

11:20 a.m. 10 Break

11:30 a.m. 40 Harald Ahnert, president, Atotech Group Technical Support and Product Development in the Post-pandemic World

12:10 p.m. Lunch

12:30 p.m. 60 John Mitchell, IPC President and CEO Regular IPC APEX EXPO programming: Keynote

1:30 p.m. 40 Anaya Vardya, president/CEO, American Standard Circuits Going Forward: Evaluating and Validating New Products, Processes and Equipment for PCB Fabrication

2:10 p.m. 40 Norman Weiss, CEO, GermanRobotics, Transitioning to Factory 4.0—How AI Can Help and Sebastian Schaal, founder, Small EMS and Fabricator Companies Make the Luminovo GmbH Move Affordably

2:50 p.m. 40 Katherine Ducharme, director of Procurement Management, General Dynamics Mission Systems; Cheryl Van Dyke, senior manager Supply Chain Management, General Dynamics Mission Systems Managing the Supply Chain During Periods of Uncertainty

3:30 p.m. Break

3:45 p.m. 10 Alex Stepinski, founder/VP, GreenSource Fabrication, founder/managing director GreenSource Engineering A Case Study: From Inventor to Contractor Through Several Steps of Vertical integration

15 Diane Donnermeyer, supply chain manager, Vertical Integration: Why and How We Decided and Jessi Hall, senior director for Vertical to Build a New PCB Factory in Moscow (Idaho) Integration, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL)

4:15 p.m. 15 Jeff LeBlanc, director of Plating Fabrication, Vertical Integration From Boards to Chips Vicor Corporation

4:30 p.m. 30 Joe O’Neil, CEO, Green Circuits, IPC Board of Directors (12+ years)

5 p.m.

The Uncertainties We Can Expect From the Unexpected and the Resulting Challenges and Changes

Wrap-up