CHARTER STEEL PLANT TOUR
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Wednesday • May 9 • 1:300 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Tour Charter Steel’s Cleveland manufacturing complex where special bar, quality bar, rod and wire products are made. The walking tour will begin in the primary steelmaking facility and proceed through the rolling, packaging, and shipping departments. See p. 90.
WHERE IS THE MONEY?
MORDICA LECTURE
Wednesday • May 9 • 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. “Special Presentation - Where is the Money in Wire & Cable?” Presenter: Philip Radbourne, Integer Research
Measuring Progress in the Wire Industry
Explore the changing landscape of the global industry through a recent performance comparison between the leading Western producers and emerging players in China and Taiwan. Also get an overview of the U.S. wire and cable sector, and more. See p. 82.
Radbourne
This presentation, prepared by Mordica Memorial Award winner Harry Petrohilos, will be presented Monday by Ethem Erdas of Beta LaserMike. Both men will be available to answer questions at the conclusion of the lecture.
WIRE IN MOTION HAPPY, HAPPY HOUR
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Wednesday • May 9 • 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Stick around after a day well-spent at Interwire. Enjoy a display of flashy Harley-Davidsons and a NASCAR simulator race car attendees can experience as well as laughs, courtesy of funnyman Mike Veneman as part of a late afternoon festival of fun on the I-X Center promenade. Everyone in the business can be a kid again as we celebrate this mature and enduring industry. Complimentary beer, wine, and light hors d’oeuvres. See p. 92 for more details.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Patrick J. Cleary served in the U.S. Labor Department and on the National Mediation Board during the Reagan and Bush administrations, respectively. He served on Cleary the Bush-Cheney Transition Team for the U.S. Department of Labor in 2001 and has appeared as a spokesman for business on CNN, “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” on National Public Radio, and other local and national media programs. The author of The Negotiation Handbook, he has lectured on negotiation and dispute resolution at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. See p. 61 for more details.
Veneman
NASA TALK Thursday • May 10 • 10:30 a.m. & 11:30 a.m.
NASA TOURS Thursday • May 10 • 9:30 a.m. & Noon Interwire’s “Wire in Motion” theme naturally extends to the aerospace industry in which air and space travel is aided by wire applications for industrial, commercial, and military use. Representatives from NASA will present consecutive talks on Thursday morning at the I-X Center entitled: “Vision for Space Exploration: Earth, Moon, Mars, and Beyond,” and “Columbia Accident Investigation Report and Return to Flight of the Space Shuttle,” at 10:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., respectively. Attendees are also invited to tour NASA’s nearby Glenn Research Center on self-guided and guided tours—at 9:30 a.m. and noon, respectively—of the facility where research into power, propulsion, communications, and microgravity science is conducted. Tour departs from and returns to the WAI Member Lounge. Space is limited; on-site registration only.
CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT Sunday • May 6 • 8:30 a.m. Tee-off • Big Met Course • Fairview Park A round of golf, lunch, and refreshments are in store for golfers after a continental breakfast and shotgun start at the Big Met golf course, just minutes from the I-X Center. See p. 55.
5K ROAD RACE Tuesday • May 8 • 6:45 p.m. The WAI’s third annual 5K Sponsored By: Road Race, sponsored Leoni Wire, will will benefit the American Cancer Society. Runners of all calibers are welcomed. See p. 55.
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