7:00 - 8:00 - Registration
8:00-8:15 - Opening Remarks
8:15-8:40 - Denise Byers, Senior Director of Global Supply Chain, Medtronic
"Capability and Performance Expectation of Supplier Partners to the Medical Device Industry"
8:40-8:50 - Q&A
8:50-9:15 - John Caltabiano, Senior Director of Sourcing, Solectron
"Shifting your Medical Supply Base to Asia - What Works and What Does Not"
9:15-9:25 - Q&A
9:25-9:50 - Christopher A. Oleksy, President, Atek Companies
"Synchronizing Partner and Alliance Based Supply Chains for Success"
9:50-10:00 - Q&A
10:00-10:15 - Break
10:15-10:40 - David Simich Levi, Professor of Engineering Systems, MIT (also Chairman of LogicTools)
"Innovations and Strategies in Supply Chain Management "
11:40-10:50 - Q&A
10:50-11:15 - Timothy Philips, Compliance Officer, FDA
"Purchasing Controls and Acceptance Activiites: Practical Suggestions for Compliance with FDA's Quality System Regulation"
11:15-11:25 - Q&A
11:25-11:50 - Robert Hankin, President, Health Industry Business Communications Council
"Better Healthcare Through Standards Based Technology"
11:50-12:00 - Q&A
12:00-1:15 - Lunch
1:15-1:40 - Sridhar Tayur, Professor, CMU (also CEO of SmartOps)
"Enterprise Inventory Optimization"
1:40-1:50 - Q&A
1:50-2:50 - Panel 1 - Supplier Relationships and Strategies
Chair: Wayne Pletcher, CEO, Minnesota Technology
Panelists: Denise Byers, Senior Director of Global Supply Chain, Medtronic, Pat Hartmann, Director of Materials Management, Bob Isaacson, Director, DEED, Boston Scientific, , Jerry Larson, Senior Director for Supply Chains, American Medical Systems, K. K. Sinha, Professor, Carslson School of Management, University of Minnesota
2:50-3:10 - Break
3:10-4:10 - Panel 2 - RFID & the Use of Real Time Information
Chair: Peter Grimlund, CEO, RFX3
Panelists: Mary Brown, Privacy and Information Security Specialist, Hennepin County Medical Center, In Mun, Vice President, Hospital Corporation of America, Leroy Schwarz, Professor, Purdue University
4:10-5:10 - Panel 3 - Supply Chain Standards
Chair: Albert Jones, Group Leader, National Institute for Standards & Technology
Panelists: Joseph Dudas, Director of Supply Chain Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Shaw Feng, NIST Robert Hankin, President, HIBCC, Christopher A. Oleksy, President, Atek Companies
5:10-5:20 - Symposium Wrap-up
5:20-7:00 - Reception
