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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academy of Engineering. 2012. Making Value: Integrating Manufacturing, Design, and Innovation to Thrive in the Changing Global Economy: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13504.
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Appendix A

Workshop Agenda

Making Value: Integrating Manufacturing, Design, and Innovation to Thrive in the Changing Global Economy

June 11–12, 2012

Venable LLC Conference Center

575 7th Street NW

Washington, DC

June 11, 2012

8:00 a.m.

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Lawrence D. Burns, Professor of Engineering Practice, University of Michigan; Chair, NAE Committee on Manufacturing, Design, and Innovation

Charles M. Vest, President, National Academy of Engineering


8:15 a.m.
Opening Keynote
Curtis R. Carlson, CEO, SRI International

8:45 a.m. Q&A

9:00 a.m. 1st PANEL
The Changing Nature of Manufacturing, Design, and Innovation


Moderator:

Louis Rassey, Principal, McKinsey & Company

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academy of Engineering. 2012. Making Value: Integrating Manufacturing, Design, and Innovation to Thrive in the Changing Global Economy: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13504.
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  Panelists:

Jonathan J. Rubinstein, Former Executive Chairman and CEO of Palm, Inc.

Jonathan Dordick, Director, Center for Biotechnology &Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


9:30 a.m. Q&A

10:00 a.m. Break

10:15 a.m.

2nd PANEL

The Future of Work

Moderator:

Laura Steinberg, Dean, L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University

Panelists:

Gary Cowger, Retired Group Vice President, Manufacturing and Labor, General Motors Corporation

Erik Brynjolfsson, Director of the Center for Digital Business and Schussel Family Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management



10:50 a.m. Q&A

11:20 a.m. 3rd PANEL
Building the Ecosystem for the Future of Manufacturing, Design and Innovation


Moderator:

Willy Shih, Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academy of Engineering. 2012. Making Value: Integrating Manufacturing, Design, and Innovation to Thrive in the Changing Global Economy: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13504.
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  Panelists:

Dawn White, President and CTO, Accio Energy

G.P. “Bud” Peterson, President of the Georgia Institute of Technology

Kaigham Gabriel, Acting Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency


11:50 a.m. Q&A

12:30 p.m. Luncheon

Luncheon Keynote

Jay Golden, Director, Duke Center for Sustainability & Commerce



1:30 p.m. PARALLEL BREAKOUT GROUPS

Parallel discussions assessing the role of key factors on the M/D/I ecosystem, the ability for the U.S. to capture the value of this ecosystem, and how the future direction of M/D/I may change these relationships

    Group A
The Relationship of Making Things and Making Value

Group B
Productivity, Innovation, and Business Practices

Group C
The Role of Geography in Creating and Capturing Value

Group D
Enabling the Workforce for the Future of M/D/I

Group E
Building the Institutional Structure for M/D/I

Group F
Opportunities for Making Value


3:30 p.m.   Break

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academy of Engineering. 2012. Making Value: Integrating Manufacturing, Design, and Innovation to Thrive in the Changing Global Economy: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13504.
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3:45 p.m. Breakout Group Summary Remarks

Closing Remarks

Lawrence D. Burns, Professor of Engineering Practice, University of Michigan

5:30 p.m. Reception

June 12, 2012

Agenda

8:00 a.m. Opening Remarks

Lawrence D. Burns, Professor of Engineering Practice, University of Michigan; Chair, NAE Committee on Manufacturing, Design, and Innovation



8:45 a.m. PARALLEL BREAKOUT GROUPS

High-value integrated innovation/design/manufacturing (I/D/M) is the only path forward for the nation. Is this statement true? Why or why not? What is preventing high-value integrated I/D/M? What can industry, academia, and government do on their own to enable it?

11:15 p.m. Break

11:30 a.m. CLOSING PANEL
Breakout Group Summary Remarks

Closing Remarks

Charles M. Vest, President, National Academy of Engineering



12:30 p.m. Adjourn
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academy of Engineering. 2012. Making Value: Integrating Manufacturing, Design, and Innovation to Thrive in the Changing Global Economy: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13504.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academy of Engineering. 2012. Making Value: Integrating Manufacturing, Design, and Innovation to Thrive in the Changing Global Economy: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13504.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academy of Engineering. 2012. Making Value: Integrating Manufacturing, Design, and Innovation to Thrive in the Changing Global Economy: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13504.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academy of Engineering. 2012. Making Value: Integrating Manufacturing, Design, and Innovation to Thrive in the Changing Global Economy: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13504.
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Manufacturing is in a period of dramatic transformation. But in the United States, public and political dialogue is simplistically focused almost entirely on the movement of certain manufacturing jobs overseas to low-wage countries. The true picture is much more complicated, and also more positive, than this dialogue implies.

After years of despair, many observers of US manufacturing are now more optimistic. A recent uptick in manufacturing employment and output in the United States is one factor they cite, but the main reasons for optimism are much more fundamental. Manufacturing is changing in ways that may favor American ingenuity. Rapidly advancing technologies in areas such as biomanufacturing, robotics, smart sensors, cloud-based computing, and nanotechnology have transformed not only the factory floor but also the way products are invented and designed, putting a premium on continual innovation and highly skilled workers. A shift in manufacturing toward smaller runs and custom-designed products is favoring agile and adaptable workplaces, business models, and employees, all of which have become a specialty in the United States. Future manufacturing will involve a global supply web, but the United States has a potentially great advantage because of our tight connections among innovations, design, and manufacturing and also our ability to integrate products and services.

The National Academy of Engineering has been concerned about the issues surrounding manufacturing and is excited by the prospect of dramatic change. On June 11-12, 2012, it hosted a workshop in Washington, DC, to discuss the new world of manufacturing and how to position the United States to thrive in this world. The workshop steering committee focused on two particular goals. First, presenters and participants were to examine not just manufacturing but the broad array of activities that are inherently associated with manufacturing, including innovation and design. Second, the committee wanted to focus not just on making things but on making value, since value is the quality that will underlie high-paying jobs in America's future. Making Value: Integrating Manufacturing, Design, and Innovation to Thrive in the Changing Global Economy summarizes the workshop and the topics discussed by participants.

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