Registration Opens for PMI25 Manufacturing Success Conference in Chicago

Through the Ladies of PMI Breakfast on Nov. 5, Shelley Paxton will share how she walked away from her job as chief advertising and marketing officer of Harley-Davidson and into her “soulbbatical.” Her mission is to empower leaders, entrepreneurs and organizations to really feel extra alive, aligned and energized for larger impression on the planet.

Specialists from Across the Trade

Thomas Kurfess, professor and chief manufacturing officer, Georgia Institute of Expertise, and chief know-how officer, Nationwide Middle for Manufacturing Sciences, will discover “Current and Future Implications for AI in Superior Manufacturing.” He’ll share insights into next-generation, hyper-connected manufacturing operations and enterprise fashions that favor native and point-of-assembly manufacturing, which can use instruments comparable to ChatGPT. 

Jason Hodell, Accomplice, Industrial and Client Items Phase Chief, Cherry Bekaert Advisory LLC, will current “Strategic Advantages of Construct America Purchase America Certification.” He’ll clarify the variations between the usual Purchase American Act and Construct America Purchase America, their necessities and standards, and can cowl certification fundamentals, income alternatives, and the way the certification gives producers with a strong gross sales and advertising and marketing benefit, together with entry to federal applications and funding.

“Measuring Strain Loss in Fashionable Plumbing Fittings” would be the title of Natascha Milesi-Ferretti’s presentation. A supervisory analysis engineer on the Nationwide Institute of Requirements and Expertise, she’s going to talk about the urgent want for up to date strain loss information to permit for approaches that improve water effectivity and high quality, as fashionable plumbing programs incorporate supplies comparable to CPVC, copper and PEX. 

Justin Brown, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District in Better Chicago, will current “Deep Tunnels, Backwards Rivers and Electrofishing: Chicago’s Water Infrastructure.” Brown will take attendees on a multimedia tour of the Chicago area’s world-famous water infrastructure, which incorporates the huge Deep Tunnel system and one of many largest wastewater therapy vegetation on earth. He’ll clarify how inexperienced infrastructure partnerships are remodeling the city setting immediately and the way electrofishing is revealing a thriving aquatic ecology within the river.

And A lot Extra

• Lisa Ragain, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, on current Legionella and water provide analysis
• ITR Economics’ Lauren Saidel-Baker will current “PMI Market Outlook LIVE: “Gearing Up for 2026.”
• Brooks Allen, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, on commerce and tariffs
• David Morell, Jones Day, on counterfeit plumbing merchandise
• Rob Keith, AMERIPEN, on prolonged producer accountability
• Jerry Desmond and Stephanie Salmon, PMI’s advocacy/authorities affairs consultants, on California and federal legislative and regulatory points.
• Jenn Kovacs, MiTek and the She Constructed Basis
• Joel Brammeier, Alliance for the Nice Lakes.

Platinum, Gold, Silver and Occasion Sponsorships 

PMI25 sponsorships supply methods for organizations to characteristic services and products to convention attendees.

New this yr is a occasion sponsorship alternative for one firm to lend a serving to hand to these in want by sponsoring hygiene kits offered by World Imaginative and prescient, a company that facilitates donations to applications that profit youngsters, households and communities in want. A kit-building station will probably be arrange with important hygiene objects and notice playing cards with the sponsor’s brand. World Imaginative and prescient will distribute the assembled kits and notice playing cards to the underserved and people coping with the aftermath of pure disasters. 

Study extra about PMI25 sponsorship.