State of the Global Economy and its Impacts on the Metal Powder Industry
Michael Weidokal, ISA
This presentation will provide a timely and forward-looking overview of the economic, geopolitical, technological, and market forces shaping the future of the metal powders industry. Attendees will gain insight into the outlook for the U.S. and global economies, supply chains, tariffs, trade, inflation, and interest rates, as well as how these trends may influence key end-use industries.
Which Block Comes Out First?
A working method for deciding what AI should, and shouldn't, take off your plate
Alex Vonderhaar, Shiver
Pull the wrong piece out of a business and the whole thing wobbles. Pull the right one and you build higher. This hour gives senior leaders a method for telling the difference. Alex Vonderhaar condenses his three-hour AI for Business Owners course into a single session built for the C-suite: what this technology actually does, the failures that cost real money, which work in a manufacturing company is safe to hand over first, and how to run a pilot that produces a number instead of a slide. Bring a specific problem, and you'll leave with a way to test it.
Strategic Industry-Shaping Workshop
Moderated by Jim Adams, Metal Powder Industries Federation
This working session explores the strategies, partnerships, and market shifts needed to grow powder metallurgy over the next 3 to 50 years. We aim to define not just what will happen, but what we can achieve. By the end of this session, we want a prioritized strategic vision that identifies where the industry should focus, what barriers must be removed, what capabilities need to be built, and what actions should begin immediately.