This marcus evans conference will help delegates implementing a quality risk management approach into their existing quality systems, understanding how to assess and evaluate risks in their companies and with their Third party partners. They will also gain insights from various companies with the development of continuous process verification, approaching the management of data and preventing potential pitfalls in its implementation. Discount is available for Quality Digest readers. Discount code is “LS152-QD”

APQC’s 2016 Knowledge Management Conference
Pre-conference workshops: April 25–27; Conference: April 28–29
The conference will highlight:
• Latest breakthroughs in cognitive science and computing exploring how an understanding of the brain can help you motivate employees to share knowledge and adopt collaborative behaviors
• How software that mimics human pattern recognition and language processing will change how we leverage existing information to learn and make decisions
• APQC’s analysis of more than 200 organizations’ KM capability assessments to reveal steps you can take to accelerate the development of a mature, impactful program and more

If you need assistance feel free to call (800) 776-9676 or (713) 685-4732, or email confregistration@apqc.org.

The Baldrige Regional Conferences provide an in-depth opportunity to learn about the best practices and results of both the current and former Award recipients. Senior leaders and other representatives of the Award recipient organizations will make presentations and answer questions about the seven Categories of the Baldrige Critieria. They will also present on numerous other special topics of interest to today’s managers and senior leaders. The conferences will feature a combination of plenary and concurrent presentations and offer attendees the opportunity to ask questions and share their thoughts. Collectively, these sessions will provide you with a dynamic and interactive environment where you can maximize your learning and networking. Whether your organization is large or small; involved in service or manufacturing, health care, education, or government; housed in one location or multiple sites around the globe; you can benefit from the knowledge and experience of the Baldrige Award recipients.

The Baldrige Regional Conferences provide an in-depth opportunity to learn about the best practices and results of both the current and former Award recipients. Senior leaders and other representatives of the Award recipient organizations will make presentations and answer questions about the seven Categories of the Baldrige Critieria. They will also present on numerous other special topics of interest to today’s managers and senior leaders. The conferences will feature a combination of plenary and concurrent presentations and offer attendees the opportunity to ask questions and share their thoughts. Collectively, these sessions will provide you with a dynamic and interactive environment where you can maximize your learning and networking. Whether your organization is large or small; involved in service or manufacturing, health care, education, or government; housed in one location or multiple sites around the globe; you can benefit from the knowledge and experience of the Baldrige Award recipients.

Attendees of the ASQ Lean and Six Sigma Conference will strengthen leadership skills and take away Lean Six Sigma tools and practical applications that will help drive their organization’s competitiveness. An internationally renowned CEO and author on strategic business growth joins an award-winning supply chain practitioner and an experienced innovation expert as keynotes at the at the conference.

And there are training courses before and after the conference:
• Lean Bronze Certification Review Program, Feb. 26–27, 2016
• Business Process Management Orientation Workshop, March 2, 2016

Achieve higher throughput on new products, tap into new market segments, and reap a higher ROI on your innovation pipeline. Join heads and recognized leaders of open and external innovation, strategic alliances, and external business development to evolve your innovation frameworks internally, externally, and strategically to become champions of open innovation. This conference will recharge your open innovation strategy, with fresh tactics for a new era. Via case studies and interactive discussions, our speaker roster of innovation leaders will establish OI as a pillar of organizational strength throughout the enterprise, benchmark strategies for effective collaborative partnerships, and optimize the innovation lifecycle for greater impacts on enterprise success. The delegation will return home with an OI platform that is, in itself, an open innovation.

Quest is the leading conference to learn best performance management practices from Baldrige Award recipients and how to:
• Improve your organization’s performance results
• Enhance leadership effectiveness
• Build customer and employee engagement
• Increase organizational innovation to gain and sustain competitive advantages
• Improve process management
• Create an environment that fosters social responsibility and ethical behavior
• Increase organizational sustainability

The Baldrige Award recipients share best practices in each of the Baldrige Categories and answer your questions. As a conference participant, you will:
• Learn best performance management practices from the Baldrige Award recipients
• Gain knowledge of the Baldrige Criteria in educational presentations
• Engage in dynamic networking opportunities
• Take away practices to apply to your organization to improve performance and get world-class results
• Be inspired as part of a movement that is making America better by making organizations better

28th Annual International Shingo Conference: Adopting the Shingo Model to create cultures of continuous improvement

• Pre-conference two-day workshops (four sessions): Discover, Enable, Improve, Align
• Half-day workshops
• Main conference: award gala, keynote presentations, speaker sessions, networking, panel discussions
• Fireside chat with Ritsuo Shingo
• Post conference site tours

Agenda: http://shingo.org/2016Conference/#agenda
Register at: https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1772785
Early registration discounts end February 1, 2016. Group discounts available.

Recent high-profile cases of food-borne illness and supply contamination have reinvigorated federal oversight of the safety of the food supply, and the finalized regulations of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act have been released and are now under interpretation and being integrated throughout the industry. At the same time, progressive organizations representing the meat, poultry and egg industries have, in conjunction with the USDA FSIS, integrated high level standards to reduce food-borne pathogens, increasing the quality and safety of the food supply through the use of enhanced technologies and validation systems. As regulations continue to evolve, requiring additional safeguards, quality measures, documentation and validation, organizations require insightful processes and procedures that will ultimately mitigate risks, streamline operating procedures and ensure the safety of food products throughout the supply chain.

Throughout the food and beverage industry, packaging executives are continually looking to enhance the overall design and durability of product packaging, with the triple aims of attracting consumers, reducing damage to product, as well as extending the life of products. All the while, pressure on margins is resulting in a need to reduce the overall cost of packaging along with the weight of the total product in order to streamline transportation and delivery costs, which have increased substantially over the past several years. In order to meet these demands, as well as demands from consumers for more environmentally friendly packaging that reduces waste, is recyclable or biodegradable, packaging executives are continually searching for enhanced materials and technologies to streamline packaging operations.