U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Tennessee Governor Bill Lee will be among the featured speakers at a manufacturing summit in Oak Ridge next week.
The InnovationXLab Advanced Manufacturing Summit will be at Oak Ridge National Laboratory on Tuesday, May 7, and Wednesday, May 8. There will be optional laboratory tours and an optional reception on Monday, May 6.
Perry will give a keynote speech on Tuesday morning. ORNL is a U.S. Department of Energy laboratory.
Besides Perry and Lee, other featured speakers will be Jeff Lyash, president and chief executive officer of the Tennessee Valley Authority; Deborah Wince-Smith, president and CEO of the U.S. Council on Competitiveness; Lisa Su, president and CEO of AMD; and Doug Woods, president of The Association for Manufacturing Technology.
Other DOE, laboratory, and industry officials will participate as well, with some serving as panel moderators and others serving as panelists.
Among the topics will be domestic advanced manufacturing, advanced manufacturing for nuclear energy, advanced manufacturing for fossil energy applications, hybrid manufacturing, and workforce and commercialization.
“American leadership in advanced manufacturing is critical, both for our nation’s economic competitiveness and as a platform technology to boost further innovation,” according to the summit’s website. “The American manufacturing sector fuels over 11 percent of U.S. GDP (gross domestic product) and more than half of U.S. exports. High-impact innovation in conjunction with the potential for low-cost energy can help launch new industries and help rejuvenate domestic manufacturing.”
The Advanced Manufacturing Summit is the third in the InnovationXLab Series, and it is “designed to showcase the remarkable assets of DOE’s national laboratories—our people, our facilities, and our technology—and provide industry representatives with information about leveraging these assets to accelerate innovation and U.S. competitiveness,” the website said.
It said the summit will bring together “thought leaders and industry stakeholders” to explore new solutions to manufacturing challenges and opportunities.
“This is a two-way exchange, with industry participants informing future DOE portfolio planning by sharing information on technical needs, risk appetite, and investment criteria,” the website said. “The event is intended to catalyze public-private partnerships and commercialization hand-offs utilizing DOE’s broad array of scientific and technical resources.”
For more information, contact xlabsummit@ornl.gov.
Learn more about the Advanced Manufacturing Summit here.
See the agenda here.
See the speakers here.
More information will be added as it becomes available.
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