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It's time to get out of our office and refresh yourself -- discover new markets, product ideas, places and people. Below you will find a list of events that are of interest to a wide segment of the community.
If you are sponsoring an event, please send us your conference announcements via e-mail at editor @manufacturingnews.com (no space in the e-mail address) or via our contact us section.
April 7 - 9 Developing a Leading Edge Operations Strategy, MIT Sloan, Cambridge, Mass.: http://mitsloan.mit.edu/execed/coursedetails.php?id=379 or call 781-239-1111.
April 7 - 11 Photonics Europe, Strasbourg, France: http://spie.org/photonics-Europe.xm.?WT.mc_id= RCALENDAR@.
April 9 - 10 National Coalition for Advanced Manufacturing (NACFAM) Strategies for a New Industrial Era, Arlington, Va., http://www.nacfam.org.
April 14 - 25 Principles and Practices of Lean Production Systems (April 14-16); Lean Operations Management (April 16-18); Keeping Projects On Track (April 16-17); Lean Shop Floor Leadership (April 21-25): four courses sponsored by the Univ. of Kentucky's Center for Manufacturing, Lexington, Ky.: http://www.mfg.uky.edu/calendar/index.html
April 15 - 16 World Economic Forum on Latin America, Cancun, Mexico: http://www.weforum.org/en/ events/WorldEconomicForumonLatinAmerica2008/index.htm.
April 17 - 18 Supply Chain Collaboration, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisc.: http://exed.wisc.edu /supplychain/ or call 800-348-8964.
April 21 - 24 Aging Aircraft 2008, Phoenix, Ariz.: http://www.agingaircraft2008.com.
April 21 - 24 IEEE's Powering Toward the Future, Transmission & Distribution Conference & Expo, Chicago, Ill., http://www.ieeet-d.org.
April 21 - 25 Hannover Messe -- World Trade Fair for Industrial Technology, Hannover, Germany: http://www.messe.de.
April 20 - 22 Energy Dialogue to Respond to Global Challenges, 11th International Energy Forum, Rome, Italy: http://www.iefs.org.sa/Pages/BK_MR_2.html.
April 20 - 24 High-Power Laser Ablation, Taos, New Mexico: http://spie.org/laser-ablation.xml?WT.mc_id= RCALENDARW.
April 23 - 25 OECD-UNEP Conference on Resource Efficiency, Paris, France: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd /5/10/39813376.pdf.
April 28 - 30 Milken Institute's Annual Global Conference, Solutions to the World's Biggest Challenges: Finance, Industry, Health Care, Education, Energy and Economic Development, Los Angeles, Calif.: http://www.milkeninstitute.org/qc2008.
April 29 - May 2 Lean Six Sigma Summit, Chicago, Ill.: www.wcbf.com/quality/.
May 4 - 6 NanoBusiness Alliance Conference -- Going Green Executive Summit, New York, N.Y.: http://www.nanobusiness.org/
May 5 - 7 American Society for Quality 2008 World Conference on Quality and Improvement, Houston, Texas: http://wcqi.asq.org/.
May 5 - 8 Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer National Meeting, Portland, Ore., http://www.federallabs.org/meeting.
May 8 Manufacturers' Resource Conference: Helping You Solve Issues So We Can Grow Together, Elgin Community College, Elgin, Ill. Call 847-741-5660.
May 21 - 22 2008 Fuel Cell Conference, Long Beach, California: http://www.fuelcell-magazine.com/FC_2008/2008.htm.
May 27 - 29 Fifth International Symposium on Mechatronics and its Applications, Amman, Jordan, co-organized by the American University of Sharjah (AUS) and Jordan Engineers Association (JEA): http://www.isma-conf.org.
May 28 - 30 International Transport Forum 2008. Transport and Energy: The Challenge of Climate Change, Leipzig, Germany: http://www.internationaltransportforum.org/forum2008.html.
June 19 - 20 Management Systems Summit, NC State Univ., Raleigh N.C.: http://www.ies.ncsu.edu/summit/.
July 13 - 16 International Symposium on Optical Memory and Optical Data Storage, Waikoloa, Hawaii: http://spie.org/optical-data-storage.xml?WT.mc_id=RCALENDARW.
August 10 - 14 Optics + Photonics, San Diego, Calif.: http://spie.org/optics-photonics.xml?WT.mc_id=RCALENDARW.
August 17 - 22 Energy Efficiency in Buildings, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, Monterey, Calif.: http://aceee.org.
MIT's Sloan School runs dozens of interesting courses and seminars for executives: http://mitsloan.mit.edu/execed/epp/date.php.
The International Quality and Productivity Center sponsors dozens of conferences on Six Sigma, Lean and many other topics: http://www.iqpc.com/
The Surface Mount Technology Association runs a variety of conferences throughout the year: http://www.smta.org/news/smta_calendar/calendar.cfm.
The Lean Enterprise Institute has a variety of conferences: http://www.lean.org.
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