North East Quality Council (NEQC) | 56 Conference Programs

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2006
7:30-8:30	Registration - Refreshments - Exhibit Hall
8:30-9:30	KEYNOTE SPEAKER – Mr. Joseph DeFeo, President and CEO of Juran Institute; “Creating a Lean Six Sigma Customer-Supplier Partnership Between Large and Small Companies”
9:30-9:45	Break - Exhibit Hall
Track	Track 1 Six Sigma	Track 2 Management Systems	Track 3 Software	Track 4 Special
9:45-10:45	11A Stopping the 'Six Sigma Data Shuffle' - How to put your best people on tasks that really matter, instead of massaging, scrubbing, manipulating data from here until next Sunday - Evan Miller	12A Using ISO 9001 to Help Manage the Sarbanes-Oxley Risks - Sandy Liebesman Using ISO 9001 and Information Technology to Help Manage the Sarbanes-Oxley Risks -John Walz	13A Comparative Analysis of Several Quality Systems - Alex Elentukh	14A The Human Factor: How to Get People to do What They’re Supposed To - Wally Hauck
10:45-11:00	Break - Exhibit Hall
11:00-12:00	11B Understanding DFSS for Translating Customer Needs into Product Design. - Jay Patel	12B Keep Your Eye on the System - Getting the Most from ISO 14001. - Gabe Crognale	13B Do You Have the Right Information for Excellence? - David Brown, Ph. D.	14B ASQ Current State of Affairs. - Roger Keller - David Levy
12:00 - 2:00	LUNCHEON KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Harry Hertz Director- MBNQA Program, NIST; “Performance Excellence in 2006: Where Is It Going and How Do You Get There?”
2:00-3:00	11C Six Sigma and Your Bottom line - Eli Baron	12C Procedures- for Improving Quality and Productivity. - Charles Marsman	13C Managing Software Outsourcing. - Sanjay Patel	14C Quality Jeopardy – A Fun Way to Sharpen Your Quality Skills. - Diane Dixon - Carol Beauchesne
3:00-3:10	Break - Exhibit Hall
3:10-4:10	11D DOE Using the Paper Helicopter	12D The Relevance of the Criteria for Performance Excellence to Manufacturing’s Current Crisis - Kay Kendall - Dr. Harry Hertz	13D The Structured Testing Methodology for Software Quality Analyses of Networking Systems - Vladimir Riabov	14D Do Companies that Practice Continuous Improvements and Continuous Innovation Outperform those that Practice Only One? - Mahesh Chandra - James P. Neelankavil
4:20-5:20	- Jack Meagher	12E The Human Side of Auditing - Mark Hehl	13E Measuring and Managing your Functional Requirements - David Herron	14E Creative Thinking: Thinking “Outside the Box” to Build Relationships - James August
5:30-7:30	RECEPTION,ENTERTAINMENT, AWARDS, AND PRIZES: Comedy Theatrics By Rob Peck

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2006
7:30-8:00	Registration - Refreshments - Exhibit Hall
8:00-9:00	KEYNOTE SPEAKER – Mr. Jim Pearson, VP of Customer Quality and Six Sigma –EMC Corporation; “Six Sigma Drives The Way We Work”
9:00-9:10	Break - Exhibit Hall
Track	Track 1 Lean	Track 2 Performance Excellence	Track 3 Software	Track 3 Reliability
9:10-10:10	21A Kaizen Workshop - Steve Szydlowski	22A Managing Data – A Roll of Total Quality Management. - Charity Callahan	23A Root Cause Analysis for Customer Reported Problems - Stephen R. Rakitin	24A Sample Size Conundrum for Reliability Testing: How Big or How Small? - Nihar Senapati
10:10-10:20	Break - Exhibit Hall
10:20-11:20	21B Implementing Lean Six Sigma in a Service Environment. - Joan Forrer	22B A Quick Start Guide to Strategic Planning. - Sandi Voogd - Scott N. Crawford	23B Software Quality Planning – the Essential Elements - Tony Raymond	24B Comparison of HALT/HASS Implementations. - Gene Bridgers
11:20-11:30	Break - Exhibit Hall
11:30-12:30	21C Faster Team Solutions: The Six Thinking Hats. - Wally Hauck	22C Gage R & R Hands on Workshop - Jack Reardon	23C Avoid Creep – Discover the REAL Requirements. - Robin F. Goldsmith	24C FRACA Process Overview – Tools for Success. - Aaron C. DerMarderosian, Jr
12:30-2:15	KEYNOTE SPEAKER : Mr. Jay P. Patel, CEO , Quality & Productivity Solutions, Inc.; “Development and Execution of Winning Strategies in the 21st Century for Supply Chain”
2:15-3:15	21D Lean Supply Chain Collaboration – Optimizing Customer-Supplier Cash Flow - Andy Novotny	22D Pareto Visual Tools for Process Analysis and Progress Monitoring - George Zeliger, Ph.D.	23D The Flavors of Software Test Automation - John Pustaver	24D Hardware Reliability Growth Estimations and Projections – What is Valid and What is Not. - Dave Dwyer - Jonathan Cahill
3:15-3:30	Break - Exhibit Hall
3:30-4:30	21E Value Stream Mapping Workshop. - Tom Doherty	22E Supplier Monitoring and Certification – More than Quality and Delivery Improvement - David Potty	23E Software Development in the FDA-Regulated World: Why Test Only When We’re “Done”? - Brian Shoemaker, Ph.D. - Ron Morsicato	24E Current State of Software Reliability. - Obaid Qadri

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