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5th Annual MCA Business Conference Speakers and Presentations

POSTED 02/14/2013

Thursday, February 21, 2013
Robotics Industry Forum Robotics Industry Forum - Morning Breakout Session
Robots in Warehousing
Larry Sweet, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer, Symbotic LLC

Small Mobile Robots for Agriculture
Joe Jones, Co-Founder & CTO, Harvest Automation

AIA Business Conference AIA Business Conference - Morning Breakout Session
Update on North American Machine Vision Market
Alex Shikany, Director of Market Analysis, AIA

New Statistics on the Chinese Machine Vision Market
Isabel Yang, General Manager, LUSTER LightVision Tech Co., Ltd

International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR): 
Who must comply, what is controlled, and where do we go from here?

Lisa Bencivenga, President, Lisa Bencivenga, LLC

  MCA Business Conference - Morning Breakout Session
The Manufacturer Distributor Relationship: Looking for Profit in all the Wrong Places
Jeanne Fec, Senior Principal, Frank Lynn & Associates Inc.

Trends in Marketing- From Social to 3D Content
Scott McCafferty, Managing Director & Co-Founder, Design World

Afternoon General Session
Innovations in Manufacturing Robots
Rodney Brooks, Chairman and CTO, Rethink Robotics

Additive Manufacturing: Impact on Industry
Todd Grimm, President, T.A. Grimm & Associates, Inc.

Robotics Industry Forum Robotics Industry Forum - Afternoon Breakout Session
Intelligent Flexible Automation
David Peters, CEO, Universal Robotics, Inc.

Robot Safety Standard Update
Roberta Nelson Shea, Director, Safety & Compliance, C&S Wholesale Grocers

AIA Business Conference AIA Business Conference - Afternoon Breakout Session
Discoveries of Astronomy made possible by the Properties of Modern Infrared Detectors
James W. Beletic, Ph.D., Vice President, Space and Astronomy, Teledyne Imaging Sensors

Future Standards Forum
George Chamberlain, President, Pleora Technologies

AIA Standards Update
Bob McCurrach, Director of Standards Development, AIA

  MCA Business Conference - Afternoon Breakout Session
Using Technology to Sell: Tactics to Ratchet Up Results
Jonathan London, President, The Improved Performance Group
 
Friday, February 21, 2013
Morning General Session
The 2013 Global Economic Forecast
Alan Beaulieu, Economist, Institute for Trend Research

Robotics Industry Forum Robotics Industry Forum - Morning Breakout Session
Advances in Hair Transplantation Using Medical Robotics
Mohan Bodduluri, Ph.D, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Restoration Robotics

Autonomous Courier Robots - from R&D to Product
Martin Buehler, Ph.D., Vice President, Logistics Solutions, Vecna Technologies

AIA Business Conference AIA Business Conference - Morning Breakout Session
Frontiers in Computer Vision Initiative
Aude Oliva, Principal Investigator, CSAIL

Computer Vision, A Modern Approach
Dr. David Forsyth, Professor, Computer Vision, UIUC

  MCA Business Conference - Morning Breakout Session
Motion Control Market Update
Alex Shikany, Director of Market Analysis, Association for Advancing Automation (A3)

Final General Session
Opportunities and Challenges for Automation in Life Sciences
Pedro Diaz, Life Sciences Research, Beckman Coulter, Inc.