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Craig Salvalaggio to Participate in Panel Discussion “How Smaller Companies are Embracing Automation” at Automate Forward 2021 on March 22
POSTED 02/25/2021
Chief Operating Officer Craig Salvalaggio will speak on a panel entitled How Smaller Companies are Embracing Automation at Automate Forward 2021 on March 22, 2021. The virtual conference is sponsored by A3 Association for Advancing Automation.
Craig Salvalaggio will share his expertise on the panel with industry luminaries Craig Zoberis, President of Fusion, John Tuohy, Senior Account Manager at ASI – FANUC America, and David Dechow, Principal at Integro Technologies. The panel will be moderated by Alex Shikany, Vice President of Membership and Business Intelligence at A3.
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The panel will discuss topics including calculating automation ROI, the current “skills gap,” preparing your workforce for automation, the “technology understanding gap,” and more. There will be a Q&A session at the end to address audience questions.