March 19-20, 2024


The 10th anniversary

American Manufacturing Summit


The Westin Lombard - Chicago, IL


2024 Featured Speakers


  • Gonzalve Bich

    CEO
    BIC

  • Mehran Ravanpay

    EVP, Global Manufacturing and Supply Chain
    MGA Entertainment

  • Steve Landry

    SVP, Chief Operating Officer
    TreeHouse Foods

  • Vinay Khanna

    SVP, Operations Transformation
    IFF

  • Colin Nolan

    Executive Vice President
    Mark Anthony Brewing

  • Israel Salinas

    SVP, Global Supply Chain
    Gildan


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About the Summit


The Generis American Manufacturing Summit is a 2-day, leadership-focused meeting designed to bring global manufacturing, operations, engineering, quality and supply chain leaders together to discuss current trends, strategic insights and best practices in the ever-evolving, advanced manufacturing environment.

The American Manufacturing Summit serves as an annual platform to exchange ideas surrounding the impact of market dynamics and new technologies for current and future manufacturing leaders. This year’s manufacturing conference will examine key case studies around how workforce management, lean manufacturing, manufacturing process improvement and automation are being rolled out in the world’s best facilities. Network with over 200+ of your peers, connect with exhibitors, and learn from the top manufacturing industry influencers as we explore strategies to optimize, modernize, train and innovate across multiple manufacturing facilities.


Key Themes

Process Optimization

  • Key techniques and tool kits for integrating new technologies into manufacturing processes
  • Highlighting advanced manufacturing technologies and trends that drive efficient productivity
  • Best practices and lessons learned from historical manufacturing technology roll-out programs
  • Examining how innovative manufacturers are already getting ahead
  • Reducing the cost of manufacturing error and backlog
  • Driving down headcount, waste and inefficiencies

Talent & Capability

  • How are leading manufacturing companies getting creative to recruit talent?
  • Developing a pipeline to attract and retain technical and diverse manufacturing talent
  • Nurturing new talent to push traditional boundaries
  • How technology is changing the landscape for training, measuring, and improving your manufacturing workforce
  • Obtaining continuous improvement on the manufacturing floor through training and talent
  • Shifting the mindset of manufacturing teams to be more agile and business-minded

Modern Facilities

  • Leveraging Six Sigma concepts to respond to market changes
  • Devising and executing turnaround strategies that facilitate internal efficiencies
  • Developing a flexible and adaptable lean system
  • Bettering the product life cycle, manufacturing cost and the supply chain
  • How to integrate analytics and new manufacturing technologies into current operations
  • Redefining your manufacturing facility through automation and IoT integration

Innovation

  • How can small, large, and start-up manufacturing divisions become better innovators?
  • Transitioning away from legacy systems and processes
  • Utilizing disruptive manufacturing technologies to move from innovation to execution
  • Navigating the scalability of innovation management
  • How to determine whether operational innovations are fundamentally improving your business operations
  • Balancing innovation management with priority business initiatives

The Generis Experience


  • Senior Level Executives
  • 100+ Business Meetings On-Site
  • Thought Provoking Case Studies
  • Key Implementable Ideas

Well organized summit. As Ipex team, we have gained knowledge and connected with vendors that will help our organizationCem Ozturk – Operational Excellence Manager - North America, Ipex Group of Companies
I am very pleased as I have gained knowledge and added value to take to my organization to improve.Antonio Hill – Head of Manufacturing Digital Solutions, Stanley Black & Decker
Overall well organized and enjoyed the summit to get some new ideas and perspective on AI and workforce development specifically.Kurt Stucki – Director of Production, Lindt
In this summit, I was delighted to see the diversity in companies as well as speakers and participants. It was a better representation of manufacturing.Rakuya Artis – Vice President Global Operations & Supply Chain, Destaco


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Become a Sponsor


Generis’ sponsorship opportunities provide unparalleled access to VPs, Directors and Senior Executives in the manufacturing world. Build your best path to conversion through direct engagement and generate measurable results using our customized packages, extensive networking opportunities, and organized 1-to-1 meetings!


Marketing 365

Our trademarked Marketing 365  initiative allows you to extend your brand beyond the brick-and-mortar manufacturing conference to include content sharing, blog posts, social sharing, original content generation and more – all as part of your package!

20 Minute, PRE-QUALIFIED ONE-TO-ONE MEETINGS

Our one-to-one meetings go beyond speed dating, providing you with the opportunity to pre-qualify potential meeting candidates at our manufacturing conference, and make adjustments to your meeting schedule before the on-site one-to-one meetings.

LIMITED EXHIBITION FLOOR

We limit the number of sponsors at our executive manufacturing event to ensure that quality interactions occur on the floor. We bring only the most relevant, capable and credible thought leaders to our manufacturing conference to meet with our delegates and speaker faculty.

executive attendees

Our manufacturing conference is invitation only. Registrations are only granted to delegates who meet our strict qualification and seniority standards.

speaking opportunities

Unlike other manufacturing events, speaking opportunities at the American Manufacturing Summit are tailored to your needs. We offer you direct access to a highly targeted audience of manufacturing leaders that make the decision on what their business will do next.

ONLINE DELEGATE CATALOG

Full access to specific and detailed business intelligence on each attending delegate, including a detailed profile and their key areas of focus/investment via our proprietary attendee database.


To ensure the exclusivity of our manufacturing conference, we have password protected our pages. Access is granted to qualified individuals and companies who meet the requirements for attendance at our executive manufacturing event.

To find out more about sponsorship opportunities and the range of services offered in our packages, please contact us and we will follow up with you shortly.

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Knowledge Center


The American Manufacturing Summit brings together innovative, exciting and timely content delivered by today's top minds within the Manufacturing Industry.

Access the full session presentations from past summits, interviews, ebooks and infographics by requesting access to our knowledge center!

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To ensure the exclusivity of our event we have password protected our pages. Please use the button below to request access to our knowledge center. You will be directed to a login page and provided with the option to request access. If you already have a password, please click on the button below and enter the password when prompted.

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Venue

The Westin Chicago Lombard

70 Yorktown Center, Lombard, IL, 60148
+1 (630) 719-8000

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Get in Touch


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