LERC Annual Conference 2010

Special June Promotion!

If existing delegates introduce a new delegate (not existing community or alumni) who registers by 18th June then they will recieve £50 off the standard conference rate - that is, £200 instead of £250.

Date & Location

This years Annual Conference will be held on Tuesday, 6th July, at the SWALEC Stadium, Cardiff, CF11 0XR.

Speakers

The keynote speaker will be Mike Rother, who will be discussing the findings of his book Toyota Kata.

Other speakers include Patrick Graupp, Paul Thomas, Brendan Hindle, Alex Johns, Jonathon Blackburn and Mark Cannon (download full details below)

Conference Fees

Standard rate: £250

LERC Community rate: £185 (ie those with exisitng

LERC student/Alumni rate: £150

Agenda

The agenda is shown below. This year we will be running some parallel sessions - with one stream manufacturing focussed, while the other is service focussed. These are indicated by either M or S in the table.

For a detailed outline of each speaker and presentation click here to download >>> LERC 2010 Conference Speakers & Topics

8.00 - 8.30	Registration
8.45	Welcome - Simon Elias
9.00 - 9.40	Patrick Graupp, TWI Institute, ‘Creating & Maintaining Standard Work with TWI’
9.40 - 9.50	Questions
9.50 - 10.30	Mike Rother 1, ‘Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results’
10.30 - 10.40	Questions
10.40 - 11.10	Coffee
11.10 - 12.10	Mike Rother 2 – cont.
12.10 - 12.20	Questions
12.20 - 12.30	LERC Update
12.30 – 1.30	Lunch
1.30 – 2.10	Dr Paul Thomas, University of Glamorgan, ‘Ban the Boss’, a presentation based on the recent BBC programme.
2.10 - 2.20	Questions
2.20 – 3.00	Brendan Hindle (M), BAE Systems Ltd, ‘BAE Systems’ Journey to Lean and Shingo’ Alex Johns (S), GoJaspa Ltd, ‘Turning Supply Driven Systems into Demand Driven Systems’
3.00 – 3.10	Questions
3.10 - 3.30	Coffee
3.30 - 4.10	Jonathan Blackburn (M), Siemens plc, ‘Lean Cell Design: The True Power of Employee Engagement’ Mark Cannon (S), Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust, ‘Flow & Systems Thinking in the NHS’
4.10 - 4.20	Questions
4.20	Close