Featured entrepreneurs include Pat Kennedy, CEO and founder of OSIsoft, who grew real time performance management of manufacturing processes into a business with world-wide reach. The Symposium luncheon keynote address features Randy Field, of Aspen Technology, and his talk “The Energy Future of the USA is Dependent on Chemical Engineering Superheroes.”

Also featured on the program are talks by Clorox on the future of hypochlorite bleach and its manufacture, Shell Oil on projects at the Martinez refinery, Novellus Systems on semiconductor manufacture, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on the risks and consequences of terrorist attacks on critical industrial infrastructure. A Genentech Senior Director will describe trends in biotech processing at Genentech’s Vacaville facility and a speaker from Alien Technology will describe how fluidic self-assembly went from a UC Berkeley lab to a Walmart supplier mandate for RFI (radiofrequency identification) tags.

Economists from McKinsey and Company and the University of California Haas School of Business will discuss how economic trends affect manufacturing and employment in California and the Bay Area and how industry and government can work together to protect one million manufacturing jobs that are at risk.

Manufacturing 2010 will provide you with insights into all of these topics and more, insights that you need to plan for your business and your career in the 21st Century.