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Business Program
BSA Update
Stephen Durston, Executive VP, Jamaica Bearings Co. Inc.
Sunday, May 3rd, 8:30 - 9:30 a.m.
Steve Durston, Executive Vice President of Jamaica Bearings Company, Inc. and BSA President, will give us an update on the bearing industry from the distributor perspective including data from the 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 Distributor Reports.
ABMA Update
Bruce Warmbold, President & CEO, Schaeffler Group
Sunday, May 3rd, 8:30 - 9:30 a.m.
Bruce Warmbold, President and CEO of Schaeffler Inc., will give us an update on the bearing industry from the perspective of the American Bearing Manufacturers Association.
President and CEO of the Schaeffler Group North America since 1992, Bruce has been a member of the ABMA Board for the last 16 years and is presently a member of its Executive Committee. Bruce has also been a board member of CoLinx since its inception in 2001.
ABMA Update
Scott Lynch, President & Secretary, ABMA
Sunday, May 3rd, 8:30 - 9:30 a.m.
Scott Lynch, President of the ABMA, will give us an update on programs, education, and training offered by the American Bearing Manufacturers Association.
Economic Update
Ken Mayland, Economist
Sunday, May 3rd, 10:30 - 11:15 a.m.
Given the uncertainty of the U.S. economy - and that of the bearing industry in particular - BSA has invited one of the country's foremost economic forecasters, Dr. Ken Mayland, to share his knowledge and economic and bearing forecast with BSA 2009 Convention attendees.
Don't miss this opportunity to find out how long your business may be affected by current economic conditions.
Dr. Ken Mayland is President of ClearView Economics, LLC, a firm specializing in economic research and forecasting. Ken was previously the Chief Economist of two major financial institutions (First Pennsylvania Bank and KeyCorp). Graduating with degrees in economics from MIT (undergraduate) and the University of Pennsylvania (M.A. and Ph.D.), he has spent more than thirty years studying the business cycle and providing economic analyses to a variety of constituencies.
Ken is a member of the Blue Chip Economic Forecasters and Financial Forecasts survey panels, and several wire service and newspaper survey panels. He has been a past member of the Economic Advisory Committee for the State of Ohio under various Governors, and he has held several leadership positions with the National Association for Business Economics. Ken is frequently quoted in the local and national media, is listed in Who’s Who in America, and has won several awards in recent years from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago for “best forecasts.” As a member of the BusinessWeek Annual Economic Forecasting Survey panel, Ken hit the 2002 GDP, unemployment rate, and CPI inflation projections within a tenth of a percent. Ken was the second best forecaster in USA Today’s forecasting panel for all of 2003.
Bloomberg Magazine (November 2004) identified Dr. Ken as the nation’s top forecaster (!) in its mid-2003 to mid-2004 tally of forecasts. For the most recent forecast year (mid-2004 to mid-2005), Bloomberg Magazine (December 2005) had Dr. Ken as the best forecaster (tied) of the unemployment rate and the fifth best forecaster of the inflation rate. USA Today has once again identified Dr. Ken as one of the nation's top ten forecasters for 2005! (#7). BusinessWeek has determined that Ken Mayland was their #1 forecaster for 2006!
Are Manufacturers from Mars, Distributors from Venus?
Sunday, May 3rd, 9:30 - 11:45 a.m.
Monday, May 4th, 8:00 - 9:30 a.m.
You’re invited to the honest, gut-check conversation between distributors and manufacturers that industry has needed, but never before achieved.
Honest, because this conversation is also anonymous, facilitated by rapid-response electronics that will instantly reveal onscreen distributor and manufacturer responses as categories, not individuals. As a participant, you can be comfortable giving your honest response because you are anonymous, and you will see the same honest responses from other distributor and manufacturer attendees as categories.
BSA is thrilled to deliver this unique opportunity for distributors and manufacturers to instantly and anonymously respond to the same set of questions and view the responses.
Do you really know what your supply chain partners are thinking? Now you will!
BSA’s Long Range Convention Planning and Distributor-Manufacturer Relations Committees have repeatedly considered the differences in the way distributors and manufacturers think. This program is the result of those conversations. Two special sessions at the 2009 Convention will address this topic.
On Sunday, May 3rd, each convention attendee will receive a wireless keypad with full size voting buttons supporting numeric and alpha responses. BSA committees have developed a number of multiple choice questions that can demonstrate how differently distributors and manufacturers think. Attendees will respond to the multiple choice questions, answering each question from their perspective as distributor or manufacturer using the wireless keypad. The audience response system will separate the answers of distributors and manufacturers. Attendees will immediately see the aggregate responses of distributors and manufacturers onscreen.
On Monday, May 4th, a panel of industry leaders will analyze the results of these responses.
Panel Moderator:
Peter Negri, President of Jamaica Bearings Company, Inc.
Distributor Panelists:
Bill Stevens, President & CEO of Motion Industries, Inc.
Gordon Duncan, President of Kinecor LP
Jim Fitzpatrick, President of Bearings Specialty Company
Manufacturer Panelists:
Tony Martell, VP/General Mgr. Aftermarket Business of NSK Corporation
Bill Childers, President, North American Sales of Rexnord Industries, LLC
Dr. Michael J. Hartnett, President & CEO of RBC Bearings
Whether you are a distributor or a manufacturer, this is the conversation you want to be a part of. When you learn what your industry peers are thinking, you will be ready to meet their needs as well as yours and those of the end-user. Don’t miss this opportunity!
Tom DeLuca
Monday, May 4th, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Open the windows to your imagination as Tom DeLuca uses the power of suggestion, and humor to showcase the wonderful imaginations and personalities within the Bearing Specialist Association audience. Part entertainment, part theater, this program demonstrates the inherent creativity of the participants when they're relaxed, comfortable, and given permission to be themselves. It's also a reminder that our creativity lies just below the surface.
Tom has his Master's degree in Psychology and honed his humorous side with Chicago's Second City Comedy Troup. The unique qualities of his Theatre of the Imagination have made DeLuca a regular on the daytime talk shows; as well as the subject of feature articles in People and Rolling Stone Magazines. This is the program that landed Tom DeLuca on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, and caught the attention of NBC's "Dateline". "The results of Tom's show are fascinating, hilarious, at times even poignant. Don't miss him." New York Post