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Innovation - Ontario Grand Valley Regional Conference
February 21/22 2013
Cambridge Hotel & COnference Centre

Innovation  

What's New

 

Innovation is growing daily. As we add content to the Innovation web site, we will make a quick note of these changes here so that you are kept abreast of what's new.

 

November 20, 2012

Our speaker roster has been released. We are thrilled to welcome these high-calibre speakers to Innovation. Click here for more information.

 

November 1, 2012

The Innovation Showcase returns! Click here for more information.

 

August 1, 2012

We are thrilled to announce that Carol Ptak has accepted our invitation to be our keynote speaker for Innovation.

 

Carol Ptak

Carol A. Ptak CFPIM CIRM Jonah

Partner
Demand Driven Institute
Seattle, WA

 

Carol Ptak is currently a partner with the Demand Driven Institute, and was most recently at Pacific Lutheran University as a Visiting Professor and Distinguished Executive in Residence.  Previously, she was vice president and global industry executive for manufacturing and distribution industries at PeopleSoft where she developed the concept of demand driven manufacturing (DDM).  Ms. Ptak spent four years at IBM culminating in the position of SMB segment executive. Carol is a past president of APICS.

Carol is the author of several books:

  • Orlicky's Material Requirements Planning 3rd Edition (with Chad Smith)
  • ERP: Tools, Techniques and Applications for Integrating the Supply Chain
  • The Quantum Leap: Next Generation (with Dean Gillam & Steve Taylor-Jones)
  • Theory H.O.W.: How Organizations Could Work (with Harole E. Cavallaro)
  • Necessary but not Sufficient: A Theory of Constraints Business Novel (with Eliyahu M. Goldratt)
  • MRP and Beyond: A Toolbox for Integrating People and Systems

 

 

 

 

 

 

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See you at the conference!

APICS Ontario Grand Valley Chapter