The recommendations are the result of hundreds of interviews conducted over nearly three years by Deloitte, as well as dozens of dialogues where Council members and national thought leaders came together to discuss specific manufacturing topics.
The Council on Competitiveness, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit, non-partisan organization whose membership consists exclusively of corporate CEOs, presidents of universities, and heads of labor unions, is celebrating its 25th Anniversary and hosting its National Manufacturing Competitiveness Summit yesterday and today, December 7 - 8. The Council provides policy recommendations to make America more competitive in the international market place.
Media partners include U.S. News and World Report, IndustryWeek, Popular Science, Scientific American, Manufacturing Executive, and CNBC. The CNBC show Street Signs with Brian Sullivan will be filmed on-location to pose questions to c-suite speakers and guests. Adding to the list of participants will be panel moderators such as Robert J. Samuelson, Washington Post columnist; Rana Foroohar, assistant managing editor for Time Magazine; Brian Kelly, editor for U.S. News and World Report; Mark Jannot, editor-in-chief for Popular Science; and Patricia Panchak, IndustryWeek chief editor.
Speakers will feature top executives from Deere & Co., Lockheed Martin Corp., Deloitte, Bank of America, Snap-On, Bossa Nova Robotics, 3D Systems Inc., General Electric, Rockwell Automation, Ernst & Young, and NASDAQ OMX, among others.
More information is available online. MAKE is available for download beginning today, December 8.
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