Conference
Agenda

Sunday, May 6, 2001

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Registration and Opening Reception: 2020 Archives Commission Activity

Monday, May 7, 2001

7:30 AM Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM Welcome and Introductions
8:45 AM Keynote: Over the Horizon — The Shape of Things to Come
Glen Hiemstra, Founder and CEO, Futurist.com
9:45 AM Global Economic Futures and Manufacturing
William Knoke, Founder, Harvard Capital Group
10:30 AM Break
10:45 AM A Coming World of Ubiquitous Computing and Communications and What It Means: eCommerce, Wireless World, and the Shift to a “Demand Chain”
Mark Anderson, Strategic News Service
11:30 AM Dialogue with Speakers
12:00 PM Lunch
1:15 PM From Mass to Bits: Human–Machine Interfaces and the Future
Tom Furness, Director, Human Interface Technology Lab
2:00 PM Dialogue with Speaker
2:15 PM Break
2:35 PM Intelligent Manufacturing Reaches the Factory Floor as Smart, Flexible Robots and Machines
John Evans, Chief, Intelligent Systems Division, NIST
3:20 PM The Next Energy and Automobile Era — Alternate Energy, New Materials, Hybrids and Hyper Vehicles
Bob Culver, Executive Director, USCar
4:00 PM Dialogue with Speakers
4:50 PM Concluding Comments and Day 2 Preview
Glen Hiemstra
5:00 PM Adjourn
6:00 PM Dinner and Entertainment (The Capitol Steps)

Tuesday, May 8, 2001

7:30 AM Continental Breakfast
8:00 AM Welcome, Agenda Overview
Glen Hiemstra
8:10 AM NCMS Concurrent Breakout Sessions
1. Using Future Studies and Roadmapping to Discover Gamechangers
2. Manufacturing E-fficiency: Taming Time & Cost in Delphi’s Production IT Systems
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM Room at the Bottom — Nanotechnology
Jim Von Ehr, Founder, President and CEO, Zyvex Corporation
11:00 AM Applications of the Very Small and the Very Fast
Harry E. Stephanou, Ph.D., Director, Center for Automation Technologies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
11:40 AM Dialogue with Speakers
11:55 AM How the Game has Changed
12:30 PM Lunch and Closing Summary Presentation
Glen Hiemstra
1:25 PM Conference Closing
1:30 PM Post-conference InfoTEST workshop — Manufacturing E-fficiency: Taming Time and Cost in a Networked Workplace