Aluminum Summit Announces Forbes Recognized Keynote Speaker
Rich Karlgaard will speak at the aluminum conference in September.
Aluminum Summit keynote speaker, Rich Karlgaard
Registration is open for the Aluminum Summit, the collocated event of the Aluminum Anodizers Council’s (AAC) Annual Anodizing Conference and the Aluminum Extruders Council’s (AEC) Management Conference.
The Aluminum Summit will offer a wide-ranging program that addresses critical challenges faced by the aluminum industry, including the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Thursday’s closing session will feature a keynote presentation by publisher and futurist Rich Karlgaard. Karlgaard’s address, “Five Business Trends that will Emerge from COVID-19", examines COVID’s lasting impact on work, location, teams and collaboration. He will explore the post-COVID landscape on Wall Street, in Washington, Silicon Valley and beyond, assessing today’s economy, business, technology and investment climates, delving into the challenges of our time. He will explore what threats may stop the economic recovery, including government overreach, inflation and geopolitical miscalculation.
The Aluminum Summit also includes panel discussions, five concurrent tracks of Focus sessions, an AAC student posters session and long-awaited in-person networking opportunities. Topics will range from anodizing color, seal, innovations and technology and technical and pretreatment concerns to extrusion market and manufacturing insights and management and strategy issues.
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