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2010 Lean Systems Summit – Northeast
August 13, 2010 - Portland, Maine
2010 Lean Systems Summit – Where Government, Services and Manufacturing Meet

Date: Friday, August 13, 2010
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (registration starts at 7:30 a.m.)
Location: Eastland Park Hotel, Portland, Maine

Join over 100 private and public business leaders for a day to discuss and learn how Lean continuous improvement principles & methods are being used to improve organizational effectiveness. The Summit will include 2 keynote speakers and 15 informational sessions from across healthcare, services, government, manufacturing, and other businesses on how lean leaders and practitioners have used Lean to change their culture and improve their way of doing business.

Informational Sessions on Lean Practices are planned to be presented by: Maine Medical Center; Lonza Rockland, Inc.; Eastern Maine Community College; Look's Gourmet Foods; New Hampshire House Representative; Society of Manufacturing Engineers; New York State Office of Substance Abuse Services; Maine Department of Labor; and others.

Lunch keynote speaker will be John Kim. Since 1998, John served as Chief Operating Officer and/or President for 2 major U.S. based consulting practices specializing in the deployment of “Lean” into the Government, Manufacturing, Service, Banking, Healthcare, Oil and Gas and Private Equity sectors. Some of his key achievements include:

•	Speaker at numerous conferences including: o Association of Manufacturing Excellence (AME – 2001, 2003, 2004) o Lean Conference – Netherlands (2004) o The Shingo Prize (1999-2003, 2005-2006, 2008-2010) o The Shingo Prize – Public Sector (2004, 2005-2006)
•	As a Vice President and General Manager, led has multiple Lean implementations resulting in improvements to Productivity (166%), Capacity (195%), Lead Time (-75%),and Profitability (+28.6%)

Registration information is below. For more information, contact Walter Lowell at walter.lowell@maine.gov or Rosemary Presnar at rosemaryp@mainemep.org.

Registration Information:

Please have your contact and credit card or check information available.
No refunds, but registrations for Pre-Summit Workshop or Summit can be transferred to a colleague. Call the Eastland Park Hotel in Portland, Maine for a discounted room rate for the 2010 Lean Systems Summit: (207) 775-5411.

2010 Lean Systems Summit – August 13
$150 per person

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SOLD OUT – 2010 Lean Systems Summit – Package Deal – August 12 and 13
Thursday Pre-Summit Lean Principles Workshop & Friday Summit
Now through July 27 - $199 per person
After July 27 through August 6 - $249 per person

Valuing and Accelerating Your Innovations

Do you have ideas?
Are you tired of trying to guess what your innovation is really worth?
Are you looking for connections to help you accelerate your innovation?

If you said "Yes" to one of these questions, this workshop is for you! Turn your innovation concepts into easy to understand business plans.

Here's how it works:

Translate it. Through an interactive workshop, you'll 'translate' your idea into a simple description that anyone can understand, regardless of their background.

Value it. After your idea is translated, you'll gather key data to run a Merwyn Business Simulation that gives you a total assessment of your innovation in one easy-to-understand scorecard, including how much you will sell, the quality of your idea, innovation readiness and proprietary protection, and royalty rates expectations.

Sell it. License it. Distribute it. Find a manufacturer or investor or partner for it.

The USA National Innovation Marketplace and the Maine Innovation Marketplace are Internet-based Open Innovation Marketplaces that connect innovation sellers, buyers, investors, manufacturers and distributors. It provides an innovation research report and sales forecast that buyers can understand in 60 seconds.

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