Make Your Shop a Top Shop

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

McCormick Place | Chicago, IL

West Building, W196A

This ½-day program offers attendees insight into the results from this year's Modern Machine Shop Top Shops annual benchmarking survey. Learn from industry experts and current and past Top Shop award winners to find out what makes a shop rise to the top and how your shop stacks up against the competition.

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Agenda:

11:30 AM -12:00 PM

Modern Machine Shop: 2024 Top Shop Awards on the IMTS Main Stage

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Where’s the Bar? Serving Up Key Insights From 3,000 Modern Machine Shop Surveys

Presenter: Dave Necessary, EVP, Development at Gardner Business Media

1:30 PM – 2:15 PM

Interactive Roundtables: Mining the Successful Practices of Top Shops

Moderators: Kevin Bowling, Chief Operating Officer at Major Tool, Paul Omilion, Vice President, Manufacturing at SSP, Clinton Pouillie, CEO of Mitotec Precision and Matt Wardle, President/CEO at JD Machine.

2:15 PM – 2:30 PM

Break

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Panel Discussion: 2024 Top Shops Honorees

Moderator: Brent Donaldson, Editor-in-Chief at Modern Machine Shop, Panelists: Kevin Bowling, Chief Operating Officer at Major Tool, Kristin Evans, VP Marketing at SSP, Warren Schoenborn, Sales Manager at Mitotec Precision and Matt Wardle, President/CEO at JD Machine

3:30 PM – 4:00 PM

The Strategy You Need to Deploy to Become a Top Shop

Presenters: David Capkovitz, Principal at EBITDA Growth Systems and Michael Watkins, Principal at EBITDA Growth Systems