Building the Future - Together

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Welcome & Registration

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM - SEMINAR
The Trade War: Fair or Free Trade
This directly impacts specific products, companies and industries. The tools available to the Administration are considerable but more permanently institutional are the dumping and countervailing duty orders. This geopolitical debate is also a conflict of 2 very different political systems and cultures. The consequences stretch beyond a product, a company or an industry. Missteps in geopolitical conflicts can have devastating consequences.    Can’t make the event? Register to join our webinar.

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM - SEMINAR
Section 179: Discover how to optimize your investment and learn how coupled with financing, the two provide a powerful strategy.    Can’t make the event? Register to join our webinar.

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Lunch / Technology Center demonstrations

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - CNC WORKSHOP
Fundamentals to Maximize your CNC Router 

Learn vacuum systems best practices; onion skinning and tabbing functions; discover how to make a fixture to help hold down smaller components and and how fixtures and pods can help elevate your materials for machining on other faces; diference between phenolic and aluminum table... and much more.

2:15 PM - 3:45 PM - SEMINAR
The Trade War: Fair or Free Trade
This directly impacts specific products, companies and industries. The tools available to the Administration are considerable but more permanently institutional are the dumping and countervailing duty orders. This geopolitical debate is also a conflict of 2 very different political systems and cultures. The consequences stretch beyond a product, a company or an industry. Missteps in geopolitical conflicts can have devastating consequences. Can’t make the event? Register to join our webinar.

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM - SEMINAR
Section 179: Discover how to optimize your investment and learn how coupled with financing, the two provide a powerful strategy.    Can’t make the event? Register to join our webinar. 

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Technology Center demonstrations

TARIFF KEYNOTE SPEAKER
C.T. “Kip” Howlett Jr.
President of the Decorative Hardwoods Association (formerly the Hardwood Plywood & Veneer Association (HPVA) in Sterling, VA for 11 years.  After a career spanning two decades with Georgia-Pacific Corporation, Kip launched a career in association management for industries closely allied to his areas of expertise. He spent 12 years with the American Chemistry Council where he was Vice president, then headed the State Foresters Association before joining the Hardwood Plywood & Veneer Association in 2007.  He is a lawyer with a Doctor of Jurisprudence from Willamette University College of Law and a BA degree from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore MD.

SECTION 179 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Priscilla Dowling
Dowling is an experienced partner with a demonstrated history of working in the accounting industry. Skilled in international tax, accounting, generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), and internal controls, Dowling's career entails a 17 year history with Rödl Langford de Kock, LLP - CPA Firm.