ASQ Delaware Section (506) 35th Annual Quality Conference
September 25, 2008
Dover Downs Hotel and Casino, Dover, Delaware

 

Location:                                    Dover Downs Hotel and Casino
                                                1131 N. Dupont Highway
                                                Dover, DE 19903

Room Rate until the 17th            $155.00     When reserving, use Group code GASQS           
(However, the Sheraton close by on N. Dupont Highway
charges only $109.00 for one night, September 24.)
                       
Reservations:                                    Dover Downs reservations:  302-866-473-7378                       

Length of Conference:            7:30 am - 5:00 pm

Cost:                                                Non-member            $267.00
                                                Member:            $227.00
                                                Student:            $  95.00

Price includes:                        Breakfast, lunch, two breaks, and all programs

Payment may be made:            1)  Registration by credit card may be done online using:
                                                http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?binid=1&bevaID=164635

                                                2)  By check, mailed to Conference Treasurer:
                                                Paul Vines, 751 Wood Duck Rd, Middletown, DE 19709-6114.

Directions:                                    From the North:
                                                Take Delaware Rt 1 to Dover
                        Turn on Exit 104 (North Dover - Scarborough Rd. –
                        Toll 50 cents)
                                                Turn left (south) at first light onto N. Dupont Highway
                                                Stay in inner lane
                                                Pass Sheraton Hotel on right, shopping center on left.
                                                Entrance to Dover Downs is on the right, about one mile south
                                                (light)

                                                From the South:
                                                Either stay on Rt 1 until exit 104 and follow above directions
or drive all the way through Dover Northward until Dover Downs complex is on the right.

 

 

Agenda

 

ASQ Delaware Section (506)  35th Annual Quality Conference
September 25, 2008,  Dover Downs Hotel and Casino,  Dover, Delaware

07:30 – 08:30            Registration and Breakfast

08:30 -  09:00            Welcomes                                      Silvia Zsoldos
Chair, ASQ Delaware, Section 506
                                                                        Dana Jefferson
                                    Director, Office of Management and Budget, Human Resource
                                    Management

09:00 – 10:00            Keynote Speaker                        Peter Anders, ASQ President-Elect                                                                                                                        “Making the Economic Case for Quality”

10:00 – 10:30                                    BREAK

 

10:30 -  12:00            Featured Speaker                        Curt Coffman, Senior Scientist and Consultant
                                                                        with Majers Consulting Group
                                                                        “The Leadership Imperative:  Excellence through
                                                                        People”

12:00 – 1:00 p.m.                        LUNCH

 

 1:30 –  2:45            Sessions 1 – 4                                    Amy Kimball, Vice President, Sellery Associates   
                                                                                  and Michelle Mason, Managing Director, ASQ
                                                                        “Advocating Excellence”
                                                                                               
Bruce Waltuck,
Senior Advisor for Process Improvement, SAMHSA
“Get the boss some sleep:  Implementing the Wisconsin-NIATx Model of Process Improvement”
                                                                       
Col. Steven Harrison, USAF, AMC, 436 AW/CC           
                                                                        “How Dover AFB won the 2008 Commander in Chief Award”
                                                                         (Now named the top rated Air Force installation in the world)

                                                                        Tom Mudge, David Little, Leta Thrasher
                                                                        ASQ Leadership Training:  “Back to Basics”

2:45 – 3:15                                    BREAK

 

3:15 -  4:45            Sessions 5 – 8                                    Dr. Sergio Huerta, Laboratory Director, DNREC, Division of
                                                                             Water Resources Environmental Laboratory Section
“To Lead or to Follow?  Tools you need to become a leader’”

                                                                        Al Leigh, President, 3V Consulting, Inc.
                                                                        “Who’s Your Green Belt?  Observations on Six Sigma
                                                                        Training Efforts”                                               

Lisa Weis, DEMEP, Manufacturing Specialist and
Paul Foster, Manager, DNREC, Air Quality Management
Case Study
                       
                                                                        Tom Mudge, David Little, Leta Thrasher
                                                ASQ Leadership Training:  “Back to Basics,”
Continued

5:00                                    ADJOURN