            The Aluminum Summit is the best place to get both a North American and a global perspective on the industry.    
        

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The Aluminum industry is diverging with the LME price going in one direction (stymied by economic pressures) and the premium price (propelled by the tons of material trapped in warehouses) going in another. Depending on where you sit in the supply chain, the two directions are having very different impacts and are causing an industry of winners and losers, where once there were just winners.

This years Aluminum Summit will gather the worlds leading experts to discuss these issues and more. Key speakers include:

      ·         l Phil Martens, President & CEO, Novelis
      ·         l Tim Murray, CEO, Alba
      ·         l Matt Aboud, President, Hydro Aluminum Metals USA
      ·         l Adrian Tautscher, REALCAR Project Leader Materials Engineering, Engineering Technical Services (ETS), Jaguar/Land Rover
      ·         l Torbjorn Sternsjo, CEO, Sapa Chalco Aluminium Products (Chongqing)
      ·         l Laurent Musy, President, Specialty Sheet, Constellium
      ·         l Jeff Carpenter, Senior Manager, Raw Material Procurement, Supplier Management, Boeing Commercial Airplanes
      ·         l Tom Horter, President, Alexin
      ·         l Yakov Itskov, Deputy CEO, Director of Supplies and Logistics, Rusal
      ·         l Ted Lehmann, Vice President – Procurement, Americas, Aleris International
      ·         l Tom Schabel, CEO, Alexandria Industries
      ·         l Walid al Attar, Executive Vice President, Marketing & Sales, Dubal
      ·         l William Portnoy, President, Charleston Aluminum
      ·         l Peter Zimm, Principal, ICF SH&E
      ·         l Megan Daum, Vice President of Sustainability, Can Manufacturers Institute
      ·         l Senior Representatives, Alcoa
      ·         l Daniel Brebner, Head of Metals Research, Deutsche Bank
      ·         l Jeffrey Henderson, Marketing Director, Sapa North America
      ·         l Leland Lorentzen, CEO, Golden Aluminum
      ·         l Chester Roush, Chief Commercial Officer, JW Aluminum
      ·         l Simon Pickup, Director, Business Operations, Airbus Americas
      ·         l Kevin Moore, Former Generals Motors Materials Technical Fellow, President, All Raw Materials Consulting
      ·         l Dag Johnsen, Director, Systems Engineering, United Airlines
      ·         l Jim Peterson, Vice President, Marketing & Corporate Affairs, Ball Corporation

Join more than 200 international aluminum industry executives to get the best insight into the health of the industry halfway through 2013 and to experience excellent networking and business opportunities.

Key conference topics:

• Economic and pricing outlook: learn about the economic health of the industry, understand LME and premium pricing and how it relates to your business.

• Production challenges and developments: how to squeeze the best out of primary production, consider where the changing upstream priorities are going, what challenges downstream producers face, and hear about the latest technological innovations in smelter automation and energy reduction

• Tackling the pressures in secondary aluminum: look at whether the outlook is getting better on the secondary side and how can developments in scrap processing and collection help you to get best out of the metal

• The global reach of the aluminum industry: analyze whether China’s thirst for aluminum will prove to be an opportunity for the US or not and look at what developments are happening in other regions of the world

• End user outlook and discussion forums: hear about the worries and priorities on both the buy and sell side of aluminum products within the automotive, aerospace, packaging and construction sectors

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1. What is included in the Registration Fee?
The registration fee includes the admission to the approved conference, conference materials, access to the delegate messenger system and scheduled food and beverage functions.

2. What is not included in the Registration Fee?
The hotel accommodation, incidentals, airport transfers and local transportation are not included in the price of the conference.

3. Delegate Registration Confirmation and Invoice
Upon completion of registration, delegates will receive an email with the details of their registration. Should you require an additional detailed itemization please contact us at events@amm.com.

4. Registration Payment by Credit Card
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10. Cancellation
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11. Conference Hotel Fully Booked
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13. Delegate Messenger System (DMS)
This is a secure platform where delegates can communicate with each other pre and post conference. Full instructions and terms of use will be incorporated into your personal delegate messenger account. This service is only accessible once payment has been received. The DMS will be active two weeks prior to the start of the physical conference. The DMS will be available for two weeks after the physical conference concludes. Note that DMS is only accessible with current conference delegate exhibiting a zero payment balance. A welcome email will be sent with full instructions to successfully operate and navigate within the delegate messenger system. If you have additional queries regarding DMS please contact events@amm.com.

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The delegate list will be given in the pre-conference email within one week of physical conference start date. An updated delegate list will be present as a hard copy at the event. The final delegate list will be available in the post conference email.

15. Presentations
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