NEW State of Steel Conference

EARLY BIRD RATE ends this FRIDAY!

Created as a one-of-a-kind steel outlook event that only AMM can produce, the three-day conference will gather the key figures of the industry to give a forward view on where the steel market is heading in 2009, after the severe end to the 2008 financial year.  

Highlight Presentations:

Keynote Interview: One-on-One with Daniel R. DiMicco
Daniel R. DiMicco, Chairman, President & CEO, Nucor

Highlight Presentation: Steel in Crisis
Mario Longhi, Chief Executive Officer, Gerdau Ameristeel

Highlight Presentation: When is the recession likely to end?
Charles Steindel, Senior Vice President & Head Research Support Function, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Highlight Presentation: What makes American steel mills attractive for foreign ownership?
Madhu Vuppuluri, President, Essar North America

Luncheon Speaker:
David Spooner, Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, International Trade Administration

TOPIC QUESTIONS:

AMM EVENTS INTRODUCES POST-CONFERENCE WEB SESSIONS:

State of Steel ‘09 is your starting point, but AMM wants to keep you ahead of the game all year long with AMM Events NEW Post-Conference Webcasts.

Building off the information gathered at AMM Events’ State of Steel 09 Conference, several of our panelists will participate in two live web sessions scheduled for April and October to deliver late-breaking, dynamic presentations that will give you insight into the changing environment since the event.

In April, 2009 join John Anton, Principal Steel Service at Global Insight and Michelle Applebaum, Managing Director from Michelle Applebaum Research, via the internet for the first of two State of Steel Post-Conference Sessions. These informative presentations will be followed by questions and answers from the audience and AMM’s correspondents.

SPEAKERS

Sami T. Achkar, Metals & Minerals Sector Director, CH2M HILL
John Anton, Principal Steel Service, Global Insight
Michelle Applebaum, Managing Director, Michelle Applebaum Research
Jim Barnett, President, Grand Steel Products Inc.
Steve Bergman, President, Premier Steel
John Campo, Vice President Sales and Marketing, O'Neal Steel
Raju Daswani, Global Publisher and President, American Metal Market
Daniel R.  DiMicco, Chairman, President and CEO, Nucor
Herb Fastert, Chief Technology Officer, Steel Development Company
King Gee, Associate Administrator, Department of Transportation, Office of Infrastructure
Lourenco Goncalves, Chairman, President and CEO, Metals USA Holdings Corp
Stan Hasselbusch, President and CEO, L B Foster
Kim Korth, President and Owner, IRN, Inc
Mario Longhi, CEO, Gerdau Ameristeel
Vince Pappalardo, Managing Director, Dresner Partners Investment Banking
Bob Risser, President and CEO, Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute
Dan Sharkey, Parnter, Butzel Long
Paul Shellman, Steel Consultant, CME Group
Kenneth D. Simonson, Chief Economist, Associated General Contractors of America
David Spooner, Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, International Trade Administration
Charles Steindel, Senior Vice President & Head Research Support Function, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Tony Taccone, Partner, First River Consulting
Madhu Vuppuluri, President, Essar North America

Moderators:

Jo Isenberg-O’Loughlin, Editor, American Metal Market
Thomas C. Graham, Founder, T.C. Graham Associates and former Chariman and CEO of AK Steel
Corinna Rainey Petry, Correspondent, American Metal Market
Scott Robertson, Chief Correspondent, Steel, American Metal Market