Steel Success Strategies 2019

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Day 1: Monday, June 17, 2019

9:00AM Registration opens

10:00AM Panel A: Automotive and Beyond: Growth Markets for Advanced High-Strength Steels

Moderator: Ronald E Ashburn, Executive Director, Association for Iron & Steel Technology

Peter Leblanc, Chief Marketing Office-North America & Global Automotive, Arcelor Mittal

Bernhard Hoffmann, Vice President Global Product Development & Engineering, US Steel Corporation

Dean Kanelos, Market Development & Product Applications Manager, Nucor Corporation

Jody Hall, VP Automotive, Steel Market Development Institute

Erin Welte, Manager - Product Research & Development, AK Steel Corporation

11:30AM Panel B: Exchanges Panel

Alberto Xodo, VP Sales, London Metal Exchange

12:30PM Luncheon

1:30PM Panel C: Plant Designs: Innovation in Steel Manufacturing

Moderator: Ronald E Ashburn, Executive Director, Association for Iron & Steel Technology

Prof Dr Pino Tese, Executive Vice President Technical Service Division, SMS Group

Ron Devoe, Vice President Of Sales, Primetals Technologies USA LLC

2:30PM Refreshment

2:45PM Panel D: Supercharging the EAF: Optimizing Energy, Metallics & Process

Moderator: Ronald E Ashburn, Executive Director, Association for Iron & Steel Technology

Mike Grant, International Senior Expert, Air Liquide Global Management Services GmbH

Stefano Maggiolino, President & Ceo, Tenova HYL

Mark Boedecker, Director - Sales, Midrex Technologies Inc

David Werner, President & CEO, Berry Metal Company

4:00PM Panel E: Digital Transformation: Making Steel Smarter

Moderator: Ronald E Ashburn, Executive Director, Association for Iron & Steel Technology

Fernando Martinez, Vice President, AMI Automation

Harald Henning, Managing Director Americas, PSI Metals North America

Stephen Pratt, Ceo, Noodle.ai

5:30PM Welcome Networking Reception

Day 2: Tuesday, June 18, 2019

7:00AM Registration opens

8:15AM Welcome

Raju Daswani, CEO, Fastmarkets

8:30AM Keynote Presentation

Peter F Marcus, Managing Partner, World Steel Dynamics

Wu Wenzhang, Chairman & President, Steelhome

Philipp Englin, CEO, World Steel Dynamics

9:00AM Keynote Presentation

Sajjan Jindal, Chairman & Managing Director, JSW Steel

9:40AM Refreshment

9:55AM Panel I: International: Global Protectionism: Complications, Implications, and… Opportunities?

Moderator: John Lichtenstein, Partner, Crucible Consulting LLC

Antonio Marcegaglia, Chairman and CEO, Marcegaglia

Avetik Chalabyan, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

Kazuo Mike Fujisawa, Principal, Overseas Business, JFE Steel Corporation

11:20AM Keynote Presentation

Sanjeev Gupta, Executive Chairman, GFG Alliance

12:00PM Luncheon

1:15PM Panel II: North America: Fortress America- The Key to Industry Sustainability

Moderator: Thomas Gibson, President And Chief Executive Officer, American Iron and Steel Institute

Alan Kestenbaum, Chairman, Bedrock Industries Group

Alonso Ancira Elizondo, Executive Chairman of the Board, AHMSA

David Stickler, CEO, Big River Steel

Mark Millett, President and Chief Executive Officer, Steel Dynamics Inc.

Karthik Valluru, Partner And Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group

Roger Newport, CEO, AK Steel

2:40PM Refreshment

3:00PM Financial Dynamics Break Out

Andrew Pappas, Managing Director, BMO Harris Bank

Ira Kreft, Senior Vice President, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Vince Pappalardo, Managing Director, Brown Gibbons Lang & Company

Fredrik Weissenrieder, President, Weissenrieder & Co AB

3:45PM Panel III: Steel Marketplace: Technological Solutions for Sustainable Profitability

Barry Zekelman, Chief Executive Officer, Zekelman Industries

Gisbert Rühl, Chief Executive Officer, Klöckner & Co SE

5:00PM Networking Cocktails

Day 3: Wednesday, June 19, 2019

8:00AM Panel IV: Risk Management

Moderator: Grace Lavigne Asenov, Price Development Manager, Fastmarkets MB

Bradley Clark, Commodity Trader, Big River Steel

Jeremy Flack, Ceo, Flack Global Metals

Karl Schmidt, Executive, METALLIA; A DIVISION OF HARTEE

9:00AM Award Presentation

Award Presentations: The twentieth “Willy Korf Award for Young Excellence” honors

Wolfgang Eder, CEO, voestalpine

9:40AM Refreshment

10:00AM Keynote Presentation

John Ferriola, Chairman & CEO, Nucor

10:40AM Analyst Showdown

Moderator: Philipp Englin, CEO, World Steel Dynamics

Timna Tanners, Managing Director, Bank of America

Curt Woodworth, Director Equity Research US Metals & Mining, Credit Suisse Securities LLC

11:45AM Keynote Presentation

Lourenco Goncalves, Chairman, President & CEO, Cleveland-Cliffs Inc

12:30PM Luncheon: Closing of Conference and Networking

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WSD's bearish 2018 HRC call comes true
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