ASQ 2007 World Conference on Quality and Improvement

I have been preparing for the World Conference for weeks now. I started my preparation by sharing my copy of the conference program with our Supplier Development Engineering Manager and Quality Manager, and asking them what sessions topics they would like me to document. Then I had a call with a fellow board member to talk about the sessions we were interested in attending. Next, I highlighted my on-site program (including two sessions I am moderating) with my selections. Finally, I put all of this into my Outlook calendar. Now I just have to print it and I will be all set.

This is my third World Conference since joining ASQ in 1998. I still keep in touch with people I met at the first conference I attended in Philadelphia, PA. I have also exchanged many e-mails with members and member leaders that I met in Milwaukee, WI last year. I am looking forward to the new networking opportunities that this conference will bring. I tend to evaluate a conference at least in part on the number of business cards I bring home, and what I am able to learn from these new contacts.

I am looking forward to sharing notes and details on the board meeting, division meetings, sessions and other events that I am planning to attend at the conference. I learned today that we will have access to the press room during the conference, so I hope to be able to provide you some of the details hot off the presses, while other times, I will post in the evening after the last event. I will provide an honest view of what I see (although I promise not to name names if people are measuring wingspan in the Inspection Division hospitality suite like they were last year...).

Aimee Siegler