On Demand Show Focuses on In-plants
In case you missed this in last month’s in-plant salary survey, the average salary of those who regularly attend educational conferences is 21 percent higher than the average salary of those who don’t. What’s more, the conference whose attendees earned the highest average pay was the On Demand Conference.
Whether or not the show really helps boost salaries is unclear, but one thing that’s certain is that the conference is making an obvious effort to focus on in-plants. A quick glance through the program reveals 11 sessions with in-plant managers as speakers.
Tom Bliss, group conference director, says the number of in-plant attendees has increased over the years. A whopping 60 percent of conference attendees now hail from in-plants.
“So the program is evolving to meet the needs of that side of the [market],” he says.
Back in Philadelphia this year, after two years in Boston, On Demand takes place March 30-April 2. Here are just a few of the sessions focused on topics of special interest to in-plant managers:
• Proven Ways to Developing a World-Class In-plant Operation (Presenter: Wes Friesen, Portland General Electric)
• Digital Printing: Did You Catch the Electronic Wave? (Presenter: Johnny Jones, Mississippi State University)
• Using External Resources to Enhance Performance (Presenters: Catherine Chambers, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Ray Chambers, Chambers Management Group)
• Keeping Your In-Plant Alive and Growing without Offset (Presenter: John Fabian, BlueCross BlueShield of SC)
• Developing and Managing Your In-plant Operation (Presenter: Mike Chiricuzio, Arizona State University)
The list goes on. To find them all, visit www.ondemandexpo.com
- Places:
- Boston
- Philadelphia
Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.
