Meeting Notices - National Online Forum

National Online Forum meeting on October 6

It is now clear: shorter supply chains are stronger, more competitive supply chains for the country. This is now clear in healthcare products and becoming clear for defense and other important industries.

Please join us on Tuesday, October 6, 8:00–9:00am pacific time, when Harry Moser, President, Reshoring Initiative, will demonstrate how to convince your customers they will be more profitable buying from you 10 to 20% of products they now import. He will cover tools to help your customers decide and discuss results of numerous studies showing that the tools work. He will describe how one job shop won a $60 million order and will give examples of job shops that helped OEMs reshore.

Primary Take-Aways:

How to identify the companies that import what you make competitively
How to help the customer quantify the costs and risks of offshoring
How to market reshoring
How to convince companies to reshore and buy from you

The meeting is free for members and $25 for non-members For more information and to register to attend the meeting go to https://adfnofoct20.eventbrite.com.

Information about joining The A&D Forum is at https://aerospacedefenseforum.org.

The webinar is sponsored by Chubb.

National Online Forum meeting on September 16

We’ve learned a great deal during the upheaval inflicted by Covid 19. Companies have applied creative stopgap solutions to help adjust in the short term. Some of those things, borne of necessity, will fall by the wayside as soon as we’ve got therapies and treatments. Others have been valuable lessons in new ways of doing business. It’s hard to tell the difference in our current circumstances.

Please join us on Wednesday, September 16, 8:00–9:00am pacific time, when Rik Reppe, CEO, Experience Alchemists, will review some things from inside and outside the industry that we should not only embrace but even expand on going forward. We’ll cover innovations in technology and experience design that allow companies to realistically evaluate the use of AI, VR, Machine Learning, Voice interfaces, Smart building technologies and others to serve them in the post-pandemic era.

The meeting is free for A&D Forum members and $25 for non-members. For more information and to register to attend the meeting go to https://adfnofsep1620.eventbrite.com.

Information about joining The A&D Forum is at https://aerospacedefenseforum.org.

The webinar is sponsored by Saenger Associates.

National Online Forum meeting on September 1

Many A&D companies, particularly those serving commercial aviation, have experienced a precipitous drop in sales. The National Online Form welcomes three panelists who have and are dealing with this situation and are willing to share their ideas and what did and did not work.

Please join us on Tuesday, September 1, 8:00–9:00am pacific time, when Massimo Masini (VP/GM, Whitcraft), David Conrad (Director Business Development, PTI Technologies), and Tom Shaw (VP Sales & Marketing, Mayday Manufacturing) will share the sales challenges they are dealing with today and how they are solving them.

A future National Online Forum will deal with tomorrow’s sales challenges, e.g., defense-oriented firms who may be OK today and may have concerns about the impact of the deficit on future federal budgets.

The meeting is free for A&D Forum members and $25 for non-members For more information and to register to attend the meeting go to https://adfnofsep120.eventbrite.com.

Information about joining The A&D Forum is at https://aerospacedefenseforum.org.

The webinar is sponsored by the Santa Clarita Valley Economic Development Corporation.

National Online Forum meeting on August 19

Please join us online Wednesday, August 19, 8:00–9:00am Pacific Time, when Marco Caceres, Senior Space Analyst, Teal Group Corp., will discuss the emerging commercial market for broadband satellites aimed primarily at meeting the growing demand for faster and more affordable internet access around the world.

New satellite constellations such as SpaceX’s Starlink are being developed and launched by well-financed entrepreneurial firms that are quickly redefining the satellite market. These constellations are being launched by relatively new and more affordable space launch vehicles also developed and operated by relatively new entrepreneurial firms that are also redefining the launch services market.

The meeting is free for A&D Forum members and $25 for non-members For more information and to register to attend the meeting go to https://adfnofaug20.eventbrite.com.

Information about joining The A&D Forum is at https://aerospacedefenseforum.org.

National Online Forum meeting on July 22

The National Online Form welcomes three panelists with up close and personal experiences with Space as a New Market.

Please join us online Wednesday, July 22, 8:00–9:00am PST when Robert Jacobson (Desert Sky Holdings & Space Advisors, Co-Founder, The A&D Forum), Randa Relich Milliron (CEO/CoFounder, Interorbital Systems), Dave Strobel (CEO, Space Micro) and Ivan Rosenberg (Moderator) (Managing Partner, InVista Associates and Co-Founder and Executive Director, The A&D Forum) will present their view and experiences of Space as a New Market. Robert’s recently published book Space is Open for Business presents both a history of New Space and emerging opportunities. Randa’s company is producing the world’s lowest cost orbital launch vehicles. Dave’s company produces radiation hardened, yet affordable, spacecraft subsystems operating in all orbital domains.

The meeting is free for members and $25 for non-members.  For more information and to register to attend the meeting go to http://adfnofjul20.eventbrite.com.

Information about joining The A&D Forum is at https://aerospacedefenseforum.org.

National Online Forum meeting on June 17

As the world slowly emerges from the Covid-19 epidemic, there is one bright star in the future of space business. The Space Revolution, headlined by Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, and presented by Rick Tumlinson at the A&D Forum’s first ever meeting in May 2010, is well underway. As last weekend’s launch of the SpaceX Dragon demonstrated, even as economies shudder, the push to open space through low cost reusable spaceships is moving ahead at full thrust.

Please join us online Wednesday, June 17, 8:00–9:00am PST when Rick Tumlinson (Founder and Chairman, SpaceFund) and Meagan Crawford (Managing Partner, SpaceFund) will present their take on the state of space, both from an investor’s perspective and a broader economic and strategic viewpoint, and share their view of what is to come on the frontier of this new industrial revolution.

The meeting is free for members and $25 for non-members and is limited to 100 attendees. For more information and to register to attend the meeting go to http://adfnofjun20.eventbrite.com.

Information about joining The A&D Forum is at https://aerospacedefenseforum.org.

National Online Forum meeting on May 6

COVID-19 has posed challenges to companies of all sizes as they try to navigate the swath of new government legislation and guidance. As we approach the post-COVID-19 era, panelists from Sheppard Mullin will discuss a number of issues aerospace and defense executives should take into consideration now to prepare for the return to normal business operations.

Please join us online Wednesday, May 6, 8:00–9:00am PST when our panelists,
• Denise Giraudo, Partner, Labor and Employment Practice Group, Washington, D.C. office
• Kelly Hensley, Partner, Leader of the Labor and Employment Practice Group, Los Angeles office
• Claudia L. Hinsch, Partner, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group of the Tax Practice, Washington, D.C. office
• Ivan Rosenberg (Moderator), Co-Founder and Executive Director, The Aerospace & Defense Forum & Managing Partner, InVista Associates
will discuss resuming normal workforce operations, pitfalls that may be the focus of future litigation from the plaintiffs’ bar, and navigating the web of government incentives that have been ever-changing through the pandemic.

The meeting is free for members and $25 for non-members and is limited to 100 attendees. For more information and to register to attend the meeting go to http://adfnohmay20.eventbrite.com.

Information about joining The A&D Forum is at https://aerospacedefenseforum.org.