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62 SMT007 MAGAZINE I DECEMBER 2021 Johnson: anks for joining this conversation. Tracy, let's talk about the EMS Leadership Summit. How is it being structured this year? Tracy Riggan: Leaders of small- to medium-size EMS companies in the IPC community have been coming together for years. As we're re- alizing that all levels of the organization have meaningful information to share, we decided to expand the invitation. We know there are up-and-coming leaders with new ideas and approaches to address some of the new chal- lenges that we've experienced over the last few years. e meeting is designed to bring in subject matter experts but also to bring in people from industry to highlight their experiences and give best practices and ideas about new ways to approach challenges. Additionally, we want to provide opportunities for leaders to work together to solve problems. It's important in those discussions to have a wide breadth of ideas and learnings from dif- ferent levels and roles of organizations. We're expanding that conversation by bringing in younger leaders, maybe those in management positions staged to be the next presidents and vice presidents of their organizations. We want to hear how they're planning to approach these things to drive business growth and financial success. Johnson: What motivated that change of scope? Riggan: It was to bring in more voices and support EMS leaders of today and tomor- row to better help each other and the indus- try to prosper. at is what we aim to do this year. It is expanding that conversation to next generation leaders and assuring continuity of leadership, so that the conversation doesn't end with the meeting, but that it goes into practice. Johnson: Right. It only just starts. I sense that the structure of this year's program is going to be a bit different than previous years. Riggan: We're really focused on a conversa- tion that's going to take place. We're bringing in younger leaders, so that's something new. We will have demonstrations of tools to pro- vide more than theory, but a little bit more visibility on the practical applications. Rather than just bring in the experts on tools, for ex- ample, we're bringing in the users to show how tools are applied, and how they question and challenge them. en, we will have discussions around that. Johnson: Discussion on a practical level for part of the program? Riggan: Yes. Johnson: Let's run through the list of present- ers. Riggan: We have invited several users of quot- ing soware. Right now, we have presenters from Zentech and Spartronics; we're identify- ing a couple more to talk about their user ex- Mark Wolfe