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discussions that aren't necessarily scheduled or built into the program. When you're talking to a friend of yours and you say, "Hey, we've got this business we're un- able to fulfill," and they say, "Well, we've got these parts we'd love to get to you because we can't use them anymore. We need different parts," then magic happens. Collaboration oc- curs and problems that were intractable start moving down the solution path. ese little mi- crocosms of supply chain work will help some people solve some of their challenges. But it'll be more micro impacts than macro changes to these large issues. Matties: Do you have any specific presentations or conferences that are geared toward address- ing or navigating these issues? Mitchell: In my keynote, I'll be talking about what we can do to navigate some of these chal- lenges specifically. We'll talk about what the sit- uation really is vs. what's being reported. And what, in different regions and different types of companies, we might do to overcome some of those challenges. I hope that my keynote will spur people to find solutions on the other issues. Now, as far as other programmatic elements that are deal- ing with these issues specifically, the answer is yes. On the labor front, everybody is hav- ing difficulty trying to hire people. Finding talent or even warm bodies, frankly, is a chal- lenge. IPC has amazing online skills develop- ment programs that can literally take some- body with no experience in the industry, say working at your local fast-food restaurant, and in two days they could be an operator on a line and effective. You don't have to spend weeks trying to train the people anymore. We were fortunate that industry leaders came to us and said, "Here's what we need. ese are the skills we need to teach. Here's the kind of training we would have you do." Our team of education special- ists took that information, leveraged their ex-