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DECEMBER 2021 I SMT007 MAGAZINE 63 perience with the different types of quoting soware so the audience can compare, then decide what they should be looking for in the soware. Calumet Electronics will provide a user per- spective of CMMC (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification) and cybersecurity tools implementation. at's obviously a very dif- ficult process and a lot of people are talking about how to do that because it's still in theo- ry right now, very time consuming, and a very difficult thing to get one's head around. It will be a practical application that somebody can look to and ask questions about who to ask and steps for getting started. Wolfe: Another topic of emphasis is the elec- tronics supply chain. We have a panel that represents senior leaders from Avnet and the semiconductor side, TTI with the passive, electromechanical and connector side, as well as TTM at the circuit board level. is will al- low a good exchange in conversation around what's going on in those industries. Are there ideas about practices that can help people to be more successful with all the constraints that are out there? e overall intent of the EMS Leadership Summit is to give participants a chance to take home real-life actions to help their businesses; this is where some of the practical side comes in. For example, we will be talking about ro- botics as an alternative to labor challenges, and someone will bring in an actual robot to do some show and tell. Again, it's bringing in a hands-on piece. Johnson: Who should be attending this ses- sion? Riggan: Any director and above of an EMS company, as well as managers of EMS compa- nies. We want the future leaders, the succes- sors, those who are at the helm of designing those new business solutions and putting them in place right now. Johnson: is does seem to be a broader at- tendee scope than in previous years for the EMS professional development programs, is that correct? Wolfe: Yes. One of the statements of past suc- cess is the repeat attendance, but we haven't necessarily been drawing new owners, new se- nior executives of new companies, at the rate we'd like. We feel like there's an opportunity here to attract and expose the next generation of leaders into this industry and to start treat- ing this meeting as a mix of the senior level ex- change of the most pressing issues that are go- ing on, but also for the high potential individ- uals in their organizations to observe, partici- pate, and grow themselves. To support both ambitions, there have been some incentives put in place so that if more than one person attends, they earn incremen- tal credits. It's an opportunity to make it more attractive to attend. Riggan: We are promoting this as a place to receive education, not just to net work amongst themselves. is is an opportunity Tracy Riggan