STI/SPFA 2017 Fall Conference
 

09.14.17 UPDATE: STI-SPFA staff have personally reviewed conditions at the Hilton Post Oak Hotel. The hotel is operating, roads are clear, and the airports are up and running. The Fall Conference will be held as planned.

Pre-conference Special Event - Monday September 25
Pressure Vessels: Technical Workshop
 

FREE for STI/SPFA Members who also register for the Fall Conference. You may also wish to invite your customers and specifying engineers to attend this workshop at the $150 non-member registration fee (includes lunch). Click this link for information about the Pressure Vessels: Technical Workshop.

Fall Conference Presentations and Speakers

Wednesday, September 27


Soft Tissue Management: Better Results, Better Outcomes
Safety presentation by Jennifer Davis, Training Director at 
Emerge Diagnostics
Workers' compensation law holds employers liable for bringing an injured employee back to "pre-injury condition." Emerge will explain its EFA-STM Progarm, which provides a comprehensive and objective solution to ensure that employers are protected against claims of discrimination and/or disability, while complying with all ADAAA and EEOC regulations.


Developing Changes in the Fuel Industry
David Hackett, Founder & CEO,
Stillwater Associates

Stillwater Associates is a transportation fuels consulting firm, specializing in downstream markets. The downstream business is competitive, and changes happen fast. From crude oil and gasoline to renewable fuels, we are experts in policy, logistics, refining, and retail marketing. Our focus is on energy policy, with an emphasis on traditional and next-generation fuels refining, distribution, and marketing issues.


Construction for LNG Export: U.S. Impact
Brad Veath, VP Sales, and Eric Frey, 
CB&I, The Woodlands, Texas

We are becoming a significant exporter of LNG, thanks to fracking. BIC Magazine says that the U.S. will be the world's largest exporter of LNG by 2035. What does this mean for our industry? Is this an opportunity for a new market in fabricating LNG facilities and transport? Brad is currently VP Sales-Americas for CB&I's Steel Plate Structures Division.


Current Energy Policy and Regulation
Robert Wasinger, Senior VP-Federal Public Affairs, McGuire Woods Consulting
Rob is a long-time Capitol Hill player with his finger on the pulse of legislative and regulatory activity. He'll update us on the Department of Commerce's Section 232 investigation of the effect of steel imports on U.S. national security, as well as current activity on steel "dumping" by China, Korea, and other nations. Rob served as director of Senate and Gubernatorial Outreach for the Trump for President campaign in 2016.


Leading with Certainty...In Uncertain Times
Rich Sweeney, R.H. Sweeney Associates
In this lively session, Rich explains how your own natural behavior and habits in the workplace impact the productivity of the people you lead every day. When the economic environment demands austerity, learn how this method for increasing workforce motivation delivers new results--without new investment.


SPECIAL MEETING!
Tired of losing pressure vessel sales 
to foreign "dumping?"


We're developing educational materials and planning a trip to meet with our legislators in Washington DC. We want to let them know just how low-cost, completed vessels like these dumped into our market from China and other nations are hurting our business and our employees.

Join us for a conversation right after the Wednesday program!(About 4:00 pm.) We'll meet in the same room as the presentations. Stick around and let's talk strategy to inform and educate our legislators in Congress.