McMaster | DAIR Speaker Series

Speaker Series Events

DAIR in partnership with the Industry Operations Leadership & Management Program with McMaster Engineering, will launch an Industry-Led Speaker Series to increase productivity & competitiveness through concentrated lessons and Mentorship.

Monthly Concentrated Lessons & Mentorship

NOV 23 - MAR 24

5 SPEAKER EVENTS | 1 MENTORSHIP EVENT | 1-1.5 HR EACH

MONTHLY | LIVE | VIRTUAL | FREE

Downsview Aerospace Innovation & Research (DAIR) & McMaster University have collaborated to craft a monthly speaker series where leaders in industry will be able to learn directly from senior leaders world-wide on prevalent topics within the aerospace sector.

The Series hosts 6 events | 5 Speaker Events & 1 Mentorship Event.

Lunch & Learn

& Rapidly Share

Each 1hr Speaker lecture has been crafted to offer a highly concentrated "lunch & learn" approach, Offering 30 min of optional Q&A post the lecture.

Rapidly share relevant content & tools with your own teams, through the shared tools and content.

Mentorship Event

Attend a final stand alone mentorship event to ask questions regarding current challenges.

Participants will rotate through 3 break out rooms and engage up to 6 mentors within the 1.5 hr event.

Speaker & Mentorship Events

Event 1

Business Unit Scaling Through Automation

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SPEAKER

Mathew Williams

Chief Manufacturing Engineer

GKN Aerospace

02 Nov 23 (Closed)

1:00 - 2:30 pm Est

Learn from Mathew Williams | Chief Manufacturing Engineer, GKN Aerospace as he shares best practices and fundamentals in crafting enterprise automation strategies & solutions, process mapping and analysis, enabling an automation pipeline, and implementation lessons learned.

SPEAKER

Mathew Williams

Chief Manufacturing Engineer

GKN Aerospace

02 Nov 23

1:00 - 2:30 pm Est

A multi-skilled Chief Manufacturing Engineer, with over 10 years of aerospace, automotive and mechanical manufacturing experience, in industry-leading companies worldwide. Matt has successfully delivered €90m+ machine installations in world leading semiconductor organizations and cost saving projects in the region of £500,000 - £1m annual ROI across multiple manufacturing industrial sectors, including automotive, aerospace and semi-con.

Event 2

Workforce Development Sustainment Strategies

Closed

SPEAKER

Craig Trewet

Senior Executive (Ret'd) Boeing

22 Nov 23 (Closed)

1:00 - 2:30 pm Est

Learn from Craig Trewet | Senior Executive (Ret'd), Boeing as he shares strategies and best practices to enable the rapid up-skilling of the current workforce on topics such as leadership, management, and technology adoption. Also learn techniques to best enable pathways to backfill, attract and train new hires while developing a faster productivity runway.

SPEAKER

Craig Trewet

Senior Executive (Ret'd) Boeing

22 Nov 23

1:00 - 2:30 pm Est

Craig Trewet | Senior Executive| Boeing Co. - Led the Airplane Paint, Flight Readiness and Delivery process as the Boeing Production System Leader. He was the interim Vice President of Operations for development of the New Middle of the Market Airplane. Within Boeing Fabrication, he led Boeing Salt Lake (Metals/Composites including 787 Vertical Fin and Horizontal Stabilizer) and the Electrical Systems Responsibility Center (wire fabrication and systems installation).

Event 3

Enabling High-Performance Research & Development & Project Risk Mitigation Strategies

Closed

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SPEAKER

Shelley Peterson

XR Industry Pioneer

Microsoft | Lockheed Martin

11 Jan 24 (Closed)

1:00 - 2:30 pm Est

Learn from Shelley Peterson, who has led & supported multiple aerospace and defence research & development projects with Microsoft and Lockheed Martin. She shares the most impactful strategies, best practices and opportunities to manage research & development projects and risk mitigation strategies - highlighting use cases for augmented and mixed reality applications within manufacturing, with lessons learned from NASA's Orion spacecraft.

SPEAKER

Shelley Peterson

XR Industry Pioneer

Microsoft | Lockheed Martin

11 Jan 24

1:00 - 2:30 pm Est

Shelley Peterson has led & supported both Microsoft and Lockheed Martin's pursuits with augmented & mixed reality. She draws on experience leading military aircraft distributed mission training projects and a multi-spectral imaging monocular for SOCOM, B1-Bomber Simulators, and Space Based Infrared Systems satellite program. Shelley also serves on the Barbara Bush Foundation Technology Advisory Board.

Event 4

LEAN Techniques to Drive Competitive Resilient Operations

Closed

SPEAKER

Dave Hyem

Vice President (ret'd)

Boeing

Learn from Dave Hyem | Vice President (Ret'd), Boeing as he shares the most impactful LEAN strategies, best practices and opportunities to enable business units to increase productivity and drive resilient operations while increasing competitiveness.

31 Jan 24

1:00 - 2:30 pm Est

SPEAKER

Dave Hyem

Vice President (ret'd)

Boeing

31 Jan 24

1:00 - 2:30 pm Est

Dave Hyem was Vice President of Metals for Boeing Fabrication, he was responsible for the strategy and operations of Fabrication metals production at several factories employing more than 6,000 people. He was previously a general manager of Boeing Portland, a role that included oversight of Boeing Helena and Boeing Sheffield.

Event 5

Enhancing Quality Management Systems & Practices to Enhance Productivity & Competitiveness

Closed

SPEAKER

Tiago Dos Santos

Flight Safety Officer | Quality Leader

Bombardier

Learn from Tiago Dos Santos | Flight Safety Officer, Quality Leader, Bombardier as he shares strategies and best practices to enhance quality management systems and practices. Specifically targeted to enable suppliers and small to medium enterprises to increase productivity and business competitiveness.

22 Feb 24

1:00 - 2:30 pm Est

SPEAKER

Tiago Dos Santos

Flight Safety Officer | Quality Leader

Bombardier

22 Feb 24

1:00 - 2:30 pm Est

With over 12 years in engineering, quality, aviation maintenance and aircraft operations, Tiago has lead the development, execution, and sustainment of quality and safety systems in the manufacturing and operational environments. Tiago’s experience both in sustainment and new development aircraft programs has brought together design, process, and problem solving to ensure quality and safety support the operational goals and requirements of the business unit, government authorities, and the end customer.

Event 6

Aerospace Leaders Panellist Disucssion

Closed

6 SENIOR INDUSTRY LEADER MENTORS

21 Mar 24

1:00 - 2:30 pm Est

Join us for this panellist discussion event. You will be able to ask our panellists questions to drive feedback on prevalent challenges you or your business unit may be facing.

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Program Lead

Industry Operations Leadership & Management

PROGRAM LEAD

Ashan Corea

McMaster University

W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology

Certificates of Completion Professional Programs

coreaa@mcmaster.ca