Schedule

PRE-CONFERENCE EVENTS: Monday, April 21
8a Golf Tournament at Twin Warriors
1 - 4p Meridium 101: Creating Business and Financial Value with APM
2 - 4p Early Registration
4 - 6p Welcome Reception sponsored by
Reliability Center Inc.
6 - 8p Newcomer Dinner (Invitation only)

CONFERENCE DAY 1: Tuesday, April 22
7:30a
Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30a Welcome and Introduction
Bonz Hart, President, Meridium
8:45a Your Most Important Asset
Geoffrey Colvin, Editor At Large, FORTUNE magazine
9:30a The Strategy is the Asset
Bonz Hart, President, Meridium
10:15a Break
10:30a Demonstrating Value from Asset Performance Management: a Financial Perspective
Bernie Cooper, CEO, Silcar
11:30a Lunch
1p An Introduction to Meridium Asset Strategy Management
Joe Nichols and Chris DeFalco, Meridium
  Track One - Business Track Two - Functional Product Demo Theatre
2:30p Manufacturing Success by Strategic Application of APM
Roy Whitt, Meridium
APM - Creating Maximum Value with a Risk- and Reliability- Based Program
John Mitchell, Meridium
APM Framework
Martin Daniel, Meridium
3:15a Break
3:30p Enhancing Business and Financial Value: Meridium's Certification Program
Marty Moran, Meridium
4:15p Value Assurance Panel Discussion
6p Cocktails, Trail Rides
and Hot Air Ballooning sponsored by SKF
7p Dinner sponsored by Intergraph

CONFERENCE DAY 2: Wednesday, April 23
7:30a
Continental Breakfast
8a Product Update
Joe Nichols, Vice President, Product Strategy, Meridium
  Track One - Business Track Two - Functional Product Demo Theatre
9:15a Developing a Global Reliability Solution for a Mining Organisation
Adam Zaranski, Rio Tinto Group
Case Study: Improving Asset Strategies Using Handhelds
Mark Mitchell, Eastman Chemical
Reliability Analytics
Shannon Brown, Meridium
10a Case Study: Successes in Strategy Management
John Hawkins, PPG
Using Meridium FMEA as a Simple, Seamless Way to Streamline Work Processes
Pierre Swart, Sasol
Mobile Solutions
John Renick, Meridium
10:45a Break
11a Marathon Web Portal: Key to Leveraging Reliability Information in Meridium Throughout the Enterprise
Lance Holmer, Marathon Oil
The Dow Chemical Company’s Approach to Spare Parts Optimization
Keith Lapeyrouse, Dow Chemical
RCM & FMEA
Kevin Sutherland, Meridium
Noon Industry Roundtable Luncheons
1:15p Creating Value with APM at Saudi Chevron Phillips
Dwayne Stover, Meridium
Implementation and Obstacles to a Successful Risk Based Inspection Program for Stationary Equipment
Ken Gottselig, LyondellBasell Industries
Metrics and Scorecards
Martin Daniel, Meridium
2p The Great Multiplier: Leveraging Your Intellectual Property via APM
Wayne Reed, SKF
Case Study: Managing Boiler Tube Failures with Meridium
Rick Hellner, Xcel Energy
Risk Based Inspection
Vinay Nihilani
2:45p Break
3p Manage Your PSM Initiative with Meridium
Roy Whitt and Jeff Apel, Meridium
Six Sigma for Reliability: Demonstrating Improved Performance with Sparse Data
Rick O'Hara, Meridium
Generation Management
Joel Barger, Meridium
4p Process Safety Management Open Forum
Moderator: Roy Whitt, Meridium
Six Sigma Black Belt Panel
Moderators: Rick O'Hara and James Bumpas
Panelists: Clark Sterner, Dow; John Hawkins, PPG
Inspection Management
Ian Hogg, Meridium
5:30p Depart for Bonanza Creek Ranch

CONFERENCE DAY 3: Thursday, April 24
7:30a Continental Breakfast
  Track One - Business Track Two - Functional Product Demo Theatre
8:15a Case Study: Using Metrics and Scorecards to Drive Change
Mark Mitchell, Eastman Chemical, and Shannon Brown, Meridium
VACUUM FAN FAILURE! An Interactive Live RCA Team Meeting
Bob Latino and Mark Latino, Reliability Center Inc.
RCMO
Kevin Sutherland, Meridium
9a Plant Lifecycle Information Management
Mike Jordan, Intergraph, and Gary Johnston, Meridium
SAP Fundamentals for Reliability Reporting
Kahn Ellis, Vesta Partners
SIS Management
Conrad Clark, Meridium
9:45 Break
10a RasGas Journey of Root Cause Failure Analysis
Sounder Rajan Subramanian, RasGas Company Limited
Case Study: Meridium as Your Source of Record
Scott Myers, Flint Hills Resources
Root Cause Analysis (PROACT)
Juan Garcia, Meridium
11a Closing remarks and Grand Prize Giveaway (must be present to win)
Noon - 5p
Steering Committee meetings (Invitation only)
1 - 3p SMRP Certification Exam
Please visit www.smrp.org to register.

In addition to those listed above, Meridium also welcomes Vesta Partners as the keycard sponsor for Meridium Conference 2008.

* Schedule subject to change at the discretion of Meridium