The Five-Minute Pitches at our Annual Member Meeting are by far one of the most popular portions of our event! In these sessions, Members have the opportunity to give strictly timed presentations where they can introduce their organization, showcase a capability, or ask the membership for help in a certain area. Members are careful not to exceed their five-minutes as we play music and cut mics right at the five-minute mark to keep everyone on schedule.
Through these sessions, our consortium, government partners, and all attendees get to learn about new partners they can work with, innovative robotics and AI technologies they can leverage, ground-breaking workforce development programgs they can use to empower their workforce, areas they can help their fellow members, and so much more. We host open networking following the pitches to allow attendees to connect directly to continue the conversations.
Previously, these pitches were assigned on a first come, first served basis and filled within a week of us opening registration for our Annual Member Meeting. This year, we took a different approach and had Members submit brief abstracts. From there, we selected the presentations that we felt would be most impactful for our audience. You may also notice the running theme of AI in manufacturing throughout many of our presentations – you can expect that theme to carry through to other parts of our event as well!