On the Show Floor
GET Resources:
IPC Bookstore
The IPC bookstore is the place to go for the detailed information you need. Browse through industry standards on design, board fabrication and assembly and find out what you’re missing. Member prices will be extended to all attendees on-site, even if you aren’t one! And just for stopping by, we’ll have some thank you gifts to share.
Get Messages:
Free Internet Lounge
Convenient, FREE access to the Internet will be available in the exhibit hall to help your show experience go smoothly. Take a break and catch up with your office — then you’ll be ready to focus on the new products on the show floor.
On Your Marks,
GET Set … Go!
Show Floor Reception
Wednesday, September 24, 5:00 pm–6:00 pm
I feel the need … the need for speed! For years we’ve been under the gun to go faster, faster, faster. Now it’s time for us to round the track and enjoy some of the exhilaration ourselves. Join us for an evening of racing and revelry as we celebrate all things FAST. There’ll be lots of food and fun.
Got a bit of the Speed Racer in you? Put your skills to the test — flat-out down the chute or in the low-groove. Just be sure to fuel up by taking plenty of pit stops with our exhibitors — they may just hold the key to your company’s next victory.
Get Munchies:
Thursday Snack and Stroll
Thursday, September 25,
2:30 pm–3:30 pm
Life is too short to live without cookies. So, prepare to grab a snack on the show floor and enjoy a little afternoon pick-me-up as you visit with exhibitors. They’ll have plenty of sweet solutions for your challenges at work.
Special Events
FREE Keynote Session
Wednesday, September 24, 8:30 am–9:30 am
Secrets of the Future of Indy Cars: Where Electronics Will Be the Winning Edge
Derek Daly
 Fasten your seat belt … and get ready for the ride of your life! As someone from an industry that shares, with ours, the pressures to go faster and faster, our keynote speaker is intimately aware of what it takes to succeed with speed. Not only did Derek Daly live the demands of FAST in his work, he was one of the many that looked to our industry to help him achieve it! To him, electronics has been the greatest source of competitive edge in the motor sports industry … and he should know. As the test driver of the car with the first electronic dash board in 1987, Daly has witnessed firsthand how the role of electronics has lapped other advancements in his industry.
A past Formula One, Indy Car and World Sports Car driver; television motorsports personality; businessman and author, Derek Daly knows how to be a champion … and survivor. Join us for a fascinating race through his life and gain an insider’s look into how electronics holds the key to the checkered flag in racing.
GET Connected (and caffeinated):
Free First-Timers Welcome Breakfast
Wednesday, September 24, 7:30 am–8:15 am
Wake up to breakfast replete with networking opportunities and information to help you make the most of your visit to the show. Discover all the ways that involvement in IPC can enhance your career and benefit your company. Everyone who attends the breakfast will receive a FREE standards development CD.
IPC Committee Awards
Luncheon
Monday, September 22 and Tuesday, September 23 , 12:00 pm–1:30 pm
Let’s give them a hand! Join your colleagues for lunch as IPC recognizes committee members and other leaders who contribute their time and expertise to the development of IPC standards and other activities.
(Registration required)
IPC Event Luncheon
Wednesday, September 24,
12:00 pm–1:30 pm
Let’s do lunch! Take some quality time to join your industry colleagues for lunch and make new friends and business contacts. Who knows — the person sitting next to you may hold the key to your most pressing challenge.
(Registration required)
Breakfast With The Presidents
Thursday, September 25, 8:30 am–10:00 am
Join us for a very special panel discussion and Q&A featuring EMS Presidents and enjoy breakfast on us! IPC
Board members Don Schroeder, president of CTS Electronics
Manufacturing Solutions, and Michael Brown, Chairman of the Board, Logic Corporation, will moderate this revealing session
on critical issues facing the EMS industry.
Golf
Chicagoland Circuit Board Association Annual Golf Outing
Tuesday, September 23
Got pitch?
… on the golf course, that is.
Then get down to business at the Klein Creek Golf Club in Winfield, Ill. You are cordially invited to join your colleagues in the industry for some fun in the sun and golf escapades before the conference and exhibition begin.
At 6,700 yards, the 18-hole championship course at Klein Creek is an ideal place to make new friends, network and show off your golf prowess (or lack thereof). Renowned course architect, Dick Nugent carved a masterpiece from 230 acres of rolling prairie, forest, strategically bunkered fairways and greens and more than 30 acres of man-made lakes. Whether your favorite is the 9th hole — a par 4 rated as the most challenging in Chicago — or the 17th — a par 3 surrounded by sand and water, it is easy to understand why both Chicagoland Golf and Golf Digest have named Klein Creek as one of the area’s premier courses.
- Green fees, cart, lunch and prizes … $120.
- New friends and business contacts … Priceless
Find more information and register (.pdf). Questions? Contact Rob Coleman, RBP Chemicals at +1 630-881-6819. Registration deadline is September 9.
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