TEC NExT Conference | March 30

Program

TEC NExT 2023 > Program

Sessions will be a mix of presentations, panels, and collaborative exchanges with staff, TEC Council and volunteers. Here are some of the topics to be covered:

Volunteer-to-volunteer communication (recruitment, problem-solving and more!)
DE&I
Engaging Industries
Strategic Planning
Succession Planning
Volunteers: From Recruiting to On-boarding

Thursday, March 30, 2023
Session Time (EDT)	Presentation Title	Presentation Description	Speaker(s)
10 ‐ 10:05 AM	Welcome	Day 1 Opening Remarks	Tom Costabile Bob Stakenborghs
10:05 ‐ 10:20 AM	General Volunteerism – Why do you do this? Why, what, how, why do you continue?	Volunteering for a professional society is a great way to network with those who have similar professional concentrations. Leading a professional society takes passion and dedication. Hear from our leaders about the importance of what you do, why you do it and how you do it.	Eric Ruggiero Columbia Mishra Karen Ohland Laura Herrera
10:20 ‐ 10:50 AM	ASME Overview & TEC Overview	Overview of the purpose and mission of TEC Sector and Sector activities.	Christine Reilly ASME TEC Council: Bob Stakenborghs TEC Council, Senior Vice President Vicki Risinger TEC Council, Vice Chair Tom Lavertu TEC Council, Vice Chair Columbia Mishra TEC Council, Member at Large Damian Vogt TEC Council, Member at Large
10:50 ‐ 11:30 AM	High-Performing Divisions & Research Committees	The TEC Sector has be able to create many technical groups who produce content for our stakeholders. This sesion will focus on new ways to lead divisions, research committees and organizing committees. It will also provide criteria for successful outcomes.	Tom Lavertu Angelique Vesey
11:30 ‐ 11:40 AM	Break
11:40 AM ‐ 12:00 PM	Roles and Responsibilities Division Chair	Having a clear guideline of roles and responsibilities will streamline and maximize your group’s time and expertise as well as build camaraderie.	Steve Long John Bozewicz
12:00 ‐ 12:15 PM	Holding Effective Meetings	Holding effective meetings is crucial to utilizing the aggregated knowledge of the meeting participants. This session will provide guidance on achieving this important goal of every meeting.	Shannon Stott
12:15 ‐ 12:30 PM	Succession Planning	Succession planning is important to ensure continued operational success for the benefit of division and research committee members. Mark will share his succession planning experience which has helped the formation of diverse group members.	Mark Zelesky
12:30 – 12:35 PM	Closing		Laura Herrera

Friday, March 31, 2023
Session Time (EDT)	Presentation Title	Presentation Description	Speaker(s)
10 ‐ 10:05 AM	Welcome Day 2	Summary of Day 1, Overview of Day 2	Tom Lavertu Angelique Vesey
10:05 ‐ 10:35 AM	ASME Culture DEI & ASME Code of Conduct Policy	This session will provide an introduction to ASME’s definitions of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), as well as context to help clarify why these principles are so important to our work. We will share some examples of ASME’s work to advance DEI and provide resources that unit leaders can use to support DEI in their own groups. It will also include a review of the ASME Code of Conduct Policy.	Amy Betz Rebecca Stark
10:35 ‐ 11:05 AM	Peer-to-Peer Conflict Resolution	Often times it's less than ideal to have difficult conversations with colleagues. Albeit necessary sometimes, it can certainly be a stressful situation to go through. This session will discuss ways to handle these scenarios with peers.	Ricardo Martinez-Botas
11:05 ‐ 11:35 AM	TEC Task Force Overview and Status Updates How to Increase Industry Participation How to Member Recognition Conference Revenue Share	The TEC Council has received feedback about areas the Sector should review to help TEC committees excel. Based on this feedback, the Sector has created task forces. These groups are a collection of volunteers and staff who congregate to provide solutions for their given topic.	Tom Lavertu Columbia Mishra Damian Vogt
11:35 AM ‐ 11:45 AM	Break
11:45 AM ‐ 12:15 PM	Ideation - Business Plans	"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones."— John Maynard Keynes This session will encourage new ways of thinking to meet the need of ASME stakeholders in the current climate. From intentional programming to grassroots marketing, we will review opportunities to increase the impact of your conference and division programming.	Ben Wellhoefer Tim Graves Phyllis Klasky
12:15 ‐ 12:55 PM	All Roads Lead to Strategic Planning	Whenever a committee has success or lessons learned, they can look at their strategy to see how the result happened. In this session you will see examples of a Strategic Plan including a Plan Action and Evaluation strategy from volunteer leaders who have prioritized these efforts.	Kieran Kavanagh Jamie Hart
12:55 ‐ 1:00 PM	Closing & Reminders	Summary of the TEC NExT Symposium and the road ahead.	Bob Stakenborghs

Thursday, March 30, 2023

Friday, March 31, 2023