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Phoenix, AZ : April 13-17




Session Tracks - Satisfy Your CEU Requirements

The National Registry of Environmental Professionals will credit you with CEU hours for every NREP approved session you attend.

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Sunday, April 13th
8:00
-11:30
ESS Partner Sessions (Sivlik Golf Center)
 
(7:30 AM - 5:30)Registration / Help Desk
(Akimel Patio Area)
Noon
-5:00
ESS EXPO.08 Golf Tournament and Casino Fun and Bug-O-Rama at Firebird Raceway
 
5:30
-7:30
ESS EXPO.08 Welcome Reception (Akimel Lawn)
 
Monday, April 14th
7:00
-5:00
Breakfast (7:30-9:00 only) (Akimel Lawn)
Registration / Help Desk (Front Akimel /Kave Foyer Area )
9:00
-10:15
Laying the Foundations for Sustainability with EH&S Compliance – AMR, Simon Jacobson, Senior Research Analyst (Kave 1, 2 and 3)
 
Laying the Foundations for Sustainability with EH&S Compliance

As companies look to renovate their business processes to be more sustainable and responsive to the
natural environment, the focus continues to be one of consolidation across the enterprise.

The vision of most comprehensive sustainability programs-integrating all aspects of product, process and supply chain design, and the supporting processes for manufacturing, packaging, transportation, and disposal of products-is highly commendable. However, most companies still struggle with the basic integration of foundational EH&S data into their everyday business processes.

However, AMR's ongoing EH&S research brings to light three steps companies can take to further integrate EH&S compliance efforts into their businesses:

  • Step one - Consolidate disparate EH&S applications and systems to a single instance.
  • Step two - Employ Enterprise 2.0 and Manufacturing 2.0 constructs into your environmental framework.
  • Step three - Integrate your environmental framework with your firm's broader governance risk and compliance (GRC) framework.

AMR Senior Research Analyst, Simon Jacobson will explain how these three steps, when considered together, can ensure that organizations are more in tune with current market and societal demands, and show how ESS is developing its products to ensure that business and EH&S leaders can make each step a reality in their organizations.
10:15
-10:30
Grand Opening Exhibit Hall – Coffee Break (Akimel 1 & 2)
 
(Rooms)Essential Suite
(Kave 3 Room)		Essential Suite
(Kave 2 Room)		 Compliance Suite
(Coyote Room)		Compliance Suite
(Buzzard Room)		Crisis
(Kave 1 Room)
10:30
-11:30
REACH – Understanding and Implementing for Compliance
Protection Through Knowledge (PTK) Ltd
REACH
Understanding and Implementing for Compliance

Andrew Fasey
President, Protection Through Knowledge (PTK) Ltd.
Co-Author of REACH

What are the implications of REACH for US exporters into the EU and how should you be prepared to manage the demands effectively and efficiently? REACH cannot place any duties directly on US companies; however it does place duties on the EU based importers of US products (mixtures and articles). Discover what these importers will need from their US suppliers to mitigate risks or their products will be withdrawn from the EU market. Andrew Fasey, co-author of REACH will identify the immediate priorities and substances needing to be 'pre-registered'; characterize pre-registration and how it enables importers to take advantage of the phase-in deadlines contained in REACH; explain what needs to registered, what is entitled to be pre-registered, what information is required for pre-registration, and the steps that follow up to and including registration.
Streamlining Your ISO 14001 Internal Audit Process
Alcoa
Streamlining Your ISO 14001 Internal Audit Process

Stephanie Sparkman, PE, Environmental Supervisor
Alcoa, Inc. – Tennessee Operations

ESS Excellence Award Winner

As a global supplier of aluminum products, Alcoa attained its ISO 14001 certification in 2005 and has maintained this certification by conducting periodic internal audits of its management system and compliance processes.

The company uses ESS' Compliance and Task Manager to streamline its internal audit process. As implemented, the modules allow an internal audit task to become the central record of audit performance: allowing for seamless transition between auditors. Discover how automation enables EH&S professionals to seamlessly manage each stage of an ISO 14001 audit from information collection, document review, simplifying record access and providing links to evidence documentation and regulatory information.
Easy Implementation with Mid-Market Enterprise Solutions for EH&S
ESS
Easy Implementation with Mid-Market
Enterprise Solutions for EH&S

Barbara Burtner, Director, Professional Services, ESS

So, you want to eliminate some paperwork and automate some notifications and reports, but putting a new software system into place sounds more painful than continuing with your current approach? Let the ESS Professional Services Team show you how to make implementation of your new software flow smoothly and quickly. We will share our proven implementation methodology, the Roadmap to Success. Learn how to ensure effective planning, setup the system right the first time and empower end users to work effectively. Additionally, this session will address how you can sustain your system over time.
Industrial Hygiene Stressors: It's About Location, Location, Location
Brookhaven National Lab
Industrial Hygiene Stressors:
It's About Location, Location, Location

Ken Erickson CSP, REM, CHO, Industrial Hygienist
Brookhaven National Laboratory

ESS Excellence Award Winner

In this session, Ken Erickson, Industrial Hygienist and Data Manager from Brookhaven National Laboratory will explain how identifying environmental targets may not be enough to support organizational objectives. Discover how to analyze organizational workflows and collect baseline data that can be used to focus stressor monitoring by location, rather than by individual instance. Learn how to automate the collection and maintenance of multiple sample measurements and their sampling intervals to elevate the performance of an organization's industrial hygiene program.

Implementing an Emergency Information System for Global Risk Management
ESS
Implementing an Emergency Information System for Global Risk Management

John Gargett, Product Manager, ESS

Terrorism and other crisis events impact both global industry leaders and emerging companies on nearly every continent. Enterprises - particularly multinational companies - are becoming more vigilant in protecting their facilities. They are now conducting training exercises, often coordinating with local or regional emergency management agencies. Several have developed global crisis management programs, supported by the latest integrated information management technologies, to ensure companies can execute a robust response in case of acts of terrorism, major weather-related events or catastrophic operational incidents such as fires, workplace injuries and hazardous material spills.

This session will explore how Essential Emergency can positively impact the effectiveness of global enterprises organizational strategies everywhere.
11:30
-12:30
Proactively Manage Risks Across Your Enterprise thru Better Incident Management
Koppers, ERM, ESS
 
Proactively Manage Risks Across Your Enterprise
thru Better Incident Management

Linda Paul, Environmental Manager, Koppers
Chad Morris, EMIS Consultant, Project Manager, ERM
Joe Appelbaum, VP of Product Management, ESS

ESS Excellence Award Winner

In 2005, Koppers, a global leader in carbon compounds and treated wood production, wanted to streamline EH&S compliance tracking and reporting across its 19 US plants and extensive worldwide operations. The company adopted ESS' Essential Suite™ as its unified software platform for incident management. Learn how Koppers personnel are achieving strong, measurable results by using ESS' enterprise software to, for example, capture basic incident data in minutes and reduce monthly reporting time significantly while gathering more complete information for analysis and corrective measures. Also see an overview of the exciting new Essential Incident v. 7.1 – a powerful tool for managing all kinds of incidents throughout their lifecycle.
Developing an Integrated Batch Chemical Emissions Model With Essential Suite
Momentive Performance Materials, CH2M Hill
Developing an Integrated Batch Chemical Emissions Model
With Essential Suite

Tony Vandenberg, Senior Staff Engineer, Momentive Performance Materials
Jason Schmidt, Information Solutions Project Consultant, CH2MHill

ESS Excellence Award Winner

As a manufacturer of hundreds of specialty chemicals, Momentive Performance Materials, LLC of Sistersville, West Virginia has a very complicated emissions profile with thousands of unique batch steps. New permit requirements and a new MACT standard, regulating miscellaneous organic chemicals, have presented the plant with the need to re-develop its 7-year old systems. With its system requirements established, Momentive has set forth to design, build and implement a holistic emissions management solution. The end result will integrate data flow among multiple data systems and enable plant managers to achieve numerous compliance and operational objectives. At its core, the entire project is a progressive work process design that brings together data, people and systems to produce results.
EHS Performance Management for Governance, Risk and Compliance
Lexicon Systems, LLC
 
EHS Performance Management for Governance, Risk and Compliance

Jill Barson Gilbert, QEP, President of Lexicon Systems, LLC

In today's competitive marketplace, businesses need better tools to manage their operations and risk performance. Top executives are now accountable - and more actively involved - in their companies' EH&S and Crisis Management activities today than ever before. They face endless regulations from Homeland Security to Sarbanes-Oxley, in addition to overlapping demands for accountability and reporting requirements, increased risk exposure and the 24/7 demands of global operations.

This session will look at how performance management can be the engine that drives your business unit or organization to new heights. Find out how you can unleash your company's potential to manage business complexities to reduce operational risks and costs.
Power Triad of EH&S Management: Software, Services and Certification
ESS
 
Power Triad of EH&S Management:
Software, Services and Certification

Judy Coleman, West Regional Manager - Professional Services, ESS

Environmental management relies on professionals using all of their available resources to optimize compliance and performance. Demonstrating your industry knowledge and expertise through the appropriate certification is acknowledgement that you have the right skills. Choosing the right tools, be it a data management system or a field data logger, is another critical component of your day-to-day environmental management responsibilities. Lastly, making the right implementation decisions is key to implementing your program and driving it to the next level. In this informative session, we will explore how maximizing the triad of software, services, and professional credentialing empowers you as an environmental professional.

Panel of Experts: Preparing for a Pandemic
ESS
 
 
Panel of Experts: Preparing for a Pandemic

John Gargett, Product Manager, ESS
Lee Sapaden, Sr Homeland Security Analyst, SRA International, Inc.
Tom Johnson, Manager AEAS Group, SAIC
Paul Clausen, GIS Analyst and Subject Matter Expert, L-3
Sue Serino, Fusion Project Manager, L-3
Steve Donlon, Fusion Program Manager, L-3

In the event of pandemic influenza, businesses will play a key role in protecting employees' health and safety, as well as limiting the negative impact on the economy and society. Planning for such a pandemic is critical to effective mitigation, response and recovery. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have developed checklists for large businesses. These checklists identify important, specific activities that large businesses can and should undertake to enhance their preparedness.

This panel will discuss how the CDC, HHS and DHS guide businesses and industry and how their recommendations are actively supported within Essential Emergency.
12:30
-1:30
Luncheon –- (Akimel Lawn)
 
Title
1:30
-2:30
Dashboards and More - Introducing Essential Performance Manager
ESS
 
Dashboards and More
Introducing Essential Performance Manager

Marc Dillon, Senior Product Manager, ESS
Philip Dyball, Program Manager/Architect, ESS

In order for management and operations to analyze data, make decisions and drive performance, one or more well designed, easy-to-access dashboards or scorecards are needed for performance monitoring and communication. One of the key elements of effective performance management is the accountability and the communication of performance data relative to stated targets and goals. During this presentation, attendees can view the advanced dashboard and scorecard capabilities of Essential Performance Manager™, which can enable users to instantly access important and meaningful performance information at a glance. Plus, you will obtain tips and tricks to win the dashboard design contest during the Hands-On laboratory.
Environmental Footprint Reduction: Strategy to Operations to Results
CH2M Hill
 
Environmental Footprint Reduction:
Strategy to Operations to Results

Wade Carter, EH&S Information Management Consultant, CH2M Hill
Sheila Galegher, EH&S Strategic Services Consultant, CH2M Hill

As global issues such as energy, carbon management and climate change have become significant business drivers, sustainability has moved from the esoteric and academic, to the boardroom and the operating environment. Understanding a corporation's environmental footprint is no longer driven only by regulators and environmental compliance reporting. Today, the dataset that represents a facility, a country or a global environmental footprint represents the foundation for global corporate growth strategies and capital project and investment planning. It also serves as the baseline for operational decision-making that is critical to bottom-line performance and demonstrates an organization's commitment to corporate social responsibility.
SHIPS: Successful Safety Program Rooted in US Forest Service
USDA Forest Service, ESS
 
SHIPS: Successful Safety Program Rooted
in US Forest Service

Caroline Deaderick, Safety & Occupational Health Manager, USDA Forest Service
Kyra Sharp, Professional Services, ESS

ESS Excellence Award Winner

ESS software is at the core of the Forest Service's Safety and Health Integrated Portal System (SHIPS), an accident and incident reporting system which tracks employee injuries and illnesses of the agency's more than 30,000 fulltime employees and large temporary workforce. The ESS-supported platform allows for fast and easy correspondence between USFS and the Department of Labor (DOL).

Learn how SHIPS has empowered employees to submit accident report forms electronically, increased productivity and reduced accident and injury reporting time from days to a matter of minutes. Discover how this portal has allowed the agency to evaluate trends and understand injury dynamics to retool its safety program for the 21st Century.
GHG – Developing a Business Strategy for Carbon Management
Carbonetworks, ESS
 
GHG – Developing a Business Strategy for Carbon Management

Steve Mooney, Co-Founder, Carbonetworks
Dorney Douglass, VP of Product Marketing, ESS

In many businesses, greenhouse gases are not just an environmental concern. Carbon emissions are assets that must be managed because they can impact your company's bottom line. Businesses need auditable carbon data to make sound business decisions. Your business may also need to develop a plan to satisfy corporate requirements for vendors to release data about their carbon emissions. This session will provide a look at best practices for establishing a carbon strategy that will help you transform your carbon output from a potential risk into an asset. Learn how the latest software tools enable those best practices by providing an auditable emissions inventory, analytic tools for strategy development, and performance communications to execute that strategy successfully.
Planning an Effective Crisis Exercise Program
ESS
 
 
Planning an Effective Crisis Exercise Program

John Gargett, Product Manager, ESS
Lee Sapaden, Sr Homeland Security Analyst, SRA International, Inc.
Tom Johnson, Manager AEAS Group, SAIC
Paul Clausen, GIS Analyst and Subject Matter Expert, L-3
Sue Serino, Fusion Project Manager, L-3
Steve Donlon, Fusion Program Manager, L-3

One of the strongest predictors of success in responding to any kind of crisis event is a commitment to regular, realistic exercises. In addition, virtually all current regulations impacting crisis planning either require or recommend that emergency exercises be an integral part of a comprehensive crisis program. That's why it is imperative that emergency managers know how to conduct effective exercises.

This session will cover methods for planning, preparing for and conducting an exercise program. Experts from ESS, SAIC and L-3 Communications, will explain how developing a comprehensive strategy and implementing their programs as recommended will enable crisis and EH&S professionals to reduce the cost and time needed to orchestrate an exercise.
2:30
-3:30
Introduction to Building World Class Software
ESS
 
 
Introduction to Building World Class Software

Sean McKinney, Vice President of Product Development, ESS
Joe Appelbaum, Vice President of Product Management, ESS

Building software, like any other engineering endeavor, takes processes, creativity, choices and discipline. Join us for a look under the hood of ESS' product development process to gain a clear understanding of the steps our team takes - from initial product idea to completed software deliverable - in order to create the industry-leading software platform that your organization depends on everyday.
Planning for Enhancements: Greenhouse Gases, Emission Calculations and Related Enhancements
ESS
Planning for Enhancements: Greenhouse Gases,
Emission Calculations and Related Enhancements

Paul Andrews, Product Manager, ESS

The business and regulatory environment for carbon and greenhouse gas management is changing rapidly. ESS has a broad spectrum of solutions to manage your organization's carbon emissions. Identify the different ESS software solutions that your organization can use to transform your carbon outputs from a potential risk to an asset. Learn about planned enhancements that will facilitate management of your organization's greenhouse gas emissions inventory.
Cover Your Assets! The Role of Critical Equipment in EHS and Risk Management
DS&S
 
Cover Your Assets! The Role of Critical Equipment in
EHS and Risk Management

Mike Easley, Customer Relations Manager, DS&S
Greg Stevens, Business Development Director, DS&S

Many companies find that improvements to EH&S don't materialize even after implementing new systems and processes. The revelation is that task- and people-based compliance systems fall short: compliance management, task management tracking slips, trips and falls. Learn how asset-based and predictive systems are enabling organizations to see significant improvements in environmental compliance, plant availability, process safety and incident reduction.
Expand Your Incident Management Capabilities with the Latest ESS Solutions
ESS
 
Expand Your Incident Management Capabilities with the Latest ESS Solutions

Lisa Bahl, Solutions Engineer, ESS

Join us for an introduction to the next generation of ESS software solutions. Discover how the features of ESS' Essential Incident give EH&S professionals the flexibility to associate multiple incidents to one event and through a single, centralized database, track all types of incidents: environmental spills, fires, vehicle accidents and employee incidents. Also, learn how enhanced functionality allows professionals to configure their own incident types and define what information their organizations are capturing, and in what order, to enhance their organizations' incident management processes
Real-Time Emergency Exercise Workshop
ESS, SAIC, L3
 
 
Real-Time Emergency Exercise Workshop

John Gargett, Product Manager, ESS
Lee Sapaden, Sr Homeland Security Analyst, SRA International, Inc.
Tom Johnson, Manager AEAS Group, SAIC
Tom Ford, President, Double F Productions
Paul Clausen, GIS Analyst and Subject Matter Expert, L-3
Sue Serino, Fusion Project Manager, L-3
Steve Donlon, Fusion Program Manager, L-3
Gene Robinson, RPFlight Systems, Inc

History is in the making at this session – from the first Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standard (CFATS) exercise in Arizona to the first EXPO session with a 60 foot car explosion, terrorists, multiple bombs, SWAT, fire and police teams, victims, hostages and more all happening at the City of Chandler's training site. You can choose to witness the incident first hand (shuttle vans provided) or on monitors in the conference room as events are broadcast live to our EXPO session room. Teams from the City of Chandler, City of Tucson with the assistance of SRA, SAIC, L-3 Communications, UAV and ESS along with Hollywood FX experts will create an unforgettable exercise where you'll see in partial use the latest technology for mapping, notification, modeling and simulating data, tracking, communicating, managing and more. Attendees will get real world examples of how command centers work, proper response to chemical terrorism incidents and what can occur in a real-time event. Not only will you witness the exercise named Green Scorpion but just like Murphy's Law, another incident will occur. A bombing on an Amtrak train will happen triggering a second incident called Sand Dollar. Attendees will witness the true value of ESS Crisis technology as the Sand Dollar exercise runs concurrent with the main exercise using modeling and simulation from the L-3 Fusion system to communicate with ESS Crisis and focus on availability of resources to the bomb scene. This is one session you won't want to miss.
3:30
-3:45
Refreshments in Exhibit Hall (Akimel 1 & 2)
 
Title
3:45
-4:45
Working Smart: Safety Environmental Compliance Action Tool Shows Results
HD Supply, ERM
Working Smart: Safety Environmental Compliance
Action Tool Shows Results

Marty Laskey, EH&S Manager, HD Supply
Lester Engel, Information Solutions Consultant, ERM

ESS Excellence Award Winner

This presentation by Lester Engel, ERM Information Solutions covers how HD Supply, a leading wholesale distribution company comprised of 12 Lines of Business, 26,000 Associates and $13 Billion in annual sales began implementation of a new environmental management application (Safety Environmental Compliance Action Tool - SECAT) to enhance their waste management process. You'll hear how HDS worked with ERM as partners to provide a simple user interface for waste labeling and manifesting that reduced operational costs. In addition you will hear how integration was developed with a national waste disposal company to automate scheduling, manifesting and container management for HD Supply.

Marty Laskey, EH&S Manager with HD Supply will also give a client perspective on the overall implementation and lessons learned from the project.
Information Tools to Support REACH and other Product Stewardship Initiatives
ESS
Information Tools to Support REACH and
other Product Stewardship Initiatives

Marc Dillion, Senior Product Manager, ESS

Managing compliance with the EU's registration, Evaluation, and Authorization
of Chemical substances (REACH) and other global Product Stewardship initiatives requires effective HSE information management. This session will feature a discussion of ESS' Product Stewardship strategy and capabilities, as it pertains to data management and compliance activities that enable organizations to effectively manage risk. From substance approval during the procurement process to operational materials management to waste management and disposal, ESS' Essential SuiteTM provides an effective HSE information management tool to capture and communicate the data needed to comply with the global challenges of Product Stewardship
Evolving to a Corporate EH&S and Crisis Information
System
ESS
Evolving to a Corporate EH&S and Crisis Information System

Ian Achterkirch, Chief Revenue Officer, ESS
Reid Hawkins, VP of Sales, ESS

Do you see your organization's EH&S compliance needs changing or expanding in the future? Learn how ESS can help you meet new challenges by using Compliance Suite in combination with our enterprise-level software, Essential Suite. See how you can meet TRI reporting requirements with Essential Suite's emissions management tools. Or see how you can cool GHG concerns with an ESS Carbon Management Solution that includes Essential and Compliance Suite components. Look further into the future and see how Essential Suite could support the expansion of your international operations with multilingual capabilities or integration with other IT systems such as process historians or ERPs. Please join us as we discuss the possibilities.
Introducing the Key Account Program with ESS
ESS
 
Introducing the Key Account Program with ESS

Ray Richeson, Sr. VP of Operations, ESS

Are you interested in having a stronger relationship with ESS and expanding the value of your information technology investments? Would it be great to not only have access to ESS software releases before the general public, but also be a contributor to the direction of their future development and the strategic mission of ESS? This is your opportunity. Join us for this powerful session on our new Key Account Program and learn how you and your organization can take part in this exclusive group of ESS software users.
Real-Time Emergency Exercise Workshop (Continued)
ESS, SAIC, L3
Real-Time Emergency Exercise Workshop (Continued)

John Gargett, Product Manager, ESS
Lee Sapaden, Sr Homeland Security Analyst, SRA International, Inc.
Tom Johnson, Manager AEAS Group, SAIC
Tom Ford, President, Double F Productions
Paul Clausen, GIS Analyst and Subject Matter Expert, L-3
Sue Serino, Fusion Project Manager, L-3
Steve Donlon, Fusion Program Manager, L-3
Gene Robinson, RPFlight Systems, Inc

History is in the making at this session – from the first Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standard (CFATS) exercise in Arizona to the first EXPO session with a 60 foot car explosion, terrorists, multiple bombs, SWAT, fire and police teams, victims, hostages and more all happening at the City of Chandler's training site. You can choose to witness the incident first hand (shuttle vans provided) or on monitors in the conference room as events are broadcast live to our EXPO session room. Teams from the City of Chandler, City of Tucson with the assistance of SRA, SAIC, L-3 Communications, UAV and ESS along with Hollywood FX experts will create an unforgettable exercise where you'll see in partial use the latest technology for mapping, notification, modeling and simulating data, tracking, communicating, managing and more. Attendees will get real world examples of how command centers work, proper response to chemical terrorism incidents and what can occur in a real-time event. Not only will you witness the exercise named Green Scorpion but just like Murphy's Law, another incident will occur. A bombing on an Amtrak train will happen triggering a second incident called Sand Dollar. Attendees will witness the true value of ESS Crisis technology as the Sand Dollar exercise runs concurrent with the main exercise using modeling and simulation from the L-3 Fusion system to communicate with ESS Crisis and focus on availability of resources to the bomb scene. This is one session you won't want to miss.
5:00
-7:00
Happy Hour Networking - NASCAR Driver Kyle Petty – What a Ride, Life, Family, Community and the Race Track.
(Coyote/Buzzard/Eagle Patio)
What a Ride: Life, Family, Community and the Race Track

NASCAR Driver Kyle Petty

Life isn't about being the guest of honor in victory lane – it's about what happens everyday in the pits that counts. During this moving presentation, Kyle Petty takes audiences on an anecdotal journey through his life as a businessman, philanthropist and as one of NASCAR's most respected drivers. He explores the ideals that have kept the Petty family at the pinnacle of racing for three generations, such as consistently striving for excellence, living up to your promises, teamwork, helping the community and commitment to family. Petty has an uncanny knack for connecting with audiences, and his down-to-earth style makes it easy to understand why he is an icon of the sporting world.

Tuesday, April 15th
7:30
-5:00
Breakfast (7:30-9:00 only) (Akimel Lawn)
Registration / Help Desk (Front Kave Foyer Area )
Title
(8:00 - 9:00am) Essential Suite Users' Group
(Akimel Lawn)
Title
(Rooms)Essential Suite
(Kave 3 Room)		Essential Suite
(Kave 2 Room)		 Compliance Suite
(Coyote Room)		Compliance Suite
(Buzzard Room)		Crisis
(Kave 1 Room)
9:00
-9:45
Corporate Sustainability: Helping People and Businesses to Reach Their Potential
Craig Hodges Director, Energy and Chemical Industries, Microsoft (Kave 1, 2 and 3)
Corporate Sustainability:
Helping People and Businesses to Reach Their Potential

Craig Hodges Director, Energy and Chemical Industries, Microsoft

People are the core of any business - their intelligence, experience,
and dedication are what make a business leap ahead of its competitors. Microsoft is committed to help amplify industrial companies', capacity to develop customer relationships, drive innovation, improve operations, and build partner connections. Learn how Microsoft's latest advanced software applications transform key processes that allow users to achieve breakthrough performance.
9:45
-10:00
Coffee Break (Akimel 1 & 2)
 
Title
10:00
-11:00
Are You Ready for Emerging US Requirements for Climate Change?
ERM
Are You Ready for Emerging
US Requirements for Climate Change?

Lisa Campbell, ERM

Managing the risks and opportunities posed by climate change is becoming
an increasingly important issue for both global and national corporations. Emerging mandatory and voluntary initiatives in the United States and potential business opportunities in the carbon market will ultimately have an impact on bottom line performance. This presentation will examine the existing and emerging policies on climate change, the potential implications, and the measures that organizations can take now to prepare for future requirements. Learn how innovative companies have developed and implemented comprehensive corporate climate change programs that have transformed challenges faced by emerging requirements into competitive advantages.
Beyond Implementation: Sustainability and Multi-Generational Planning
Dow Chemical, CH2M Hill
Beyond Implementation: Sustainability
and Multi-Generational Planning

Karen Williams, Dow Chemical
David Robins, CH2M Hill

ESS Excellence Award Winner

Dow Chemical celebrated the successful completion of a multi-year project to implement the Essential Suite™ in July 2007. The project delivered a standardized solution for all of Dow Chemical's U.S. sites through the implementation of the Essential Suite™ version 6.0 inventory, waste, air, material and water modules on time and on budget.

To preserve Dow's investment and leverage value beyond the implementation project, the company deployed a formal support and sustainability organization. This organization utilizes a central team with key site expertise, which eliminates the need for complete support organizations at each facility. The organization also helps champion the use of a global environmental reporting work process across all manufacturing facilities. Learn how this organization is helping Dow move beyond implementation to lower the cost to serve, improve data quality and increase client service and delivery.
Trends in Safety and Training Management Reduce Injuries and Costs
Cardinal Glass
Trends in Safety and Training Management
Reduce Injuries and Costs

Jenni Day, Cardinal Glass
Joleen Pieper, HR Manager, Cardinal Glass

ESS Excellence Award Winner

Learn how Cardinal Glass IG of Fargo, ND was able to realize a 60 percent drop in injuries to improve worker safety. Jenni Day and Joleen Pieper will share their ESS Excellence Award winning story of how Cardinal Glass cut worker's compensation costs by more than 50% after system deployment. Hear how data entry was eased and saved employees over 600 man hours and allowed managers to facilitate effective performance reviews for increased accountability. Through the ease of use and management access, plants could share incident information and investigations allowing them to take a more proactive stance towards their corporate social and sustainability goals.
The Value of SaaS -
A Host of Solutions for
EH&S Management
ESS
The Value of SaaS -
A Host of Solutions for EH&S Management

Chad Finnigan, Director of Customer Support/SaaS, ESS

Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) is placing increasing demands on Environmental and Health & Safety professionals. As GRC regulatory demands increase, they place more pressure on the security and accessibility of systems designed to manage compliance. Hosted solutions offer EH&S professionals power of choice and flexibility. Learn how organizations can leverage hosted platforms as a disaster recovery site that compliments an on-premise solution or as a fully managed and supported GRC infrastructure, that allows EH&S and technology professionals to remain focused on their core business responsibilities.
Lessons Learned from the Emergency Exercise (Continued)
ESS, SAIC, L3
Lessons Learned from the Emergency Exercise

John Gargett, Product Manager, ESS
Tom Johnson, Manager AEAS Group, SAIC
Paul Clausen, GIS Analyst and Subject Matter Expert, L-3
Sue Serino, Fusion Project Manager, L-3
Steve Donlon, Fusion Program Manager, L-3

Building on the topics and strategies covered in Session 3 and 4, ESS, along with its partners SAIC and L-3 Communications, will be conducting a lessons-learned review of the exercise.

Our panel of experts will summarize what was learned from conducting the exercise in a manner similar to a briefing conducted following a full-scale exercise. The session will explain how the simulation tools developed by SAIC and L-3 Communications augment Essential Emergency when they are used during an exercise.
11:00
-12:00
Starting an EMIS Project - Life After Approval
Duke Energy
 
Starting an EMIS Project - Life After Approval

Bob Schnelle, Senior Project Manager
Compliance Assurance & Data Management, Duke Energy

ESS Excellence Award Winner

The process of selecting and implementing an EMIS system is multi-pronged. Managing a successful project is dependent on several important steps that need to be completed between project approval and the start of implementation: negotiating software contracts, planning the project, holding a kickoff meeting, working with IT, developing project teams and budgeting. These processes and others will be explained to help ensure that your organization's EMIS project starts and stays on track.
Interoperability Strategies for Essential Suite: SAP, IBM Maximo and OSIsoft
OSIsoft, ESS
Interoperability Strategies for Essential Suite:
SAP, IBM Maximo and OSIsoft

Tom Gilson, Manager, ISV Channel, OSIsoft
Keith Modesitt, Product Manager for System Interoperability, ESS

System "integration" and "interoperability" are not the same thing. ESS software has long been integrated with other leading information systems on a client-by-client basis. Now ESS has set out to productize the bridges between systems – making them faster, easier and less expensive to implement -- through a multi-faceted interoperability development strategy. Hear an overview of ESS' plans and progress with regard to IBM Maximo and SAP. Then take an in-depth look at how ESS' enterprise EH&S software platform is being closely tied to OSIsoft's PI System, the industry standard in enterprise data historians. Learn how ESS and OSIsoft solutions are working together to provide a seamless flow of emissions information for compliance and risk management.
The ESS Customer Network – What Can It Do for You?
ESS
 
The ESS Customer Network
What Can It Do for You?

Chad Finnigan, Director of Customer Support/SaaS, ESS

As Web 2.0 continues to evolve, ESS continues to develop web services within its products to maximize speed, functionality and usability. The same can be said of the growth of its online community, the ESS Customer Network (ECN). Join us to discover what the ECN can do for clients today and explore what the future of ESS customer interaction will look like tomorrow.
Kiosk Functionality to Empower Your Employees – Get Web Connected
ESS
Kiosk Functionality to Empower Your Employees
Get Web Connected

Kym Sauvadon, Professional Services, ESS

Learn how WebConnect supports EH&S professionals with a front-end tool that enables employee self-service within the audit management, refrigerant compliance management, safety management and training management modules of the ESS software platform. Discover how to empower employees to manage their own education with WebConnect for Training Management; enter incident reports in Safety Management; respond rapidly to requests for information during emergencies with MSDS Management or track Corrective Actions in Audit Management from any computer, anywhere.
Local Agencies Score High Marks at National TOPOFF Exercise
Gilbert, Tempe
Local Agencies Score High Marks at
National TOPOFF Exercise

Sheri Gibbons, Emergency Management Coordinator,
Gilbert Fire Department
Al Jensen, Tempe Fire Department

This session, presented by the cities of Gilbert and Tempe, Ariz., will describe how ESS crisis management software was used during TOPOFF4, a major national exercise held in October 2007.

The full-scale exercise offered agencies and jurisdictions the opportunity to test their plans and skills in a real-time, realistic environment and to gain in-depth knowledge. Participants also exercised scenarios that pertain to prevention and intelligence-gathering functions, which are critical to preventing terrorist attacks. Lessons learned from the exercise provide valuable insights to guide future planning for securing the country against terrorist attacks, disasters and other emergencies.
12:00
-1:00
Lunch Buffet (Akimel Lawn)
 
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1:00
-2:00
What's Inside Essential Suite 7.1 and What's Coming NEXT: News from the Developers
ESS
 
What's Inside Essential Suite 7.1 and What's Coming NEXT:
News from the Developers

Todd Ingersoll, ESS

At ESS, we listen carefully to our stakeholder community. User focus groups, partner experiences, competitive analyses and other sources of input are factored into each major software release. In addition, however, each release also includes important enhancements that originate directly from the technology experts on the ESS Development Team. Join us in this session for demonstrations of state-of-the-art user experience (both workflow and data entry), new user preferences, executive dashboards, the navigation API (or Outlook "skin") and other advances. This session will also reveal new initiatives targeted for future releases -- all aimed at improving YOUR experience with the software.
Global Essential Suite - Enhancing Alcoa's Commitment to Sustainable EH&S Performance
Alcoa
Global Essential Suite - Enhancing Alcoa's Commitment to Sustainable EH&S Performance

John Rind, Senior Consultant EHS Management, Alcoa
Travis Morse, Manager, EHS Systems, Alcoa

Alcoa, the world's leading producer and manager of primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum and alumina facilities, actively protects and preserves the workplace and the environment as an important and central component to their overall approach to sustainability. Zero non-compliance and zero work-related injuries and illnesses have been long-standing goals for Alcoa. But when zero first became the target, it seemed unreachable; "accidents are inevitable" was often the response. They're not. We can attain zero. It is possible, and, at many of Alcoa's locations. Hear Alcoa's plans for driving excellence globally and their plans for each Essential module. Alcoa will share the issues they've encountered and overcome, the multi-lingual and multi-cultural requirements and plans and the Alcoa deployment methodology. Alcoa's businesses will be deploying Compliance Manager and Air/Water/Waste/Chemical to their locations over the next few years. Those rigorous deployment plans and their methodology are an essential key to ensure success towards sustaining zero.
Automate Compliance Management for a Simple 1-2-3 Approach
ESS
 
Automate Compliance Management for
a Simple 1-2-3 Approach

Barbara Burtner, Director, Professional Services, ESS

In this session, EH&S managers will discover how software automation can provide a new level of awareness on the tasks that their EH&S field personnel are responsible for completing. Learn how ESS' Compliance Manager™ solution is designed to keep organizational compliance and best practice initiatives on track by breaking down specific tasks into manageable steps that can be scheduled and tracked to completion. Uncover a fail safe method for gaining visibility into daily processes and ensuring that compliance tasks don't fall through the cracks. .
Enlisting Audits to Save More than $45K in Refrigerant Management
ESS
 
Enlisting Audits to Save More than $45K
in Refrigerant Management

Dennis Tolliver, Mechanical Superintendent, Beale AFB
Mark Harbin, ESS

ESS Excellence Award Winner

ESS' refrigerant management solutions represent just one of the tools organizations have at their disposal to help them track inventories, monitor equipment performance and comply with federal regulations. Learn about the company's secret weapon, which allowed Beale Air Force Base to realize a savings of $45,000 from improved refrigerant handling and monitoring techniques.
Meeting the Challenge: DHS Chemical Facilities Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS)
Dept of Homeland Security
Meeting the Challenge: DHS Chemical Facilities
Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS)

Brian M. Harrell Sr., Chemical Sector Specialist
Chemical Security Compliance Division
Office of Infrastructure Protection

Congress has directed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to identify and secure chemical facilities that present potential threats to the health and safety of Americans. Known as the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS), a chemical plant's security risk is based on three important criteria: how the consequence of an attack would impact a facility and the surrounding environment, how vulnerable a facility is to a successful attack and what degree of threat there is to a facility based on an adversary's intent and capability to attack the facility.

Essential Emergency™ helps any organization that must meet the requirements under this Congressional mandate by providing a full and comprehensive crisis management tool that will prepare any facility for terrorism as well as other crisis situations. This session will review the CFATS and how Essential Emergency helps environmental, health and safety professionals meet these requirements.
2:00
-3:00
Harnessing Technology for Environmental Performance Management
T3/Trinity
Harnessing Technology for Environmental Performance Management

Dr. Ram Ramanan, President, T3

Social responsibility and climate change concerns are driving corporations to recognize the significance of environmental issues and the value of managing their performance. Voluntary initiatives such as 'equator principles', mandated requirements such as "Sarbanes Oxley" and numerous regulatory compliance reports, and transparency demands of shareholders, the public and other stakeholders are all honing in on timely accurate and defendable management of environmental information.

In addition to regulatory demands, companies need to manage greenhouse gas (GHG) emission credits as financial instruments, which require a credible, consistent and comprehensive system to track their progress.

This session will focus on how technology acts as a strategic tool for collecting, collating, calculating, comprehending and communicating environmental, health and safety data. In particular it will address the key information, metrics, trends, evaluation and prioritization needed to mainstream and enhance environmental performance.
Making ESS the HSE Foundation for Sustainable Development
PetroChina
Making ESS the HSE Foundation for Sustainable Development

Gao YunSheng, Deputy Director, PetroChina
Chen Jie, IBM

ESS Excellence Award Winner

In 2005, PetroChina, the largest oil and gas producer in the People's Republic of China, selected ESS and IBM Global Services to provide the first enterprise-wide Health, Safety, Environmental and Crisis software implementation of its kind in that country. Learn how PetroChina has made tremendous progress deploying the new Mandarin-language, browser-based solution at 41 targeted regional branches, each with between two and ten factories throughout China. See how it is achieving its goals of implementing an information system that satisfies the business requirements of its HSE professionals and is consistent with the IT Master Plan of PetroChina.
Simplify Your Training Process
ESS
 
Simplify Your Training Process

Geraldine Marquis, Professional Services, ESS

Designed for users of Training Management Software, this session will teach participants how to optimize the use of the program by exploring lesser known features:

  • Discover how the Check List tab is used to schedule tasks that need to be done before or after a given class session;
  • Schedule multiple class sessions for one course at the same time;
  • Learn how to simplify the enrollment process of a group of students by scheduling consecutive training courses at the same time;
  • Improve awareness of and navigation within the Desktop Screen to increase efficiency in scheduling upcoming classes, tasks, and retraining sessions;
  • Become acquainted with the Compliance Messenger tool to schedule initial notifications and reminders.
Optimizing Your Audit Practice with the Latest ESS Solutions
ESS
Optimizing Your Audit Practice
with the Latest ESS Solutions

Judy Coleman, West Regional Manager - Professional Services, ESS

In this exciting session, learn how to turbo charge your audit practice to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Discover how to apply practical methods to identify and allocate auditing resources, determine which facilities or operations pose higher risk, and apply best practices for monitoring resolution of deficiencies.

Microsoft Virtual Earth: Spatial Information for Essential Suite
Microsoft, ESS
Microsoft Virtual Earth:
Spatial Information for Essential Suite

Chris Pendleton, Technical Evangelist,
Microsoft® Virtual Earth™

In 2008, ESS will begin to role out Virtual Earth to the rest of Essential Suite as its spatial information management component. The Microsoft Virtual Earth platform is an integrated set of services that gives organizations the ability to visually interact with complex information. Virtual Earth combines quality geospatial data, rich imagery and dependable performance for integrating location information into business solutions such as Crisis Management software to track resources and assets around the world and pinpoint source emissions from an interactive, easy- to-use application.

Conducted by the Microsoft Virtual Earth Team, this session will demonstrate how companies are using Virtual Earth. Microsoft will explain how Virtual Earth is used within Essential Emergency and how ESS plans to implement it in other modules.
3:00
-3:30
Refreshments in Exhibit Hall (Akimel 1 & 2)
 
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3:30
-4:30
Simplify the Work, Verify the Results with Essential
Audit
ESS
Simplify the Work, Verify the Results with Essential Audit

Tony Ortega, Product Manager, ESS

This session will introduce EH&S professionals to the new Essential Audit
module and demonstrate how this powerful tool can assist them with meeting their audit requirements. Whether an organization is conducting a regulatory compliance audit, stormwater, maintenance, or a full EMS audit, Essential Audit can effectively:

  • Build audit protocols and re-use them for re-occurring audits;
  • Define and build auditing objectives, schedules, scope, protocols, checklists and auditor assignments;
  • Determine whether an audited entity does or does not conform;
  • Document findings, good practices, recommendations and observations;
  • Assign Corrective Actions and tasks to easily track through to completion;
  • Provide automated audit results
Evergreen Compliance Goes Global: Tracking International Regulations
CyberRegs
Evergreen Compliance Goes Global: Tracking International Regulations

John Vitale, Citation Technologies

We live in a global economy with more and more organizations doing
business on an international basis. As a result, EH&S professionals must now be able to track a broad and growing array of regulatory information from around the world. They must know not only how to respond to the latest environmental requirements, but also how they affect their company's business goals. Learn how to apply a three-step process for understanding your organization's environmental obligation and achieving Evergreen Compliance. Discover how to correlate business strategy/goals with environmental data to address compliance more efficiently – using new data management tools to reduce operational costs and enhance performance.
Developing a Global Community of ESS and SAP Technology Users
KurMeta
Developing a Global Community of
ESS and SAP Technology Users

Paul Kurchina, Director, KurMeta Group

Many industry leaders around the world use both SAP and ESS information systems. Join Paul Kurchina, who has been a SAP Customer since 1993 and is currently on the Americas SAP User Group (ASUG) Board of Directors as Director of Communities, as he discusses the growing relationship between SAP and ESS and the opportunities that it presents to organizations like yours. Hear suggestions for how users of SAP and/or ESS software can begin to work together to address their sustainability and GRC goals. Share your thoughts on the issues that should be top priority for an SAP/ESS community and ideas for first steps in meeting those challenges.
Optimized Refrigerant Management to Address Global Warming
ESS
Optimized Refrigerant Management
to Address Global Warming

Mark Harbin, Manager Compliance Services, ESS

Refrigerants are among some of the most potent greenhouse gases contributing to climate change. All refrigerants have hundreds and thousands of times more global warming potential than carbon dioxide (CO2), which significantly contributes to rises in global temperatures. In this session, ESS refrigerant experts will help professionals learn ways that refrigerants used by their organizations can be monitored in real-time to reduce emissions and document conservation and sustainability efforts. Participants will obtain proven methods that their organizations and upper management can use to demonstrate their efforts in reducing their businesses' carbon footprint.
Saving Lives and Time with Automated Emergency Alert Notification
Avtex, ESS
Saving Lives and Time with
Automated Emergency Alert Notification

Don Denman, Vice President, Avtex
John Gargett, Product Manager, ESS

The time it takes to communicate critical information in an emergency can mean the difference between safety and catastrophe. Your ability to accurately deliver the right information to the right audience at the right time is crucial to any emergency planning effort. ESS has teamed with Avtex - the makers of the notification engine CityWatch -- to meet this need for our customers.

Essential Emergency gives you the ability to create, target and send either an alert or non-alert message to thousands of destinations within minutes. This fully-featured system is both an outbound and inbound notification system that enables you to quickly, accurately and automatically send emergency and informational messages to thousands of contacts, via phone, text messaging, fax, pager and/or e-mail.

Conducted by Avtex, this session will demonstrate how companies are using CityWatch within Essential Emergency and how ESS plans to implement it in other modules.
4:30
-4:45
Summary and Closing -- (Kave 1, 2 and 3)
 
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6:00
-7:00
Victory Lane Pre Celebration Cocktail Hour (Hemapik Lawn)
 
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7:00
-10:00
2008 Excellence Award Gala - Dinner and Party (Hemapik Pavilion)
 
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  - Exhibit Hall open in Kave 1 and 2

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