Success is you connecting with among the
world's best, who are creating the future.
Over 2 Days
7 Senior Leaders and
60 Passionate Champions
describe the future they are creating to attract the expertise and resources needed to succeed. The audience is hundreds of influential, connected people. Presenters are organized in areas where people here are among the world's best:
Clean Energy
Advanced Materials
Transformed Mobility
Smart Communities
Advanced Materials
The future of advanced materials is being created here. Milliken has one of the world’s preeminent materials research centers, and has developed over 55,000 different products. The Michelin Americas Research Company is one of their three global R&D centers. The NanoCenter at the University of SC and the Clemson Advanced Materials Research Center have attracted preeminent scholars through the Centers of Economic Excellence program. Zeus Industrial leads in extruded polymers for medical devices, and St. Jude Medical leads in capacitors for pacemakers. KEMET is one of the world’s leading capacitor manufacturers.
Clean Energy
The future of clean energy is being created here. GE Energy produces a large share of the world’s wind turbines, and Clemson received $98 million to build a wind test facility. GE operates the world’s largest gas turbine plant. The Savannah River National Lab has the world’s largest concentration of hydrogen scientists, and the University of SC has the National Science Foundation Center for Fuel Cells. The nuclear renaissance in the US will occur in the Carolinas. South Carolina grows a large percentage of the cellulose which can be converted to biofuel on the east coast.
Transformed Mobility
The future of the mobility industry is being created here. The country’s first PhD in Automotive Engineering recently graduated from the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research and went to work for the Michelin Americas Research Company. The BMW Information Technology Research Center is inventing connected vehicle technologies we will use in our cars tomorrow. BMW Manufacturing has invested $4.3 billion, employs 5,000, and has produced 1.5 million cars. Boeing landed in North Charleston, and Lockheed is in Greeenville.
Smart Communities
The future of smart communities is being created here. BlueCross BlueShield of SC operates 6 of the 90 IBM Z10 mainframes in the world. Health Sciences SC is developing a leading health information technology infrastructure to support research and advance patient care. Sealed Air is developing intelligent packaging to keep our food fresher, safer and less expensive. Wind turbines built off the coast will be connected through smart grids to consumers. Electrolux is building 2 million appliances which are increasingly connected and personalized to our lifestyles.
Conference Presenters
7 Senior Leaders
