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Speaker at SOUTHWEST: Ben Allen, Chief Executive Officer, Manufacturing ROI, LLC

SOUTHWEST Session: Many manufacturers are stuck in “CMMC hell,” overspending, missing deadlines, and relying on providers who have never taken a company through a successful Level 2 audit. The result is frustration, wasted budgets, and failed assessments. In this session, Manufacturing ROI founder Ben Allen shares how to identify the warning signs of a failing CMMC plan and the steps to rescue it. Attendees will learn how to realign leadership and IT around a realistic roadmap, find funding to offset compliance costs, and select the right partner to ensure audit success. Manufacturing ROI is the nation’s only CMMC compliance brokerage, focused on helping manufacturers achieve compliance faster and more economically. This presentation offers a clear, practical path to avoid audit failure and turn CMMC from a costly burden into a strategic advantage.

Speaker at SOUTHWEST: Denis Larscheid, Sr Applications Engineer, Hawk Ridge Systems

SOUTHWEST Session: Manufacturing success relies on visibility—the ability to monitor production, quality, and financial metrics in real time. However, many manufacturers still struggle with disconnected systems that slow decision-making and hide the true state of operations. This session will demonstrate how a unified ERP solution enables manufacturers to gain operational insights, reveal performance data, and make informed, data-driven decisions. Through practical examples, we will show how the platform leverages data across CRM, shop floor, quality, and accounting workflows. Attendees will learn how teams use Odoo to forecast staffing and material needs, monitor productivity at each work center, track the cost of goods sold, and ensure quality consistency for every order. With clear metrics and user-friendly dashboards, manufacturers can transition from reactive reporting to proactive optimization. This presentation will also discuss how this integrated approach enhances financial visibility — connecting every transaction, production run, and quality checkpoint into a single source of truth. By connecting operational and financial data, leadership teams can identify inefficiencies, drive profitable growth, and gain clarity to prioritize investments. Whether your goal is to reduce downtime, improve first-pass yield, or strengthen margins, this session will show how visibility, powered by Odoo and Novobi, transforms manufacturing performance from the shop floor to the CFO’s office.

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Speaker at SOUTHWEST: Will Healy III, Global Industry Manager - Fabricated Metals, Teradyne Robots / UR

SOUTHWEST Session: Manufacturers from fabricators to assembly shops are all challenged with workforce woes, the need to boost productivity and the endless quest for quality. Knowing automation is the answer is one thing, but actually finding real success with technology investments can feel challenging and risky. How do you know what will truly bring value to the organization? How do you determine the return? And now with the hype of Artificial Intelligence (AI) seemingly on every product, how do manufacturing leaders determine the right places to invest limited time and capital budgets? In this session, we will delve into the ever-evolving landscape of automation & AI in the factory and take a look at technologies that are having a real impact today across the shop floor. Then we will stare into the crystal ball to look forward at technologies that are on the near horizon that manufacturing leaders should be keeping an eye on. Covering important topics like human-robot collaboration, automated equipment tending, data-driven insights, cobot welding, predictive maintenance, robot guided vision, bin picking, collaborative automation, quality inspections, and much more, attendees should leave this session ready to make value-creating technology investments in their business. Join us as we explore how AI is reshaping the factory floor — one algorithm at a time.

Speaker at SOUTHWEST: Jamie Goettler, Chief Revenue Officer, BTX Precision