{"id":3021,"date":"2016-11-04T08:32:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T08:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/?p=3021"},"modified":"2016-11-04T08:32:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T08:32:31","slug":"mhi-hosts-successful-2016-annual-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/mhi-hosts-successful-2016-annual-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"MHI Hosts Successful 2016 Annual Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/item\/mhi\/\">MHI<\/a> recently hosted its 2016 Annual Conference, featuring the theme of Accelerating Change, from October 17-19 in Tucson, Arizona. The Annual Conference is a multi-day event focused on educating material handling and supply chain professionals on leading trends and opportunities for collaboration and networking.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the conference featured four keynotes who spoke on themes that have accelerated change in supply chains.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scanners Taking Flight: Jonathan Evans &amp; X, Skyward<\/li>\n<li>Millennials Mean Business: Buddy Bush, JB Training Solutions<\/li>\n<li>Economic Outlook for MHI: Jason Schenker, President, Prestige Economics<\/li>\n<li>A Tour of our Amazing\u2014and Scary\u2014Technofuture: Vivek Wadhwa, Duke University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bringing together over 500 material handling and supply chain solution providers and users, this year also featured an adjusted format, with both class and lab tracks on six topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>U.S. Roadmap for Material Handling &amp; Logistics<\/li>\n<li>Supply Chain Workforce<\/li>\n<li>Material Handling and Supply Chain Technology<\/li>\n<li>Managing Change<\/li>\n<li>Leadership<\/li>\n<li>Marketing in the Supply Chain Industry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The different tracks allowed attendees to customize their experience and learn in a way that best suited them.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3022\" src=\"http:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/mhiLogo.jpg\" alt=\"mhilogo\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/mhiLogo.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/mhiLogo-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/mhiLogo-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/mhiLogo-345x230.jpg 345w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/mhiLogo-440x293.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/mhiLogo-578x385.jpg 578w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/mhiLogo-488x325.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/mhiLogo-570x380.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe goal of the Annual Conference is to bring the industry (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/item\/mhi\/\">MHI<\/a> members and material handling and supply chain solution users) together to collaborate and develop into a growing community that shares knowledge and addresses current and future challenges and opportunities,&#8221; said George Prest, CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/item\/mhi\/\">MHI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 2017 Annual Conference will be held October 1-4, 2017 at the Boca Raton Resort in Boca Raton, Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MHI recently hosted its 2016 Annual Conference, featuring the theme of Accelerating Change, from October 17-19 in Tucson, Arizona. 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