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MACNY, THE MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION'S 1 0 7 T H A N N U A L CELEBRATION OF MANUFACTURING CELEBRATED VIRTUALLY SEPTEMBER 21 - OCTOBER 1 1 EVENT AGENDA SEPTEMBER 21 - OCTOBER 1 VIDEO: THE STATE OF MANUFACTURING SEPTEMBER 21 THE STATE OF MANUFACTURING LIVE SEPTEMBER 22, 3 PM WITH RANDY WOLKEN CLICKCLICK HEREHERE TO TO RSVP RSVP VIDEO: INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR SEPTEMBER 23 INNOVATION IN MANUFACTURING: SEPTEMBER 24, 3 PM AN INTERVIEW WITH THIS YEAR'S INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR, DAN BROWN CLICKCLICK HEREHERE TO TO RSVP RSVP VIDEO: WALL OF FAME INDUCTION SEPTEMBER 28 LEADERSHIP EXCELLENCE: SEPTEMBER 29, 10 AM A CONVERSATION WITH THIS YEAR'S WALL OF FAME INDUCTEES, KATHY ALAIMO AND LOU DEMENT CLICKCLICK HEREHERE TO TO RSVP RSVP VIDEO: THE FUTURE OF MANUFACTURING SEPTEMBER 30 THE FUTURE OF MANUFACTURING LIVE OCTOBER 1, 10 AM WITH RANDY WOLKEN CLICKCLICK HEREHERE TO TO RSVP RSVP 3 BOARD OFFICERS President Treasurer Randy Wolken Michael Vaughan MACNY Liftech Equipment Co., Inc. Chairman Secretary Nate Andrews Mary Rowland Morse Manufacturing Co., Inc. MACNY Vice Chairman General Counsel Pat Morocco Roderick McDonald Bartell Machinery Systems, LLC Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC BOARD OF DIRECTORS • Kathleen Alaimo, Syracuse Label & Surround Printing • Nate Andrews, Morse Manufacturing Co. • Alberto Bianchetti, National Grid • Stephen Bregande, Seneca Falls Specialties & Logistics Company, Inc. • Dean Burrows, Gear Motions, Inc. • Kevin Conley, Secure Network Technologies • Christopher Dugan, Knowles Precision Devices • Ellen Gutmaker, Arc of Onondaga • Patrick Jackson, Corning Incorporated • Jim Joseph, Le Moyne College • Bill Lester, Crucible Industries LLC • J. Kemper Matt, Sr., Dupli Envelope & Premier Designer Graphics • Rod McDonald, Bond, Schoeneck & King & Manufacturer of • Andy Mistur, Fust Charles Chambers LLP • Pat Morocco, Bartell Machinery Systems Corrugated Packaging • M. Brian O’Shaughnessy, Revere Copper Products • Greg Owens, Liberty Tabletop - Sherrill Manufacturing • Mark Southwick, Huhtamaki, Inc. • Laura Steinberg, Syracuse University • Peter Tantalo, WestRock • John Trimble, C&S Companies • Michael Vaughan, Liftech Equipment Co. • Kirk Wardell, Knowles Precision Devices • Michael Wetzel, Air Innovations, Inc. 1203 Kinne Street | E. Syracuse, NY 13057 | 315.437.1181 • Kelly Wypych, Cryomech, Inc. 797 Old Dutch Road | Victor, NY 14564 | 585.924.1600 www.bcipkg.com PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Randy Wolken MACNY & PEB STAFF President & CEO Randy Wolken, President & CEO On behalf of the entire staff and the Board of Directors, we welcome you to MACNY’s 107th Cindy Nave, Chief Operating Officer Annual Celebration of Manufacturing! Mary Rowland, Chief Financial Officer Each year we find time in our busy lives to celebrate our sector’s achievements with all of you at our David Freund, Chief Leadership Officer Annual Dinner. This year we are unable to gather in person, so we are doing so virtually. As always, Cindy Oehmigen, Director of Energy & it is truly gratifying to witness so many passionate manufacturers Corporate Services and business leaders working together despite the challenges of this pandemic, and it makes what we do at MACNY so worthwhile. Tiffany Latino-Gerlock, Director of Government Relations & Communications This year’s events mark an incredible year of growth and achievement for MACNY, thanks to you, our consistently engaged and involved Patty Clark, Accounting & Benefits Manager membership. This has all occurred despite the challenges of this pandemic and our move to serve you remotely. Our advocacy efforts Jim Beckman, Senior Consultant and engagement remain New York State’s most robust and effective voice for manufacturing on the State and Federal level, while our Marisa Norcross, Communications Manager popular training and service offerings have seen a boost in both variety, participation, and delivery methods. Also, our Manufacturers Julianne Pease, Manager of Membership Intermediary Apprenticeship Program continues to be successful Engagement & Community Outreach with our state-wide Alliance partners. These are just a few of our achievements in the past year and we will only continue to move Stephanie Adams, Membership Coordinator forward with these into the future. Martha Ponge,Director of Apprenticeship, We are so excited about this year’s two Wall of Fame inductees. We MACNY; Chief Operating Officer, PEB will recognize their achievements with our 20th Annual Manufacturers Wall of Fame Induction. This year we are pleased to be honoring the Laury Ferguson, Associate Director of lifetime achievements of Lou DeMent of Giovanni Food Company and Apprenticeship Kathy Alaimo of Syracuse Label & Surround Printing. Join us virtually on September 29 as we journey through the lifetime careers of these well Joe Vargo, Executive Director, PEB deserving manufacturing leaders that have helped shape our region’s manufacturing success. Marianne Ferris, Associate Director, PEB We are also thrilled to be honoring our Innovator of the Year Award Meghan McBennett, Workforce recipient, Daniel Brown of SRC, Inc. This award was created at the Development Specialist urging of our members, who were interested in nominating their peers and recognizing individuals who are integral components to local Eileen Donovan, Workforce Development manufacturing companies’ successes. Coordinator In closing, I would like to thank you for your continued support of Kathy Birmingham, Workforce Development MACNY and manufacturing. Our organization and its members are Coordinator true testaments to our shared history, on-going perseverance, and the critical growth that the region’s manufacturing sector has achieved. Althea Strife, Apprenticeship Coordinator Thank you for all that you do! ----- 5788 Widewaters Parkway Syracuse, NY 13214 www.macny.org | (315) 474-4201 5 CELEBRATION OF MANUFACTURING SPONSORS We cannot forget to mention and recognize the overwhelming support we received throughout the year from you, our dedicated and supportive membership. We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to the many companies who sponsored this year’s celebration. Without your support, this event would not have been possible. Thank you for your continued support of MACNY and its mission. Exclusive Sponsors PRESENTING SPONSOR WALL OF FAME SPONSORS INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR AWARD SPONSOR MILESTONE AWARDS SPONSOR TICKET SPONSOR TOAST SPONSOR Always Moving Forward ® EVENT SPONSOR 6 CELEBRATION OF MANUFACTURING SPONSORS We cannot forget to mention and recognize the overwhelming support we received throughout the year from you, our dedicated and supportive membership. We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to the many companies who sponsored this year’s celebration. Without your support, this event would not have been possible. Thank you for your continued support of MACNY and its mission. Gold Sponsors Silver Sponsors 7 2020 INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR Daniel Brown SRC, Inc. Sponsored By Daniel Brown of SRC, Inc. has detection, augment the video with target bounding been named MACNY’s 2020 boxes, and re-encode the video stream in real-time. This Innovator of the Year. Brown is a huge accomplishment and allows SRC to add critical, was nominated by his co-worker state-of-the-art machine learning to their existing C-UAS Chris Capraro for his innovative systems with minimal impact on SWaP. developments in machine learning and neuromorphic computing. Brown also recently developed, for the first time ever, parallel processing techniques for the neuromorphic Recently, Dan helped transition state-of-the-art machine True North system. At first, just a couple processors, then learning methods for detecting very small moving 16 and 32 - all working simultaneously. He processed objects in infrared camera imagery for testing with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery/targets, tanks SRC’s counter-UAS (C-UAS) technology. This is a tedious and trucks using the Moving and Stationary Target and fatiguing task for an operator. Dan’s contributions Acquisition and Recognition (MSTAR) data for automatic have already shown significant promise at several C-UAS target recognition, which he has briefed to military exercises and may soon help warfighters in the field. generals, congressmen and more. Dan was also able to configure and develop software for In the nomination, Capraro stated, “Dan’s efforts have a very low-size, weight and power (SWaP) computational enabled innovation at SRC and led the way in a variety of system on a chip from NVIDIA called a TX2. This computer ways. Dan has focused his technical work on developing hardware uses approximately 10-15W of power, is less advanced hardware and software technologies that than 7 inches square and 2 inches thick and weighs continually contribute to the main and critical objectives about 3.5 lbs. Dan was able to decode the full video of our bio-inspired and machine learning efforts.” stream, perform machine learning for moving object Previous Innovator of the Year Award Winners 2012 2015 2018 Tom Szumloz, Welch Allyn Gary Stevens, SRCTec Keith Waltz, The Fulton Companies 2013 2016 2019 Timothy Budd, Giovanni Foods Kyle Brown, Feldmeier Equipment Dr. Chao Wang, Cryomech, Inc. 2014 2017 Richard Rothenberger, Eaton David Bates and Tim Brauner, Crouse-Hinds Knowles 8 Congratulations to this Year’s Wall of Fame Inductees: Kathleen Alaimo & Louis DeMent & Innovator of the Year: Daniel Brown Build A Foundation For Financial Success Manufacturing can be complex. We make sure that you operate efficiently and cost-effectively. Industrial manufacturers,