Steel Survival Strategies XXIV

Opportunities in Crisis

June 22 - 24, 2009 , Sheraton NY Hotel and Towers, NYC
Monday, June 22, 2009
3:00

Registration Opens

6:00

Welcome Reception, Exhibits and AK Steel Cyber Cafe Open

Tuesday, June 23, 2009
7:30

Registration, Exhibits and Breakfast Open

8:30

Welcome Address

David Brooks, Senior Vice President, American Metal Market
8:45

Keynote Presentation - Strategies for the Daring

Peter F. Marcus, Managing Partner, World Steel Dynamics
Karlis M. Kirsis, Managing Partner, World Steel Dynamics
9:15

Highlight Speaker

Lakshmi N. Mittal, Chairman & CEO, ArcelorMittal, U.K.
9:55

Coffee Break

10:20

Panel I: International Steel - Jousting for Power

Antonio Marcegaglia, CEO, Marcegaglia, Italy
Alexei A. Mordashov, Chief Executive Officer , Severstal, Russia
Daniel A. Novegil, CEO , Ternium
Wim Plaizier, Vice President, A.T. Kearney, The Netherlands
Moderator: Raju Daswani, President, American Metal Market
11:50

Highlight Speaker

John P. Surma, Chairman & CEO, US Steel
12:30

Award Presentations

The tenth “Willy Korf Award for Young Excellence” honors

Dr. Rodrigo Corbari, Melt Shop Process Engineer, Vallourec & Mannesmann

The nineteenth “Willy Korf/Ken Iverson Steel Vision Award” honors

Sajjan Jindal, Vice Chairman & Managing Director, JSW Steel Ltd, India

1:00

Luncheon

2:00

Panel II: Steel in the Americas - Back to the Future

Lourenco Goncalves, Chairman, President & CEO, Metals USA Holdings Corp.
André Gerdau Johannpeter, President & CEO, Gerdau S.A.
John E. Lichtenstein, Metals Industry Group Managing Director, Accenture
Russ Rinn, Executive Vice President of Commercial Metals Corporation and President, CMC Americas
Lou Schorsch, CEO Flat Americas, ArcelorMittal
James L. Wainscott, Chairman, President & CEO, AK Steel
Moderator: Becky E. Hites, Managing Partner, World Steel Dynamics
3:30

Coffee Break

4:00

Keynote Presentation

Richard Sandor, Chairman & CEO, The Chicago Climate Exchange
4:30

Panel III: Steel Market Outlook: Dreams, Illusions & Realities

Keith Busse, President & CEO, Steel Dynamics, Inc.
Ben H. Laaper, Vice President – Global Sourcing, Accuride Corp.
Richard McLaughlin, Steel Specialist, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Daniel N. Sharkey, Partner, Brooks Wilkins Sharkey & Turco PLLC
Moderator: Peter F. Marcus, Managing Partner, World Steel Dynamics
6:00

Cocktail Reception

Wednesday, June 24, 2009
7:30

Registration, Exhibits and Breakfast Open

8:30

Panel IV: Global Steel Finance/Futures - Financing the Price Risk

Rob Edwards, Managing Director, Metals & Mining, Renaissance Capital, Russia
Mike Frawley, Executive Vice President, Global Head of Metals, Newedge Group
Robert M. Miller, Senior Managing Director, Miller Mathis & Co.
James S. Tumulty, Managing Director, Raymond James
Moderator: Peter F. Marcus, Managing Partner, World Steel Dynamics
10:00

Highlight Speaker

Daniel R. DiMicco, Chairman, President & CEO, Nucor Corp.
10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

Panel V: Far & Middle Eastern Steel - Growth Derailed?

Jayant Acharya, Director - Sales and Marketing, JSW Steel Limited - India
Geoff Boyd, Head of Automotive and Steel Research, CLSA Asia Pacific, Singapore
Ali Hosseini, Managing Director, ADPICO, Dubai
Jim Lennon, Executive Director, Macquarie Bank, U.K.
Moderator: Patrick A. McCormick, Managing Partner, World Steel Dynamics
12:15

Luncheon

Kenneth D. Simonson, Chief Economist, The Associated General Contractors of America
2:00

Panel VI: Steelmakers’ Metallics - Surplus or Shortage?

Michael Coslov, Chairman & CEO, Tube City IMS, Inc.
Ingrid Fermin , General Manager & Vice President International Markets, I.B.M.S
Ernie Thrasher, President, Xcoal Energy & Resource
P.S. Venkataramanan, CEO, Long Carbon North America, ArcelorMittal
Moderator: Michael Marley, Chief Correspondent, Secondary Material, American Metal Market
3:15

Panel VII: Steel’s Technological Revolution - Opportunities Galore

Gianpietro Benedetti, Chairman, Danieli & C. SpA, Italy
Frank Fisher, President, Castrip
Burkhard Dahmen, Member of the Managing Board, SMS Siemag AG, Germany
Karl L. Schwaha, Independent Consultant, FinArvedi, Italy
Yasukuni Yamasaki, President, Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery, Japan
Moderator: Peter F. Marcus, Managing Partner, World Steel Dynamics
4:30

Closing Remarks

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