Top 10 Reasons to Be There
Why You Should Attend?
The 2025 Global TapRooT® Summit and the Pre-Summit Courses are coming up on September 29 – October 3 at the Knoxville Convention Center, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Why should YOU be there? Here are the top 10 reasons:
10. Amazingly well-organized Summit
9. Knoxville, Tennessee, is a great place to have a Summit
8. Eight interactive, informative Best Practice Tracks
7. Save $300 off a pre-Summit Course when you attend the Summit
6. Make new friends and reconnect with old friends
5. Learn best practices BEYOND the TapRooT® System
4. Get motivated!
3. Benchmark
2. Develop improvement plans
1. FUN!
Find out more about each of these reasons in the following section…
10. Amazingly Well Organized Summit.
Every year, participants tell us how well-run the TapRooT® Global Summit is. And each year, we learn to make the next year even better. Our whole staff pitches in, but Alison, Shanda, and Anne are keys to the planning and advance work that makes the Summit so well organized. Attend and experience it for yourself.
9. Knoxville is a Great Place to Have a Summit.
Knoxville is our hometown. We sometimes take for granted all the special attractions and the things to do. So, let’s share some ideas for having a good time in Knoxville and the surrounding area.
We should probably start with the nearby Smoky Mountains. This includes Pigeon Forge, Dollywood, Gatlinburg, and the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, including Cades Cove.
It is worth it to come early or stay late (or both) to spend a weekend in the Smokies.
Here is a video with some local Knoxville suggestions for things to do…
And HERE is a link to some great places to eat in downtown Knoxville.
The Summit will be held at the Knoxville Convention Center, located between downtown Knoxville and the University of Tennessee, next to the Sun Sphere.
Here’s more information about the convention center…
8. Eight Interactive, Informative Best Practice Tracks
What are the eight best practice tracks?
Find out more about each track by clicking on the links HERE.
And don’t forget that you can customize your experience by picking sessions from various tracks to create a personalized Summit experience.
7. Save $300 OFF a 2-Day Pre-Summit Course
That’s right. Register for one of the eleven special 2-Day pre-Summit Courses (September 29-30) and the Global TapRooT® Summit (October 1-3), and you save $300 off the course price.
Here are the eleven courses to choose from:
- Stopping Human Error
- Interviewing & Evidence Collection
- Auditing & Proactive Improvement Using TapRooT® RCA
- Analyzing and Adjusting Safety Culture
- TapRooT® Advanced Case Study Workshop
- Advanced Communication/Presentation Skills
- The Best Ways to Use Data to Improve Performance
- Equifactor® Equipment Troubleshooting & TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis
- Developing an Incident Command System
- TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Training
- TapRooT® Software Training
Click on the link above to find out more about the course that interests you the most.
6. Make New Friends and Connect with Old Friends
Yes, social networks like LinkedIn can help you meet new people and develop your network. But there is nothing better than meeting people face-to-face!
Networking is a key part of the Global TapRooT® Summit and we make it FUN.
You can meet people and learn not only from your industry but also from other industries. You can learn from your professional peers and also from people in other professions. For example:
- Safety folks learn from quality folks.
- Patient safety folks learn from process safety folks.
- Nuclear industry professionals learn from aviation safety folks.
- Equipment reliability professionals learn from CAPA professionals from the pharmaceutical industry.
This cross-functional learning is something that we are particularly good at making happen. It provides people with new ideas not available in industry or professional society-specific conferences.
5. Learn Best Practices Beyond the TapRooT® System
I’ve had people tell me that because the Summit is named the “Global TapRooT® Summit,” they thought it was just about TapRooT® RCA.
They were surprised by how much information they learned about other performance improvement topics. Here are some of the topics on the agenda…
- Using AI to Improve Safety
- Training Beyond the Mistake
- Admiral Rickover’s First High-Reliability Organization
- Fatigue Risk Management Systems
- Diverse Brilliance: Management and Success Tips for Neurodiverse Teams
- Procedure Writing & Use for High-Reliability
- Safety Leadership to Foster Performance Improvement
And that’s just a few of the 50 sessions to choose from.
4. Get Motivated!
Every year, people compliment us on our fantastic Keynote Speakers at the Summit. Their talks are informative, useful, and motivating. They help you return to work with new ideas and the desire to make improvement happen.
Find out who will speak and what their presentations will be about by CLICKING HERE.
3. Benchmark
How good is your improvement program? Benchmark against industry leaders from around the world in roundtable discussions, panel discussions, and best practice presentations. Benchmarking sessions in the various tracks include:
- Investigations and RCA Best Practices Roundtable
- Improving Your Organization
- Reap the Rewards from Great Root Cause Analysis
- Managing Equipment Success Stories
- Root Cause Analysis for High-Performance Organizations
- Process Troubleshooting Using Equifactor®
- Ways to Reduce SIFs and Improve Safety (a live podcast)
- Peer Reviews & Inspections for High Compliance (Panel Discussion)
- Million Dollar Mastermind
- Human Performance Best Practices Roundtable
- Sharing Ideas to Achieve High Reliability and Performance Roundtable
- Teaching TapRooT® RCA Best Practices Roundtable
That’s quite a list of best practice sharing providing opportunities for benchmarking.
2. Develop a Plan for Improvement
Thedesign of the Summit is to provide you with practical ideas not take back to work and implement to improve performance at your site. We want you to discover ideas that will help your company:
- Save millions of dollars
- Stop fatalities and significant injuries
- Improve human performance
- Achieve high reliability
- Perform better root cause analysis
- Align your improvement initiatives with management goals
- Improve equipment reliability
- Become a better TapRooT® Instructor
That’s a pretty broad list of improvements, and that’s why we believe you should bring a cross-functional team to the Summit to cover the entire array of topics.
We want to encourage you to bring a team, so we offer discounts to companies that bring a team to the Summit and even more significant discounts to companies that bring a team to the pre-summit Courses and the Summit. You can SAVE up to $900 per person.
How can you be assured you will experience learning valuable best practices and that the investment in the Summit will be worthwhile? We GUARANTEE that you will have a positive return on your investment when you attend the Summit. Here’s the guarantee:
Attend the 2022 Global TapRooT® Summit. Go back to work and implement your roadmap to success. If you don’t save 10 times the cost of the Summit fee, let us know and return your Summit materials, and we will refund 100% of the Summit registration fee. This guarantee shows how certain we are that you will learn valuable best practices to take your team’s performance—and that of your whole organization—to the next level.
1. FUN!
You learn more when you are having fun. That’s why we work on making the TapRooT® Summit so enjoyable.
From our opening session to the closing speaker, we want you to totally enjoy yourself and, at the same time, learn valuable best practices, make important professional contacts, and get motivated by the fantastic Keynote Speakers.
Whether it’s the Name Game or the Reception, past attendees have enjoyed the networking, sessions, and activities at the Global TapRooT® Summit. You will, too.
Get Registered NOW!
How do you register for the 2025 Global TapRooT® Summit on September 29 – October 3? EASY!
CLICK HERE to get started!
