August 19, 2025 | Mark Paradies

Best Performance Improvement & RCA Networking Event Is Nearly Here

When you and your team attend the Global TapRooT® Summit — the 27th Summit in the last 31 years — you’ll be networking with global industry leaders, subject matter experts, and a distinguished peer group who focuses on current best practices in root cause analysis and performance improvement.

The 2025 Global TapRooT® Summit is being held on September 29 – October 3 in Knoxville, TN, at the Knoxville Convention Center.

Why is the 2025 Global TapRooT® Summit the best performance improvement and RCA networking event? The secret that we have learned about networking is that:

Networking Can Be Fun!

Consider these facts…

We have been planning the Summit and perfecting the networking potential for 31 years. That’s a considerable amount of continuous improvement to make the networking great (and FUN).
Part of the improvement of the networking includes the development of the “Name Game” on Wednesday morning and the reception on Wednesday night.
Because TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis has been adopted as a standard by many leading companies around the world, you will meet smart people who have experience perfecting their performance improvement programs. Some may be from your industry, but many will be from other industries, promoting cross-industry, cross-profession sharing of best practices.
The Summit is just the right size so that attendees get to meet and have discussions with the experts presenting best practices at the Summit and the Keynote Speakers.
You will also be able to meet the expert TapRooT® Instructors from around the world and discuss what they have learned in thousands of TapRooT® Courses held worldwide.

What type of companies send people to the TapRooT® Summit? A sample of the kinds of companies that may be at the 2025 Summit includes many of the companies that have attended previous Summits, including…

What are the professions of past attendees? Here’s a sample…

You never know who you will be talking to when you get your next great idea to improve performance at your facility.

What do past attendees have to say?

Don’t take my word for the excellence of networking and other learning opportunities at the Summit. Here’s a sample of quotes from past attendees:

Rich at PPL Electric Utilities: “I think that networking is very important, and from that, learning what others are doing and sharing what I have done in the past two years as a TapRooT® instructor. So, very valuable to meet other people and continue that networking after the conference.”

Jeff at Halliburton: “It’s like a family reunion except you meet root cause experts from around the world.”

Pat at Suncor: “Fantastic speakers and sessions. I’m taking a lot of tools back to improve performance.”

Jeff at Marathon: “This was my first Summit, and I met a number of new people, plus colleagues and people from other industries that I knew. Because I’m a big Pittsburgh Steelers Fan, the most exciting part was meeting Rocky Bleier (who was a Keynote Speaker) and chatting with him.

Teresa at Irving Oil: “The Summit was fun! There were wonderful speakers. I have a lot of good information to take back to my workplace.”

Jeff at First Energy: “This is my second Summit in a row, and each time I come, I learn new, valuable things to take back to work and apply.”

Dave at Marathon: “Very Valuable. Well-organized multiple breakout sessions with good practices and even some things not to do.”

Summit Guarantee

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.

Don’t Forget the Pre-Summit Courses on September 20-30

Here is something you might not imagine … People have fun at our courses.

Here are the 11 optional pre-Summit Courses to choose from:

Click on the link above to find out more about the course that interests you the most.

One more advantage of taking a pre-Summit Course … You get $300 OFF the course registration fee when you also register for the Summit. See all the potential discounts below.