Top 10 Reasons to Attend the Summit

Why Attend?

The 2027 Global TapRooT® Summit and the Pre-Summit Courses are coming up on April 5-9 at the Margaritaville Resort, Lake Conroe, near Houston, Texas.

Why should YOU be there? Here are the top 10 reasons:

10. Amazingly well-organized Summit
9. The Margaritaville Resort is a great place to have a Summit
8. Six interactive, informative Best Practice Tracks
7. Discounts
6. Make new friends and reconnect with old friends
5. Learn best practices BEYOND the TapRooT® System
4. Get motivated!
3. Benchmark
2. Five interesting, informative, motivational Keynote Spekers.
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 the TapRooT® Global Summit is run. Each year, we learn how to make the next year even better. Our whole staff pitches in, but Alison, Shanda, and Anne lead the planning and advance work that makes the Summit so well organized. Attend and experience it for yourself.

9. Margaritaville is a Great Place to Have a Summit.

We’ve held the Summit here before. And each time, people enjoyed the resort.

Plus, the location is within driving distance for many of our oil-industry clients. For those not nearby, Houston International Airport is 45 minutes southeast.

It’s worth coming early or staying late (or both) to relax at the resort on our discounted Summit rate. Get more venue information and see the link to the discounted room block HERE.Don’t wait. The number of discounted rooms is limited and expires in early 2027.

8. Six Interactive, Informative Best Practice Tracks

What are the six best practice tracks at the 2027 Global TapRooT® Summit?

Learn more about each track by clicking the links HERE. Or see the complete Summit schedule HERE.

And don’t forget that you can customize your experience by picking sessions from various tracks to create a personalized Summit experience.

7. Discounts

That’s right. Register for one of the seven special pre-Summit Courses (April 5-6) and the Global TapRooT® Summit (April 7-9), and you save $300 off the course price. Or bring a team and SAVE up to $900 per person.

Here are the various discount options…

See the course options below.

CLICK HERE for more course details. Or, for an overview, watch this video…

And these courses are guaranteed! Don’t wait. Register now while there is space in your first-choice course.

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 nothing beats 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 pharmaceutical plants.

We’re particularly good at making this cross-functional learning happen. It gives people new ideas not available at industry-specific or professional society-specific conferences.

At every Summit, we sponsor a Networking Reception. This year the theme is a Western Honky-Tonk Wing Ding. It includes music, hors d’oeuvres, drinks, prizes, and, of course, great networking.

For the past two Summits, we’ve had a special gathering on Tuesday night before the Summit:

Women-In-TapRooT® (WIT)

And we’ll be holding it again on April 6th.

If you are a woman doing incident investigations, root cause analysis, or leading improvement efforts, you should be at the Women in TapRooT® Reception.

5. Learn Best Practices Beyond the TapRooT® System

People have told me that because the Summit is named the “Global TapRooT® Summit,” they thought it was only about TapRooT® RCA.

People who had never attended before were surprised by how much information they learned about other performance improvement topics. Here are some of the topics on the agenda…

• Hidden impact of fatigue.
• Pre-startup safety reviews.
• Improving listening skills for better incident investigations.
• Nuclear Navy best practices to become a high-reliability organization.
• Human factors design for real people.
• Psychological safety.
• Understanding motivation to change behavior.

And that’s just a few of the 38 sessions to choose from.

Don’t miss the information that can help you energize your site’s improvement efforts.

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 inspiration to drive improvement.

Find out who will speak and what their presentations will be about by CLICKING HERE.

3. Benchmark

How good is your improvement program? Benchmark with industry leaders from around the world in roundtable discussions, panel discussions, and best practice presentations. Benchmarking sessions in the various tracks include:

• Root Cause Analysis Success Stories
• TapRooT® SuperUser Session
• How to Gain & Maintain Leadership Commitment
• Workshop: Using Root Cause Analysis to Stop SIFs
• Fix Your Recurring Root Causes Workshop
• Equifactor® Success Stories

Those best practice sharing sessions provide excellent opportunities for benchmarking.

2. Develop a Plan for Improvement

The Summit is designed to give you practical ideas to take back to work and implement to improve performance. 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. 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 (see the available discounts above).

What guarantee do you have that you will learn valuable best practices that will be worthwhile? The Summit has a guarantee:

Attend the 2027 Global TapRooT® Summit. Go back to work and implement your improvement ideas. 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 make the TapRooT® Summit so enjoyable.

From our opening session to the closing speaker, we want you to enjoy yourself while learning valuable best practices, making important professional contacts, and getting motivated by the fantastic Keynote Speakers.

Whether it’s the Name Game or the Reception, past attendees have enjoyed the networking, best practice sessions, and social activities at the Global TapRooT® Summit. You will, too.

Get Registered NOW!

How do you register for the 2027 Global TapRooT® Summit … that’s EASY!

CLICK HERE to get started!