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In 1993, the Global TapRooT® Summit started out as a three-day meeting of the best TapRooT® Users. Over 30 years, it has grown to an international event with world-renowned speakers and multiple tracks designed to share performance improvement and root cause analysis best practices across industries and professions.
To help you decide if you should attend the 2024 Global TapRooT® Summit in Knoxville, TN, on September 29 – October 3, you might ask:
Why do people attend the Summit?
What companies/industries typically attend?
Do past participants recommend the Summit?
Are there any discounts?
Can we bring our whole team?
Here are answers to those questions to help you decide whether to attend and whether to bring others from your company.
Why Did People Attend?
What motivates people to attend? They usually have some form of performance improvement in mind. They may be interested in…
Saving lives
Reducing risk
Changing behavior
Improving production
Stopping human errors
Preventing serious injuries
Eliminating sentinel events
Improving regulatory compliance
Become a high-reliability company
Improving Lean, Six Sigma, or CAPA Programs
Maintaining their TapRooT® Certified Instructor status
Becoming a TapRooT® Software Super-User/Administrator
improving their root cause analysis and incident investigations
Enhancing equipment/asset reliability and achieving excellence
Learn best practices from industry leaders from around the world
Learn about the psychology behind human errors and performance improvement
What Companies are Represented at the Summit?
Registration for the Summit has started, but we don’t have a list of attendees for this year yet. Here are some of the companies that have sent people to past Summits:
Abbott Labs | AES | Air Canada | Alcoa | Ameren | ANDRITZ | Anglo Gold | Ascensis | Ashland | Babcock & Wilcox | Barrick | Bayer | BC Hydro | BHP | Boart Longyear | Bruce Power | Cameco | Champion Technologies | Chevron | Clean Harbors | CNSC | Cogentrix | ConocoPhillips | Corteva | CPS Energy | Duke Energy | DuPont | Ecolab | Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation | Enbridge | Encana | Enmax | ENOC | ENSCO | Entergy | EPA | Eversource | Exelon | ExxonMobil | FAA | FedEx | First Energy | Flint Hills Refining | Fluor | GE | GE Vernova | General Dynamics | Genetech | Good Samaritan Hospital | Halliburton | Hess | Husky Energy | Hydro One | Imperial Oil | INPO | Integris Health | Irving Oil | ISO New England | KBR | Keyera | King Faisal Specialist Hospital | Lactalis | Luminant | Marathon Oil | Mc Dermott | Mercy Hospital | M-I SWACO | Momentive | Monsanto | MSHA | National Grid | New Brunswick Power | Newmont | Norsk Hydro | NRC | NTSB | Nutrien | Oncor | Ontario Power Generation | ORNL | Orsted | Oxy | Parker Wellbore | Parsons | Patheon | PCS | Petrobras | Petro-Canada | Petrofac | Pfizer | Pioneer Natural Resources | Potash | Pratt & Whitney | Praxair | Qantas | Qatar Gas | Rio Tinto | Rust-Oleum | Sabodala Gold Operations | Sandia National Labs | Sasol | Saudi Airlines | Saudi Aramco | Sealed Air | Shell | Siemens | SKF | Schlumberger | SMB Offshore | SNC-Lavalin | Subsea 7 | Suncor | Talisman | Talos Energy | Total | Teranga Gold Corporation | TransCanada Pipelines | TRIUMF | Tundra Oil & Gas | TVA | Valero | Vancouver Airport Authority | United Technologies | US CSB | Wacker | Weatherford | Westar | Westinghouse | Willbros | Xylem
That’s just a sample so that you will have a feel for the participating industries.
What do past attendees have to say?
Here’s a sample of quotes from the past:
Pat at Suncor: “Fantastic speakers and sessions. I’m taking a lot of tools back to improve performance.”
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.”
Rich at PPL Electric Utilities: “Well organized. This was my first Summit and from the start to the end was a great experience, and great networking.”
Jeff at Halliburton: “It’s like a family reunion except you meet root cause experts from around the world.”
Dave at Marathon: “Very Valuable. Well-organized multiple breakout sessions with good practices and even some things not to do.”
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,”
Here is a video of people discussing their Summit experience at the 2018 Global TapRooT® Summit (the Summit in Knoxville seven years ago).
Should You Attend?
Absolutely YES!
Check out the great sessions and speakers at the 2025 Global TapRooT® Summit by viewing the Summit schedule:
We even GUARANTEE that you will learn valuable lessons:
Attend the 2024 Global TapRooT® Summit. Go back to work and implement your road map to success. If you don’t save 10 times the cost of your attendance at the Summit, 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 facility’s performance to the next level.
When you register for the Summit and a pre-Summit Course, you will SAVE $300 OFF the course fee. This happens automatically when you register using the Summit Registration website…
What are the pre-Summit Courses? Here are all eleven that you can choose from:
A team at the Summit getting a picture with Mark & Linda.
Having your whole improvement team attend the Summit is a great way to get multiple people all working together to improve performance. Plus, you can save up to $900 per person if you bring 10 or more people and they attend the Summit and a pre-Summit Course.
Bring Your Senior Executives
Senior executives (CEOs, COOs, VPs, Directors, and Plant Managers) can show their support for your company’s improvement efforts by attending the Summit. Plus, they count toward your discounts.
Register Today!
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