EVENTS
Roundtables, briefings and workshops, operator to operator
Everything on this page is operator to operator, and everything on it is explicitly low-pitch.
That is a rule, not a tone. Our people are in the room to keep time, run the exercise and answer a technical question if one comes up. There is no product demo, no slide about us, and no sales follow-up generated from an attendee list. If a session ever turns into a pitch, tell us and we'll fix it, because it would break the only thing that makes these worth your afternoon.
Four recurring formats, across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany, plus virtual sessions so a single-site plant three hours from the nearest city isn't shut out.
The four formats
1. Member roundtables
| Cadence | Rolling twelve-month topic calendar, set from member input |
| Duration | Half a day in person, 90 minutes virtual |
| Audience | Capped at roughly 12. Plant managers, ops directors, owners, controllers, and the person who owns IT by accident |
| Access | Member: priority allocation for Member of Both |
| You leave with | An anonymised takeaway note within a week, and usually two or three people's phone numbers |
Small, closed-door, Chatham House rule, nothing recorded, no vendors pitching. The most useful conversation a plant manager has all year is usually with another plant manager. This is our attempt to put that conversation in a room on purpose.
Full format, rules, sample agenda and how seats are allocated: Roundtables.
2. Plant floor briefings
| Cadence | Monthly, one topic at a time |
| Duration | 45 minutes, including questions |
| Audience | Open. Anyone: supervisors, maintenance leads, office staff, owners. No assumed knowledge |
| Access | Community for live attendance; recordings are Member |
| You leave with | One printed one-pager on the topic and one thing you can do this week |
Short, practical, single-topic. No framework overviews, no threat-landscape decks. A briefing does one thing properly and then stops.
The recurring one people ask for again is the first hour of a ransomware event: walked through hour by hour: what the screen says, who gets called, what the wrong first move is, what happens to the line, and what the difference is between a plant that had tested its restore and one that assumed. It is not a scare session. It's a timeline.
Other topics in rotation: answering a customer questionnaire, what a tested backup actually looks like, MFA, a second check beyond the password, on the plant floor without stopping the line, and the invoice-fraud pattern that hits AP every month-end.
3. Readiness workshops
| Cadence | Quarterly per region |
| Duration | Half a day, hands-on |
| Audience | Capped at 15 companies, 2 people each. Bring your questionnaire and your asset list if you have one |
| Access | Member: reserved seats for Member of Both |
| You leave with | A completed gap worksheet for your own site, a prioritized shortlist, and a draft answer set for your customer's questionnaire |
Working sessions, not presentations. You do the work in the room, on your own plant, with someone at your shoulder. Tied directly to the NIST readiness path, most attendees are somewhere between stage 1 and stage 3 and use the workshop to get unstuck.
Bring a laptop. Bring the actual document your customer sent you. The most valuable thing that happens in these is a room full of people discovering that the question they were stuck on has an answer everyone else already found.
4. Regional & partner events
| Cadence | Ongoing, across all four countries |
| Duration | Varies: a booth, a session, a half-day, a plant tour |
| Audience | Whoever the host organization brings |
| Access | Community, or set by the host |
| You leave with | A conversation with a person rather than a brochure |
We show up at industry association events, regional manufacturing gatherings and partner organization sessions across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany. Sometimes we're presenting, sometimes we're on a panel, sometimes we're just there and you can find us.
If your association is on our partner organizations list, we'll usually run a session for your members at no cost. Ask.
What's coming up
Filters: Format · Country · Online / In person · Access tier · Month Sort: Soonest first · Nearest to me · Seats remaining
Card structure, every event card carries: Title · format badge · date and time with time zone · location or Online · host · seats remaining · access tier · register CTA
The next dates are being confirmed
We are confirming dates for the next sessions. Register to be notified and you will get them as soon as they are set.
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Waitlist state:
This one's full. Join the waitlist and you get first refusal on a released seat, plus first notice when we repeat the topic, which we usually do within a quarter. Join the waitlist →
Recordings and past sessions
Access: Member.
Briefings and workshops are recorded and go into the member archive, usually within a week, with the slides and any handouts attached. Watch at your desk, or send it to the two people who couldn't make the live session.
Roundtables are never recorded. No video, no audio, no transcript. Attendees get an anonymised takeaway note and that's all that ever exists. That rule is not negotiable and it is the only reason anybody talks honestly in those rooms.
Each archive entry carries the recording, the slide deck, a one-page summary, and links to the relevant items in the resource library.
Host a session at your plant
The best sessions we run happen in somebody's plant, not in a hotel meeting room.
What hosting involves: a room that seats the group, coffee, and, if you're willing, a short walk of your floor. That's it. We handle invitations, registration, materials and the agenda.
What you get: the session at your site, real influence over the topic, two seats instead of one, and the thing every host tells us afterwards, other operators notice things about your plant that your own team stopped seeing years ago. The plant walk routinely generates as much useful conversation as the agenda does.
What you don't get: a sales pitch to your team, your attendee list used for anything, or any obligation whatsoever.
Offer to host → tell us through the contact form, or tick the box when you join.
On the roadmap: the annual gathering
Once there are enough members in a region to fill a room properly, we intend to run an annual gathering: one or two days, operator-led, with the roundtable rules applied at scale: plant tours, working sessions, a small number of genuinely useful talks, and no exhibition hall.
We are saying this out loud early because members should get to shape it rather than be invited to it. If you have a view on where it should be, when in the year, and what would make it worth two days away from your site, tell us now.
No date. No venue. No registration. When there is one, it will be on this page first.
Access at a glance
| What | Access |
|---|---|
| Plant floor briefings, live | Community |
| Regional & partner events | Community, or set by the host |
| Briefing and workshop recordings | Member |
| Readiness workshops | Member |
| Roundtable seats | Member, priority allocation for Member of Both |
| Reserved seats when a session fills | Member of Both |
| Session hosted at your own site | Member: ask |
Never miss one
Subscribe to the events calendar. A single feed you add to Outlook, Google or Apple Calendar. New sessions appear automatically, in your time zone, filtered by country and format if you want them filtered. No email needed for the subscribe, and subscribing does not sign you up for anything else.
The calendar feed goes live with the first confirmed dates.
Prefer email? One reminder per month with what's coming up in your region, part of the member newsletter.
What this means for your plant
What this means for your plant Roundtables, briefings and hands-on workshops across four countries, free with membership. Operator to operator. Nobody pitching, and roundtables are never recorded. You leave with something written down, not a tote bag.
Reserve a seat → /membership/join/
Related
- Roundtables: full format, rules and seat allocation
- Become a member, and the seats that come with it
- Book a free assessment
- NIST readiness, what the workshops are tied to
- Resource library, the handouts and worksheets
- Training · News · Member benefits
- Business continuity & disaster recovery, behind the ransomware briefing
- Legacy & critical-system continuity, behind the 20-year-old line roundtable
- Services · Cork coverage
- Partner organizations