8:25 am - 8:30 am	Introduction
8:30 am - 9:00 am	Global TPEs: New Technology, Regional Market Shifts and Commoditization Robert Eller, Robert Eller Associates, LLC
9:00 am - 9:30 am	Selection and Application of Antimicrobial Additives in Thermoplastic Compounds Jeffrey Trogolo, Sciessent
9:30 am - 10:00 am	Soft, Processable SEBS Polymers for Compounds Prashar Davé, TSRC Global
10:00 am - 10:30 am	Break
10:30 am - 11:00 am	Bonding Solutions for Styrenic TPE Medical Tubing Kevin Cai, Teknor Apex
11:00 am - 11:30 am	Elucidating and Controlling the Morphologies of Charged Thermoplastic Elastomers Rich Spontak, North Carolina State University
11:30 am - 12:00 pm	Small Angle X-Ray Scattering to Measure the Effects of Different Strain During Tensile Testing of TPU Alex Sokolowski, BASF
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Lunch
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Keynote: M&A for Thermoplastic Elastomers Deborah Douglas, The Douglas Group
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm	Top 16 3D Printing Stories of 2016 Sarah Goehrke, 3Dprint.com
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm	Thermoplastic Polyurethanes for Fused Deposition Modeling Jake McDonough, Fenner
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Additive Manufacturing of Soft Parts from Thermoplastic Elastomers Edmond Richer, Southern Methodist University
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Break
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm	UV-Absorbent Lignin-Based Multi-Arm Star Thermoplastic Elastomers Chuanbing Tang, University of South Carolina
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Sustainable Thermoplastic Elastomers from Terpene- Derived Monomers Marc Hillmyer, University of Minnesota
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Thermoplastic Elastomers from Multifunctional Biomonomers Eric Cochran, Iowa State University
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm	How can bioplastics be part of the transition to more sustainable plastic use in the global economy? Libby Bernick, TruCost PLC

8:30 am - 9:00 am	Market Applications for TPE Multishot Molding and the Tooling Technologies to Enable Success John Berg, MGS Manufacturing
9:00 am - 9:30 am	Fundamentals of Twin-Screw Compounding: Scale Up - The Bump in the Road Between Development and Commercialization Paul Andersen, Coperion
9:30 am - 10:00 am	A 3 Dimensional Single Screw Compounder For Elastomers, TPO And Nanoscale Particulate Keith Luker, Randcastle
10:00 am - 11:00 am	Break and Poster Session
11:00 am - 11:30 am	The Use of Next Generation Design of Experiments Software for Discovery and Scale Up Nina Visconti, Quantisweb
11:30 am - 12:00 pm	Manufacturing Polypropylene (PP)/Waste EPDM Thermoplastic Elastomers using Ultrasonically Aided Extrusion Avraam Isayev, The University of Akron
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Lunch
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Rocket Science to 3D Entrepreneur; An Account of Transitions Matthew Fiedler, re:3D
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm	Thermoplastic Elastomer Compounds for Consumer Electronics and Wearables Allen Donn, Kraiburg TPE
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm	Design and Operational Challenges of Wearable Drug Delivery Systems Hossam Metwally, Ansys Inc.
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Co-extruded Multilayer Shape Memory Materials: Smart Layered Systems Eric Baer, Case Western Reserve University
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Application of Engineering Plastics in Wearable Technologies Eric Teoh, DSM