24th Annual
Trade Show and Conference
Save the Date: May 7, 2025
Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to showcase your business to the manufacturers across Texas.
From panel discussions, to breakout sessions, to conference talks — all of these avenues can positively impact and boost your business! Come join a conference full of like-minded manufacturers, committed to making it BIGGER in TEXAS!
Click on the link below to register, view the floor plan and see the schedule of events!
Past Years
2023 Speakers
PANEL DISCUSSION
Generational Transitioning in Manufacturing
Understanding the Buyer/Procurement Process
Art Raynes
Sr. Account Manager
Cox Manufacturing
Yvonne Torres
Sr. Director Purchasing
SAWS
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
2022 Speakers
PANEL DISCUSSION
Navigating the Governmental Procurement Mazes to Grow Your Business
James Franks
President
Franks Manufacturing Company, Inc
Doug Carlberg
President / CEO
M2 Global
Bill Rafferty
South Central Director
Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center
Curtis Mohler
PTAC Regional Program Manager
UTSA Institute for Economic Development
Procurement Technical Assistance Center
Steve Wyatt
Executive Director
Southwest Trade Adjustment
Assistance Center
4 BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Jim Lowery
ITM
Robotics & Automation
Raul Flores
CPS
Cost Saving Measures
Tim Stark
CPS
Cost Saving Measures
Gabe Draper
Factur
Increase Sales
Wes Bunch, CEO
Bridgehead IT
Cyber Security
Andrew Evans CISSP
Bridgehead IT
Cyber Security
PEER GROUP PANEL
Panel Discussion on Getting Sound Advice to Grow Your Business
Bob Buckley – Moderator
SAMA CEO and Operation Manager
Peer Group Moderator
Michael J. McIver
VP Manufacturing
Pressure Systems International Inc.
Eric Peter
President / CEO
Alamo Transformer Supply Company
Mike Postal
President, Executive
Connexa
CONFERENCE TALK
Mary Batch, Manager
Toyota Manufacturing
Attracting, hiring, and retaining employees
Katie Chain
HEB
Attracting, hiring, and retaining employees
2021 Speakers
Harry Moser
Founder & President: Reshoring Initiative
Topic: Buy American: Supply Chain Wake-Up Calls for Reshoring Now
Biography
Harry founded the Reshoring Initiative to bring five million manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. after working for high end machine tool supplier GF AgieCharmilles, starting as President in 1985 and retiring 12/31/10 as Chairman Emeritus. Largely due to the success of the Reshoring Initiative, Harry was inducted into the Industry Week Manufacturing Hall of Fame 2010 and was named Quality Magazine’s 2012 Quality Professional of the year and FAB Shop Magazine’s Manufacturing Person of the year. Harry participated actively in President Obama’s 1/11/12 Insourcing Forum at the White House, won The Economist debate on outsourcing and offshoring, received the Manufacturing Leadership Council’s Industry Advocacy Award in 2014 and the Made in America 2019 Reshoring Award. He was recognized by Sue Helper, then Commerce Department Chief Economist, as the driving force in founding the reshoring trend and named to the Commerce Department Investment Advisory Council in August 2019.
Harry is frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, NYT, Forbes, Financial Times, New Yorker, Washington Post and USA Today and seen on Fox Business, MarketWatch, PRI, NPR, Manufacturing Talk Radio and other national TV and radio programs. He received a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MS in Engineering at MIT in 1967 and an MBA from U. of Chicago in 1981.
Biography
Harry founded the Reshoring Initiative to bring five million manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. after working for high end machine tool supplier GF AgieCharmilles, starting as President in 1985 and retiring 12/31/10 as Chairman Emeritus. Largely due to the success of the Reshoring Initiative, Harry was inducted into the Industry Week Manufacturing Hall of Fame 2010 and was named Quality Magazine’s 2012 Quality Professional of the year and FAB Shop Magazine’s Manufacturing Person of the year. Harry participated actively in President Obama’s 1/11/12 Insourcing Forum at the White House, won The Economist debate on outsourcing and offshoring, received the Manufacturing Leadership Council’s Industry Advocacy Award in 2014 and the Made in America 2019 Reshoring Award. He was recognized by Sue Helper, then Commerce Department Chief Economist, as the driving force in founding the reshoring trend and named to the Commerce Department Investment Advisory Council in August 2019.
Harry is frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, NYT, Forbes, Financial Times, New Yorker, Washington Post and USA Today and seen on Fox Business, MarketWatch, PRI, NPR, Manufacturing Talk Radio and other national TV and radio programs. He received a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MS in Engineering at MIT in 1967 and an MBA from U. of Chicago in 1981.
James “Jay” Hawreluk
CEO & Executive Consultant: AcuMax Index
Topic: Topic – Developing Your Workforce
Book Author: Unraveling the Mystery of People
Biography
James “Jay” Hawreluk has a BBA in Business Management from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the University of Detroit. From his involvement in a youth organization, to his first full time position at a bank, as a business owner and involved in sales and consulting, people have always fascinated him.
Over the years, Jay has tried to figure people out and address the issue of why they do the things they do. This culminated when he become a Senior Management Consultant in late 2000 and for over 10 years worked with all size organizations to provide recruiting, hiring, management, team building and strategic planning expertise. During this time period, Jay also explored personal relationships on all levels and discovered many commonalities in business relationships and personal relationships – which can all impact stress, happiness and goal achievement.
Jay has years of hands on experience in dealing with the many complex issues that occur in today’s business environment. After orchestrating the buyout of his company in the early 1990’s, Jay has continued to work with executives of small to Fortune 500 companies offering realistic and attainable solutions to the challenges of our dynamic business world. The hallmark of Jay’s career has been his ability to consistently deliver new approaches that generate quality results to his clientele at the highest levels of customer satisfaction.
The information Jay has acquired over many years of working with companies is now available to all in his new book and presentation seminar- Unraveling the Mystery of People – which now enables all people to improve their relationships, job satisfaction and overall life enjoyment! From this book the AcuMax Index® Survey has been developed which accurately assesses an individual’s natural wiring and tells us how they are best motivated, process thought, preferred work style, how risk decisions are made and one’s communication style. The additional value is the AcuMax Index® scientifically informs us of the environment that a person can best flourish in and is the only assessment that not only measures, but reports on a person’s natural wiring! The AcuMax Index® is a statistically valid, EEOC compliant assessment that enables any type of organization to improve quality of hiring, performance of their workforce and job satisfaction for all. In addition, the AcuMax Index® can be used to help in all sorts of personal relationships – spouses, significant others, children, family and friends! All of this clarity on people and relationships with a simple 5 minute Survey!
Jay’s educational and entertaining presentation style has led to speaking engagements with numerous business organizations, not-for-profit events, conferences and professional organizations! Unraveling the Mystery of People live presentation is consistently rated as one of the best presentations audiences have seen on human interactions!
Justin Roff-Marsh
Founder: Ballistix
Topic: How to Create a Sales & Marketing Machine
Book Author: The Machine: A radical approach to the design of the sales function.
Biography
Justin Roff-Marsh is the founder of Ballistix and the developer of Sales Process Engineering. Ballistix builds highly efficient sales functions for organizations in North America, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Sales Process Engineering is a radical approach to the design and management of sales functions. Roff-Marsh propagates his (generally controversial) ideas via his popular blog (www.salesprocessengineering.net) and via a busy international speaking schedule.
We were extremely pleased to have participated in the SAMA Trade Show. From my personal perspective, I was astounded at both the quantity and quality of the show’s attendees most of which were decision makers. We obtained, minimally, 10 very high-quality contacts with which we are currently engaged. Historically we participate in 10-12 trade shows every year, SAMA’s was the best, WE WILL BE BACK!!!
Randy Holford, Sales Manager, SupplyWorks
2021 Speakers
Harry Moser
Reshoring Initiative
James Hawreluk
AcuMax Index
Justin Roff-Marsh
Ballistix
2019 Speakers
2019 Recap
WF Strong
Texas Historian
Jeannine Kunz
Vice President,
Tooling U-SME
Michael Addo-Yobo
Cyber Security,
BDO Global Accounting Company
2018 Speakers
2018 Recap
Andy Car
KFC Technologies
Matt Robinson
Southwest Research Institute
David Rojas
Automation Station, LLC
Russ Hughes
North America Customer Center, Desoutter Tools
Jason McLaurin
Jcore Systems
Sam Wegehaupt
Assembly Shop,
Toyota Motor