Schedule
31 August–3 September 2026 • Embassy Suites Myrtle Beach – Oceanfront • Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
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Monday, 31 August | |
4:30–6 p.m. | Registration and Welcome Reception |
Tuesday, 1 September | |
| 7:30–8:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 a.m.–Noon | Technical Exchange Meetings – Meltshop and Rolling Mill Operators Only |
| Noon–1:30 p.m. | Lunch on your own |
| 1:30–4:30 p.m. | Rolling Mill and Meltshop Focus Groups All registered delegates welcome. |
| 5 p.m. | Young Professionals Reception |
Wednesday, 2 September | |
| 10–11 a.m. | Virtual Tour of Steel Dynamics Inc. – Flat Roll Group Butler Division |
| 1–4 p.m. | Social Event at PopStroke Myrtle Beach (separate registration required) |
Thursday, 3 September | |
7:30–8:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
MELTSHOP | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Linde 3 in 1 Burner Trials and Results Alex Taylor, CMC Steel Alabama |
| 9 a.m. | Building Tomorrow's Steel Mill Representative from Nucor Steel Kingman |
| 9:30 a.m. | Use of Ionic Fluid to Replace Conventional Cooling Water in a Supersonic Oxygen Lance Chris Farmer, BASF Corporation |
| 10 a.m. | Break |
| 10:30 a.m. | Upgrades at Nucor Steel Darlington Garrett Trafzer, Nucor Steel Darlington |
| 11 a.m. | Upgrade to the New Level 2 Platform Ernesto Muniz, Big River Steel |
| 11:30 a.m. | TBD |
ROLLING MILL | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Power BI and the Use of AI in Today's Steelmaking Kelly Askew, CMC Steel Oklahoma |
| 9 a.m. | Mill Drive and System Upgrade Joey Strickland, Gerdau Long Steel North America Cartersville Mill |
| 9:30 a.m. | Performing Mass Balance Experiments to Identify Metallic Losses Logan Stephenson, Gerdau Long Steel North America Manitoba Mill |
| 10 a.m. | Break |
| 10:30 a.m. | Primetals Advanced Guiding System Mitch Gaffka, CMC Steel Arizona |
| 11 a.m. | TBD |
| 11:30 a.m. | TBD |
| Noon–1 p.m. | Lunch |
Joint Presentations | |
| 1 p.m. | Presentation from Noah Hanners Executive Vice President – Sheet Products, Nucor Corp. |
| 2 p.m. | Presentation from Dan Brown Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President for Advanced Technology Steelmaking, United States Steel Corporation/Big River Steel |
| 5 p.m. | Casino Night Reception |
| Please check back frequently as the schedule of events may change without notice. | |