Midwest Member Chapter
AIST/AWMI Collaboration Dinner Meeting
Tuesday, 10 March 2026 • Avalon Manor • Merrillville, Ind., USA
Panel Discussion
Panelists
♦ Tara Carraro, U. S. Steel, Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer
♦ Kara Orszula, A.M. Castle & Co. USA, Regional Vice President of Sales and Operations
♦ Kelly Dallas, Cleveland-Cliffs Inc., Senior Director of Engineering
♦ Elizabeth Borges, U. S. Steel, General Manager of Quality Assurance
♦ Chenn Zhou, Purdue University Northwest, Director, Steel Manufacturing Simulation and Visualization Consortium (SMSVC)
Moderator
♦ Ron Ashburn, Association for Iron and Steel Technology (AIST), Executive Director
Pricing
US$70 per person
Company-sponsored tables of 8 are available for US$560.
Schedule of Events
6:00 p.m. Social Hour
7:00 p.m. Dinner
8:00 p.m. Panel Discussion
Bring Your Own Young Professional (BYOYP) Program
AIST recently launched the Bring Your Own Young Professional (BYOYP) program to encourage our members to help boost the next generation’s involvement in AIST and the steel industry. If you are an AIST member and are bringing a Young Professional (age 30 and under) to the conference, you can receive a free gift. All you have to do is enter their contact information on the registration form when you sign up for the conference. Find out more information about the program here.