Southeast Member Chapter
Schedule of Events
Sunday, 5 October –Tuesday, 7 October 2025 • Marriott Greensboro Downtown • Greensboro, N.C., USA
Host Mill: Nucor Steel Lexington
Sunday, 5 October 2025 | |
| Noon | Golf Registration at Topgolf Greensboro |
| 1:15 p.m. | Gameplay at Topgolf Greensboro |
| 5:00 p.m. | Reception and Vendor Displays |
Monday, 6 October 2025 | |
| 8:00 a.m. | Registration, Vendor Displays and Breakfast |
| 9:00 a.m. | Nick Dionise, Meltshop Process Engineer, Big River Steel "Building the Future of Steelmaking: BR2 Plant Startup and Status" |
| 9:45 a.m. | Mukund Ravindran and Co-Author from Cleveland Cliffs Indiana Harbor "TBD" |
| 10:30 a.m. | Break |
| 10:45 a.m. | Justin Keys, Melt Shop, Casting and Refractory Day Supervisor "Digital Lighthouse - Leveraging a Person -less Melt Shop to Drive Innovation and Optimized Real-time Decision Making Supported by Artificial Intelligence" |
| 11:30 a.m. | Becky Hites, President, Steel Insights, LLC "The USA Steel Industry Growing Younger" |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch and Vendor Displays |
| 1:30 p.m. | Jorge Valadares and Juan Carlos Saenz, Gerdau Petersburg "TBD" |
| 2:00 p.m. | Hafiz Haseeb, Nucor Yamato "Project Management of Baghouse Systems Upgrade at Nucor Yamato Steel" |
| 2:30 p.m. | Break |
| 2:45 p.m. | Dr. Alan P. Druschitz, Professor of Practice and Eminent Scholar, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Director VT-FIRE (Foundry Institute for Research and Education) "Enhanced Steel Curriculum at Virginia Tech" |
| 3:45 p.m. | Patrick Peek, Gerdau Cartersville "Presentation on New Strappers and Compactors at Gerdau Cartersville" |
| 4:30-6:00 p.m. | Reception and Vendor Displays |
| 6 p.m. | Dinner with Keynote Presentation by Al Behr, Executive Vice President, Nucor Corp., 2025-2026 AIST President |
Tuesday, 7 October 2025 | |
| 8 a.m.–2 p.m. | Plant Tour: Nucor Steel - Lexington Motorcoach transportation provided with registration |
| Please check back frequently as the schedule of events may change without notice. | |