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WHY HTEC CONFERENCES?

 Collaborative Community of World-Class CNC Educators, Focused on Leading-Edge, Industry-Relevant Equipment and Technology

 For more than a decade, Haas Automation and Haas Factory Outlets across the globe have worked with local secondary, post-secondary, career, and training centers to host Haas Technical Education Community (HTEC) conferences throughout North America and Europe.

These conferences provide opportunities to gain insight into best practices for teaching CNC machining, CAD, CAM, simulation, automation, metrology, and related technologies from your peers, industry experts, and leading partners. It’s time we break down the barriers in the modern advanced manufacturing lab and classroom, and start kicking some axes.

HTEC 2023 | July 24-27, 2023

Come join partners and peers at PEAK Innovation Center in Fort Smith, Arkansas for our Annual HTEC CNC educators conference. The conference will include an enormous amount of educator content for new machining instructors as well as advanced CNC instructors, and for all of you somewhere in between!

The conference will start Monday, July 24th at noon and end early-afternoon on Thursday. We will have optional tours of local manufacturers on Wednesday, July 26.

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CONFERENCE DETAILS

SESSIONS

Valuable information for all levels of educators. Excellent educational presentations from our key industry partners, including: Mastercam, Autodesk, Mitutoyo, Renishaw, Qualichem, Haas Tooling, Mark Forge, and Phillips EDM.

These sessions will be ‘Education Oriented’, focusing on teaching all levels of educators on the specific topics of each presentation. No educator will be left behind!

KEYNOTE


“Re-Igniting the Flame of the Backbone of America”


Manufacturing guru, Andrew Crowe, discusses manufacturing in the US and the future of our industry.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

• Break out sessions on a variety of CNC education topics
• Hands-on learning opportunities
• Take away projects for the classroom
• Peer groups 
• First-ever Annual Educator Awards, presented by Edge Factor
• Presentation by Nascar Driver Ryan Preece at the HTEC dinner! 
• HTEC dinner with a photo booth, live band, networking opportunities, lots of FUN, great food, and more! 

Full Conference Agenda

CONFERENCE INFORMATION & RESOURCES

Expense Chart & Hotel Info
Justification Kit
Justification Letter

Planning Team

In 2001, the Haas Technical Education Community established a Member Council (the HTEC Council) that would work collectively with a hosting school and Haas Automation to organize and realize an annual CNC Educators Conference that would be second to none in the industry.

The success of each year’s conference can be widely attributed to the members of both the elected HTEC Council(s) and their designated host team members who, alongside Haas Automation, ensured the needs of their peers were met each year, enabling continuous growth.

2023 HTEC COUNCIL EXECUTIVES:
TRIAN GEORGEOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT | CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY | [email protected]
ERIC MCKELL | COUNCIL VICE-PRESIDENT | BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY | [email protected]
MATT ERBACH | SECRETARY | STREAMWOOD HIGH SCHOOL | [email protected]

2023 HTEC COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES:
BRIAN AIKEN | PICKENS COUNTY CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER | [email protected]
COURTENAY RIMALDI | ÉCOLE MISSION SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL | [email protected]
DAN KERNION | REDMOND HIGH SCHOOL | [email protected]
PHIL SHIRLEY | GEORGIA NORTHWESTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE | [email protected]
ED DOHERTY | SUNCOAST TECHNICAL COLLEGE | [email protected]
BRIAN NELSEN | DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY | [email protected]
AUBRIN HEINRICHS | MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY | [email protected]
RYAN JOHNSON |AUBURN UNIVERSITY | [email protected]
TONY SCHMITZ | UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE KNOXVILLE | [email protected]

2023 HOST TEAM:
JACOB SILVERS | PEAK INNOVATION CENTER COMPUTER-INTEGRATED MACHINING
GARY UDOUJ | FORT SMITH PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIRECTOR OF CAREER EDUCATION AND DISTRICT INNOVATION
ANITA BRACKIN | FORT SMITH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE VICE PRESIDENT OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
JASON GREEN | ABB VICE PRESIDENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES

CHRIS MCHUGH | HAAS AUTOMATION EDUCATION PROGRAM MANAGER
LINDSAY CLINE | HFO PHILLIPS DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION
KEN POTTS | HFO PHILLIPS REGIONAL SALES MANAGER

You can play a vital roll by joining the HTEC Council. Nomination required.*

Constitution & bylaws

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Previous Hosts

North America’s Annual HTEC CNC Educators Conference has seen substantial growth every year since its inception in 2007. Here’s where we’ve been all these years. Will your school be next?

2007 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Troy, NY
2008 Haas Automation Headquarters | Oxnard, CA
2009 Guildford Technical Community College | Greensboro, NC
2010 Macomb Community College | Warren, MI
2011 Arizona State University | Phoenix, AZ
2012 Hudson Valley Community College | Troy, NY
2013 Northern Alberta Institute of Technology | Edmonton, AB
2014 Dunwoody College of Technology | Minneapolis, MN
2015 California Polytechnic State University | San Luis Obispo, CA
2016 Central Maine Community College | Auburn, ME
2017 Lincoln College of Technology | Grand Prairie, TX
2018 Danville Community College | Danville, VA
2019 Flathead Valley Community College | Kalispell, MT
2021 Inaugural Virtual Conference
2022 Tennessee College of Applied Technology | Smyrna, TN

Past Council Presidents

Brian Cummings | 2022 | Worcester Technical High School
Alex Barnhill | 2020-2021 | Nash Community College
Grant Paul | 2019 | Saskatchewan Polytechnic
Torbjorn Bergstrom | 2018 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Trian Georgeou | 2017 | California Polytechnic State University
Bob Heffentrager | 2016 | Lehigh Career & Technical Institute
Chris Canceliere | 2014 | Lehigh Career & Technical Institute
Trian Georgeou | 2013 | Arizona State University

Paul Driggers | 2012 | Mount Pleasant Technical Center
Torbjorn Bergstrom | 2011 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Paul Hill | 2010 | Lenoir Community College
Doug Bowman | 2009 | Vincennes University
Wayne NP Hung | 2008 | Texas A&M University
Ken Wright |  2004-2007 | Henry Ford Community College
Chris Brown | 2001-2003 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Thank you for your interest in attending a Haas Technical Education Community conference near you. Don’t see any events near you listed? Please check back soon. Dates and locations of upcoming HTEC conferences are posted as soon as they are established.    

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Thank you for your interest in attending a Haas Technical Education Community conference near you. Don’t see any events near you listed? Please check back soon. Dates and locations of upcoming HTEC conferences are posted as soon as they are established.    

“It is an honor to be a part of the Haas Technical Education Community and a blessing to be able to connect with so many talented and committed educators. Whether collaborating with my peers annually at conferences or drawing help from the network of instructors, I find HTEC to be the single best organization for CNC education.“

Georgia Northwestern Technical College
Philip Shirley | Instructor, Precision Machining and Manufacturing | Georgia Northwestern Technical College

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