Making Workflow WORK

Making Workflow WORK. Wednesday November 22, 2023
In Person @HP 5150 Spectrum Way., Mississauga noon to 2pm
Webinar 12:30 – 1:45pm

The printing industry has many moving parts in it’s structure. Improvements to the supporting technology make it easier to link the print world—resulting in new opportunities and business models.
The DIA has put together a panel of Users to address the many sides of automation in a print plant: CRM (Customer Relationship Management) – from creating and maintaining a viable and current customer contact list, through to store-front marketing; software like MIS to minimize touchpoints and provide viable management reports; and of equal importance, the physical side of moving work through your plant to maximize throughput.
Our panelists are:

Keith Stoesz – Expediting Manager at Friesens Corporation
Keith has been involved in Production at Friesens for nearly 28 years. For many of those 28 years he has been a part of Friesens Book Division Management team and has been responsible for Prepress, Shipping and Scheduling departments at different times in his career. He has been the driver of many innovative workflow solutions and has worked together with Friesens Developers to help develop and implement ERP Systems, Electronic dockets, Scheduling Software and Task Lists. Friesens is a 600-employee, employee owned book manufacturer located in southern Manitoba.

Todd Cober, President, Cober Solutions
Todd has quite literally grown up in the business. From Kindergarten to High
School, Todd ended his day at the office with Peter, his father. Todd started
working in the bindery on the folders, and then with the help of the talented staff
at Cober started to learn all of the other finishing equipment. By the age of 16
Todd was working in the pressroom feeding he 40” and learning the craft of
printing. After high school Todd went to Toronto Metro University (formerly
Ryerson University) to earn his Bachelor of Technology majoring in graphic
communications management with a minor in entrepreneurship.
After completing his degree in 2005 Todd came back to work at Cober full time in a sales/customer relationship position. In 2007 at the age of 25 Todd was awarded Canadian Young Printer of the year. In 2016 Todd was awarded the Emerging Leader Award for top executive under the age of 40. Today, Todd is the 4th generation Owner and President at
Cober where he works with the incredible Cober Team to continue down its path
of constant evolution and growth.

Stephen Longmire, National Sales Manager, Sydney Stone
Stephen’s role includes researching new product lines and manufacturers to distribute, setting pricing structures, managing the partner program, and conceiving and implementing
marketing initiatives to support sales efforts. Stephen has been intensively involved in the implementation of CRM as a marketing and sale management tool and Sydney Stone.

Moderator: Jason Hamilton, President, Chief Innovation Officer, Innovative Displays

Jason is well-known throughout the Graphic Arts industry with over 30 years of experience
leading people and organizations through technology development. From starting in the basics of
lithography at Quebecor, Jason has been immersed in the continuous change and growth in the
print industry.
Over the past 15 years, Jason has concentrated on the development of strong bi-directional
business relationships through business development and technology. This experience has
created an international reach of relationships and growth strategies that have benefited recent
groups such as Advocate Printing & Publishing, TI Group, Hughes Packaging, and Agfa.
From 2001 to 2012, Jason was involved in the technology strategy of PaperlinX (Spicers), which
assisted in the process of converting from a traditional fine papers group to an holistic seller of
fine papers, graphic imaging solutions, and software technology.
Jason’s passion is the continued development of technology in the print industry while creating
a strong face-to-face, business-to-business strategy with customers.

To Register: contact marg@digitalimagingassociation.com

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