The First TMS Summit on Creating and Sustaining Diversity in the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Professions breaks new ground in introducing a series of events that are as unique as they are all-encompassing. Beyond keynotes from leaders in the field and beyond theory, this summit provides professional development with practical application to help you sow seeds of diversity and leadership in government, academia, and industry and to harvest improvement in yourself and your organization.

Practical, Solutions-Oriented
You’ll hear from real people in real-world situations about what does and what doesn’t work. Learn from the experience of others who are in all career stages and a variety of professional environments. Understand diversity topics better by hearing from experienced, internationally-known experts. Get involved in interactive working sessions led by professional facilitators to identify key issues and make recommendations on how to improve diversity in the minerals, metals and materials professions.

It’s a meeting that is practical and authentic and gives you real tools for real issues. You will leave this summit with what you need to make diversity happen in your environment. Outputs include:

• practical new skills
• practical new solutions
• a diversity toolkit, developed at the summit and available online by fall 2014
• a final report of the summit, available online by fall 2014

Interactive
You will become part of the solution with interactive, working sessions that harness the power of the group to identify challenges, strategies, resources, and recommendations. The key ideas of the group will be documented in a final report that you can use to implement in your organization.

All Encompassing
The summit focuses on key diversity and inclusion challenges, solutions, and advice for early career and mid-career professionals in the minerals, metals, and materials fields. With panel sessions and working sessions on leadership as well as state-of-the-art thinking from well-known and respected experts in the field of diversity and inclusion topics, the summit also provides professional development for anyone in science and engineering.

If you can only attend one diversity training in 2014, DMMM1, with all of these opportunities under one roof, should be your choice.