Sharing Knowledge
Get You the Knowledge You Need
Teaching root cause analysis around the world provides a unique insight into the problems that companies are experiencing and the best practices that can improve performance. Back in 1993, we decided that we needed to share the knowledge we were acquiring and encourage TapRooT® Users to share their best practices. That is how the first TapRooT® Summit was born in 1994.
When planning the Summit, we use the knowledge we gain by teaching TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis to plan sessions to help people avoid incidents and improve performance. Plus, we talk to our TapRooT® Users and TapRooT® Advisory Board Members to collect their best practices and encourage them to present what they have learned at the Summit.
We think this “KNOWLEDGE SUMMIT” provides the information that you need as a performance improvement expert. Knowledge for improving:
- Safety
- Equipment Reliability
- Quality
- Operational Excellence
- Incident Investigations and Root Cause Analysis
- Human Performance
To make it easier to decide which sessions to attend, we organize the knowledge sharing into Best Practice Tracks.
Best Practice Tracks
We organize these talks, best practice and lessons learned presentations, and interactive roundtable discussions into Best Practice Tracks. The tracks at the 2025 Global TapRooT® Summit are:
- High-Reliability Organization Best Practices
- Human Performance Best Practices
- Improvement Program Best Practices
- Investigations & RCA Best Practices
- Safety & Risk Management Best Practices
- Maintenance & Reliability Best Practices
- Psychology of Improvement Best Practices
- Instructor Recertification Track
Want to see the sessions in a particular track? Click the link above. To see the complete 2025 Global TapRooT® Summit Schedule, CLICK HERE.
Note that when you register, you can customize your Summit experience by selecting sessions from more than one track to customize your agenda.
Keynote Speakers
But that isn’t all the planning for the Summit.
One of the things that I enjoy the most is selecting the Summit’s keynote speakers. I choose people:
- With applicable knowledge to share,
- Who are exciting and motivating to listen to,
- That you may not have heard from before, and
- That I am interested in meeting and listening to.
The five Keynote Speakers that I selected for the 2025 are:
For more details about their presentations, CLICK HERE.
Networking/Benchmarking
Yes, the speakers are great. However, Summit participants will probably get just as much knowledge from other Summit participants as they will in the planned sessions.
We not only provide opportunities to meet and share information with other attendees, but we are also experts at making networking and benchmarking FUN. This starts at the beginning of the Summit in the Ready, Set, Go! Session (The Name Game) and continues through the roundtable discussions, the Wednesday reception, and the opportunity to meet the Keynote Speakers and the TapRooT® Staff.
Why is making the Summit FUN one of our priorities? Because we believe people learn more when having fun.
But There’s More! Pre-Summit Courses
We started adding pre-Summit Courses to the Summit experience back in 1995. The pre-Summit Courses are focused on a single topic that attendees might want to explore in more depth. This year, there are 11 of the optional 2-Day pre-Summit Courses:
- Advanced Communications/Presentations Skills
- The Best Ways to Use Data to Improve Performance
- Equifactor® Equipment Troubleshooting & TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis
- TapRooT® Advanced Case Study Workshop
- Stopping Human Error
- Analyzing and Adjusting Safety Culture
- TapRooT® Software Training
- Auditing & Proactive Improvement Using TapRooT® RCA
- Interviewing & Evidence Collection
- Developing an Incident Command System
- TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Training
Click on the link above to learn more about a course that interests you.
Get More Summit Information
Click on the graphic above to download the eight-page 2025 Global TapRooT® Summit brochure. Or CLICK HERE to go to the Summit website.
You will have fun learning essential performance improvement knowledge and making new friends when you attend a pre-Summit Course on September 29-30 and the 2025 Global TapRooT® Summit on October 1-3.
Plus, when you attend a pre-Summit Course and the Summit or bring a team to the Summit, you can get significant discounts off the combined course and Summit registration fees (SAVE up to $900). See the potential discounts above.
The Summit will be held in Knoxville, Tennessee, at the Knoxville Convention Center, between downtown Knoxville and the University of Tennessee campus.
To REGISTER, CLICK HERE.
Then, get ready to share knowledge and have fun.
