April 21, 2025 | Mark Paradies

ChatGPT’s Recommendation

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AI Evaluates a Conference

I asked ChatGPT the following question:

“Why should people attend the 2025 Global TapRooT® Summit?”

Here is the response from ChatGPT…

Attending the 2025 Global TapRooT® Summit can be highly beneficial for professionals and organizations aiming to improve their incident investigation, problem-solving, and safety practices. Here are several reasons why people should consider attending:

World-Class Training: The summit offers world-class training on TapRooT®, a proven methodology for investigating and solving problems. This can help attendees sharpen their skills in root cause analysis and improve their ability to address complex safety and operational challenges.
Networking Opportunities: The summit brings together industry leaders, safety experts, and professionals from diverse fields, creating an excellent opportunity to network, exchange ideas, and build connections that could benefit both individuals and their organizations.
Access to Industry Experts: Attendees will have the chance to interact with renowned experts in the field of root cause analysis, safety, and human performance. They can gain insights into best practices, new techniques, and emerging trends directly from the people shaping the industry.
Innovative Solutions and Tools: The summit showcases innovative tools, strategies, and technologies that can help organizations improve their safety programs, reduce incidents, and enhance operational efficiency. It’s a great opportunity to discover new solutions that can lead to significant improvements in workplace safety.
Real-World Case Studies: The event often features case studies that provide real-world examples of how TapRooT® has been successfully implemented in various industries. Learning from others’ experiences can provide valuable lessons and insights that attendees can apply in their own work environments.
Hands-on Workshops: The summit typically includes interactive workshops where attendees can practice applying TapRooT® techniques to real scenarios. This hands-on experience helps reinforce learning and provides practical tools for addressing challenges in the workplace.
Improving Safety Culture: By attending the summit, individuals and organizations can gain a better understanding of how to build and maintain a safety culture that emphasizes proactive problem-solving and continuous improvement.
Personal and Professional Growth: For individuals looking to grow in their careers, the summit offers opportunities to gain new knowledge, certifications, and skills that can make them more valuable contributors to their organizations.

Overall, the 2025 Global TapRooT® Summit offers a comprehensive, enriching experience for anyone interested in improving safety, problem-solving, and performance in high-risk industries.

What a rousing recommendation from AI. But does it agree with what past attendees have to say?

Real-World Experience

Let’s see if ChatGPT agrees with the real feedback from prior Summit attendees. ChatGPT lists these eight reasons to attend:

World-Class Training
Networking
Industry Experts
Innovative Solutions/Tools
Real-World Case Studies
Hands-On Workshops
Improving Safety Culture
Personal and Professional Growth

Here are actual Summit attendee comments (comments from real people, not AI) organized by the categories that ChatGPT mentioned…

World-Class Training
- I attended one of the courses before the Summit, which was terrific.
- Excellent! There was value for me in every session each day.
- We need to reach out and involve local site management at the Summit. I wish they could see the energy and value gained from the Summit. This is the best event I have attended!
- The course I attended about the software taught me things I need to know, and we can hit the ground running with implementation when I get back. Very valuable.
Networking Opportunities
- What a diverse group of improvement professionals with great ideas to share.
- Well organized. This was my first Summit and from the start to the end was a great experience. Great networking.
- Great place for networking and exchanging best practices and a great range of session topics!
- I really liked the networking. Meeting other people and hearing about their problems and solutions that apply to what I do.
- I met improvement professionals from all over the world!
- Everyone you meet knows more about at least one thing than you know.
Industry Experts
- It’s like a family reunion, except you meet root cause experts from around the world.
- What a diverse group of improvement professionals with great ideas to share.
- Everyone I talked with was a like-minded problem solver who would rather learn about the problem themselves than blindly trust an “expert.”
- The keynote speakers were excellent and had an impact on everyone.
- I found out things I didn’t know that I didn’t know from root cause analysis experts.
Innovative Tools/Solutions
- As a first-time participant, I’m taking tons of stuff home. I hope to be back for more next year.
- This is my second Summit in a row, and each time I come, I learn new, valuable things to take back to work and apply.
- Fantastic speakers and sessions. I’m taking a lot of tools back to improve performance.
- The Summit was fun! There were wonderful speakers. I have a lot of good information to take back to my workplace and implement.
Real-World Case Studies
- People were really open and ready to share best practices.
- What I liked the best was the presentations by the industry folks who shared what worked and what didn’t.
- This is the ninth summit I’ve attended in the past 11 years. The sessions are relevant to my experience in the field; they share real-world experience and have been very helpful.
- I had a whale of a time. One of the most valuable things was Candace’s presentation about her industrial accident. It was very touching.
Hands-On Workshops
- Hands-on sessions! The Summit is the BEST conference I’ve attended!
- Several sessions with everyone participating. Well done.
- Richard’s presentation about corrective actions was very profound. He made his points by having us participate in a workshop with actual problems and lessons learned.
- I appreciate the effort SI puts into getting everyone involved and participating.
Improving Safety Culture
- Very Valuable. Well-organized multiple breakout sessions with good practices to improve safety and even some things not to do.
- We need to send more front-line leadership to this. Great safety lessons learned.
- Great learning on improving internal systems and the safety culture in general.
- Astronaut Jim Wetherbee’s presentation about achieving success in dangerous operations was inspiring.
- I learned a lot about improving the quality of processes to improve safety performance.
Personal and Professional Growth
- Very motivational and valuable. I would like to have others from our plant attend next time. Great job, SI!
- The interview with Mike Williams about the Deepwater Horizon incident was life-changing!
- This is an amazing place for professional growth. I really liked Ken Futch’s quote: “Doing something stupid doesn’t mean you are stupid.”
- Anyone in safety or quality who has a process that can be fixed should attend this summit because they will learn things that can help their company and their career.

And that’s a small sample of the recent comments I’ve collected from over 30 years of successful Summits. I would say that real people with experience attending the Summit agree with ChatGPT.

More Summit Information

Keynote Speakers

CLICK HERE for more information about the five Keynote Speakers.

Best Practice Tracks

The Summit is organized around eight Best Practice Tracks:

To see all nine sessions in a track, click the links above.

Each track provides opportunities to hear about best practices from industry leaders from around the world, share your company’s best practices, and learn from experts who are creating the newest ways to improve performance.

Remember, you can mix and match from various sessions in the various tracks to make a custom Summit schedule.

Pre-Summit Courses

What are the 11 optional 2-Day pre-Summit Courses that you can choose from?

Click on the link above to learn more about a course that interests you.

Bring a Team

One way to get even more value from the Summit is to bring a team.

Face it. You can’t do everything yourself. You need a team to help your company achieve world-class performance. The Summit is an excellent place for your team to learn new ways to improve performance.

Having your team attend the Summit will help your team develop a game plan and a roadmap to achieve excellence. You can align the company’s improvement efforts and return to work motivated to put what you have learned to work.

Plus, when you bring a team, you will get discounts on courses and the Summit. The maximum discount is $900 OFF the combined course and Summit fee per attendee. See the discounts available below…

When & Where

When and where is the 2025 Global TapRooT® Summit? The optional 2-Day pre-Summit Courses are on September 29-30, and the Summit is on October 1-3.

Both are being held at the Knoxville Convention Center located between downtown Knoxville and the University of Tennessee campus.

SUMMIT GUARANTEE

If you have any doubt about how worthwhile the Summit will be, let us remove all doubt with this GUARANTEE:

Attend the Global TapRooT® Summit. Go back to work and implement your roadmap to success. If you don’t save 10 times the cost of the Summit fee, let us know and return your Summit materials and we will refund 100% of the Summit registration fee. This guarantee shows how certain we are that you will learn valuable best practices to take your team’s performance—and that of your whole organization—to the next level.

That should make you feel comfortable about your decision to attend the 2025 Global TapRooT® Summit.

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