Fox River Valley Section Membership Meeting Notice:

Speaker: Walt Boyes – Editor in Chief – Control Magazine

When: Thursday – May 8^th, 2008

Where: Liberty Hall – Kimberly, WI

Agenda: 4:45 pm – 5:15 pm Registration and Social

5:20 pm – Introductions and general business

5:30 pm - The Future of Automation

6:30 pm - Dinner

Subject: The pace of change continues to accelerate. Technology and innovation, as well as a desire to solve problems have combined to drive much of this change. In addition, the availability of skilled instrumentation technicians, electricians, engineers, and information technologists with automation experience has been on the decline as the baby boomers near retirement. Wireless, Fieldbus, security, alarm management, and control applications are topics on many minds. Come find out what Walt Boyes believes the future of Automation holds.

Location: Liberty Hall – 800 Eisenhower Drive, Kimberly, WI 54136 (Hwy 441 to College Ave – East on College – Liberty Hall on left about 2 blocks from 441)

Investment: $10.00 ISA member, $15.00 non-member, $ 8.00 student member payable at the ISA registration table at the restaurant. Investment includes dinner.

RSVP: In light of this popular subject matter, we are expecting a great turnout. Please RSVP Tom Mladucky via email at tmladucky@novaspect.com or leave a voice message at (920) 757-7101.

For those of you interested in joining ISA – check out the ISA Web Site – www.isa.org

About the Speaker: Walt Boyes has more than 25 years of experience in sales, sales management, marketing, product development, and publishing in the controls and instrumentation industry both for process instruments and environmental controls. His experience includes Executive Committee service in three companies. Walt is currently Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of CONTROL magazine.

Walt has provided strategic planning, organizational development, business reorganization and electronic business re-engineering services from companies from roughly $5 million to $100 million in revenues per year. Walt has served both the profit and not-for-profit sectors.

Walt shares an R&D100 Award with four other team members, and was Senior Contributing Editor for Industrial Marketing Practitioner and Flow Control magazines. He was the General Editor of The Instrumentation Reference Book (3rd Edition), and co-authored eBusiness in Manufacturing with Shari Worthington. He is a multiple chapter author for the Instrumentation Engineer's Handbook, 4th Edition, and a chapter editor for the Marks Mechanical Engineer's Handbook, 11th Edition. He serves as President and Executive Director of the CorgiAid Foundation, and is a former officer of ISA, the Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society.

Best regards,

Tom Mladucky

Novaspect, Inc. – A Local Business Partner of Emerson Process Management

Ph: 920-757-7101

Cell: 920-427-3998

Fax: 920-757-1297