2008 CMBG Announcement

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2008 Conference Information

1st Announcement – March 10, 2008

PG&E Presents

The 15th Annual

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT BENCHMARKING GROUP CONFERENCE

The Cliffs Resort

June 1-4, 2008

Shell Beach, CA

Pacific Gas and Electric Company is pleased to sponsor the 2008 Configuration Management Benchmarking Group Conference.

The conference is a great way to meet and share important information and experiences with other Configuration Management practitioners throughout the nuclear industry and government nuclear facilities. The theme of this year’s conference is “Maintaining the Balance”. [You can visit the CMBG website at www.cmbg.org for information about this and past conferences.]

As in the past, this year’s agenda is filled with timely topics of true relevance to successful implementation of Configuration Management in our industry. If you haven’t attended a CMBG conference in the past, you should make plans to attend this important event. Your participation and knowledge sharing will add significant value to the conference and allow you to learn many of the best industry practices in this area.

The conference begins Sunday evening and ends at noon on Wednesday. A preliminary conference agenda has been established to include the following:

Presentations:

Knowledge Management
CM Aspects of Outsourced Designs
INPO Perspective Margin Management
Fast Track Mods
Digital Upgrades
CM Aspects of Browns Ferry Re-start
CM & Equipment Reliability
CM Aspects of Seismicity
New Plant CM

Breakout Sessions:

CM-101 The Fundamentals
CM & Outsourced Design
Design Authority
Knowledge Management
Equipment Database CM
Digital Upgrades
Margin Management
CM & ER
Fast Track Mods

If you would like to make a presentation on one of these subjects or have a suggestion for another topic that you would like to present at the conference, please contact me.

2008 Conference Registration

The conference registration fee is only $250. This includes a welcoming reception on Sunday evening, breakfast, lunch and refreshments daily and a dinner on the cliffs on Monday evening. The method of payment for the conference: Credit card registration via the Cliffs Resort by Emailing or faxing (preferred) the attached form to alice@cliffsresort.com 30 days in advance, or by check made out to PG&E-CMBG mailed to:

Steve Baker Design Eng
Diablo Canyon Power Plant
PO Box 56
Bldg 202,
Avila Beach, CA 93424

Hotel Reservations

The CMBG rates are $139 non-view, $159 coastal view and $179 ocean view per night for guest rooms. The reservation cutoff date is May 1, 2008. After this date, reservations will be accepted as available and will be at the hotel’s normal rates. You can register at CMBG.org, or call the Cliffs Resort at 800-826-7827. Please specify that you are part of the Configuration Management Benchmarking Group to get the conference rate.

This announcement is being distributed to CM practitioners listed in the CMBG database. If you are not the appropriate individual to attend this event, please forward this mailing to the person(s) responsible for CM at your facility. If you would like to be removed from this mailing list, please go to www.cmbg.org and submit the change to the Contacts database, or email your request to spb8@pge.com.

We look forward to seeing you in Shell Beach this June. If you have questions, or would like more information about the conference, you can contact me at (805) 545-6742 or spb8@pge.com.

Sincerely,

Steve Baker
Supervisor Mechanical Design & Transient Analysis
805-545-6742
spb8@pge.com
Diablo Canyon Power Plant
Pacific Gas and Electric Company