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11.03.2018

IPAF Summit

The IPAF Summit was held in Miami, Florida last week, followed by the annual IAPA Awards dinner.

The programme kicked off with a networking event on Wednesday evening at Bar 601, Heat American Airlines Arena, with the Summit kicking off at 10:00 on Thursday morning.

The following is a brief photographic overview of the event, for the award results Click here to see awards results. Next year’s Summit will be held on March 6th in Dubai.
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The networking evening attracted around 270 attendees


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Vertikal’s Clare Engelke and Pam Penny are greeted by IPAF’s Andy Access


This year’s Summit presentations, followed the theme ‘Quantifying Sustainablity’ and were delivered by 20 speakers. Delegates downloaded a new IPAF Summit event App and participated in live polls throughout the day.
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IPAF chief executive Tim Whiteman opened the Summit, followed by separate parallel sessions for Aerial Work Platforms and Mast Climbing Work Platforms


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A panel discussion covered Virtual Reality, training simulators and whether simulators will eventually replace real platforms in training. A Rental Panel which included Lifetime Achievement Winner, Dan Kaplan, discussed 'Is your company ready for 2028?'


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Live poll


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Live poll results


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Lunchtime in the Sponsors lounge


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Dinolift’s Karin Nars tries out the new Scissor Lift Simulator developed by Serious Labs


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Alimak Hek’s Henrik Teiwik and Keith Hancock attended the Mast Climbers Work Platform Breakout Session


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Guru Bandekar of JLG Industries spoke on Product Innovation, The Worksite of the Future


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Giancarlo Bobbio of Haulotte spoke on 'selecting the right platforms for sustainability’


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Giles Councell of IPAF presented the association’s Global VR/Simulation Consultation


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Bill Plummer of United Rentals on ‘Valuing Sustainability’


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Norty Turner of Riwal spoke about transformation and how the company sustains it


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Pedro Fernández of Spanish rental company GAM spoke passionately about the technological challenges for the rental industry


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Brad Boehler of Skyjack spoke about his company’s incident history while covering the Evolution of Safe Use


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Nick Selley of AFI and IPAF president closed the Summit


IAPS Awards Evening
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Dan Kaplan received the Lifetime Achievement Award


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John Keeley of Niftylift received the Product of the Year Award for Self-Propelled Booms and Atrium Lifts for the company’s HR21 4X4 (MKIII)


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Dharak Dedhia of ARIA Aerial Platforms in Mumbai waits to hear the announcement for Project of the year which was won by UP Makine of Turkey


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Congratulations to the 2018 IAPA Awards winners


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