On May 22, 2009, Joseph Ricciardelli participated as a speaker at the Workshop entitled: "Eliminate waste in logistics and production systems." The intervention was presented as an argument of the waste analysis through value stream costing. Other presentations were held by Gianluca Anguzza, a speaker of New Value, Mark Gobetto of Manufacturing Training Unit of Fiat Group, Brian Swain of Takt Group via video conference from England and David Stante with the case study on the Stante Way.