Master Organizing Committee

General  Coordinator
Marcos Eduardo Faraco Wahrhaftig – Executive Director at Gerdau Brasil

Technical Coordinator  
André Luiz Vasconcellos da Costa e Silva – Professor at UFF (Federal Fluminense University) and consultant in material specification and selection, failure analysis, process design and steel production improvement

Technical Coordinator  
Antônio Cezar Faria Vilela – Professor at UFRGS’s (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) Metallurgy Department and School of Engineering’s LASID Coordinator

Technical Coordinator  
Flávio Beneduce Neto – Professor at USP’s (University of São Paulo) Materials and Metallurgical Engineering Department.
 
Master Committee's Guest Members

André Wulff Hirano – Ironmaking Researcher at Anglo American
Andreia Cristina Lourenço de Abreu – Marketing and Communication Coordinator at Gerdau Aços Longos
Bruno Roberto de Moraes Barbosa – Business Analyst at Vale S/A
Carlos Henrique Lopes – Metallurgy Coordinator at Companhia Siderúrgica do Pecem – CSP
Carlos Humberto Sartori – Specialist at Villares Metals
Celso Rodrigues de Freitas – Vice President of RHI Magnesita
Débora Oliveira – Corporate Director at Instituto Aço Brasil
Eduardo Côrtes de Castro – Manager at CSN
Heltom Muzzi Martins – Executive Production Director at Usiminas
Francisco Coutinho Dornelas – Consultant and Regional Director of ABM Espírito Santo
Geraldo Iran de Souza Lima Cardoso – Regional Director of ABM Centro Oeste
Lucas Vieira Penna – Production Manager at ArcelorMittal Longos 
Paulo de Tarso Rossi Haddad – Manager at CBMM
Tamara Lapa: Marketing and Communication Senior Analyst at Gerdau Aços Especiais
Walter Massanori de Saito – Consultant 
 
Technical Committee's Coordinators
 
Cristiano de Lanna – Usiminas – IT and Automation TC
José Herbert Dolabela da Silveira – Consultant – Metal Forming TC
Carlos Sadao Shiratsu – Consultant – Energy and Utilities TC
José Roberto Bolota – Consultant – Smelting, Refining and Solidification TC
Vania Lúcia de Lima Andrade – Consultant – Mining TC
Helênio Resende Silva Junior – Paul Wurth – Ironmaking and Ore Agglomeration TC
Delmi Vicente de Carvalho - Faculdade Promove BH  – Logistics TC
Flávio Beneduce Neto – USP – Congress TC / Undergraduate Technological Research
Thiago Norio Nakata – Gerdau – Congress TC / Maintenance and Engineering
André Luiz Vasconcellos da Costa e Silva – UFF – Congress TC /Metallurgical Processes and Fundamentals
Paulo Rogério Correa de Oliveira – Usiminas – Congress TC/Integrated Management
José Geraldo Melo Furtado – CEPEL – Congress TC/Polymers, Composites and Ceramic Materials
Charles de Abreu Martins – ArcelorMittal – Congress TC/Ferrous Metal Products
Ayrton Filleti – Consultant – Congress TC /Non-Ferrous Metal Products