Roundtable Guide

Gas Turbine Users International - Members Only

Roundtables cannot function effectively without highly professional behavior on the part of all
attendees. All attendees, including OEM’s and any Knowledge or Service Providers, will receive these
guidelines in their registration material and must subscribe to the following guidelines to attend
Roundtables and participate in GTUI:

Roundtables are moderated discussion groups. The Chair will ensure that all interested
parties have the opportunity to address issues fairly.

The Roundtable Chair has absolute authority to declare attendees out of order or to limit
discussion as required to technical issues or issues of interest to the majority of attendees.

The Roundtable Chair will endeavor to ensure that all those who come to GTUI with an
operational issue or problem leave with the best answer GTUI can provide—either through
the Roundtable or from other Users—and will limit discussion accordingly or schedule extra
Roundtable sessions as required.

Persons and Parties that are not either Users or the OEM of the gas turbines under discussion
are cautioned that information developed in the Roundtable is “not for attribution” and
cannot be used outside GTUI for any commercial purpose. Inappropriate use of Roundtable or
GTUI data is cause for revocation of attendance privileges.

Roundtables are strictly technical forums focused on User issues or other issues of interest to
the gas turbine community. Commercial discussions of any nature are not allowed. . vi. No
commercial promotion or sales promotion of any kind is allowed from any party or person.

Personal and corporate behavior that is not in the best interests of and does not further
professional, open, non-partisan discussion of gas turbine problems and the solution of such
problems is not allowed in Roundtables. Examples of such behavior include, but are not
limited to, the following:

Self promotion is allowed from OEM’s, consultants, service providers or other
attendees.

No exaggerated or promotional claims or “chest thumping” by operators, suppliers or
other attendees is permitted.

No inflammatory or defamatory statements of OEM and/or supplier performance or
operator competence, also known as “vendor bashing” or “ambush discussions” are
allowed. Discussion is strictly limited to technical issues and solving User problems.

Discussion not focused on problems and the solution of problems with gas turbines is
out of order in Roundtables. Personal or financial/commercial issues must not be
discussed in the Roundtable.

Questions or statements that lead to a predetermined conclusion, also known as
“leading questions” or the practice of “leading of the witness”, are
allowed—especially from parties with any potential conflict of interest,

Any parties with potentially competing commercial interests must focus entirely on helping
Users with the technical issue at hand and not participate in promotional activity and take any
sales or commercial discussion elsewhere. This allows technical issues to be the Roundtable
focus and minimizes any potential conflict of interest.

OEM’s may not schedule off-site entertainment or other off-site meetings for Users during
GTUI. Violations by an OEM will result in sanction by the GTUI Board of Directors. All Users are
encouraged to attend only sanctioned GTUI activities at the Conference Venue and contribute
to the OEM’s understanding of all User concerns.

If requested by a User Member as a matter of technical necessity and coordination of User and
OEM resources, meetings between a single User and an OEM may be conducted during GTUI
with concurrence of the GTUI President and Annual Conference Chair. Such meetings must be
focused on resolution of immediate technical, safety, and/or operational concerns, limited in
nature, and not detract from the overall purpose of the GTUI. Such meetings must be limited
in scope and attendance.

GTUI Roundtable Guidelines, cont'd

9. Guidelines for Corporate and Personal Behavior in Roundtables