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February 22nd

3:00 pm

REGISTRATION

3:30 pm - 4:20 pm WELCOME DAY SPECIAL CONTENT

Panel: Supply Chain and Manufacturing Crisis Roadmap for Disruptions Shortages and Geopolitical Events

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  • Capturing key lessons learned from recent disruptions, highlighting what has improved and what still consistently fails under stress
  • Identifying recurring breakdowns in both manufacturing and supply chain execution during crisis events
  • Exposing structural bottlenecks such as inflexible capacity, constrained supplier networks, and slow decision escalation
  • Understanding where coordination between manufacturing, procurement, and logistics breaks down in real scenarios
  • Translating lessons and gaps into clear priorities for building a more responsive and resilient end-to-end operating model
4:25 pm - 5:00 pm WELCOME DAY SPECIAL CONTENT

Cost, Risk, or Service: What Actually Drives Manufacturing & Supply Chain Decisions Today?

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  • Why traditional “cost optimization” models are no longer sufficient in a world shaped by geopolitical volatility, supplier fragility, and regulatory intensity
  • How leading executives are reframing decisions from cost vs. service trade-offs to enterprise risk-adjusted value creation across the network
  • The growing reality that service performance is now a competitive differentiation, but only when it is resilient, not just fast or flexible
  • Why functional silos (finance, operations, quality, supply chain) still distort enterprise decision-making and how this leads to suboptimal global network outcomes
  • How top-performing organizations are moving toward integrated, scenario-based decision frameworks that dynamically balance cost, risk, and service in real time across the value chain
5:05 pm - 6:00 pm WELCOME DAY SPECIAL CONTENT

Panel: When Quality Fails: Managing Recalls, Shortages, Systemic Risk and Other Vulnerabilities

Kevin Rooney

VP of Product Quality

Intuitive

Gabriela Parana

Senior Director, Regulatory Affairs

Medtronic

Boris Shkolnik

Chief Quality Officer

Olympus

Varaprasad Manne

VP Global Quality

Terumo BCT

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  • Root causes behind recent quality failures including process drift, supplier variability, and control breakdowns
  • How contamination events and recalls expose deeper fragility across interconnected supply networks
  • Addressing the compounding impact of quality issues on shortages, service levels, and patient access
  • Examining where quality systems break down between manufacturing, suppliers, and distribution
  • Why traditional compliance approaches are not enough to prevent repeat failures
  • Building proactive risk detection systems that identify issues before they escalate into recalls
  • Strengthening end-to-end quality ownership across manufacturing, supply chain, and regulatory functions
6:00 pm

Drinks Reception

6:30 pm

Executive dinner

(By Invite Only)

February 23rd

Stream 1 Chair
Stream 2 Co-Chair

Executive to be Announced

Medical Engineering Consultants

Stream 3 Co-Chair

Executive to be Announced

Veeva MedTech

7:30 am - 8:15 am

registration & breakfast

8:15 am - 8:20 am

Opening Remarks & Important Announcements

8:20 am - 8:30 am

Chair’s Welcome Address

8:30 am - 9:05 am KEYNOTE

Design for Manufacturability: Embedding Quality, Reliability, and Patient Safety into Every Decision

Scott Cundy

Senior Vice President and Chief Quality, Development, and Innovation Officer

Medtronic

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  • Moving quality from a downstream checkpoint to an upstream design philosophy
  • Building manufacturability, reliability, and patient safety into products from day one
  • The importance of asking the right questions, and asking them at the right stage of development
  • Breaking down functional silos between R&D, engineering, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain
  • Using design reviews, development gates, and cross-functional collaboration to reduce risk earlier
  • Balancing speed, innovation, regulatory expectations, and operational scalability
  • Lessons learned from implementing DFM practices across complex medical device portfolios
9:10 am - 9:45 am Case Studies
Stream One - Manufacturing & Operations

Rewiring the MedTech Manufacturing Footprint: Resilience, Cost, and Control

Dale Pease

Group VP, Supply Chain Operations, Orthopaedics

Stryker

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  • Rebalancing manufacturing footprint decisions across cost, control, and resilience imperatives to avoid over-indexing on any single objective
  • Reassessing nearshoring vs. global manufacturing specialization based on true total cost, service levels, regulatory complexity, and risk exposure
  • Optimizing production network design and plant utilization to improve cost efficiency while maintaining flexibility and redundancy
  • Strengthening operational control across multi-site manufacturing networks through standardization, visibility, and tighter execution discipline
  • Integrating supply-side resilience into operations planning to ensure material availability, reduce bottlenecks, and improve production stability
  • Embedding scenario-based decision-making into manufacturing and operations governance to proactively manage tariffs, disruptions, and shifting demand patterns
Stream Two - Supply Chain

The Talent–Automation Gap: Addressing Talent Shortages and the Reality of Automation in Regulated Manufacturing

Miguel Aldana

Sr. Vice President Global Supply Chain and Manufacturing

Siemens Healthineers

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  • Confronting persistent skilled labor shortages and their direct impact on throughput, quality, and scalability in regulated manufacturing
  • Closing the gap between automation ambition and operational reality, particularly in highly controlled, compliance-driven environments
  • Understanding where automation breaks down, from validation constraints to variability that still requires human expertise
  • Balancing workforce strategy: upskilling critical talent versus redesigning roles alongside automation
  • Integrating automation without disrupting quality, compliance, or existing workflows
  • Building a future-ready workforce model that aligns talent pipelines with increasing digital and automation demands
Stream Three - Quality & Regulatory Compliance

Global Regulatory Strategy: Building a Scalable, Integrated Compliance Advantage

Dina Justice

Vice President, Regulatory Affairs

Terumo Medical Corporation

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  • Shifting from fragmented, country-by-country compliance to a unified global regulatory strategy that accelerates multi-market access
  • Embedding regulatory intelligence early to anticipate policy shifts and shape portfolio and market-entry decisions proactively
  • Standardizing core submission structures (modular dossiers, reusable evidence packages) to reduce duplication and speed approvals
  • Redesigning the operating model to balance global governance with regional execution and authority engagement
  • Integrating regulatory planning into the full product lifecycle, from design and development through post-market surveillance, to enable continuous compliance and portfolio velocity
9:50 am - 10:25 am Workshops
STREAM 1 WORKSHOP

CI at Scale: Moving from Reactive Improvement to Built-In Performance in Manufacturing Networks

Executive to be Announced

MasterControl, Inc

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  • Shifting Continuous Improvement from a reactive model driven by failures and KPI misses to a proactive system designed for continuous learning and prevention
  • Reframing recurring operational issues as signals of underlying system and network design gaps, rather than isolated site-level execution failures
  • Moving from local optimization to end-to-end network thinking, where performance outcomes are shaped by how processes, flows, and governance structures are designed
  • Elevating operational data from reporting output to structured feedback that informs system learning and decision-making
  • Building mature CI environments that continuously convert everyday operational signals into structural improvements in work design, governance, and operating models
STREAM 2 WORKSHOP

US FDA Inspections, QMSR, VIP, and MDSAP: Trends, Triggers, and Building Continuous Quality Readiness

Executive to be Announced

RQM+

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  • What is driving FDA inspection trends today, including key triggers such as data integrity, CAPA effectiveness, supplier control, and post-market signals
  • How QMSR alignment with ISO 13485 is changing documentation expectations, audit readiness, and global regulatory harmonization
  • The role of FDA’s Voluntary Improvement Program (VIP) in shifting from reactive compliance to proactive, system-level quality improvement
  • What MDSAP audits consistently reveal about gaps in quality system maturity across manufacturing, suppliers, and global operations
  • How leading organizations are building continuous inspection readiness through real-time quality signals, risk-based monitoring, and integrated QMS visibility
STREAM 3 WORKSHOP

Multi-Year Road Mapping for Supply Chain Modernization and ROI

Executive to be Announced

Rockwell Automation

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  • Outlining the strategic vision: modernize supply chain capabilities to drive resilience, agility, and measurable business impact
  • Prioritizing initiatives based on ROI and risk to target greatest efficiency, cost reduction, or service improvement
  • Developing a phased, multi-year roadmap balancing quick wins with foundational investments
  • Leveraging technology for end-to-end visibility and predictive insights to proactively manage disruptions and optimize performance
  • Ensuring executive sponsorship to align priorities, allocate resources, and maintain accountability
  • Addressing barriers: resistance to change, legacy systems, skills gaps, and interdependent processes
  • Embedding governance and CI mechanisms to track ROI, course-correct, and sustain long-term outcomes
10:25 am - 12:10 pm Pre-Arranged One-To-One Meetings Arrow Icon

These mutually agreed-upon conversations are arranged and facilitated by Executive Platforms staff to ensure attendees have valuable discussions about their top-of-mind questions, challenges, and opportunities.

  • 10:30 am – 10:50 am: Meeting Slot 1/Networking
  • 10:55 am – 11:15 am: Meeting Slot 2/Networking
  • 11:20 am – 11:40 am: Meeting Slot 3/Networking
  • 11:45 am – 12:05 pm: Meeting Slot 4/Networking
12:15 pm - 12:50 pm Case Studies
Stream One - Manufacturing & Operations

The Smart Factory Gap in MedTech: Why Digital Capability Isn’t Becoming Operational Performance

Marc Gelnett

Executive Vice President of Operations

CooperSurgical

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  • The widening gap between smart factory investment and measurable operational performance in MedTech manufacturing, and why it persists despite heavy digital spend
  • Why visibility, AI, and analytics have not translated into faster execution or better frontline decision-making, despite improved data availability
  • How structural fragmentation across OT, IT, Quality, and labour models is undermining end-to-end manufacturing control and consistency
  • Why pilot success fails to scale, and what changes in standardization, governance, and replication are required to industrialize digital across sites
  • What leading manufacturers are doing differently: embedding digital into operating rhythms, redefining decision rights, and aligning accountability across the manufacturing system
Stream Two - Supply Chain

A Practical Playbook for M&A Integration Success

Keith Racine

Vice President ISC M&A and Integration

BD

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  • Proven strategies for aligning manufacturing, supply chain, and operations during every stage of M&A integration
  • Lessons learned from overcoming common integration challenges while maintaining business continuity and customer commitments.
  • Practical approaches to harmonizing processes, systems, and organizational cultures across newly combined businesses
  • Key priorities for the first 100 days to accelerate value realization and minimize operational disruption
  • Actionable frameworks for measuring integration success and building a resilient, scalable operating model for long-term growth
Stream Three - Quality & Regulatory Compliance

Enabling Successful Design and Manufacturing Transfers of Medical Devices

Raghu Jainapur

Vice President Quality

Minimed

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  • Addressing real-world challenges and common pitfalls during design and manufacturing transfers, and effectively managing transfer milestones
  • Architecting and executing a quality and regulatory submission strategy · Translating design specifications into clear, actionable manufacturing instructions
  • Using pilot runs and iterative builds to identify and resolve manufacturability issues early
  • Aligning validation plans with real-world production conditions and conducting hands-on training
  • Building a structured knowledge transfer process to support smooth and scalable production scale-up
12:50 pm - 1:50 pm THEMED LUNCH DISCUSSIONS

Explore this year’s themed lunch discussions led by industry leaders, where executives engage in focused conversations over a meal, discussing topics they’re passionate about alongside their peers.

Smart Factories in MedTech: Hype vs. Operational Reality

Executive to be Announced

Rockwell Automation

Global Trade Friction: Tariffs, Export Controls, and Supply Chain Redesign

The Governance Gap in Quality: Why Control Structures Are Failing Complex Manufacturing Networks

The Anatomy of a Plant Shutdown: Managing Risk, Compliance, and Continuity While Reshaping the Global Manufacturing Network

Leading Enterprise-Wide Supply Chain Transformation with AI and Advanced Analytics

Regulatory Intelligence: Turning Inspection Data into Strategic Foresight

1:55 pm - 2:30 pm Case Studies
Stream One - Manufacturing & Operations

Where AI is Delivering Real Impact in Manufacturing and Operations

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  • Sharing real production-floor examples where AI has improved throughput, reduced downtime, and stabilized operations under variability
  • Highlighting predictive maintenance use cases that have meaningfully reduced unplanned equipment failures and improved asset utilization
  • Exploring AI-enabled optimization of scheduling, capacity planning, and workforce allocation in real-time operations
  • Identifying how AI is improving end-to-end operational visibility and enabling faster, more coordinated decision-making across sites
  • Discussing what it actually takes to move AI from pilots to scaled deployment across multi-site manufacturing and operational networks
Stream Two - Supply Chain

Practical AI Wins in Supply Chain Operations

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  • Sharing real-world examples where AI has improved forecasting accuracy, reduced stockouts, or stabilized demand variability in live operations
  • Highlighting where AI has meaningfully improved decision speed and exception handling in planning and execution environments
  • Exploring practical deployments of AI in production, such as predictive maintenance, quality inspection, and yield optimization
  • Identifying where AI has successfully enhanced visibility across fragmented supply chain data and improved cross-functional coordination
  • Discussing what has actually worked in scaling AI beyond pilots into embedded, day-to-day operational decision making
Stream Three - Quality & Regulatory Compliance

Transforming Post-Market Signals into Strategy: Evaluating Complaints, Trends, and Off-Label Use to Guide Product Decisions

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  • Turning fragmented field data into decision-grade intelligence by integrating complaints, trend signals, & off-label use into a unified post-market view rather than siloed reporting streams
  • Distinguishing signal from noise in real-world data, with emphasis on identifying patterns that meaningfully indicate product performance, safety drift, or evolving clinical behavior.
  • Understanding off-label use as a system signal, using it to evaluate unmet needs, design assumptions, and potential gaps in intended use validation
  • Strengthening product lifecycle decisions through closed-loop feedback, ensuring post-market insights actively inform design updates, risk controls, & next-generation product development
  • Building organizational responsiveness to emerging risk indicators, enabling faster escalation pathways, clearer ownership, and more proactive regulatory and quality decision-making
2:35 pm - 3:10 pm Workshops
STREAM 1 WORKSHOP

Global Maintenance Optimization: Turning Reliability into a Strategic Cost and Productivity Advantage

Executive to be Announced

Honeywell Life Sciences

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  • Standardizing maintenance strategy across global sites to eliminate variability, reduce duplication of effort, and unlock enterprise-wide cost efficiencies
  • Shifting from localized maintenance decisions to centralized, data-driven asset management that optimizes spend across the full manufacturing network
  • Reducing total operational cost by improving asset uptime, extending equipment life cycles, and minimizing unplanned downtime across all plants
  • Leveraging cross-site performance benchmarking (OEE, downtime, maintenance cost per unit) to identify inefficiencies and replicate best-in-class practices globally
  • Aligning maintenance strategy with production and supply chain priorities to improve throughput, reduce capacity constraints, and strengthen global delivery performance
STREAM 2 WORKSHOP

Transforming Planning: Decision Intelligence, Process Orchestration, Data Visibility, and Embracing Uncertainty

Executive to be Announced

Fabriq

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  • Redesigning planning as a decision-led operating model where choices are continuously optimized, not locked into static cycles
  • Connecting end-to-end planning processes through orchestration across demand, supply, and operations to enable coordinated execution
  • Establishing trusted, real-time data visibility as the backbone for faster, higher-confidence trade-off decisions
  • Embedding scenario-driven thinking to operationalize uncertainty rather than attempting to eliminate it from the system
  • Shifting from forecast accuracy as the goal to decision quality and speed as the primary measures of planning effectiveness
STREAM 3 WORKSHOP

Building a Risk-Driven Audit Strategy: Managing Global Operations, Supplier Complexity, and the Gap in Audit Capability

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  • Examining current audit models and their limitations, where audits remain compliance-focused, retrospective, and weakly connected to operational risk and performance signals
  • Addressing the gap between global operational complexity and audit consistency, where multi-site manufacturing, diverse suppliers, and regional regulatory expectations create variable outcomes
  • Examining the growing mismatch between traditional audit approaches and modern product realities, including SaMD, AI-enabled devices, and cybersecurity requirements that demand deeper technical and lifecycle understanding
  • Addressing capability gaps in internal and supplier auditing, where auditor training often lags behind the complexity of technologies and systems being assessed, leading to inconsistent interpretation and risk evaluation
  • Learning how organizations are shifting toward risk-based, intelligence-led audit strategies, integrating data, supplier performance signals, and real-time operational insights to move from periodic compliance checks to continuous assurance
3:10 pm - 4:30 pm Pre-Arranged One-To-One Meetings Arrow Icon

These mutually agreed-upon conversations are arranged and facilitated by Executive Platforms staff to ensure attendees have valuable discussions about their top-of-mind questions, challenges, and opportunities.

  • 3:15 pm – 3:35 pm: Meeting Slot 5/Networking
  • 3:40 pm – 4:00 pm: Meeting Slot 6/Networking
  • 4:05 pm – 4:25 pm: Meeting Slot 7/Networking
4:35 pm - 5:10 pm KEYNOTE

Operationalizing Resilience: Identifying and Leveraging Key Drivers in Supply Networks to Strengthen Resilience

Peter Bennett

Senior VP Global Supply Chain

Cardinal Health

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  • Defining and prioritizing the core resilience drivers such as supply diversity, capacity flexibility, inventory strategy, and lead time robustness
  • Translating resilience from concept into measurable network levers embedded in sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution decisions
  • Building end-to-end visibility across suppliers and nodes to understand where resilience is gained or lost in the network
  • Embedding risk sensing and scenario planning into operational decision-making to activate resilience drivers early
  • Aligning cost, service, and resilience trade-offs through deliberate network design and governance mechanisms
5:10 pm - 5:15 pm

Chair’s Closing Remarks

5:15 pm

Drinks Reception

5:45 pm

Executive dinner

(By Invite Only)

February 24th

Stream 1 Chair
Stream 2 Co-Chair

Executive to be Announced

Medical Engineering Consultants

Stream 3 Co-Chair

Executive to be Announced

Veeva MedTech

8:00 am - 8:45 am

registration & breakfast

8:10 am - 8:45 am breakfast workshops
Stream Two

Digital Quality: Myth vs. Maturity

Executive to be Announced

Veeva MedTech

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  • Why “going digital” hasn’t automatically improved quality performance: Understanding the gap between digitizing quality processes (QMS tools, eDHR, eQMS) and actually improving decision quality, speed, and consistency
  • Where digital quality systems break down in real operations: How fragmentation across ERP, MES, QMS, and supplier systems creates hidden disconnects in traceability, deviation handling, and CAPA effectiveness
  • Why data integrity risks are evolving, not disappearing: Moving from paper-based errors to system-level risks like poor master data governance, uncontrolled interfaces, and inconsistent validation across platforms
  • What true audit readiness looks like in a digital environment: Shifting from “audit preparation mode” to continuous inspection readiness with always-on, retrievable, and context-rich digital evidence
  • How to embed quality into day-to-day operational decision-making: Making quality signals actionable in real time, so deviations, supplier risks, and process drift influence manufacturing and supply chain decisions before issues escalate
8:50 am - 9:00 am

Chair’s Opening Remarks

9:00 am - 9:35 am KEYNOTE

Risk as a Design Principle: Embedding Quality into Every Operational Decision

Steve C de Baca

Chief Patient Safety & Quality Officer

Philips

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  • Reframing risk as a core input to enterprise strategy and execution, where decisions in product development, sourcing, and manufacturing are shaped by upfront risk understanding, not downstream correction or compliance response
  • Embedding risk intelligence into capital allocation, portfolio prioritization, and operational trade-offs, enabling leaders to explicitly weigh speed-to-market, cost efficiency, innovation ambition, and quality exposure in a structured way
  • Building an enterprise capability to convert fragmented signals from design, suppliers, manufacturing sites, and field performance into a single, decision-ready view of risk across the value chain, rather than siloed functional reporting
  • Establishing a unified enterprise risk language that aligns quality, supply chain, operations, regulatory, and commercial leadership, ensuring consistent interpretation of risk and eliminating localized or conflicting decision logic
  • Moving from periodic risk assessments to continuous, real-time risk governance, where live operational and supply chain data actively informs decisions, allowing the enterprise to anticipate disruption rather than react to it
9:40 am - 10:15 am Case Studies
Stream One - Manufacturing & Operations

Cost Pressure vs. Innovation: Operating in a Margin-Constrained Environment

Carlos Soto

Head of Global Manufacturing Operations

Artivion

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  • The shift from cyclical inflation to sustained structural margin pressure reshaping manufacturing strategy
  • Moving from cost reduction to cost transformation across product design, engineering, and operations
  • Establishing clear executive frameworks to decide when to redesign, absorb, or pass through cost pressure
  • Strengthening collaboration between operations, supply chain, and finance leadership to ensure aligned margin ownership and decision-making
  • Assessing today’s capability and performance gaps across cost, efficiency, and agility to identify where value leakage and structural weaknesses exist
  • Building resilient, flexible manufacturing networks that balance efficiency with risk, volatility, and disruption
  • Protecting innovation while driving efficiency through aligned governance, incentives, and cross-functional accountability
Stream Two - Supply Chain

Supply Network Architecture: Transitioning from Linear Chains to Dynamic Ecosystems

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  • Redefining competitive advantage at the network level: shifting from optimizing individual supply chain nodes to architecting end-to-end networks that drive speed, resilience, and strategic optionality
  • Embedding structural flexibility into design: building supply networks that can reconfigure sourcing, production, and distribution pathways in response to geopolitical, demand, and capacity shifts
  • Aligning network design with enterprise strategy: ensuring supply chain architecture directly supports growth markets, margin strategy, and service differentiation
  • Moving from efficiency-first to resilience-led models: balancing cost optimisation with built-in redundancy, diversification, and risk absorption capacity
  • Establishing governance for dynamic network management: enabling continuous re-optimization of supply networks through integrated decision-making, data, and scenario planning
Stream Three - Quality & Regulatory Compliance

EU MDR through the Notified Body Lens: Expectations, Variability, and MDR 2.0

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  • What Notified Bodies are actually looking for under MDR, and why technically strong products still fail or get delayed in review
  • The most common submission gaps from a reviewer perspective: clinical evidence depth, technical documentation consistency, and weak PMS integration
  • Why timelines slip in practice, misalignment between manufacturer assumptions of “complete submissions” and Notified Body readiness expectations
  • What a “reviewer-ready” submission truly means, and how manufacturers can redesign internal processes to reduce cycles, rework, and delays
  • What a future “MDR 2.0” would need to address to better balance patient safety, innovation speed, and Europe’s global competitiveness
10:15 am - 11:10 am Pre-Arranged One-To-One Meetings Arrow Icon

These mutually agreed-upon conversations are arranged and facilitated by Executive Platforms staff to ensure attendees have valuable discussions about their top-of-mind questions, challenges, and opportunities.

  • 10:20 am – 10:40am: Meeting Slot 8/Networking
  • 10:45am – 11:05am: Meeting Slot 9/Networking
11:15 am - 11:50 am Workshops
STREAM 1 WORKSHOP

The Hidden Drivers of Manufacturing Underperformance

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  • Reframing underperformance from a “site execution problem” to a system design outcome shaped by how processes, flows, and governance are structured
  • Identifying how fragmented decision-making across functions and tiers creates hidden friction that accumulates into chronic performance loss
  • Moving beyond lagging KPIs to recognize early operational signals that reveal stress points in flow, capacity, and variability
  • Understanding how local optimization unintentionally drives global underperformance by improving siloed metrics at the expense of end-to-end efficiency
  • Building the capability to convert operational data into structural insight, enabling continuous redesign of how work is planned, governed, and executed
STREAM 2 WORKSHOP

Empowering Supply Chain Decisions Through Actionable Metrics and Real Time Data Analytics

Executive to be Announced

Accenture LLP

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  • Moving from lagging reports to real time, decision ready visibility across the end-to-end supply chain
  • Focusing on a small set of high impact metrics that directly drive operational, quality, and commercial decisions
  • Enabling end to end integration of manufacturing, quality, inventory, and logistics data for a single source of truth
  • Leveraging AI and advanced analytics to improve prediction, anomaly detection, and decision support at scale
  • Embedding insights directly into daily operational workflows to improve speed, alignment, and execution consistency
STREAM 3 WORKSHOP

SaMD and AI-Enabled Medical Devices: Cybersecurity Pressures, Validation Challenges, and Evolving Quality Systems

Executive to be Announced

PTC

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  • Examining where quality systems are effectively supporting rapid AI and software-driven development, and where legacy validation approaches are still constraining agility
  • Addressing the growing cybersecurity expectations across the product lifecycle, and the gaps between design-stage risk controls and real-world threat management
  • Examining how well post-market surveillance is capturing real-world performance of adaptive and learning systems, and where visibility is still limited
  • Addressing inconsistencies in regulatory interpretation and evidence expectations for AI-enabled and software-based medical devices across global markets
  • Learning how quality organizations must evolve from compliance enforcement models to continuous, data-driven systems that integrate software, AI behavior, cybersecurity, and clinical feedback loops
11:55 am - 12:30 pm KEYNOTE

Navigating Trade and Tariff Landscape by Integrating Trade Compliance into Decision-Making and Strengthening Partnerships

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  • Developing a decision framework that embeds trade, tariff, and regulatory variables into sourcing, manufacturing, and network design choices
  • Using scenario-based modeling to assess tariff exposure, policy shifts, and geopolitical risk across end-to-end supply flows
  • Treating compliance as a strategic input into cost, footprint, and market access optimization rather than a downstream control step
  • Building shared visibility and governance frameworks with suppliers and logistics partners to coordinate responses to trade volatility
  • Aligning commercial, supply chain, and regulatory functions around a unified framework for faster, more consistent decision making under uncertainty
12:30 pm - 12:35 pm

Chair’s Closing Remarks Followed by Lunch

12:40 pm - 1:40 pm

Networking Lunch