September 21st

2:30 pm - 3:20 pm

Badge Pick Up

3:20 pm - 3:25 pm

Welcome Day Opening Remarks

Cristina Ricaurte

Regional Vice President, Head of Solution Advisory Supply Chain Management, Americas

SAP

3:25 pm - 4:00 pm KEYNOTE

Fireside Chat: Resilience, Relationships, Results: A Fireside Chat on Modern Supply Chains

Chris Nielsen

Chief Supply Chain Officer & Chief Quality Officer

Toyota Motor North America

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  • What the world gets wrong about Lean
  • Streamline operations by aligning procurement, logistics, and quality systems to increase responsiveness and reduce variability across all tiers of your supply base
  • Integrate long-term strategy with day-to-day execution by embedding continuous improvement principles at every stage of the supply chain
  • Lead complex transformations with clarity and cohesion — gain lessons from merging siloed operations into a unified organization while preserving performance and culture
4:00 pm - 4:35 pm PANEL

The Connected Enterprise Test: Can Your Network Respond as Fast as Your Customer Expects?

Moderator

Keith Baranowski

Global Head of Sales for the SAP Business Network

SAP

Kimberly Smith

VP Customer Supply & Logistics

Mars

Harish Kumbhare

Consulting Managing Director

Deloitte

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This session looks at what it actually takes for procurement and supply chain to operate against one shared measure, what the customer experiences, rather than two sets of functional targets.
  • Where cross-functional decision-making actually breaks down: what separate systems, data, and objectives cost an organization even when every individual function is hitting its numbers
  • Operating in permanent volatility: why the advantage now sits with responsiveness rather than the ability to forecast the next disruption
  • What connected looks like in practice rather than in principle: shared visibility, cross-functional workflows, real-time decisions, and supplier collaboration beyond the four walls, from S&OP cycle time through to supplier onboarding
  • Where does the case for centralized decision-making run up against the need for functional autonomy, and how do you know which side of that line you should be on?
  • What has to be true before AI improves cross-functional decisions rather than simply accelerating bad ones: data foundation, decision rights, and where human judgment stays in the loop
  • Procurement and supply chain as growth engines rather than cost centers: how consistently delivering on customer promises converts into loyalty and revenue, and what it takes to get the rest of the business to see it that way
4:45 pm - 5:35 pm Case Studies
STREAM 1 CASE STUDY

Digital Transformation for Cost-Effective Supply Chain Modernization

Cristina Ricaurte

Regional Vice President, Head of Solution Advisory Supply Chain Management, Americas

SAP

Joshua Dolan

Senior Vice President, Demand Chain

7-Eleven

Andrew Strobe

Director, Supply Chain & Global Aps Program Leader

Ecolab

John Mau

Director of Planning & Network Strategy

Ocean Spray Cranberries Inc.

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  • Simplify transformation scope, integrations, and customizations to reduce the total cost of system change across the supply chain
  • Standardize core planning and execution processes across platforms to lower operating and maintenance costs without sacrificing service levels
  • Phase technology upgrades across the stack to minimize disruption, protect working capital, and reduce implementation risk
  • Carry the hard lessons of past go-lives into every new implementation: requirements discipline, integration design, testing, and change management matter more than the platform itself
  • Enforce stronger governance and value discipline so technology investments deliver supply chain outcomes, not IT complexity
STREAM 2 CASE STUDY

Data & AI in Supply Chains: From Early Simulation to Mastery for Tangible ROI

Rene Buck

Chief Executive Officer

BCI Global

Vincent Cappello

Division Director

NASA

Andrea Parnau

VP Supply Chain

Plexus Corp

Alexandra Biron

IT Director

RTX

John Gordon

Senior Vice President of Raw Materials and Sustainable Resources

US Steel

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  • Build strong data foundations by improving data quality, governance, and cross-functional alignment
  • Evolve simulations from static models into dynamic tools that reflect real-world constraints, variability, and trade-off
  • Apply AI deliberately to strengthen scenario modeling, forecasting, and decision speed where the data supports it
  • Embed simulation into daily planning and execution so teams use insights to drive decisions, not just analyze outcomes
STREAM 3 CASE STUDY

Improving Supply Chain Performance Through Proven Operational Practices

Sophie Davasse

Intelligent Connected Operations Executive

Capgemini

Dave Sanford

Vice President, Supply Chain

CVS Health

David Lacey

SVP, Operations

Behr Paint Company

Adnan Qadri

Director Global Logistics & Fullfilment

Meta

Jose Algara

Vice President, Supply Chain and Inventory Management

Nordstrom

Martin Gonzalez

Chief Supply Chain Officer

Thorne

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  • Standardize core processes across planning, sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution to reduce variability and execution risk
  • Strengthen daily operating rhythms to improve accountability, visibility, and decision follow-through
  • Focus teams on the metrics that matter most, including service levels, inventory turns, and cost-to-serve
  • Build problem-solving capability at the front line so issues get resolved quickly and don’t reappear
5:40 pm - 6:15 pm KEYNOTE

Evolution Meets Revolution: How Agentic AI is Reshaping Supply Chains

Stefan Achilles

Vice President, Supply Chain Planning

Genpact

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Supply chains are approaching an inflection point. Persistent volatility, talent constraints, and growing operational complexity are colliding with a new generation of AI that can do more than analyze information. Agentic systems can interpret events, evaluate alternatives, coordinate workflows, and support faster action across the enterprise.

In this session, Stefan Achilles will examine how supply chains are progressing from reactive and digitally connected operations toward predictive and autonomous decision-making. He will explore where AI is already changing forecasting, planning, inventory, and risk management, while addressing the human, organizational, and governance shifts required to scale responsibly.

The discussion will give supply chain executives a practical lens for assessing their current maturity, prioritizing high-value opportunities, and building an operating model in which people and AI work together to improve agility, resilience, service, and business performance.

6:15 pm - 6:50 pm KEYNOTE

Building ERP Rollouts That Actually Work: Turning Leadership Alignment into Real Supply Chain Gains

Rita Fisher

CIO & EVP, Supply Chain

Reynolds Consumer Products

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  • Replace decades of ERP workarounds with a clean, standard core built for automation and AI
  • Sequence the rollout in waves so the business absorbs change instead of shock
  • Drive adoption through executive governance and dedicated change leaders in every function
  • Turn a trusted data core into staged AI gains — from everyday productivity to transforming operations
6:50 pm
7:15 pm

Executive dinner

7:30 pm

Executive dinner

September 22nd

Stream 1 Chair

Rahquel Purcell

Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, North America

L'Oreal

Stream 2 Co-Chair

Rene Buck

Chief Executive Officer

BCI Global

Stream 3 Co-Chair

Sophie Davasse

Intelligent Connected Operations Executive

Capgemini

Stream 4 Co-Chair

Jimmé Peters

VP of Marketing

CloudPaths

7:30 am - 8:15 am

registration & breakfast

8:20 am - 8:35 am

Opening Remarks, Important Announcements & Chair’s Welcome Address

Rahquel Purcell

Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, North America

L'Oreal

8:35 am - 9:10 am KEYNOTE

Fireside Chat: Winning in Real Time: How Walmart Turns Speed, Visibility, and Scale into Supply Chain Advantage

Ivy Barney

Senior Vice President, Supply Chain, Walmart US

Walmart

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  • Operate with speed at scale: Build an operating model that enables teams to identify and respond with speed to changing demand and customer needs—turning the scale of Walmart’s supply chain into an advantage.
  • Make automation work for people: Pair advanced automation and technology with skilled, empowered operators—reducing manual touches, improving productivity and creating an environment where associates can focus on higher-value work.
  • Build resilience into everyday operations: Use Walmart’s scale, technology and operational expertise to anticipate disruption, adapt quickly and keep products moving for customers and members.
9:10 am - 9:45 am KEYNOTE

Balancing What Matters Most: How Supply Chains Deliver Growth, Sustainability, and Performance

Jackie Zhu

Chief Supply Chain Officer, North America

Schneider Electric

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Schneider Electric’s success comes from deliberately balancing business growth, operational excellence, sustainability, and shareholder value, rather than treating them as competing priorities. This session will cover:
  • Lessons from Schneider Electric’s journey to achieving recognition for both supply chain excellence and sustainability leadership.
  • Why sustainability can strengthen operational performance and customer outcomes.
  • How digitalization, data, and AI help leaders make better decisions across competing priorities.
  • Practical strategies for building a supply chain that creates business value while advancing sustainability goals.
9:50 am - 10:25 am Workshops
STREAM 1 WORKSHOP

From Optimization to Outcomes: How Decision Intelligence is Reshaping Supply Chains

Fred Laluyaux

Co-Founder, President, and CEO

Aera Technology

Matt Algar

Head of Logistics

Unilever

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  • Why improving individual tasks with AI is not the same as improving end-to-end supply chain outcomes
  • Lessons from scaling Decision Intelligence across the enterprise, including the role of business context, adoption, and governance
  • How the division of labor between people and AI is evolving—from identifying issues to recommending and taking action
  • What changes when organizations shift from asking “Where can we apply AI?” to “How can we improve the decisions that drive service, inventory, cost, and growth?”
STREAM 2 WORKSHOP

Signal to Action: Closing the Gap That's Draining Your Supply Chain

Joe Slater

Sr. Solution Consultant

Logility

Jonathan Doller

Sr. Solution Consutant

Logility

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Signals arrive in minutes. Decisions still take hours, stuck in silos, meetings, and manual handoffs. That gap between signal and action is where margin, service, and trust leak out of the business every day. Most companies do not lack visibility. They lack a way to move from signal to action fast enough to matter.

Orchestration Center, new from Logility, closes that gap with AI agents that sense signals, evaluate tradeoffs across demand, supply, and logistics, and execute or recommend action inside the guardrails your team sets. Routine decisions run on their own. Exceptions escalate with context and a recommendation attached, so your team steps in only when it counts. This session shows what it takes to close the gap between signal and action, and what it looks like once you have.

STREAM 3 WORKSHOP

Leading Change Together: How Unilever and Capgemini are Driving Lasting Transformation Through Trusted Partnership

Adriana Boyer

VP E2E Supply Chain and Customer development Lead for Americas

Capgemini

Denise Friedman

Senior Director, North America Global Customer Hubs (GCH)

Unilever

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Successful business and planning transformation isn’t driven by technology alone. It’s built on strong leadership, trusted partnerships, and a shared commitment to delivering meaningful business outcomes in an increasingly complex and fast-changing environment.

Joining the discussion, Senior leaders from Unilever and Capgemini will share their perspective on what it takes to lead people, process and technology transformation together. Drawing on their partnership, they will explore how trust, shared accountability, and open collaboration have helped turn transformation ambitions into measurable business outcomes.

Rather than focusing on technology for its own sake, the discussion will examine how organizations can successfully navigate disruption and lead change by combining strong leadership with AI-enabled operations, process excellence, integrated ways of working data, and partners around a common vision. AI, digital capabilities, and decision intelligence will be explored as key enablers of customer operations transformation, supporting better decision making, operational agility, and sustainable business outcomes, rather than serving as the end goal.

Drawing on practical experiences from Unilever’s customer operations transformation journey, the speakers will discuss how to build resilient partnerships, navigate organizational change, challenge conventional ways of working, and create customer-centric operating models that continue to evolve as business needs change. Adriana will also share Capgemini’s perspective on what distinguishes the most successful transformation partnerships and how organizations can create the conditions for lasting change.

Attendees will leave with practical insights into building trust across the organization, balancing innovation with disciplined execution, and creating sustainable business value in the era of continuous change. Designed for supply chain and operations leaders, this session will provide practical insights that attendees can apply within their own transformation journeys.

STREAM 4 WORKSHOP

Human in the Loop, for Now: How AI Is Accelerating Supply Chain Execution

Heidi Benko

VP Product Management

infor

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  • See how AI performs deep analysis and delivers recommendations across execution, speeding time to action and surfacing opportunities that used to go unnoticed
  • Learn how real-time network visibility enables the flexibility, on-time delivery, and reduced risk that today’s volatility demands
  • Explore how AI is breaking down departmental boundaries, enabling customer service, planning, and logistics to drive faster response and a better customer experience
  • Get an honest look at where AI stands today, recommending with a human still deciding, and what it will take to move toward autonomous execution
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 1 CASE STUDY

Fireside Chat: From Milestone Launches to Industrial Cadence: Building a Supply Chain That Scales at the Speed of Space

Tanmay Mathur

Vice President, Supply Chain

Blue Origin

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  • Engineering a supply chain for rate, not just milestones
  • Scaling capacity while expanding the footprint
  • Managing complexity across a diverse product portfolio
  • Designing for reusability and faster turnaround
  • De-risking single points of failure and long-lead items
STREAM 2 CASE STUDY

Planning at the Speed of the Cloud: Building Resilient Supply Chains for Hyperscale Demand

Joanna Kostecka

Corporate Vice President Cloud Global Supply Chain Planning

Microsoft

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As cloud and AI adoption accelerate, supply chain planning has become one of the defining competitive capabilities for the world’s largest technology organizations, demanding the ability to forecast volatile demand, secure constrained hardware and capacity, and provision globally years in advance. In this session, Joanna Kostecka shares how Microsoft approaches cloud supply chain planning at scale, and the lessons any enterprise can apply to plan with greater agility, resilience, and foresight in a high-growth, high-uncertainty environment.

Key Takeaways:

  • Demand planning and forecasting when growth is exponential and historical data offers limited signal
  • Managing long lead times and constrained supply (semiconductors, hardware, power, and datacenter capacity) without over- or under-provisioning
  • Building optionality and resilience into the plan to absorb geopolitical, supplier, and market shocks
  • Harnessing data, advanced analytics, and AI to sharpen planning accuracy and accelerate decision-making

STREAM 3 CASE STUDY

Becoming AI Native: John Deere’s Aftermarket Supply Chain Journey

Akhilesh Bhagwat

Global Director, Aftermarket Supply Chain

John Deere

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  • The journey from human intensive to an AI native Supply Chain
  • Understanding the scale and complexity of our connected global aftermarket ecosystem
  • Accelerating transformation through system and site modernization and a modern digital foundation
  • Leveraging the digital thread to unify data and enable smarter decisions
  • Moving from insights to action through process reimagination and emerging AI capabilities
  • Driving end-to-end success by keeping customer outcomes at the center of every decision
STREAM 4 CASE STUDY

Why the Future of the Food Supply Chain is Collaborative

Todd Stillwell

Vice President of Supply Chain and Manufacturing

Dole Packaged Foods

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No company can solve the complexities of modern food production, sustainability, and logistics alone. Strategic partnerships, managed actively and collaboratively rather than transactionally, are key to building resilience, agility, and unlocking mutual value and efficiencies across the supply chain.

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.

Trusted Autonomy: How Do We Let AI Agents Act When the Stakes are High?

Laurent Lefouet

Chief Strategy Officer

Aera Technology

From Reactive to Ready: Building Resilient Supply Chains in an Era of Constant Disruption

Ali Aksut

ERP & Supply Chain Advisory Practice Lead

Avanade

Supplier Collaboration, Beyond Sourcing, During Geopolitical Conflicts

Josselyn Rosario

Group Vice President, Material Management & Customer Services

Barnet

Inventory Optimization Strategies/Techniques

Jarek Adamkiewicz

Director of Supply Chain

Blachford

Supply Chain Jobs of the Future: What Did We Get Right – and What Comes Next?

Sophie Davasse

Intelligent Connected Operations Executive

Capgemini

Trade War Mitigation Strategies

Hank Sheller

Global Strategic Sourcing Professional

D’addario & Company

How to Leverage AI to Boost Productivity Outcomes

Anthony Tacker

Director of Risk & Procurement

FlexGen

The Importance of Executive Engagement and a Relentless Approach to Secure the Fastest Delivery Possible

Rene Reyes

Director of Procurement & Materials Management

Freeport-McMoRan

The Hidden Cost-to-Serve in Packaged Goods: Managing Rework, Specialized Handling, and Operational Exceptions

Jerry Knight

Senior Director - Logistics

G3 Enterprises

The Hidden Cost of Dead Inventory: Why SLOB Is a Finance Problem, Not Just an Ops Problem

Kurt Witt

Managing Partner

Incorta

What Should We Prioritize Next? Balancing AI, Systems, Process, and People in Supply Chain Planning Transformation

Minju Guo

Director, Global Supply Chain Operations

LiquidPower Specialty Products Inc.

Negotiating Small Parcel Contracts in a Volatile Market

Kenneth Moyer

Partner & Chief Supply Chain Officer, Strategic Advisory

LJM

How to Improve E2E Visibility through Data and AI Readiness

Betsy Brenner

Data & Analytics Deployment Lead, Value Chain

Mars Inc.

When the Asset Outlives Its Supply Chain: Sustaining Systems for 50–100 Years

Sharrief Wilson

Deputy Director

NASA Headquarters

Maximizing Product Availability with Minimal Waste

Rob Walker

Mgr, Product Support & Analysis

Nintendo of America Inc.

Automate Workflows or Optimize Assets - Which Is the Bigger Prize for My Supply Chain?

Garrett Long

CMO

Omnifold

Supply Chain Solutions for Demand Volatility in Auto / Powersports / Consumer Goods Industries

John Winkler

Director, Strategic Sourcing - Polaris PG&A

Polaris

Touchless Demand Planning: Building More Reliable Forecasts and Better Decisions

Jason Albrecht

Director, North America

Sunstice

Hiring, Retaining, and Developing Talent

Justine Franchina

COO

Synergy Flavors, INC.

1:55 pm - 2:30 pm Case Studies
STREAM 1 CASE STUDY

Resilience by Design: How Intel's Global Supply Chain Delivers Through Disruption

Frank Sanders

Corporate Vice President, Global Supply Chain

Intel

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  • Intel’s supply chain is a strategic enabler, powered by advanced manufacturing, digital infrastructure, and AI-driven insights, supporting the company from design through delivery at global scale.
  • Our globally distributed manufacturing footprint provides unmatched production flexibility, advanced packaging capabilities, and built-in business continuity.
  • To support this scale, Intel embeds AI-enabled risk management holistically across structure, process, and culture, ensuring resilience at every level of the organization, from the boardroom to supplier operations.
  • This foundation is reinforced by a comprehensive business continuity program, operationalized across sourcing, inventory, and supplier management, and guided by five key principles.
  • Operationally, Intel’s Supply Chain Command Center—enhanced by AI-driven analytics—along with the Corporate Emergency Operations Center and cross-functional crisis teams, enables proactive planning, rapid response, and direct engagement with supplier executives during disruptions.
  • Finally, a robust AI-informed risk assessment framework evaluates supplier concentration, geographic exposure, regulatory risk, financial health, and capacity utilization, driving toward an optimal state of supplier and geographic diversification.
  • Together, these capabilities position Intel’s supply chain as a competitive advantage, enabling resilience, agility, and continuity in an increasingly complex global environment.
STREAM 2 CASE STUDY

The Next Chapter: Operational Excellence and Modernization of the Supply Chain

Annette Danek-Akey

Chief Supply Chain Officer

Barnes & Noble

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  • The path to supply chain modernization through advanced automation and robotics
  • Unlocking the hidden capacity within the existing supply chain network
  • Change management and how to engage the teams early in the process
  • Breaking silos and moving towards end-to-end orchestration
STREAM 3 CASE STUDY

The Criticality of Visibility – Understanding and Managing Supply Chain Risk to the Bottom Tier in the US Federal Contracting Space

Tim Feldman

Senior Director, Supply Chain

Leonardo DRS

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  • Regulatory landscape and compliance in practice: Managing the expanding body of U.S. Government requirements — including NDAA provisions and executive orders— and their cascading impact not only on US federal primes but on commercial sub-tier suppliers throughout the value chain
  • Designing for supply chain risk from day one: How to embed risk considerations into the product development process before sourcing is fixed — and why the window to act closes faster than most organizations realize
  • Mapping sub-tier dependency: Techniques for identifying components and materials sourced from countries of concern at the second and third tier of the supply chain, where visibility typically breaks down and where exposure is often highest
  • The risk buy-down funnel: A structured, stage-gated process for evaluating, prioritizing, and systematically eliminating the highest-impact risk nodes — demonstrated across the full arc from initial design through final deployment
  • Understanding supplier countries of origin and materials dependency: A  discussion on the importance of understanding and ultimately eliminating single-source exposure to countries of concern origin components and materials, including identifying which components carry the highest strategic and regulatory risk and sequencing substitution based on criticality, replaceability, and lead time realities
STREAM 4 CASE STUDY

Building and Sustaining High‑Performing Supply Chain Teams

Kirsten Piacentini

Chief Supply Chain Officer

L.L.Bean

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  • Identify your organization’s 3–5 critical supply chain roles and assess capability gaps
  • Embed succession planning into business processes with clear owners and timelines
  • Deploy daily leadership practices (coaching huddles, role rotations, feedback rhythms) to accelerate development
  • Measure progress with simple, actionable metrics tied to retention and readiness
  • Surface lessons from failures and iterate governance to ensure sustained talent outcomes
2:35 pm - 3:10 pm Workshops
STREAM 1 WORKSHOP

The Self-Healing Supply Chain

Jordan Kass

President Managed Solutions

C.H. Robinson

Joanne Webber

VP Direct Materials & Logistics Global Supply Management

Stanley Black & Decker

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For decades, supply chains have operated in a cycle of execute, review, diagnose, improve—and repeat. But what happens when improvement becomes continuous and autonomous?

Join Stanley Black & Decker and C.H. Robinson to see how they moved from fragmented execution and disconnected systems to a unified intelligence-driven operating model built for continuous optimization. Learn how a centralized transportation platform, operational orchestration, and Lean AI are driving cost savings and consistency.

Get a firsthand look at how autonomous supply chain solutions detect issues, take action, and continuously improve through closed-loop intelligence and orchestration that gets smarter with every shipment.

STREAM 2 WORKSHOP

The New Center of Gravity - How Supply Chain Is Shaping What Comes Next

Matt Tichon

Executive Director, Applied AI & Decision Intelligence

Kinaxis

Praveen Vasudevan

Supply Chain Solutions Architect

Bio-Rad Laboratories

Arpad Hevizi

Industry Advisor for World Leaders in Data & AI

WLDA

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Supply chain is increasingly at the center of decisions that shape growth, margin, customer experience, investment, and competitive advantage.

Join senior supply chain leaders from leading global companies for a candid conversation on how the role is expanding, how leaders are navigating broader business tradeoffs, and how AI and orchestration are changing what organizations can see, decide, and execute. The discussion will also explore a critical challenge to AI adoption: how leaders build the accountability, transparency, and trust needed to move from experimentation to confident enterprise-wide decision-making.

Attendees will hear:

  • How supply chain is becoming more connected to commercial and financial priorities
  • How leaders are navigating tradeoffs beyond traditional supply chain metrics
  • How AI is changing decision-making across the enterprise—and where trust and accountability remain barriers to progress
  • What organizations need to build confidence in AI-driven decisions and accelerate adoption
  • What this means for the influence and opportunity of the supply chain leader
STREAM 3 WORKSHOP

Tariffs, Trends, and a Timeless Brand: How Carhartt Is Rethinking Supply Chain Planning

Madhav Durbha, Ph.D.

Group Vice President, CPG & Manufacturing

RELEX Solutions

Fred Esseily

Vice President of Global Product Execution

Carhartt

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Carhartt runs a supply chain that spans the globe, moves on long lead times, and serves a brand that’s shifting from pure workwear into something closer to a cultural icon. That combination creates real planning complexity.

Add tariff volatility, geopolitical uncertainty, and a younger consumer base pulling the brand in new directions, and the pressure to plan with more speed and precision becomes hard to ignore.

In this session, Carhartt will share what the journey has looked like, including:

  • What made Carhartt’s vertically integrated, multi-channel model especially hard to plan around
  • How they evaluated and selected a new planning platform in RELEX, and their vision for the future
  • Where they are today, and what measurable progress looks like in practice
  • How they are approaching AI practically, and what it means for the people doing the planning work
STREAM 4 WORKSHOP

Are You Paying the Latency Tax? The Hidden Costs of Disconnected Supply Chains

Mark Gordon

Sr. Director, Applications, Supply Chain

Anaplan

Dan Wittstein

Managing Director, Supply Chain Lead

Anaplan

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Supply chain organizations lose 5% of every dollar to delayed decision-making — a costly penalty known as the “latency tax.” When disruptions hit, disconnected data and siloed operations stall response times, directly draining margins. Join supply chain experts from Anaplan and Spaulding Ridge for a data-backed session exploring how leading enterprises eliminate these hidden costs. Discover how to connect finance and operations, compress decision cycles, and leverage Anaplan’s real-time planning platform to build an agile, decision-ready supply chain that protects profit.

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
3:45 pm - 4:25 pm FOCUS GROUP

Executive focus groups are informal moderated discussions among peers, held during networking breaks outside the summit agenda. No sign-up is required; delegates and speakers can join any group of interest.

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Solstice ISC Transformation: Building a Resilient, Data-Driven, AI-Enabled Supply Chain

Rajeev Aggarwal

SVP, Integrated Supply Chain

Solstice Advanced Materials

Madhavi Pokkuluri

Sr Director, ISC Transformation

Solstice Advanced Materials

4:35 pm - 5:10 pm KEYNOTE

Transforming Frontline Scheduling at Scale: Building a Flexible, High-Performance Workforce for the Future of Supply Chain

Becky Crane

Vice President, International Supply Chain officer

General Mills

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As supply chains continue to navigate labor volatility, operational complexity, and rising expectations around agility, workforce scheduling has become a critical lever for both performance and employee engagement. In this session, General Mills shares its frontline scheduling transformation journey — including how the organization redesigned traditional scheduling models to create greater flexibility, improve operational efficiency, and better support frontline teams across the network.

Attendees will gain practical insights into how modern scheduling strategies can drive measurable impact across manufacturing and supply chain operations while helping organizations build a more resilient and adaptable workforce.

  • Reimagining frontline scheduling models to improve agility, workforce flexibility, and operational responsiveness
  • Balancing labor optimization with employee experience to support retention, engagement, and workforce stability
  • Lessons learned from implementing scheduling transformation across complex manufacturing environments
  • How data, planning visibility, and cross-functional alignment enable more effective labor and production decisions
  • Benchmarking measurable outcomes and operational improvements achieved through next-generation scheduling practices
5:10 pm - 5:45 pm KEYNOTE

Unlocking Predictable Capacity and Supply Chain Resilience with Physical AI

Lior Ron

Chief Operating Officer

Waabi

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The autonomous trucking revolution isn’t coming, it’s already here, and the window to lead it is now. This AI-powered technology is poised to transform how goods move, promising higher asset utilization in a safe, reliable execution environment. But getting from breakthrough technology to scalable deployment demands more than innovation alone. It requires a new playbook that connects Physical AI capabilities with the real-world demands of freight networks, customer expectations, and ecosystem readiness. This session brings together the technology vision and the commercial roadmap, offering logistics leaders a clear-eyed look at where autonomous trucking stands today, what’s accelerating the path to scale, and how to position your network for what’s next.

5:45 pm - 5:50 pm

Chair’s Closing Remarks

Rahquel Purcell

Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, North America

L'Oreal

5:50 pm

Drinks Reception

6:15 pm

Executive dinner

6:30 pm

Executive dinner

September 23rd

Stream 1 Chair

Rahquel Purcell

Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, North America

L'Oreal

Stream 2 Co-Chair

Rene Buck

Chief Executive Officer

BCI Global

Stream 3 Co-Chair

Sophie Davasse

Intelligent Connected Operations Executive

Capgemini

Stream 4 Co-Chair

Jimmé Peters

VP of Marketing

CloudPaths

8:00 am

registration & breakfast

8:05 am - 8:40 am breakfast workshops
Stream Two

Proven, Pragmatic AI-Augmented Prediction & Autonomy Solutions (& Results)

William H. (Bill) Benton

Co-Founder

GAINS

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  • What Demand-centric, Supply-centric, and Autonomy/Agent-centric solutions have proven value and are ready as solutions, not experiments
  • What solutions areas drive greatest value in your context (stack-rank by ROI)
  • How do you sustain initiatives & performance accountability across time & team changes (when everyone can generate code, but ideal end results are not deterministic)
Stream Three

The Frontier Supply Chain: How AI Agents and Humans Are Redefining Supply Chain Performance

Ali Aksut

ERP & Supply Chain Advisory Practice Lead

Avanade

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  • Challenge traditional notions of resilience by distinguishing between redundancy, flexibility, and true shock readiness

  • Examine how leading organizations make real trade-offs between cost, service levels, and risk in prolonged volatility

  • Identify where resilience investments actually pay off—and where they create false confidence

  • Outline a practical framework for moving from reactive disruption response to proactive scenario readiness

8:50 am - 9:00 am

Chairs Opening Remarks

Rahquel Purcell

Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, North America

L'Oreal

9:00 am - 9:35 am KEYNOTE

Fireside Chat: From Supply Chain to Value Chain: Redesigning for Speed, Agility, and Growth

Daniele Landi

SVP, Global Supply Chain

The Estée Lauder Companies

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  • Move from linear supply chain execution to an integrated value chain spanning planning, sourcing, manufacturing, and fulfillment
  • Use digital insight to accelerate launches and respond faster to demand shifts across brands and channels
  • Align cross-functional teams and partners around shared value drivers beyond cost efficiency
  • Build resilience into the value chain to absorb volatility while protecting service, quality, and brand performance
9:35 am - 10:10 am KEYNOTE

Drive Profitability with End-to-End Cost-to-Serve Optimization

Frank Kantner

Chief Fulfillment Officer

IKEA

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  • Measure and manage cost-to-serve across products, customers, and channels
  • Eliminate hidden costs through process redesign and network adjustments
  • Use segmentation to prioritize profitable flows and streamline low-margin ones
  • Make smarter trade-offs with visibility into true cost drivers
10:10 am - 11:05 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.

  • 10:15 am – 10:35 am: Meeting Slot 8/Networking
  • 10:40 am – 11:00 am: Meeting Slot 9/Networking
10:35 am - 11:05 am FOCUS GROUP

Executive focus groups are informal moderated discussions among peers, held during networking breaks outside the summit agenda. No sign-up is required; delegates and speakers can join any group of interest.

TOPIC one

Scaling a Supply Chain and Team for a Hyper-Growth Brand Leveraging Strategy, People, Processes, and Technology

Tom Backus

VP of Supply Chain

Chomps

TOPIC two

Procurement Under Pressure: Sourcing Strategy and Resilience in a Multi-Brand Retail Portfolio

Dave Beck

VP Procurement

KnitWell Group

11:10 am - 11:45 am Workshops
STREAM 1 WORKSHOP

From Disruption Detection to Action: Building Resilience into Daily Supply Chain Operations

Natalia Andreyeva

Vice President, Market Strategy for North America

4flow

Jennifer Moratto

Supply Chain Systems Manager

Amy's Kitchen

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  • Why disruption response still breaks down: many teams detect issues too late, make fragmented decisions and rely on manual execution.
  • How a focused risk-and-disruption approach works: detect risks early, assess business impact, simulate response options and support execution through workflows.
  • A short hands-on demo of optaire, 4flow’s AI-native platform: a five-minute walkthrough showing disruption visibility, impact on cost,risk,service, scenario recommendations and execution support.
  • What makes the approach practical: start where the pain is greatest, integrate with existing systems, and move from insight to action without a rip-and-replace approach.
  • What delegates can take back immediately: a practical framework for moving from reactive firefighting to faster prioritized decision-making in daily supply chain operations.
STREAM 2 WORKSHOP

Building the Supply Chain Twin Your Business Can Rely On

Ankit Tiwari

Associate Partner, Supply Chain

Fujitsu North America Inc

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Every supply chain leader is being pitched twins and agents. Few are told why most of them fail to support business. This session covers what it takes to build a digital twin that reflects your real constraints, costs, and dependencies, and which problems are worth leveraging agents. A short live demo shows the twin being enabled, and agents at work: sensing a signal, weighing trade-offs across demand, supply and logistics, acting inside guardrails. We close with practical first steps and where Fujitsu can help.

Key Takeaways:

  • Build a twin that reflects your real network, not a slide
  • Choose the problems worth handing to agents, and skip the rest
  • Live demo: agents sensing signals, weighing trade-offs, acting inside guardrails
  • Practical first steps on data readiness and your first use case
STREAM 3 WORKSHOP

Physical AI Hits the Warehouse Floor

Chris Soloway

Vice President and Head of Sales

Exol

Stuart Edwards

Senior Director, Customer Solutions Proposals

Symbotic

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What warehouse robotics is actually delivering at scale, and what another year of waiting costs.

  • How a decade of industrial rent and warehouse wage growth has changed the math on warehouse automation
  • Advances in AI have made warehouse robotics dramatically more capable, more efficient, and ROI-positive across a far wider range of operations than a few years ago
  • Where the largest operators are putting their capital right now, and what the gap between the automation frontier and the median warehouse looks like today
  • A candid conversation with Symbotic, one of the world’s largest warehouse automation providers, on the results their customers are actually seeing — throughput, accuracy, labor and transportation savings — and when they’ll tell a customer that automation isn’t the right fit
STREAM 4 WORKSHOP

Agents in Execution: What Supply Chain AI Looks Like When It Is Actually Working

Blake Coram

Director of Product Management

Manhattan Associates

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Every WMS and TMS vendor is claiming AI this year. Very few are running it. A platform bought on a fuzzy definition of agentic AI will not just underdeliver next quarter, it will compound the wrong way for a decade. This session will give supply chain leaders a working definition of an agent that is genuinely autonomous inside the operation, why the architecture underneath matters more than the model on top, and the second question most buyers miss: whether the agents in a WMS and the agents in a TMS are reading one operational truth or two stitched together. That is the difference between AI that compounds operational lift for a decade and AI that amplifies fragmentation for the same length of time.

Takeaways:

  • Key questions to pressure test any vendor’s agentic AI claim across warehouse and transportation
  • A working vocabulary that holds up in front of a CFO and an internal auditor
  • Customer proof of warehouse and transportation agents running in production today, on one platform
11:50 am - 12:25 pm Case Studies
STREAM 1 CASE STUDY

Humanizing AI in Supply Chain: How Nestlé USA turned data into better decisions, faster

Lindsey Weller

Vice President, Business Supply Chain & Planning

Nestlé USA

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AI doesn’t create value. Better decisions do. Join us, to hear a candid look at how Nestlé moved beyond AI experimentation to build decision-centric command centers that are improving service, recovering revenue, reducing waste, and changing how work gets done.

Most companies have plenty of data and AI pilots. Few have cracked the code on turning signals into better decisions. Hear how Nestlé USA built a human-centered AI strategy focused on business outcomes, not technology.

Learn how we connected data, AI, and people across planning, fulfillment, and customer operations to reduce decision friction, improve service, recover revenue, and unlock millions in value.

Go behind the scenes of real use cases including Distributed Order Management, Planning Command Centers, and customer connectivity solutions that delivered measurable impact.

Discover why adoption, capability building, and change management mattered more than algorithms—and how we trained people, not just models.

STREAM 2 CASE STUDY

Managing the Full Lifecycle of Cloud Infrastructure

M. S. Ganesh

Vice President, Cloud Supply Chain

Microsoft

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  • Align hardware supply with deployment, maintenance, and refresh cycles
  • Coordinate installation, in-life operation, and end-of-life transitions across sites
  • Optimize reverse flows for returns, repairs, refurbishments, and recycling
  • Develop & utilize predictive analytics to identify high-risk failures and plan restocks
  • Strengthen chain-of-custody and data-security processes for asset recover
STREAM 3 CASE STUDY

From Waste to Profit: Optimizing Inventory in High-Variability Environments

Rachel Lewis

Vice President, Supply Chain Operations

MGM Resorts International

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  • Strategies to reduce spoilage, overstock, and obsolescence while maintaining high availability
  • How to forecast and flex inventory around volatility (events, seasonality, demand spikes)
  • Leveraging real-time data to optimize inventory levels across locations and reduce excess
  • Turning efficiency into profit: Proven tactics that lower carrying costs, improve turns, and directly increase margins
STREAM 4 CASE STUDY

Navigating Global Supply Chains Through Turbulent Times: Redesigning Supplier Networks and Collaboration

Lakshman Lakshmanan

Chief Supply Chain Officer

Fossil Group, Inc.

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This session will explore how Fossil has responded to recent volatility in global trade by rethinking both its supply network and the way it collaborates with key partners.

  • Broadening beyond tariffs: Lessons learned from navigating tariff headwinds and why the conversation now needs to encompass geopolitical and macroeconomic risk
  • Redesigning supplier networks: How Fossil has adjusted its sourcing footprint to manage exposure while protecting lead times and product quality
  • Strategic supplier collaboration: Moving from transactional relationships to ecosystem partnerships, including joint planning, shared risk, and greater transparency
  • Managing multi-dimensional risk: Approaches to identifying, prioritizing, and mitigating third-party and geopolitical risks across a global supplier base
  • Balancing resilience, cost, and service: How integrated category strategies and supplier strategies support both savings and service-level performance
12:25 pm - 1:25 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm - 2:05 pm KEYNOTE

Saving Millions in the Supply Chain without Sacrificing Availability

Gabriel Arreaga

Former Chief Supply Chain Officer

Kroger

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  • Margin protection in a low‑margin business: How Kroger targets structural cost in its supply chain instead of just pushing cost to suppliers
  • End‑to‑end visibility for smarter decisions: Using data across stores, DCs, and transport to pinpoint waste and leakage
  • From cost cuts to smarter spend: Reinvesting savings into availability, service, and customer experience
  • What worked (and what didn’t): Practical lessons from initiatives that actually moved the P&L
2:10 pm - 2:45 pm KEYNOTE

3M’s Logistics Transformation: Driving Efficiency, Reliability, and Predictive Performance

Ilona Sroka

Vice President Global Logistics

3M

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  • Learn how 3M Logistics achieves significant results through carrier partnership
  • Discover how a phased transformation improved operational agility and efficiency
  • Gain insights into using real-time data and predictive analytics to support better supply chain decisions
  • Explore how AI-driven airfreight scheduling enhances reliability and reduces delays
2:45 pm - 2:55 pm

Chair’s Closing Remarks

Rahquel Purcell

Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, North America

L'Oreal