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Interviews Worth Your Time 2024

December 17, 2024

As 2024 draws to a close we look back at more than 100 new episodes —almost all of them in both video and audio formats— and we are in the process of transitioning even further from a twice-a-week format to publishing as much as we can as soon as we can.

We have content relevant to all of our industry events, and we even did some interviews that speak to larger business topics not on any particular program or agenda at the moment.

In all the excitement, we never got around to doing a 2024 retrospective, but just before we take a well-deserved break before gearing up for 2025, now feels like the right time to look back and shine a spotlight on some of the episodes we are still thinking about and talking about and sharing with people.

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Roundtable Roundup 2024

December 13, 2024

As things start slowing down for the holidays, we thought it only made sense to do a year-in-review summary to highlight this content again for those who may have missed it the first time.

What makes a Speaker Roundtable so special? Well, think of it as a private panel discussion without an audience. The participants are some of the most senior leaders attending our conference. Their conversation is guided by a moderator working from a list of topic areas, issues, ideas, challenges, and opportunities submitted by delegates as they filled in their profiles. The discussions are in-depth, wide-ranging, unscripted, honest, often funny, and obviously heartfelt.

Everyone cares so much about the work they do and what they want to share.

Each Speaker Roundtable is a snapshot of what the senior executives are working on and thinking about and learning and building towards right now. It is a window into where businesses are and where they are going. It is our privilege to organize such gatherings, and it is our pleasure to share them again here.

Please enjoy!

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The Future of Factory-Floor Efficiency: Strategies, Trends, and Actionable Insights

October 8, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving manufacturing landscape, industry leaders are implementing innovative solutions to drive efficiency, safety, and sustainability on the plant floor. From leveraging advanced automation and digital technologies to fostering a culture of continuous improvement, manufacturers are rethinking traditional processes to improve productivity and respond to growing environmental and workforce expectations. Key trends like predictive maintenance, enhanced worker safety protocols, and the shift toward greener practices highlight a renewed focus on creating smarter, safer, and more adaptable factories. This article explores the latest strategies and actionable insights from top executives, shedding light on how the future of manufacturing is being reshaped one improvement at a time.

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Breaking Barriers: Senior Leaders on Advancing Women in Supply Chain Leadership

September 9, 2024

This blog post explores insights from senior leaders in the supply chain sector on advancing women in leadership roles, highlighting both progress and ongoing challenges. The leaders emphasize the importance of diversity as a driver of innovation and resilience, and discuss strategies for creating supportive workplaces that attract and retain female talent. Key approaches include implementing mentorship programs, fostering inclusive cultures, and challenging stereotypes that deter women from entering and advancing within the field. The piece also examines the broader impact of increasing female representation on business performance, resilience, and adaptability in an evolving industry landscape.

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Conversations About AI

May 10, 2024

Conference producers organize conversations for a living, and one of the joys of the job is watching an idea whose time has come explode into the public consciousness after years of quietly doing important work out of the limelight.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT on November 30, 2022. Within two months it already had over 100 million active users, making it the fastest growing consumer application ever to date. As an interactive tool and toy, it has captured people’s imaginations and made Artificial Intelligence a topic of everyday conversation from boardroom tables to breakfast tables.

As unlikely as it would have sounded two years ago, just about everyone nowadays has at least a passing understanding of how Large Language Models work, and most people have asked with varying degrees of trepidation or excitement, “But what does AI mean for me?”

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The Must-Dos of Institutional Knowledge Retention

January 19, 2024

2024 is going to be a year like any other for senior executives, only more so. The trends we have been talking about for years are only accelerating. What was once a trickle is becoming a flood. Where we used to talk about future trends, now we are seeing things really happening every day, and each day sees more of it than the last. Now I could use those first four sentences to start a blog post about any number of topics right now, but I’m going to put two specific thoughts out there and then talk about them for…

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The Top-of-Mind Issues Chief Information Security Officers are Thinking About Right Now

January 9, 2024

This June 16th and 17th in Denver, Colorado, Executive Platforms is organizing the North American Information Security Summit, a focused follow-up to last year’s broader North American Technology Executive Summit that will devote its entire agenda to the challenges and opportunities that are most important to Chief Information Security Officers, Chief Risk Officers, Chief Data Officers, and other senior executives responsible for cybersecurity and maintaining secure IT operations in large organizations. As you can imagine, a lot goes into putting together an event of this scale on this topic for such a senior audience. Above everything else, content is king….

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EP’s Next Series: North American Food Manufacturing Summit

November 8, 2023

We have mentioned in a recent blog post that by most ways you want to measure it, the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series (NAMES) is our longest-running and remains among our most popular. If it was the first, then our North American Food Safety & Quality series (NAFS) was the fourth, and both have grown and grown over the years to the point where we have moved venues and even cities to better meet the needs of the senior executives who attend year after year. In all that time across all those events, we have always had a gap…

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Interview Worth Your Time 2023

November 3, 2023

We have mentioned before that 2023 is the year The bluEPrint podcast moved from an intermittent thing to a regular weekly piece of content, and we are excited to add our YouTube Channel as one more way to highlight some of the great conversations we are having both at our events and through virtual interviews in between summits. Just before last Christmas we put together, ‘Our Favorite Interviews of 2022’ to showcase some of the discussions we were most proud of in the run-up to this year’s expansion, and then in early April we did another collection, “Showcasing the Interviews…

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Beyond Resiliency: The New Supply Chain Trends from NASCES23

October 20, 2023

At the beginning of 2023 we started a new reoccurring series on this blog where we try to summarize what happened at each of our events: NASRS23 in a Nutshell, NAMES23 in a Nutshell, PMWS23 in a Nutshell, EUSCES23 in a Nutshell, NASCES23 in a Nutshell, and NAFS23 in a Nutshell all do a fine job of walking through what happened hour by hour and day by day, but the trouble with summaries is they do not leave a lot of extra room for notes about conversations I had on site, or themes and moods I picked up on that…

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FAQs About Executive Platforms’ Events

October 13, 2023

As of the writing of this week’s blog post Executive Platforms runs ten annual events, and we have plans to launch five new series in the next two years. There are questions that we are asked over and over at each summit. This feels like as good a time as any to start putting our most frequently asked questions together in one place and answering them as concisely as possible. For ease of use, we will list the questions from broadest and most general, narrowing down into specifics as we go. Questions will appear in BOLD CAPS so you can…

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NAFS23 in a Nutshell

October 6, 2023

The 2023 edition of the long-running and successful North American Food Safety & Quality series ran September 25th through the 29th at the Westin Chicago Northshore in Wheeling, Illinois, just north of Chicago. It was attended by 405 delegates, speakers, sponsor representatives, and guests from more than 200 different companies and organizations. The agenda included more than 50 keynotes, case studies, workshops, roundtable discussions, focus groups, interactive think tanks, and more. Early feedback has been universally positive, and work is already underway to build upon this success and make next year’s summit event bigger and better. That is the shortest…

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NASCES23 in a Nutshell

September 21, 2023

The 2023 edition of the long-running and successful North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series ran September 11th through the 13th at the historic Arizona Biltmore, a Waldorf Astoria Resort, in Phoenix, Arizona. It was attended by 640 delegates, speakers, sponsor representatives, and guests from more than 400 different companies and organizations. The agenda included more than 65 keynotes, case studies, workshops, roundtable discussions, focus groups, interactive think tanks, and more. Early feedback has been universally positive, and work is already underway to build upon this success and make next year’s summit event bigger and better. That is the shortest…

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Another Book from the Author of Lean-Driven Innovation. This Time It’s Business Fiction?— A Conversation with Norbert Majerus

August 25, 2023

— Geoff Micks Head of Content & Research Executive Platforms Geoff joined the industry events business as a conference producer in 2010 after four years working in print media. He has researched, planned, organized, run, and contributed to more than a hundred events across North America and Europe for senior leaders, with special emphasis on the energy, mining, manufacturing, maintenance, supply chain, human resources, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, finance, and sustainability sectors. As part of his role as Head of Content & Research, Geoff hosts Executive Platforms’ bluEPrint Podcast series as well as a blog focusing on issues relevant to…

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Questions to Ask About Your Digital Transformation Journey

August 18, 2023

For something we talk about all the time and build heavily into every one of Executive Platforms’ ten annual events (with more on the way), I was surprised when I spotted the last time I wrote a blog post specifically about the Digital Revolution was all the way back in the beginning of May, and the last time we got into real ‘How to Get This Right’ content was all the way back in January. Let me correct that lapse right now. One of the things I love most about this subject matter is that while everyone’s Digital Transformation Journey…

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Amir Ghannad, Author of The Transformative Leader and Host of The Transformative Leader Podcast

August 14, 2023

  — Geoff MicksHead of Content & ResearchExecutive Platforms Geoff joined the industry events business as a conference producer in 2010 after four years working in print media. He has researched, planned, organized, run, and contributed to more than a hundred events across North America and Europe for senior leaders, with special emphasis on the energy, mining, manufacturing, maintenance, supply chain, human resources, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, finance, and sustainability sectors. As part of his role as Head of Content & Research, Geoff hosts Executive Platforms’ bluEPrint Podcast series as well as a weekly blog focusing on issues relevant to…

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