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Cybersecurity Trends We Are Following

August 11, 2023

Executive Platforms will be starting a new event series next year! The first North American Information Security Summit will run June 16-18, 2024, at the Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center near Denver, Colorado. We plan to gather together the top Chief Information Security Officers, Chief Risk Officers, Chief Data Officers, Chief Information Officers, and other senior executives working in data and information security from across North America to share their experiences and expertise with one another at a peer-to-peer level. Cybersecurity is going to be a big part of that event’s agenda, and so we thought it was probably…

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Superconductors: What They Are, the Latest News, and What Might Happen Next

August 2, 2023

Author’s Note Added October 19, 2023: The following blog post makes specific references to a promising announcement about a substance known as LK-99. It was said at the time that third-party verification should come quickly. It seems LK-99 was not, in fact, a room temperature super-conductor. We will keep this blog post up, as it contains a lot of other good content, but we want to clarify at the top that this was written when enthusiasm was still high that a major breakthrough had been made. As a matter of policy, this is not a blog that covers breaking news…

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Vichyssoise: A Sad Story with Lessons Learned for Food Safety & Quality Professionals

July 27, 2023

I attend a lot of conferences and summits. I know I’ve contributed to more than a hundred during my working life, to say nothing of events I attended as a delegate rather than as one of the organizers. There was an amazing presentation I saw many years ago that I probably think about and reference in conversation more often than the next several best presentations I have ever seen put together. It has been a little while since the last time I wrote about FSQ issues on this blog, and so I think it is high time to repeat some…

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Time Management and Professional Development in the Age of Distraction

July 18, 2023

Attention spans are shrinking. That is not one of those anecdotal facts that you think is probably true. Researchers have documented the average attention span for focus on a single piece of stimulus in the year 2000 was 12 seconds, and by 2015 that had fallen to 8.25 seconds, and there is every expectation that the 2025 update on this ongoing study will see a further reduction in how long anyone will give something their full attention. Another study on how long the average person will devote their uninterrupted focus to a piece of content on a screen began in…

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Survey Results: Top-of-Mind Issues and Challenges Facing Senior Manufacturing Executives

July 11, 2023

As senior leaders register for Executive Platforms’ events they are asked to complete a detailed questionnaire that allows us to better understand their role within their organizations and what they want to take away from our gatherings. By and large this information is not published for a number of reasons, but a few months ago we used some of it in developing the questions and prompts for the first edition of our popular new Speaker Roundtable series, and we thought it might be valuable and interesting to take some of our preparatory notes and translate them into a short blog…

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Falfurrias Capital Partners Announces Growth Investment in Executive Platforms

July 11, 2023

Falfurrias Capital Partners and Executive Platforms will enter into a strategic partnership for expansion across new markets and capabilities  CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Falfurrias Capital Partners (FCP), a Charlotte-based private equity firm focused on growth-oriented, middle-market businesses, today announced its investment in Executive Platforms, the leading curator of forums for senior leaders in businesses and organizations. Founded in 2014, Executive Platforms builds world-class forums to facilitate the sharing of ideas among the senior leadership of businesses and organizations with common objectives, interests, and challenges. Their curated experiences bring key decision-makers and industry leaders together to share insights and expertise and challenge each…

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Building Competitive Advantage as Companies Localize and Regionalize Their Supply Chain Network

July 6, 2023

If you spend your career in any specific field, you will see themes and trends and moods and styles and eras come and go over the course of your working life that are defined by a single issue or pressure or innovation that shapes everything else you do for a time. Supply Chain professionals are no different, and right now as we come out the far side of a pandemic, we are in an extended moment where frequent disruptions of all shapes and sizes are now accepted as a business norm, and all anyone wants to talk about is building…

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EUSCES23 in a Nutshell

June 22, 2023

Executive Platforms’ first European Supply Chain Executive Summit ran June 19-21, 2023 at the Melia Sitges a short drive outside Barcelona on the beautiful Spanish coast of the Mediterranean. It was attended by 215 delegates, speakers, sponsor representatives, and guests from more than 150 different companies and organizations. The agenda included more than 35 keynotes, case studies, workshops, themed lunch discussions, focus groups, and more. Early feedback has been universally positive, and work is already underway to build upon this success and make next year’s summit even bigger and better. That is the shortest overview we can offer of the…

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Pride 2023

June 14, 2023

It’s Pride Month, and anyone consuming media in any form has seen a lot of great content go out into the world talking about 2SLGBTQQIA+ issues. For those who wonder just how much of an impact is made by having a time and space available to talk about these issues, ask yourself if you have had more than the usual number of personal and professional conversations relating to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging over the last couple of weeks. I know I have, and what could be a better illustration of the power of having a month dedicated to fostering…

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Drew Dudley, the WSJ-Bestselling Author of This is Day One: A Practical Guide to Leadership that Matters

June 8, 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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DEIB in the Workforce – A Pride Month Conversation with The Get REAL Movement

June 6, 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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BLOG, LIFE SCIENCES

The Looming Talent Crisis, Crunch, and Chaos Bottlenecking the Future of Medicine

June 2, 2023

In many ways, the next ten years promise to be the single brightest decade the pharmaceutical world has ever seen, and we are speaking about an industry that has gone from strength to strength for most of its history. Not only are Small Molecule products undergoing a renaissance powered in part by Digital Transformation while Large Molecule products are finally enjoying their first Golden Age as a now established and mature biopharmaceutical sector within the larger whole, but a whole new and novel generation of products is at last reaching the tipping point of commercialization and stands at the cusp…

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PMWS23 in a Nutshell

May 23, 2023

This 2023 edition of the Pharma Manufacturing World Summit series ran May 15th and 16th at the Boston Marriott Copley Place in the heart of downtown Boston, Massachusetts. It was attended by 275 delegates, speakers, sponsor representatives, and guests from more than 200 different companies and organizations. The agenda included more than 40 keynotes, case studies, workshops, themed lunch 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 even bigger and better. That is the shortest overview we can offer…

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Ideas and Innovations on Mentoring, Sponsoring, and Reverse-Mentoring

May 10, 2023

As I write this, Executive Platforms organizes events for senior leaders relating to Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing, supply chains in both North America and Europe, Technology, Human Resources, Finance, Food Safety and Quality, Sustainability, and Manufacturing. It is surprisingly easy to find common issues and challenges that people in positions of authority in these different roles have in common not just within their own disciplines, but across sectors. At some point as you rise through an organization, the specifics of your profession must include universals about leadership and people. You can have a conversation about a leader’s responsibilities and soft…

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The Digital Revolution and Frontline Workers: Putting the Big Picture in the Palm of Their Hands

May 3, 2023

Last week marked my thirteenth anniversary as an industry conference producer, and of all the conferences, summits, forums, and symposia I have worked on over the years, the largest single category must be manufacturing events. I love building events for people who build things. It helps that I worked a bunch of factory jobs to pay my way through school. I crushed rock into powder. I cooked steel until it was hard enough to cut other steel. I made brake parts for trains and gas tanks for cars. When people talk about safety training or shopfloor optimization or materials handling,…

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NAMES23 in a Nutshell

April 27, 2023

The 2023 edition of the long-running and successful North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit ran April 16th through to the 18th at the Omni Fort Worth Hotel in the heart of downtown Fort Worth, Texas. It was attended by 575 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. In the days after the event, feedback has been universally positive, and work is already underway to build upon this success and make next year’s summit even bigger…

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