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Powerful Alliances: Working with Our Partners Internally and Externally to Streamline Supply Chain Processes
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Powerful Alliances: Working with Our Partners Internally and Externally to Streamline Supply Chain Processes

Jessica Kipp is the Senior Vice President, Head of HP’s Supply Chain Markets and Logistics organization. She is responsible for driving the strategic direction and execution of HP’s complete order-to-cash customer and partner experience. She oversees a largely outsourced, integrated logistics operation for all personal systems and print products. A transformational business leader, Jessica’s mission is to unlock enterprise value by optimizing the end-to-end value chain through digital transformation and operational excellence. Jessica advocates HP’s Sustainability objectives in partnership with our Logistics Service Providers.

Prior to her current role, she was responsible for HP’s Global Logistics Operations which included overseeing international and domestic transportations, customs, and warehousing.  This accountability spanned from global and regional factories all the way to final mile delivery placing HP’s technology in the hands of our customers. She led her team through transforming the supply chain, resulting in significant cost reductions, improved efficiencies, and risk mitigation in an uncertain and dynamic market.

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Fireside Chat: Supply Chain Interrupted: How Disruption Shaping has Helped Corning Proactively Drive Improved Cash Flow, Operational Efficiency, Resiliency and Sustainability in the Supply Chain
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Fireside Chat: Supply Chain Interrupted: How Disruption Shaping has Helped Corning Proactively Drive Improved Cash Flow, Operational Efficiency, Resiliency and Sustainability in the Supply Chain

As Corning’s Chief Procurement Officer, Nolan leads Corning’s Global Supply Management (GSM) operations team. He is focused on enhancing value creation and managing supply chain risk in each of Corning’s businesses by driving deep engagement with GSM global service offerings, category teams, and its logistics control tower.  He is also operationalizing the function’s digital transformation.  Nolan has rich experience in glass and ceramics serving optical communications, life sciences, automotive, and pharmaceutical packaging industries.  He is a graduate of UNC Wilmington’s Cameron School of Business.

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Sustainability in Procurement
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Sustainability in Procurement

Melani Wilson Smith is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MDWSCo, an advisory and impact investment organization based in the United States. After nearly 30 years in industry, Melani founded MDWSCo to offer businesses Supply Chain, Procurement and Operations expertise and to help them scale for value delivery.

Prior to founding MDWSCo, Melani was the Chief Procurement Officer for PepsiCo. Melani led global procurement teams across PepsiCo to deliver supply assurance and productivity, grow supplier relationships and to build strategic capabilities, helping to drive PepsiCo’s growth.

Throughout her career, Melani has held roles of increasing responsibility including Procurement, Supply Chain and Operations teams across the consumer products and pharmaceuticals industries with Novo Nordisk, Mondelēz International, Merck & Co., Pfizer and Procter & Gamble. Melani has worked in the US and Europe and is recognized as a thought leader in organization and culture transformation.

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DTC – A Look at How Mattel is Optimizing this Channel for Growth Across Commercial, IT, and Global Supply Chain
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DTC – A Look at How Mattel is Optimizing this Channel for Growth Across Commercial, IT, and Global Supply Chain

Greg is responsible for all physical goods movement, information flows, and logistics procurement activities that contribute to Mattel’s purpose of creating innovative products that inspire, entertain, and develop children through play.

He oversees the overall business management of Mattel’s logistics, distribution, transportation, and logistics procurement activities worldwide. This work includes the operation of Mattel’s global network of 38 Regional Distribution Centers, 6 DTC Distribution Centers, Asia Logistics operations, 2 Consolidated Cross Dock Centers, and a Global Transportation network executing over 12 million customer deliveries across all channels and brands.

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Fireside Chat: Rising to the Occasion: How Global Importers are Driving a New Era of Customer Service in Supply Chain
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Fireside Chat: Rising to the Occasion: How Global Importers are Driving a New Era of Customer Service in Supply Chain

Ryan Petersen is Founder and CEO of Flexport, a leader in global supply chain technology. In 2022, companies of all sizes – from emerging brands to Fortune 500s – used Flexport technology to move more than $26 billion of merchandise. Prior to starting Flexport, Ryan was the founder and CEO of ImportGenius, a premier provider of transaction data for the global trade industry. He earned a BA from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

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Welcome Day Workshop: Beyond Visibility: Generative AI’s Role in Developing the Next-Generation Control Tower
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Welcome Day Workshop: Beyond Visibility: Generative AI’s Role in Developing the Next-Generation Control Tower

Anders leads the North American Sales efforts at Blume Global. He brings over 25 years of experience in building and leading enterprise sales teams at several global technology companies. Prior to joining Blume, Anders spent 16 years at Oracle where he had responsibility nationally for Oracle’s Enterprise SaaS solutions for Supply Chain Execution and Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning as well as Enterprise Performance Management in several industry verticals.

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The Future of Supply Chain Decisions. Now.
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The Future of Supply Chain Decisions. Now.

Fred Laluyaux is the CEO of Aera Technology, a company transforming the future of work through Decision Intelligence — the digitization, augmentation, and automation of decision making. An entrepreneur at heart and Silicon Valley veteran, Fred brings an impressive track record of building successful startups and driving technology innovation. Prior to launching Aera, Fred was the CEO of Anaplan, which he grew from 20 to 650 employees, and a $1B+ valuation. He also held several executive positions at SAP, Business Objects, and ALG Software.

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AI-First Demand Forecasting: Leveraging Human Insight with AI-Driven Planning
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AI-First Demand Forecasting: Leveraging Human Insight with AI-Driven Planning

Sulaiman Panjwani is the Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Logility. With close to 10 years in Supply Chain across many roles including procurement, supply chain and product marketing, he possesses a deep understanding of the intricate nuances of supply chain management. Sulaiman enjoys translating complex technical solutions into compelling value proposition and leverages his expertise to bridge the gap between technology and customer needs.

Joe Slater has been with Logility for 8 years and got his start as an implementor of their Inventory and Constrained Supply Planning capabilities working with a variety of clients across a broad range of industries like Food & Beverage, Life Sciences, Retail & Apparel, Consumer Durable Goods, and more. For the past several years he’s brought that deep domain expertise to the presales team working with prospective and existing clients to understand their business challenges and align them to capability in Logility’s end-to-end digital supply chain planning platform.

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Fireside Chat: How Meta Used Algo’s AI Platform to Master CPFR and Demand Planning
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Fireside Chat: How Meta Used Algo’s AI Platform to Master CPFR and Demand Planning

Throughout her career, Amy Cooper has been at the forefront of supply chain data and technology, selling for Dun & Bradstreet when they launched their supplier scoring solutions and part of the team that launched Gartner for Supply Chain. Featured as a guest on various supply chain technology podcasts, Amy has supported multiple Fortune 500 companies in their quest to optimize operations and drive innovation. She is the Algo Global Account Director for Microsoft, leading the global CPFR program for XBox and Surface devices. In addition to her role in sales, Amy is deeply involved with Algo’s AI development roadmap and focused on co-creating cutting edge technology solutions that drive continuous improvement for her customers.

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Fireside Chat: Supply Chain Velocity through End-to-End Supply Chain Orchestration
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Fireside Chat: Supply Chain Velocity through End-to-End Supply Chain Orchestration

David Petrucci is a managing director with global consulting firm Protiviti and leader of its Global Supply Chain and Operations practice. He has 30 years of experience in supply chain and operational improvement and innovation in technology, consulting and industry roles. David has assisted companies in a variety of industry sectors, including retail, manufacturing and distribution, energy and defense, to reimagine their supply chains and balance efficiency with flexibility and resiliency.

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Insights from Kloeckner Metals: Transforming and Advancing our Logistics Operating Model
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Insights from Kloeckner Metals: Transforming and Advancing our Logistics Operating Model

As president of managed services, Jordan Kass has global responsibility for C.H. Robinson’s transportation management technologies and supply chain consulting services through TMC, a division of C.H. Robinson and Freightview. Shortly after joining C.H. Robinson in 1999, he led a team to develop a new service, Managed TMS®, under a newly formed division, TMC. Today, Jordan leads a team of supply chain experts who have built TMC into an international business helping to connect, automate and optimize supply chains for some of the world’s largest companies.

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Building a Risk Averse Supply Chain – A Hub and Spoke Guide to Digital Transformation
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Building a Risk Averse Supply Chain – A Hub and Spoke Guide to Digital Transformation

Michael Conley is a seasoned Supply Chain professional with over three decades of experience in industry and management consulting. His career spans industries from Food & Beverage, Retail, and Consumer Goods to Electronics, Chemicals, and Industrial Manufacturing, plus extensive work in Corporate ESG within the technology sector. Michael has robust, end-to-end expertise across the Supply Chain, including Forecasting & Demand Planning, Sales & Operations Planning, Inventory Management, Manufacturing & Operations, Logistics, and Procurement. Recognized for leading enterprise-wide transformations that deliver maximum operational and financial performance, Michael consistently drives disparate functional groups into cohesive, connected planning teams.

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Graco’s Supply Chain Journey: Driving Global Inventory Performance
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Graco’s Supply Chain Journey: Driving Global Inventory Performance

Bernie has over 20 years of business experience in Manufacturing, Purchasing, Distribution Operations, ERP implementations (Oracle), and would be described as a team leader. I carry strong oral and written communication skills, along with strong system proficiency. He also has close to two decades of progressive and diverse experience in Procurement, Inventory, Supply Chain, Logistics, and Production Control Management. With a high energy level focused on continuous improvement, he is willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish a mission, and carry a strong commitment for success.

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Using Connected Planning to Meet Complex Supply Chain Challenges with Speed and Resilience
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Using Connected Planning to Meet Complex Supply Chain Challenges with Speed and Resilience

Eric Lange brings 31 years of experience in Supply Chain Management, primarily in Forecasting, Demand Management, Inventory & Production Planning, as well as IBP/S&OP leadership roles. After 22 years of being a supply chain practitioner, he wanted to help as many corporation discover and benefit from true planning solution that is for the modern world and to help transform supply chains to handle today’s speed of business and change. This led Eric to Anaplan.

Today, Eric has been with Anaplan for 7.5 years in a few Supply Chain roles, including Customer Success and Product Marketing. Most of the time at Anaplan, Eric has been a Principal Solutions Consultant. In this role, Eric has helped many customers understand the full potential of connected planning with Anaplan to drive accuracy and confidence in Supply Chain Planning, as well as achieve tremendous results and value.

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Unlocking The Power of Digital Planning Twin to Gain Value by Connecting Strategic and Tactical Decisions
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Unlocking The Power of Digital Planning Twin to Gain Value by Connecting Strategic and Tactical Decisions

Lee has 29 years’ experience in the parcel shipping industry at Pitney Bowes and UPS, with 12 of those dedicated to postal-induction products. Lee has broad experience designing and optimizing networks, including postal-induction, small package, air, and freight.  He was responsible for the design, launch, and integration of new products. Lee is currently responsible for Network Strategy and Design, Service Performance, Postal Operations, and Transportation Analytics.

Lee holds an MBA and dual Bachelors’ from the University of Kentucky.  He mentored in various programs, such as Engineering Development Program and was an active supporter of the Women’s Leadership Development program.  Lee and his wife Rhea have 2 children, Ethan (21) and Lauren (19), and reside in Crestwood, KY.

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Making AI-Powered Forecasts Useful to Supply Chains
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Making AI-Powered Forecasts Useful to Supply Chains

Polly is the VP of Industry Outreach and Thought Leadership at Kinaxis, a supply chain planning and analytics software company. Previously, she was Director of Analytical Consulting Services at the University of North Carolina Health Care System and worked in various roles at SAS, in Advanced Analytics R&D, as Director of the SAS Global Academic Program, and in Alliances. She has an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she also received her BA in Political Science as a Morehead Scholar. She has been very active in INFORMS (the leading professional society for operations research and analytics) and co-founded the third chapter of Women in Machine Learning and Data Science (now more than 60 chapters worldwide).

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A Finance Perspective on How to Ensure Supplier Compliance
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A Finance Perspective on How to Ensure Supplier Compliance

As Director of Marketing at apexanalytix, Matthew Morookian leads the development of product messaging and content for apex’s solutions. Favorite part of his job is working with clients to tell their stories for peers at trade shows and during virtual events. Prior to apex, Matthew was responsible for client engagements and marketing for the IoT consulting firm 151 Advisors. He received his MBA at Baruch College.

Gregg is a Certified Public Accountant and has a master’s degree in business; he has led the National Service Center in Phoenix Arizona for the past 20 years. With the merger of Safeway and Albertsons, the National Service Center is now responsible for all aspects of retail accounting processes and payroll for 2,300 stores, 300,000 employees, 27 distribution facilities and 20 manufacturing plants with 22 different banners throughout the United States.

Prior to joining Safeway/Albertsons, Gregg worked for the Dial Corporation for 18 years.  He was Director of Finance for the International Division, including Asia/Australia and lived in Hong Kong for a time.

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