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Speed to Market: The Power of Centralized Data and the Promise of AI
LIFE SCIENCES, VIDEO, LIFE SCIENCES

Speed to Market: The Power of Centralized Data and the Promise of AI

December 2, 2024

Ken has spent over 30 years in product, project and IT operations leadership focused in the software and life science industries. Prior to joining IDBS where he focuses on software to manage biopharma manufacturing process data, Ken served as Director, Project Management at BIOVIA. Previously, he was Director of Commercial Operations at Fischer Imaging and Director of IT at Allos Therapeutics and Genomica.

Ken holds a BSc in Computer Science from Cal Poly and an MBA from the University of Colorado, Denver.

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Abundance of IQ, Scarcity of EQ – The Criticality of Leadership in an AI World
VIDEO, SUPPLY CHAIN, SUPPLY CHAIN — EUROPE

Abundance of IQ, Scarcity of EQ – The Criticality of Leadership in an AI World

November 25, 2024

Fares “rallying cry” for his organization is #BreakingRecordsTogether, as he believes in achieving ambitious goals through strong collaboration and sharing, through building skills and confidence, and through being openminded to technical evolutions that help businesses & organizations to serve consumers better than ever before.

Fares leads the global Product Supply Organization of P&G’s biggest business, producing world-class Fabric-Care products and serving consumers around the world. After starting his P&G career 35 years ago in the Dammam plant, he led 4 different P&G plants in Yemen, South Africa, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, before broadening his scope as the Product Supply Director of P&G’s Central Europe, Middle East & Africa & Western Europe regions.

After this, Fares led P&G’s Global Ambi Pur Division as General Manager, bringing in his extensive Supply Chain-, Business- and Consumer experience. Before taking on his current role as Global Leader of Fabric Care Product Supply, Fares led P&G’s European Supply Chain organization for 10 years, developing the Product Supply function to automate and digitize the end-to-end planning systems as he led in parallel the in Global Business Services and IT for supply planning.

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Fireside Chat: How Amazon is Creating New Opportunities for Employees and Delivering Packages Faster with Generative AI
VIDEO, SUPPLY CHAIN, SUPPLY CHAIN — EUROPE

Fireside Chat: How Amazon is Creating New Opportunities for Employees and Delivering Packages Faster with Generative AI

November 25, 2024

Stefano Perego is Amazon’s Vice President of International Operations & Global Operations Services. In his role, he manages Amazon’s customer fulfillment and transportation networks internationally, as well as real estate, reliability processes, supply chain procurement, engineering, and security for the company’s operations globally. With over 13 years of experience at Amazon, Stefano’s journey with the company has been marked by several key milestones. He played a pivotal role in the launch of Amazon Operations in Italy, headed fulfillment for France, Italy, and Spain, led the network’s transition to robotics in the UK, and managed fulfillment and supply chain networks across Amazon’s North American and European business before taking on his current role leading all operations in Europe, the Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. Stefano has an MSc MEng from Politecnico di Milano in Italy and lives in Luxembourg with his wife and two sons.

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#WeUnlockPotential
VIDEO, SUPPLY CHAIN, SUPPLY CHAIN — EUROPE

#WeUnlockPotential

November 26, 2024

Ms. Maria Pia De Caro currently serves as Global Operations & Sustainability EVP for Pernod Ricard, where she is responsible for the entire supply chain organization including strategy, manufacturing operations, planning and logistics, procurement and safety, sustainability and quality management. Ms. De Caro has a track record of more than 30 years of leadership in areas such as engineering, manufacturing, M&A and supply chain at a number of fast-moving consumer goods companies like Procter & Gamble, Unilever and Mondelez. Ms. De Caro holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Sapienza University of Rome and is an avid supporter of diversity and inclusion.

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The Importance of Resilient Global Supply Chains
VIDEO, SUPPLY CHAIN, SUPPLY CHAIN — EUROPE

The Importance of Resilient Global Supply Chains

November 26, 2024

Erika joined H&M in 2022 as the Global Head Supply Chain Strategy & Design and most recently as VP Global Supply Planning after 25 years at Procter & Gamble. Throughout her career in supply chain, Erika has held roles spanning across the globe, including Mexico, Central America, United Kingdom, Ireland and Sweden and from retail logistics, supply planning, to global strategy and innovation. She has a proven record in leading cross-functional transformations and leveraging technology to drive cost, sales, cash improvement and environmental impact. Erika is a creative leader with a multicultural toolkit to empower teams and organization to deliver sustainable and innovative performance.

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Future-Ready Logistics: Harnessing Generative AI for Supply Chains
VIDEO, SUPPLY CHAIN, SUPPLY CHAIN — EUROPE

Future-Ready Logistics: Harnessing Generative AI for Supply Chains

November 26, 2024

C.H. Robinson | TMC
C.H. Robinson solves logistics problems for companies across the globe and across industries, from the simple to the most complex. Our single, global multimodal transportation management system, Navisphere, connects our entire network of 200K companies to provide customers with greater supply chain efficiency, real-time insights, and visibility. Through our TMC division, we combine global TMS technology with a full suite of logistics managed services and consulting to help shippers optimize and automate their supply chain across all modes and regions.

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Decision Intelligence: AI for Resilient and Autonomous Supply Chains
VIDEO, SUPPLY CHAIN, SUPPLY CHAIN — EUROPE

Decision Intelligence: AI for Resilient and Autonomous Supply Chains

November 26, 2024

Jerome Froment-Curtil is the Regional Vice President for Europe at Aera Technology, a role he has held since 2022. He leads the company’s field operations and growth across Europe, drawing on his extensive experience in technology and enterprise solutions.

Previously, Jerome was the Global Head of Partner Solutions at Workday and Managing Director for France, where he built strategic partnerships worldwide.

He also served as Managing Director for Southern Europe at Unit4 and held senior roles at SAP, managing key global clients.

Jerome started his career as a strategy consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, gaining expertise in digital transformation, cloud technology, and strategic growth across the European market.

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The Speaker Roundtable from NAFMS24 — A Conversation About Food Manufacturing Issues and Ideas
FOOD MANUFACTURING, VIDEO, PODCAST

The Speaker Roundtable from NAFMS24 — A Conversation About Food Manufacturing Issues and Ideas

November 14, 2024

At Executive Platforms’ North American Food Manufacturing Summit, two of our keynote speakers and one of our leading solution-providers sat down to record a special episode of the BluEPrint Podcast series reviewing the top-of-mind issues and ideas of food manufacturing executives today as chosen by the NAFMS24 attendees, weighted by popularity.

With topics ranging from process optimization, to digital transformation and artificial intelligence, to controlling costs, building and maintaining culture, supporting growth, workforce development, sustainability, and much more, this is a conversation that should be of interest to every food and beverage manufacturer working today. Give it a listen!

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FOOD MANUFACTURING, VIDEO, MANUFACTURING

Practical Ways to Deal With Operational Complexity

October 15, 2024

Douglas Guilherme is the Supply Chain Vice-President for US & Canada for The Hershey Company. Douglas leads Supply Chain driving best practices and building winning organizations to accelerate Leading Snacking Powerhouse vision. Douglas leads a diverse team in the business of supply. Every individual in his team strives to provide a demonstrable and sustainable competitive advantage.

Douglas serves as Member of Board of Directors for Goodwill – Easter Seals Minnesota and devote passion and dedication to develop underrepresented individuals.

Prior to this role, Douglas has led large Supply Chain corporations for 29 years in companies such as Procter & Gamble for 14 years and Ecolab for 4 years where he served as Global Senior Vice-President for Supply Chain.

Douglas earned his bachelor’s degree on pharmacy and biochemistry, followed by 2 post graduations titles on Operations and Administration and followed by Master’s on Logistics and Supply Chain Management.

Later Douglas studied Machine Learning, and Exponential Technologies from Singularity University and Technology Acceleration Program from Wharton.

He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife Renata and children, Luisa and Vinicius.

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Unlock Factory Data in F&B Manufacturing for AI and Data-Driven Excellence
FOOD MANUFACTURING, VIDEO, MANUFACTURING

Unlock Factory Data in F&B Manufacturing for AI and Data-Driven Excellence

October 15, 2024

Sudhir Arni​ is Senior Vice President of Business Outcomes at Sight Machine. Previously, Sudhir was an engagement manager at McKinsey & Co., where he designed and led manufacturing transformation programs for Pharmaceutical and Chemical manufacturers. He received joint MBA and MS degrees from the Kellogg School of Management at the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University.

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Building Better Supplier Partnerships with Data
FOOD MANUFACTURING, VIDEO, MANUFACTURING

Building Better Supplier Partnerships with Data

October 16, 2024

Veteran product marketing and development professional with over twenty years in the technology and consulting industries, with a focus on the food and beverage, restaurant, and retail verticals. Worked with some of the largest and most dynamic brands in the industry. Passionate about the power of technology in helping businesses achieve the resiliency in today’s marketplace.

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AI Advantage: Boosting Efficiency in Manufacturing and Supply Chains
FOOD MANUFACTURING, VIDEO, MANUFACTURING

AI Advantage: Boosting Efficiency in Manufacturing and Supply Chains

October 16, 2024

Rapid changes in technology, competition, and the workforce require a keen focus on becoming ever more agile, innovative, and efficient. That’s where Randal comes in. For one Fortune 50 company, he defined a new product segment and streamlined the R&D process by 30% – enabling the company to bring a new offering to market four months faster than it typically could. For another Fortune 20 company, he developed the market strategy for the smart buildings market supporting the transition to XaaS commercial model.

His expertise in internet of things (IoT) strategies – particularly product engineering, smart building, Industry 4.0, sustainability, and smart products – has led to many trusted advisor relationships. He has also optimized clients’ corporate IT, finance, and supply chain functions.

Randal joined West Monroe in 2022 from Cognizant. As vice president and global strategy lead for the IoT and Engineering practice, he helped the practice become the highest performing group and grow the firm’s reputation as an industry leader. Previously, Randal founded and built strategy and digital transformation practices at multiple companies. These advisory practices have focused on helping manufacturing clients transform their product strategy, operations, supply chain, and sales via digital transformation.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in information systems and human resources management from the Honors Program at Boston College and an MBA in strategy and finance from Yale University

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Data as the Difference-Maker for Food Manufacturing — A Conversation with Paul Bradley of TraceGains
FOOD MANUFACTURING, VIDEO, PODCAST

Data as the Difference-Maker for Food Manufacturing — A Conversation with Paul Bradley of TraceGains

October 30, 2024

At the 2024 edition of the North American Food Manufacturing Summit series we sat down with Paul Bradley of TraceGains to talk about the power of Data in the food manufacturing sector, especially as it relates to communicating, coordinating, and collaborating with partners up and down the value chain to reduce risk, improve compliance, keep people safe, improve the customer experience, control cost, and optimize performance. There is a great groundswell of enthusiasm for emerging tools and technologies, of course, but we are also now seeing real-world applications where gathering, sharing, and acting on the right data at the right time is making an enormous impact, and more and better is on the way. For all this and more, give this episode a listen!

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AI’s Place in the Future of the Food and Beverage Industry’s Supply Chain and Manufacturing Operations — A Conversation with Jeremy Tancredi and Randal Kenworthy of West Monroe
FOOD MANUFACTURING, VIDEO, PODCAST

AI’s Place in the Future of the Food and Beverage Industry’s Supply Chain and Manufacturing Operations — A Conversation with Jeremy Tancredi and Randal Kenworthy of West Monroe

November 12, 2024

At the 2024 edition of the North American Food Manufacturing Summit series we sat down with Jeremy Tancredi and Randal Kenworthy of West Monroe to explore how data and AI are reshaping the food and beverage industry, especially in regards to supply chain and manufacturing operations. What should food manufacturers know about harnessing data for greater efficiency and performance improvements? What are the real-world examples and use cases already available that illustrate successful data-driven transformations? For companies that are still preparing themselves to embrace AI, what are the big questions they need to ask about themselves and their operations? What will getting started look like, and what are the risks of being behind the curve? For all this and more, give this episode a listen!

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Fireside Chat: Advancing Food Safety: Leveraging Technology and Leadership in the Evolving Landscape
FOOD SAFETY & QUALITY, VIDEO, FOOD SAFETY & QUALITY

Fireside Chat: Advancing Food Safety: Leveraging Technology and Leadership in the Evolving Landscape

October 11, 2024

In his role as the Vice President of Corporate Food Technology and Regulatory Compliance for The Kroger Company, Cincinnati, OH. Howard has the overall strategic responsibility and direction for food safety, quality assurance and product development for the entire Kroger company, this includes approximately 2500 retail stores, 42 Warehouses, and Kroger’s 32 own manufacturing facilities – Dairy, Bakery, Pet Food and Grocery plants. Prior to joining Kroger, he led product integrity and regulatory compliance functions as Vice President at Topco Associates – a private label procurement company in Elk Grove Village, IL.

Howard is the co-chair of the steering committee of global food safety initiative (GFSI), he has over 25 years of experience in the food industry with 18 of those in executive leadership roles, he started his career with the United Nations and he has had the opportunity to work at several food companies and in progressive food safety and quality functions including US Foods, Nestle, Kraft and Darigold, Howard is a food microbiologist by training and has advanced degrees in Integrated supply chain management from Michigan State University.

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Food Safety and Quality Data that Tells a Persuasive Story — A Conversation with Paul Bradley of TraceGains
FOOD SAFETY & QUALITY, VIDEO, FOOD SAFETY & QUALITY, PODCAST

Food Safety and Quality Data that Tells a Persuasive Story — A Conversation with Paul Bradley of TraceGains

September 10, 2024

In the run-up to the 2024 edition of the North American Food Safety & Quality series we spoke with Paul Bradley of TraceGains about how FSQ professionals document, demonstrate, and communicate the value of their work through data, and how a new generation of data collection and analytics tools are allowing them to share and showcase their contributions to the company in new and exciting ways. In a world where giving food safety and quality data a storyteller’s voice to convey both quantitative and qualitative metrics is the best way to win hearts and minds. In this wide-ranging conversation we talk about what’s new, what’s working, and what is coming next. Give it a listen!

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A Speaker Roundtable from NASCES24 — A Supply Chain Conversation with SAP, General Mills, Google, and Walmart
SUPPLY CHAIN — NA, VIDEO, SUPPLY CHAIN, PODCAST

A Speaker Roundtable from NASCES24 — A Supply Chain Conversation with SAP, General Mills, Google, and Walmart

October 24, 2024

For this special episode of Executive Platforms’ BluEPrint Podcast series we had some of the top speakers from the 2024 edition of the long-running and successful North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series sit down and speak to the challenges and opportunities submitted by attendees of the event as they filled out their delegate profiles, weighted by popularity.

With topics ranging from controlling costs, procurement and sourcing, digital transformation and AI, forecasting and S&OP, to managing growth and capacity in a changing business landscape while working to be an employer of choice in the battle for Top Talent, and much more, this wide-ranging conversation will see four senior executives from four very different companies speaking to the issues, ideas, innovations, and inspirations that matter to all of them as prompted by their peers. It is a fantastic deep dive into what is most relevant to supply chain organizations today. Give it a listen!

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