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Advancing Healthcare Sustainably
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Advancing Healthcare Sustainably

March 25, 2025

Dr. Raman Venkatesh is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Medtronic PLC (NYSE: MDT) responsible for the $31 billion, 95,000+ employee company’s global sustainability portfolio and initiatives across various corporate functions and global businesses. Dr. Venkatesh’s global experience includes various functional and business leadership roles in sustainability-oriented domains (particularly, water, air, clean energy and allied materials). His experience includes serving as a strategic advisor to VC/PE funds, and to CEOs and boards of directors. Previously, he was the Chief Operating Officer of SAE International (SAEI), a world leader in engineering standards serving the global mobility industries. He was responsible for strategy and global operations of SAEI as well as providing leadership to SAEI’s international staff of 350 professionals. Prior to that, he was the CEO of a strategic business unit in Eureka Forbes Limited, a leading Asian consumer products company. He served on the boards of four companies, including as chairman of a technology joint venture. His career spans business management and technology leadership roles in various industries and geographies.

Dr. Venkatesh is the recipient of the prestigious American Hero award from American Chemical Society for an innovative technology implemented across the USA. He earned a B.E. (Hons.) in chemical engineering from BITS, Pilani (India) followed by M.S. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from University of Pittsburgh (USA), where he won the Outstanding Graduate Student award. He also earned an Executive MBA degree from the Katz School of Business at University of Pittsburgh. He has advanced management diplomas on M&A and Strategic Alliances from Harvard Business School and the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania). Dr. Venkatesh is a key inventor in over 10 patents and has authored more than 30 research articles with citations in peer-reviewed journals, international conferences, and reputed magazines. He was appointed by the Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh to the Swanson School of Engineering’s Advisory Board.

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Fireside Chat: Transforming Supply Chains into Competitive Advantages: A Strategic Vision for Medtronic
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Fireside Chat: Transforming Supply Chains into Competitive Advantages: A Strategic Vision for Medtronic

February 28, 2025

Greg Smith is Executive Vice President, Global Operations and Supply Chain at Medtronic. He is responsible for the performance and integration of all aspects of the company’s operations including Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Supply Management, Operational Excellence and Transformation, Enterprise Risk and Facilities, and Operations Quality.

Before joining Medtronic in April 2021, Greg was the Executive Vice President of U.S. Supply Chain at Walmart, one of the world’s largest and most complex supply chains. Greg transformed Walmart’s supply chain to be best in class, developing and implementing a comprehensive strategy that drove sales, achieved operational excellence, reduced costs, and that created an engaging, enabling, and empowering work environment.

Greg is deeply committed to diversity, equality, and the belief that a diverse workplace where everyone feels included results in stronger teams and the highest level of service to our patients, customers, and employees. He was recognized as a 2020 Diversity Leader by Diversity Journal (opens new window).

Before joining Walmart, Greg was Senior Vice President, Global Operations at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, where he was responsible for 52 manufacturing facilities across four business units around the world. He successfully led the company’s global optimization program and implemented an enterprise manufacturing operating system, a global procurement program, and an enterprise planning and logistics approach.

In his more than 35 years of supply chain and operations experience, Greg has also transformed manufacturing, procurement, and logistics programs at companies including ConAgra Foods, United Signature Foods, VDK Frozen Foods, and Quaker Oats.

Greg earned his bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and he currently serves on the College of Business advisory board. He serves on the GS1 Management Board and is the Vice Chairman of its Board Committee for Healthcare. Additionally, he serves on the board of directors for Advance Auto Parts, Inc. He is also a member of the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Advisory Board.

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Fireside Chat: Executive Leadership Development: Top50 Program
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Fireside Chat: Executive Leadership Development: Top50 Program

January 21, 2025

Katy Jones is a strategic thought leader in the leadership and talent development space who customizes talent strategies to meet business demands and accelerates growth in leaders and teams. Katy joined Medtronic in February of 2024 as Vice President, Global Learning & Leadership Development, where she has responsibility for leadership development for entry-level employees to executives, along with the organization’s global learning strategy. Prior to Medtronic, Katy was the Head of Leadership Development for Walmart with responsibility for enterprise leadership development, manager enablement, and executive coaching. Katy built her L&D career at Walmart for 10 years through onboarding, internal consulting and facilitation, early talent strategy, employee experience, performance transformation, high potential and executive development, and foundational leadership development across the globe. In recent years, Katy won two Make a Difference Awards at Walmart, one in 2020 for her rapid response work on the corporate intern program and onboarding efforts during the pandemic, and another in 2022 for her work on implementing an HR competency model and development strategy for the Global People function. Katy’s team also was awarded the Josh Bersin HR Hero Award in 2022 for excellence in HR development.

Prior to Walmart, Katy worked in higher education, where she taught public speaking and communication studies, held a leadership role in academic administration, and developed and recruited faculty members. Katy has a BA in Public Relations from James Madison University and an MA in Communication Studies from the University of Arkansas.

Outside of work, Katy recently relocated to Minneapolis, MN with her husband, Kevin; daughter, Charlotte (6); and son, Patrick (4). When she’s not chasing her kiddos, Katy loves travel, live music, sports, and spicy food.

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Panel: Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards —How Did the Last Two Years Change Us?
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Panel: Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards —How Did the Last Two Years Change Us?

May 17, 2022

How has working through a global pandemic impacted the way we do business? Taking stock of how we changed and why we changed. What are some of the net positives? What are some of the things where we do want to return to how things used to be? Reviewing where our organizations were five years ago and where we planned to be today, how much has COVID-19 changed the trajectory of our journeys? What are some of the lessons learned that we plan to take with us into the future? Are manufacturing leaders stronger for this experience? Where do we…

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Panel: Leadership Strategies to Survive and Excel in a Post-COVID World
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Panel: Leadership Strategies to Survive and Excel in a Post-COVID World

September 30, 2021

What are some of the unexpected lessons —good and bad— we have taken away from 2020 and 2021? Discussing examples of innovations created by necessity during the global pandemic that will continue on long into the future Taking this chapter in our working lives as an opportunity to re-evaluate, reconsider, and rethink some of the supply chain processes and strategies we had in place before COVID-19 How should we adjust our approach to communication, coordination, mentoring, and management in the emerging ‘new normal’ of work? Has the global pandemic changed the way people think about their personal and professional development?…

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MANUFACTURING, LIFE SCIENCES, VIDEO

Digital Manufacturing in the Medical Device Industry

April 28, 2017

In this presentation Dean Kossila, Sr. Principle Business Solution Architect of Medtronic, and Frank Platt, Senior Director of Solution Management and Manufacturing of SAP, speak about: Managing operations in real-time delivers a strategic advantage Plant to enterprise integration speeds information flow Touchscreen operations replace paper based processes Quality management and guided procedures assure compliant manufacturing Automated data collection minimizes errors The growing importance of traceability — Dean Kossila is a senior principle business solution architect for Medtronic. Dean’s primary responsibility is the strategic direction and blueprint design for supply chain and manufacturing solutions globally for Medtronic. Previously, Dean was Sr….

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