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Are Sustainable Supply Chains a Myth?
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Are Sustainable Supply Chains a Myth?

Paudie O’Connor is the Senior Vice President for Global Supply Chain at Boston Scientific, a position he has held since May 2022. In this role, he serves on the company’s Executive Committee and is responsible for leading the world-class Global Supply Chain team, comprised of thousands of colleagues guided by its purpose of delivering for patients. Paudie’s career in healthcare and medical technology has spanned over 26 years, serving in various roles across management, operations and engineering. Previously, Paudie served as Vice President, Planning and Customer Experience at Boston Scientific from January 2021 to April 2022 and multi-site vice president, Manufacturing from February 2015 to January of 2021. Prior roles in Boston Scientific included Vice President of the Clonmel, Ireland site from January of 2009 to February of 2015 and various engineering and operations positions in the U.S. and Ireland from 1998 to 2008. Prior, Paudie worked for Aer Lingus, PRI Automation and Integer. He is the current sponsor of the Massachusetts PRIDE employee resource group. Paudie earned a B.A. in Mechanical Engineering from Trinity College in Dublin and a master’s degree in industrial engineering from University College Dublin.

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Panel: Planning for Medical Device Manufacturing of the Future: What are the Five Big Things We Need to Talk About?
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Panel: Planning for Medical Device Manufacturing of the Future: What are the Five Big Things We Need to Talk About?

Innovation and R&D: Fueling our industry, R&D drives groundbreaking solutions. We will explore strategies to stay ahead in technology and product development

Manufacturing Processes and the Future: Optimizing processes for agility and sustainability is key. We adapt to innovations to lead the industry forward

Quality in the Age of AI/ML: Exploring the future of medical device manufacturing and how automation will reshape operations while maintaining quality standards and leveraging technologies for risk mitigation and improvement

Regulatory Compliance: Employing effective strategies for clearance and ongoing compliance

Supply Chain Resilience and Sustainability: Enhancing supply chain resilience and sustainability through strategies that leverage digitization and AI to bolster efficiency, traceability and fortify against unforeseen challenges

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From Commitments to Action: Embedding Sustainability into the Way We Work
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From Commitments to Action: Embedding Sustainability into the Way We Work

Donna Warton is the Corporate VP, Supply Chain & Sustainability for Microsoft.

Prior to this role, Donna was the General Manager of Microsoft Devices Supply Chain responsible for managing the end to end supply chain for hardware including Surface, Surface Hub, HoloLens, Xbox, Games and Accessories. With double-digit business growth, Donna led a digital supply chain transformation to scale operations, drive customer satisfaction and be a showcase for Microsoft.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Donna was VP of Global Operations for Dell where she transformed Dell’s famous configure-to-order supply chain into a segmented supply chain model unleashing improved customer experience and business value.

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Delivering the Impossible: How to Drive Value Chain Competitive Advantage Led by ESG
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Delivering the Impossible: How to Drive Value Chain Competitive Advantage Led by ESG

Hear how fully integrating ESG across the organization can drive Supply Chain performance, whilst delivering sustainable, profitable growth.

Ewan Andrew, Diageo’s President, Global Supply & Procurement & Chief Sustainability Officer, offers learnings from the global drinks producer on how evolving its ecosystem has enabled them to drive Supply Chain performance, aligned to an ambitious 2030 sustainability vision.

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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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Bruno Ivanoff of Comet Group — Supply Chain Sustainability – Data Collection & Renewable Energy Sourcing
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Bruno Ivanoff of Comet Group — Supply Chain Sustainability – Data Collection & Renewable Energy Sourcing

At the 2023 edition of the European Supply Chain Executive Summit series held in Barcelona, Spain, June 19-21, we sat down with Bruno Ivanoff, the Global Strategic Supply Chain Director of Comet Group, to talk about a themed lunch discussion he hosted with ten other senior supply chain executives revolving around the data collection and renewable energy sourcing in support of their companies’ Sustainability goals. Aligning and dovetailing beautifully with some of the content explored recently in our recent North American Sustainability & Responsibility Summit series, this conversation offers an interesting additional insights into which challenges and opportunities in this space are universal, and how European companies is in many ways are further ahead and even more ambitious than some of their North American counterparts. Give it a listen!

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bluEPrint 1- VR Innovations, Sustainable Practices and Keeping up with eCommerce

In the age of information overload, we believe in getting to the bottom line. That’s why Executive Platforms is launching bluEPrint, a regular supply chain news bulletin to streamline your reading and deliver global insights straight to you. As a reader, you can expect regular up-to-date content that outlines: Inside look at how other companies are optimizing their supply chains Updates on emerging technologies and customer habits A framework of ideas and methods for you to build upon Whether you’re a regular executive at our annual North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series, or new to our community, we want…

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