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Welcome Day Panel: The Five Biggest Things Facing Our Shared Biomanufacturing Future
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Welcome Day Panel: The Five Biggest Things Facing Our Shared Biomanufacturing Future

December 2, 2024

Discussing the most important new technologies in biomanufacturing today, with a special emphasis on what we want to do as our industry matures
Debating how talent and workforce development in our industry is changing, and what we should do about it
Listing the current factors affecting speed of development and efficient manufacturing. How do we continue to improve in a changing business landscape with special reference to IRA and the BIOSECURE Acts?
Understanding the current Regulatory environment with an eye for how things are going to evolve into the future
How can we improve the access of biologic medicines?

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The Future of Supply Chain Operations
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The Future of Supply Chain Operations

September 23, 2024

Biswaranjan Sen is a Chemical Engineer by training. He joined Unilever in 1991 and has worked in R&D and across various parts of the Supply Chain including manufacturing, planning, logistics, customer service and procurement. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Unilever Indonesia with responsibility for the Supply Chain between 2009 and 2012.

Following his subsequent roles as Vice President Procurement Chemicals and Vice President Group Supply Chain Personal Care, he became an Executive Vice President in Unilever in May 2017.

His current role covers responsibility for the Beauty and Personal Care Supply Chain, Planning and Engineering. He also leads the Supply Chain Transformation team.

Bish has worked across the world and is currently based in London, UK.

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IKEA US’s Forward-Thinking Talent Attraction, Development, and Retention in a Time of Rapid Growth
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IKEA US’s Forward-Thinking Talent Attraction, Development, and Retention in a Time of Rapid Growth

October 17, 2024

At the 2024 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with Tanja Dysli, IKEA US’s Chief Supply Chain Officer and the president of IKEA Distribution Services LLC, to talk about her company’s ambitious plans for future growth and how IKEA attracts, develops, and retains the talent it needs to deliver on its customer-centric supply chain now while preparing itself for hundreds of new brick-and-mortar retail locations across the United States. For people who think this might sound like many other talent interviews we have done in the past, we want to highlight IKEA US’s incredible high retention rate, its commitment to have each facility’s staff reflect the demographics of the community it serves, its emphasis on promotion from within, and its incredible focus and transparency on succession planning, institutional knowledge retention, and letting its people know where their careers are going to take them. This is not just any success story shared with pride. Even organizations who feel they are ahead of the curve on Talent Management will find something in this interview worth thinking about further. Give it a listen!

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Panel: The Business of Global Talent
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Panel: The Business of Global Talent

July 2, 2024

Placing diversity and inclusivity at the core of everything you do
Breaking new ground and finding new ways of managing the holistic talent life cycle, enabled by advanced technology
Forging partnerships across the business to attract a new generation of talent from outside the core cyber function
Using internal, external and unconventional talent pools to build and develop a sustainable global talent pipeline

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People-Centric Manufacturing Transformation
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People-Centric Manufacturing Transformation

April 22, 2024

Becky Crane has 20 years’ experience at General Mills working across the company’s end-to-end supply chain, in multiple U.S. and international locations. Highlights include plant manager at one of our largest facilities (Hannibal, Mo.), as well as standing up a global procurement organization in Switzerland as an expat. She’s known for leveraging her breadth of experience to build bold strategies and highly effective cross-functional teams to solve problems and create long-term advantage for our businesses. Crane leads manufacturing, engineering and global safety teams with accountability for over 9,000 employees (approximately 30% of the company’s employee base). This includes responsibility over $1B in capital across the enterprise, standardizing processes and establishing strong business partnerships to enable advantaged agility and accelerate innovation.

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What’s New in Workforce Development and Training for Manufacturers — A Conversation with Andrew Knez of Covalent Networks
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What’s New in Workforce Development and Training for Manufacturers — A Conversation with Andrew Knez of Covalent Networks

June 6, 2024

Andrew Knez has several years of work experience in various roles and industries. Andrew is currently the CEO and Co-Founder of Covalent Networks, a company that specializes in workforce operations in complex manufacturing environments. Prior to this, Andrew worked as the Chief of Staff at NatureBox from 2013 to 2016. Andrew also served as an Associate at General Catalyst Partners from 2011 to 2013. Additionally, they worked in marketing at FanSnap for a brief period in 2010 and interned at the Boston Scholar Athlete Program in the same year. Andrew began their career as an Analyst at KAYAK in 2009.

Andrew Knez attended Williams College from 2007 to 2011, where they earned a Bachelor of Arts (B.A) degree in History. Andrew then pursued further education at Harvard Business School from 2016 to 2018, obtaining a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree.

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Fireside Chat: The Evolving Role of a CHRO
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Fireside Chat: The Evolving Role of a CHRO

December 11, 2023

Christopher Shryock serves as Sam’s Club’s Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer. In this role, he oversees all aspects of human resources for Sam’s Club and is responsible for attracting, developing, rewarding, and retaining talent as well as building a diverse and inclusive organization.

Prior to Sam’s Club, Christopher spent nearly 14 years at PepsiCo in a variety of global HR leadership roles in Plano, Texas; Geneva, Switzerland; Moscow, Russia; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; and New York. Most recently, he was senior vice president of human resources for the PepsiCo Foods North America sector’s Commercial organization where he led the HR agenda across the sales, marketing, and strategy and transformation organizations.

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How Toyota North America Looks After Employees’ Mental Health to Evolve the Workplace for Future Mobility
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How Toyota North America Looks After Employees’ Mental Health to Evolve the Workplace for Future Mobility

December 11, 2023

Kim Cockrell is chief human resources officer for Toyota Motor North America (TMNA), responsible for TMNA’s human resources (HR) function. In this role, she is responsible for the setting the vision and strategic direction of human capital across the North American Region. Her organization delivers solutions to enhance team member engagement for areas including Compensation, Benefits, Talent Development, Talent Acquisition, Strategy & Workforce Planning, HR Technology & Analytics, HR Communications, and Labor Relations.

Prior to Ms. Cockrell’s current position, she served as vice president of Human Resources, Toyota Motor North America.

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Nurturing Talent and Culture Through Immense Growth
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Nurturing Talent and Culture Through Immense Growth

December 18, 2023

Jennifer Weber is chief human resources officer and chief diversity officer for ADM and a member of the company’s Executive Council. In this capacity, she oversees all human resources functions for ADM’s global workforce of more than 38,000, including the company’s global activities to support diversity and inclusion.

Weber has an extensive record of strong human resources leadership and strategic management, leading companies during times of significant transformations, mergers and acquisitions, and growth initiatives. Prior to joining ADM in 2020, she served as executive vice president of human resources at Lowe’s Companies, where she drove strategic efforts spanning talent acquisition, development, culture and broad-based business transformation. She also led human resources for companies including Scripps Networks and Duke Energy, and began her career in HR at Towers Perrin (now Willis Towers Watson), where she became managing principal of the firm’s Cincinnati office.

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More than a Paycheck: New Ways to Win the Race for Talent through Benefits!
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More than a Paycheck: New Ways to Win the Race for Talent through Benefits!

December 14, 2023

For more than 25 years, Marybeth Gray has worked on behalf of employers across the country to reduce the cost of healthcare and improve quality. Marybeth was recognized as a 2023 Top Women Leaders in Pennsylvania, and she was also awarded as Employee Benefit News’ 2017 Most Influential Women in Benefit Advising: 30 leaders whose unique client management strategies, innovative data manipulation and other industry-leading skills are transforming the field. She has also been featured on the 2019 Marquis Whos’ Who Lifetime Achievement. Marquis Who’s Who identifies and endeavors to profile the leaders of American Society; those men and women who are influencing their nation’s development and influencing the people of today in their industry.

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Building Talent Resiliency With Early-Career Tech Talent
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Building Talent Resiliency With Early-Career Tech Talent

December 18, 2023

Monne serves as Handshake’s Chief Impact Officer. Prior to joining Handshake she was a Partner at McKinsey & Company based in Atlanta. She advised and served clients across a variety of sectors on topics such as transformation, culture, change management, executive team development and capability building.

Prior to joining McKinsey Monne served as Marketing Manager for the Boston Red Sox. She currently also serves on the board of directors for Reaching Out, an organization committed to developing the LGBTQ leaders of tomorrow.

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Global Talent Trends in Pharma and Biotech Technical Operations
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Global Talent Trends in Pharma and Biotech Technical Operations

November 22, 2023

Pascal leads operations for Russell Reynolds Associates in New York and Canada. He works closely with top healthcare clients around the globe, advising them on their talent strategy, including leadership assessment, succession planning, and the recruitment of directors, CEOs, and other senior executives. Within the healthcare industry, Pascal specializes in biotech and pharma technical operations, including process development, manufacturing, quality, engineering, and supply chain leadership.

Shannon Knott is a member of Russell Reynold’s Leadership and Succession Practice, and is based in Durham, NC. She specializes in executive transition and development, partnering with clients to build more effective and aligned leadership teams. Shannon leverages more than two decades of experience in executive education program development and strategy to provide market-leading insights. Shannon has a passion for leadership development and individual growth, and supports clients in creating future-focused, comprehensive succession processes.

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The Speaker Roundtable from NASCES23 —A Conversation About Supply Chain Issues and Ideas
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The Speaker Roundtable from NASCES23 —A Conversation About Supply Chain Issues and Ideas

November 8, 2023

For this special episode of Executive Platforms’ bluEPrint Podcast series we had some of the top speakers from the 2023 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 Digital Transformation and AI, to Forecasting and S&OP, to Procurement, Inventory, Talent, Labor, and more this wide-ranging conversation will see four senior supply chain 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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Marvin Cooke of Toyota Europe — An In-Depth Conversation on Toyota’s Transformation, Carbon Neutrality, Workforce Trends, and Leadership
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Marvin Cooke of Toyota Europe — An In-Depth Conversation on Toyota’s Transformation, Carbon Neutrality, Workforce Trends, and Leadership

June 12, 2023

Marvin Cooke is the EVP – Manufacturing for Toyota Motor Europe.

Based in Brussels, Marvin oversees all of Toyota’s European Manufacturing Companies, Production Engineering, Logistics, the Toyota Production System and the Production Control functions.

Marvin joined Toyota Manufacturing in the UK as a Manufacturing Engineer in 1991 and has held numerous management posts of increasing seniority throughout Europe. Today Mavin is leading Toyota’s European Manufacturing team along the journey from being an Automobile Company to becoming a Mobility Company.

He will also be a member of the speaker faculty of the European Supply Chain Executive Summit next week in Barcelona speaking about, “A Lean Approach to Carbon Neutrality,” but first we get to ask him a few questions on the bluEPrint.

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