Speaker: Martin Verwijmeren - Managing Director, Industry Practices at Kinaxis

Moderator: Alex Rotenberg - VP, Industry Practices - Kinaxis

Panelists:

- Preeti Bantwal, Senior Director External Manufacturing at Kellanova

- Laila Dalla Torre, Global Procurement COE & PMO Director at Bekaert

- Alejandro Gonzalez, Supply Chain Director Iberia (Spain & Portugal) at Sanofi

- Tobias Mathes, Supply Chain and Plan Excellence Leader Ethicon & CSS EMEA at Johnson & Johnson

Supply Chain Management is one of the best areas to groom talent and develop leaders in your organisation, provided the following points are considered in your talent management strategy:

• Design a diverse workforce skillfully mixing experience, expertise, and dynamic young talent from a variety of backgrounds (DEI approach to recruitment)

• Develop a welcoming work environment that meets the needs of people from all walks of life (DEI workplace mindset)

• Offer attractive career paths providing exposure to operational roles, but also projects and technology innovation through job rotation, hybrid roles and formal opportunities to drive change and improvement and develop new skills in a center of excellence environment (Opportunities for Innovation, exposure to new technologies and Continuous improvement)

Moderator: Fraser Ironside, Senior Director, Business Consulting at Kinaxis

Panelists:
- Emilio Zambade, Senior Director Digitalization, Processes (S2P) & Organization at GEA

- Viswanathan (Vishy) Rajamanickam, Customer Service Experience - Excellence Head - IMEA at Henkel

- Prof. Vikas Kumar Associate Dean for Research Innovation and Enterprise & Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at Birmingham City University

- Stefanie Pies, VP Supply Chain Management Hospital Care at B. Braun

Speaker: Andres Montes de Oca, Business Consultant at Kinaxis

Moderator: Greg Quirk, Senior Product Marketing Lead at Kinaxis

Panelists:

- Mandar Deo, VP - Digital Technology - Chief Digital Officer at GE Appliances

- Paul Wealls, Director Strategic Initiatives (EMEA) at Intel

- Guru Rangavittal, Transformation Technical Lead at Google

- Joachim Ehrenthal, Digital Supply Chain Professor at Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW

• Where is AI being used TODAY in supply chains, with results

• What is AI expected to be used TOMORROW, why and what is the expected value?

• Is AI going to take over supply chain practitioner jobs? How will their roles change facing this new technology capabilities?

Moderator: John Nafis, Sr. Product Manager, Supply Chain Solutions at Kinaxis

Panelists:

- Lars Kierkegaard, Global Business Product Owner - Sustainability data insights at Maersk

- Suzanne Greene, Global Purchasing Environmental Sustainability Director & Scope 3 Subject Matter Expert at Dow

- Tomas Zaborowski, Global Head of Sustainability Excellence at Bayer

- Camilla Rose, Sustainability Manager at Rohde Nielsen

• What are the key drivers behind the growing importance of sustainability for supply chain leaders? (e.g. consumer/investor pressure, internal values, regulations)?

• Which current supply chain practices have the highest environmental impact and what strategic shifts are necessary in the supply chain for organizations to achieve net-zero emissions goals? (ex: transitioning to circular economy, understanding scope 3 emissions, supplier collaboration etc.)

• What insights are needed to inform the best decisions for supply chain practitioners? (e.g. corporate priorities and guidance and tolerance levels on Economic, Reputational, Social, Environmental factors) How do you realistically balance trade-offs between seemingly competing priorities? (e.g. cost, service, GHG emissions, environmental and social factors)

• What are ways that technology is currently being utilized to enhance sustainability efforts?

Closing remarks from Daniel Phillips