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Event Details
DATE
Nov 11th, 2024
TIME
LOCATION
8 am - 6:30 pm
Carlton Woods Country Club
About this Event
The 11th annual Global Supply Chain Leaders On Demand Conference is where leaders share and collaborate at this boutique event. The one-day annual conference at the exclusive Carlton Woods Country Club in the Woodlands (Houston, Texas) is an opportunity to directly engage and listen to many of the experts in the Supply Chain, Logistics, Manufacturing and Procurement industries. The conference is noted for its free-wheeling open panel discussions by industry thought leaders without the traditional conference and event trappings. Its peer-to-peer networking has been noted by its previous attendees at this exclusive invite only conference and where individual excellence achievement is recognized through achievement awards. To join the Global Supply Chain Leaders on Demand LinkedIn community, make your request here.
Why Attend
Meet other thought leaders
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Learn from your peers how they are addressing similar challenge
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Share your perspectives with your peers
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Engage with others in your senior role by presenting your thoughts
Cost
Be a Global Supply Chain Insider at this “invite only” conference with no registration costs for approved attendance requests for qualified attendees.
Key Business Challenges Leaders are Seeing today
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Artificial Intelligence will you be left behind.
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Trade & Customs Issues to impact 2025
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Supply Chain demand forecasting risks
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Growing network complexity with Ongoing Supply Chain Disruptions & Crippling Port Shutdowns.
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Rapidly changing carrier financial conditions causing major risks.
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Supply Chain strategic partnerships are required to keep your business strong and vital competitive differentiation for customers.
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Supply Chain IT costs are being challenged and we are searching for alternatives to find ways to reduce costs.
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Supply Chain’s need to address data silos for an AI world.
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Supply Chain’s requirement to reduce omissions shows no signs of letting up.
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Supply Chain’s desire to shape the future of supply chain planning by transforming how people, technology and processes intersect to achieve new levels of resiliency
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Supply Chain’s challenge to retain and recruit talent.
NOV 11, 2024
2024 Agenda
7:45 - 8:10 am
Breakfast & Networking
8:10 - 8:15 am
Welcome
8:15 - 9:10 am
Top 5 Customs and Trade issues to watch in 2025
Cindy Deleon, Founder & Managing Director, Deleon Trade, Former CBP Auditor & Asst. Field Director
Jay Acayan, Partner, Roberts & Kehagiaras, Trade and Cargo
Lori Mullins, Director of Operations, LCB, CCS at Rogers & Brown Custom Brokers Inc/ President at Houston Customs Brokers & Freight Forwarders Association
9:10 - 10:05 am
CIO Driving Generative AI & Digital Transformation
AI predictive optimizations at scale running tens of millions of optimizations at once, predictive ETA, SKU velocity, collaborative forecasting, help desk & networking optimization while driving sustainability and reducing carbon footprint. Learn from the leading CIO’s driving the most successful AI & digitalization efforts have also substantially increased customer and employee satisfaction.
Tim Sensenig, Chairman, TMSfirst
10:10 - 11:00 am
Companies improving massive cash flow through Artificial Intelligence and Digital Supply Chain Turnarounds.
Today’s Artificial Intelligence & digital supply chain executives know that spending $20 million or more to implement systems is not innovative but old technology. Many companies have been misled by 3rd party consulting and implementation firms. AI & Digitization increases efficiency and resilience and provides a solid foundation for building new products and business models.
Martin Toscano, President, Evonik Industries
Srividhya Vaidyanathan, Global Supply Chain Strategy & Process Transformation, Shell
Jon Casto, Managing Director
Jennifer Matuszak, Director Global Marine Freight, Vinmar International
Darin Harvey, EVP Manufacturing and Supply Chain, Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc.
Christian Borthayre, SVP Global Supply Chian, American Tire Distributors
11:00 - 12:00 pm
Mexico the Fastest Growing Near Shoring Supply Chain during global realignment optimization. Driving Supply Chain Efficiency while using Best in Class Technology
Martin Toscano, President, Evonik Industries
Carlos Rabadán, Managing Director, Socio en Grupo TI México
Mike Passon, Director, Global Supply Chain & Logistics, HP
Mike Fahey, SVP, TMSForce, fmr VP Global Supply Chain Hisense
Morning Speaker Awards
12:00 - 1:30 pm
CEO Panel & Lunch pick up
CEO Value Chain Collaboration Panel – executives creating a new pathway where they can make a global impact.
Rob Walpole, fmr President Delta Cargo, COO DP World & CEO DB Schenker
Bill Forster, CEO @ CEO Zones | Culture, Execution, Optimization TM
Ted Prince, CEO & Founder, Tri-Cities intermodal
Tim Sensenig, CEO, TMSfirst
1:40 - 2:30 pm
Executing strategic customers & relationships to succeed in one the most crippling port shutdowns & difficult supply chain operations of all time.
Margaret A. Kidd, MILT, CPE™, Program Director, Supply Chain & Logistics Technology University of Houston
Srividhya Vaidyanathan, Global Supply Chain Strategy & Process Transformation, Shell
Ted Prince, CEO & Founder, Tri-Cities intermodal
2:30 - 3:20 pm
Artificial Intelligence Cold Chain – the greatest expansion of all time. Driving Resilience & innovation through effective Supply Chain Risk Management
The Intelligent Supply Chain is an engine of growth through new customer experiences, a driver of profitability in challenging economic times, and a responsible source of stakeholder trust in the new reality world enabling competitiveness.
Rob Walpole, fmr President Delta Cargo, COO DP World & CEO DB Schenker
Timm Bohnert, VP Supply Chain, DistributionNOW
Ashwin Abraham, Manager of Supply Chain, Williams
3:40 - 4:30 pm
Corporate Social Responsibility – Giving Back and Taking Care of Those in Need
Bill Forster, CEO @ CEO Zones | Culture, Execution, Optimization TM
David Reid, CTO & CMO, NOV, Founder redM
Jason Duff, North America Oil & Gas Lead- GBS, IBM, Hands of Justice Board Member
Jeff Chadwick, Executive Director Compassion Centers & Houston Missions
Bobby Mark, Executive Director, Redeemed Ministries
4:30 - 6:00 pm
Networking
Previous Attendees
INDUSTRY EXPERTS
Meet, Share & Learn from your peers
The Venue
The Club at Carlton Woods
The Club at Carlton Woods offers amenities and activities designed to strengthen the bonds of business partners.
Located at One Carlton Woods Drive, The Woodlands, Texas 77382.
Save Life, Change Life
HELP MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE
A key aspect that further differentiates the Global Supply Chain Leaders On demand community is the importance its makes to care about others and pay it forward by giving back with a focus on helping families get out of poverty (TMS Foundations) to Save Lives from Human Trafficking worldwide with Redeemed (redeemedtx.org), the most successful Human & Sex Trafficking recovery program in North America and REDM (joinredm.com) where everyday professionals making a difference in the lives of sex trafficking survivors.
Our community takes corporate social responsibility very seriously, as a platform to becoming an active societal partner for and fulfilling its responsibility. Our mission “Save Life, Change Life, Help Make the World a Better Place”.
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