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Global Supply Chain Leaders Conference 2024

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Chemicals, Oil & Energy, Automotive, High Technology and Consumer Goods

Meeting Global Transportation Challenges in a Post Covid World

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.

Key Speaker

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

  • Artificial Intelligence will you be left behind.

  • Trade & Customs Issues to impact 2025

  • Supply Chain demand forecasting risks

  • Growing network complexity with Ongoing Supply Chain Disruptions & Crippling Port Shutdowns.

  • Rapidly changing carrier financial conditions causing major risks.

  • Supply Chain strategic partnerships are required to keep your business strong and vital competitive differentiation for customers.

  • Supply Chain IT costs are being challenged and we are searching for alternatives to find ways to reduce costs.

  • Supply Chain’s need to address data silos for an AI world.

  • Supply Chain’s requirement to reduce omissions shows no signs of letting up.

  • 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

  • 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

Speakers
Agenda

Meet, Share & Learn from your peers

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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.

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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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