Speakers

This year’s conference speakers represented more than 33 different companies from many diverse industries from around the world. Learn more about individual speakers on our speaker bios page.

Alan Amling
Distinguished Fellow, University of Tennessee Supply Chain Institute; CEO, Thrive and Advance, LLC

Bobby Bernard
Executive Director, DCG Supply Chain Strategy & Innovation, Lenovo

Pete Blair
Vice President of Marketing, Berkshire Grey

Peter Bolstorff
Exec Vice President, Corp Development, Association for Supply Chain Management

Sumit R Chadha
Principal,
Kearney

Jon Chorley
Chief Sustainability Officer and Group Vice President, Supply Chain Management Strategy, Oracle

Mark Cosway
EVP, Sales & Marketing, LevaData

Julian Counihan
Partner
Schematic Ventures

Lior Elazary
Co-founder and CEO, inVia

Drew Ehlers
Global Futurist and Global General Manager of SmartPack™, Zebra Technologies

Abe Eshkenazi
Chief Executive Officer, ASCM

Carlos Gutiérrez Ferrete
Operations, SVP, Reyes Beer Division

Mike Futch
President, Tompkins Robotics

Fergal Glynn
VP Marketing,
6 River Systems

Barbara Gress
Director of Innovation and Engineering, NFI

Rachel Hinkes
VP Strategic Market Development, Blue Yonder

Adrian Kumar
Global Head, Operations Science & Analytics

Richard Lebovitz
President and CEO, LeanDNA

Gordon Lu
Director of International Business, JD Logistics

Daren J. Mallard
Senior Manager, Marketing Strategy – Global Logistics Organization, Cisco Supply Chain

Brian Martin
Sr. Director, Engineering & Technology Team, Dell Technologies Service Parts

Steven A. Melnyk
Professor of Operations & Supply Chain Management, Michigan State University

Kristi Montgomery
Vice President of Innovation, Research & Development, Kenco Logistics

Pamela Armella Olazábal
Data Analytics, Director – Reyes Holdings

Terrie O’Hanlon
Chief Marketing Officer, GreyOrange

Torsten Pilz
Senior Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer, Honeywell

Wes Reid
Senior V.P. of Product Management and Operations, IAM Robotics

Darin Russell
Sr. Director of Supply Chain Engineering Services, MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Dr. Maria Jesus Saenz
Director, MIT Digital Supply Chain Transformation

Krutin Shah
How to build eFulfillment Network

Mark Shirkness
Vice President, Distribution, GE Appliances

Jenn Tabbert
Director, Software Sales, Dematic

Varadheesh Chennakrishnan
CIO – IT, Supply Chain and Logistics

David Villalpando
The Kraft Heinz Company

Jacob L. Shapiro
Founder and Chief Strategist of Perch Perspectives

Tom Ward
A.I. Project Leader, IBM

Matt Wicks
Vice President of Product Development, Honeywell Intelligrated

Ninian Wilson
Global Supply Chain Director, Vodafone & CEO, Vodafone Procurement Company

Morgan Swink
Ph.D., is the Eunice and James L. West Chair of Supply Chain Management