• Translating real-world supply chain experience into structured mentorship for emerging professionals
• Building hands-on development pathways that accelerate leadership readiness across operations, planning, and logistics
• Embedding continuous feedback loops to turn everyday work into growth opportunities for future leaders

Featuring:

Ana Maria Velica, Host, SupplyChainTalk

Stewart Morrisey, Senior Director of Supply Chain Operations - Food, The Clorox Company
Tom Bernth, Former Director, Global Supply Chain, Southworth International Group, Inc.

Nanda Kishore, Director of Supply Chain and Procurement, Europe and APAC, Beaufort

Ann Daly, Global Category Manager Digital/Martech/Ecommerce, Carlsberg

• Moving from traditional forecasting approaches towards more adaptive demand planning
• Integrating demand, supply, and inventory planning - enabling coherent decisions across the supply chain
• Using AI and scenario-based planning to improve demand visibility and decision-making

Featuring:

Alastair Charatan, Host, SupplyChainTalk

Elisha Herrmann, Vice President Board of Directors, Foreign Trade Zone 46/47
Pam Wiseman, Principal - Supply Chain Strategy, Supply Chain Advisory Services LLC
Bryan Palma, Director - Product Marketing, Kinaxis

• Transforming logistics and fleet operations through AI and digital innovation to drive smarter planning, optimisation and performance
• Leveraging data, automation and real-time visibility to enhance efficiency, service reliability and customer experience
• Turning digital ambition into measurable impact - leadership, governance, culture and technology partnerships in AI-enabled logistics

Featuring:

Ana Maria Velica, Host, SupplyChainTalk

Laura Storch Pelletier, Head of Strategic Supply Chain, Fuku

Cyndi Brandt, VP of Industry Solutions, Descartes

• Rethinking network design and transport strategies to improve agility and respond more effectively to disruption
• Balancing speed, cost, and sustainability in complex supply chains, where delays impact quality and waste
• Unlocking end-to-end visibility and stronger partner collaboration to enable more proactive, data-driven decisions in high-variability, time-sensitive environments

Featuring:

Ana Maria Velica, Host, SupplyChainTalk

Cem Yurdum, Supply Chain Executive

Pavan Prasad, Senior Director, Consulting, Supply Chain - Pharma & Life Sciences, Genpact