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Reimagine Supply Chain: A Better Way Forward

The challenges facing supply chain leaders today have not changed, but they are fundamentally bigger, more rapid, and frequent. What has changed are the tools to address these challenges and Logility is at the forefront of that innovation. Hear Allan’s vision for how the industry can collectively reimagine supply chain and chart a better way forward.

Speaker: Allan Dow


Unlearning to Learn: The Past Doesn’t Hold the Key to the Future

In the world of supply chain, knowledge and experience are essential. However, the ability to let go of the past to recognize what’s possible in the future can mean the difference between transformation and stagnation. Join Simon Anderson – futurist, award-winning author, and expert on emerging technologies – to hear why unlearning and relearning have become as important as learning itself. And to learn why removing organizational blinders can hold the key to thriving in the highly competitive supply chain environment.

Speaker: Simon Anderson


Executive Panel: Building a Future-Ready Supply Chain

For supply chain leaders, success is a delicate balancing act of managing today while also planning for the future. How are your peers deciding where to place their bets? What keeps them up at night? And is anyone really using GenAI? Join us as we explore these and other questions with supply chain leaders who walk a mile in your shoes every single day.

Speaker: Allan Dow

Speaker: Jim Kilpatrick

Speaker: Angie Taylor

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Speaker: Sean Rierdon


The Cybersecurity Supply Chain Conundrum

High profile cyberattacks that disrupt supply chains and upend not just organizations but also economies have become commonplace. The threat is real – and growing. Join Rachel Wilson, Director of Cybersecurity for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and former NSA Senior Executive, for information every supply chain leader should know. You’ll learn about today’s threat landscape and get practical, applicable advice for reducing risk in an environment where one mistake is all it takes.

Speaker: Rachel Wilson


How Logility is Reimagining Supply Chain:
Innovation Roadmap

The Logility product team is deeply focused on delivering market-driven innovations designed to drive both incremental and transformational improvements to your supply chain planning processes. Join Kevin McInturff, Logility’s Chief Technology Officer, for a walkthrough of the Logility Roadmap, including what’s new and what’s ahead. Covering everything from new AI-first solutions that will change the way you think about supply chain to improvements designed to increase efficiency, productivity, and collaboration, this session is designed to inform and inspire. 

Speaker: Kevin McInturff

Breakout sessions

Getting Started with Generative AI 

The world of generative AI is rapidly evolving, presenting both immense opportunities and complexities. Join experts as they explain this groundbreaking technology and provide practical guidance for businesses eager to harness its potential. This session will equip you with the essential knowledge about risks, how we solve them, and value to embark on your generative AI journey with Logility.

Real World Use Cases 

Explore the practical applications of generative AI in addressing critical business challenges. Delve into real-world examples of how organizations are leveraging Logility’s generative AI solution, Logility Expert Advisor (LEA) to optimize planning, manage supply chain complexities, and enhance financial performance.

Use cases include:

  • Supply Chain Health
  • Constraints Visibility
  • Root Causes of Dropped Demand
Demand Sensing with Life Sciences

In a discussion with a large Life Sciences company we will explore how AI as applied for demand sensing can help with understanding the order patterns of your customers, their inventory, and their sell out information. This understanding will not only improve forecast accuracy substantially, but it will also reduce the unexpected fluctuations and give early signals on customer behavior allowing a more effective and efficient organization.

Process Orchestration and Collaboration

Cross-functional workflows that align activities and document critical business processes are essential to your business. Find out how Logility’s Decision Command Center can support the need to easily train new users, break down organizational silos, and lay a foundation to mature your planning process.

Hamilton Beach: The Case for the Cloud

After using Logility’s self-managed supply chain planning solutions for over a decade, Hamilton Beach was ready to optimize inventory levels, accelerate turns, respond to market demands faster, and speed decision-making in the cloud.  Learn about their move to Logility’s SaaS solutions in anticipation of seamless upgrades, lower supply chain penalties, and increased profits.

Moving to the Cloud: What’s in it for me?

Need more hours in your day? Learn how a move to the cloud can save time and improve efficiency by streamlining daily planning processes, automating updates, reducing risk, and simplifying support. With more time for analysis, planners are elevated to a more strategic role.

Mastering Stochastic Planning: Optimizing Inventory Amid Intermittent Demand

Learn to identify non-normal demand distributions, automate inventory policies, and apply stochastic planning for low and lumpy demand. Increase service levels, lower investment in D items, and better manage your bottom 80% of SKUs using probability-based inventory optimization.

Logility User Tips & Tricks

Join David Leonard, an expert Supply Chain Manager and Logility user, to learn essential tips for managing forecasts, optimizing safety stock, and enhancing supply chain efficiency. Discover how Glen Raven grew top line revenue and improved service levels without increasing inventories.

Keynote Speakers

Simon Anderson • Futurist & Author 

Simon Anderson is an international futurist keynote speaker, applied foresight expert, executive advisor, and award-winning author. With a mission to help executives and organizations move beyond resilience and become future ready, Simon translates complex emerging trends and technologies into actionable insights and strategies using his Future Ready Formula™.

Featured in worldwide publications, Simon co-authored the award-winning book Foresight 20/20: A Futurist Explores the Trends Transforming Tomorrow. He was a co-founder of the Future Ready Economies network, and now partners with economic development professionals to prepare and adapt their communities and regions for a successful future.

Session: Unlearning to Learn: The Past Doesn’t Hold the Key to the Future

Allan Dow • CEO, Logility 

Allan Dow, Chief Executive Officer of Logility, and President of American Software, has 30+ years of supply chain technology experience focused on bringing innovative solutions to global organizations that optimize supply chain management. Allan has led Logility to be a pioneer in AI-first supply chain solutions blending Generative AI, advanced AI-driven algorithms, machine learning, and predictive analytics to help deliver integrated planning and operations across the end-to-end supply chain. Logility was recently named a leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions.
 
Outside of his work with Logility, he is an active member of the Empty Stocking Fund (ESF), a program focused on providing children in poverty a brighter holiday season, and champions other local organizations focused on ending food security in Atlanta, GA where Logility is headquartered. In addition, he volunteers with Georgia Tech to educate and support early in career supply chain professionals about the opportunities available to them post-graduation.  
 

Mr. Dow holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maine.  

Sessions: Reimagine Supply Chain: A Better Way Forward & Executive Panel: Building Future-Ready Supply Chain

Jim Kilpatrick • Global Supply Chain & Network Operations, Deloitte CA

Jim Kilpatrick is the global leader of Deloitte’s supply chain and network operations consulting practice. Deloitte is a leading global supply chain and operations consultancy, working with clients across industries and the public sector to provide solutions for complex operational challenges and to improve supply chain capabilities. Kilpatrick has been driving Deloitte’s supply chain alliances, ecosystem partnerships, and asset development by leveraging rapidly advancing digital and physical automation technologies to enable smart factories, smart distribution centers, and digital supply networks. 

In his over 30 years with Deloitte, Kilpatrick has led many global end-to-end supply chain transformation programs, impacting global supply chain optimization and leveraging advanced supply chain systems and technologies to enhance capability and improve performance. He deems building digital capability as critical to moving beyond traditional service, cost, and asset optimization and embracing new supply chain imperatives of resilience, sustainability, and agility, finding the right balance in reimagining supply networks for the future. Kilpatrick is a frequent speaker and author on supply chain management. He received his MBA from the University of Toronto and received a degree in systems design engineering from the University of Waterloo. He is a professional engineer and Lean 6-Sigma Master Black Belt.

Session: Executive Panel: Building Future-Ready Supply Chain

Sean Rierdon • Executive Director US/CA Supply Chain, Clarios

With 16 years of experience at Clarios, Sean Rierdon is a strategic business optimizer recognized for driving high-impact transformation across large global business divisions. He possesses deep expertise in finance and operations, executing strategies that improve overall efficiency, data-driven decisions, customer service, and cost savings. Prior to his time at Clarios, Sean was a Director at Johnson Controls leading diverse financial initiatives. Sean holds a bachelor’s in accounting from St. Norbert College, and an MBA from Marquette University. He is also an active Board Member for Next Act Theatre. 

Session: Executive Panel: Building Future-Ready Supply Chain

Angie Taylor • VP Sales Operations, PPC Flex

Angie Taylor serves as VP Sales Operations for PPC Flex with a diverse background in product development, supply chain and sales and operations planning.   

In her current role, she leads Sales Operations across the PPC enterprise and has responsibility for the Consumer East Customer Service and Supply Chain Operations Teams. Angie has effectively led the transformation of the organization’s sales and service model to support significant sales growth within existing and prospective customers.  

Session: Executive Panel: Building Future-Ready Supply Chain

Kevin McInturff • Chief Technology Officer, Logility

Kevin McInturff Chief Technology Officer of Logility, has 20+ years of experience in product and engineering roles.  He spent his early career as an engineer on a plant floor working in industrial automation and plant information systems before moving into enterprise SaaS software. Under his leadership Logility has accelerated the pace of innovation and focused on delivering high quality product, a superior user experience and solutions that enable supply chain organizations to anticipate disruptions as opportunities to reap competitive advantages. He is passionate about understanding and meeting client needs with innovative solutions while building great engineering and product culture within his team.

Outside of his work with Logility he actively volunteers with the 501st Legion a non-profit who partners with other organizations to brighten the lives of the less fortunate and to bring awareness to positive causes on both a local and global scale. Kevin is a lifelong learner, an artist, and avid practitioner of the art of tsundoku.

He has earned a BS in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Masters of Science, Management of Technology from Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business. Kevin lives in Smyrna, Georgia with his wife and three daughters. 

Session: How Logility is Reimagining Supply Chain: Innovation Roadmap

Rachel Wilson • Director of Cybersecurity, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management & Former NSA Senior Executive

Rachel Wilson spent the first 15 years of her career at the National Security Agency (NSA). Over the course of her NSA career, she held several key senior executive level leadership positions focused on counterterrorism operations, intelligence services and cyber exploitation operations around the world. 

Rachel is currently a Managing Director and Head of Cybersecurity for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, responsible for protecting the cybersecurity of Wealth Management, Investment Management and Prime Brokerage systems, and the integrity and confidentiality of Firm and client data.  

Rachel is a sought-after speaker for technology, financial, and professional forums being recognized across  global stages and winning many awards for her work. 

In her private capacity, Rachel advises individuals, corporations and institutions on cybersecurity best practices and strategies. She serves on the Advisory Board of WATSCO Inc (NYSE: WSO) and on the CISO Advisory Board of Amgen Inc (NASDAQ: AMGN).  Rachel is a leading thinker on protecting children and teenagers from cyber threats and loves educating young people and their parents on how to be safe citizens on the internet. Rachel holds a BA from Wellesley College and an MA from the University of Chicago. Rachel and her husband live in New York City with their two children. 

Session: The Cybersecurity Supply Chain Conundrum

Breakout Speakers

Michael Bunge Hamilton Beach

Michael (Mike) Bunge 
Vice President, Global Supply Chain Operations, Hamilton Beach

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Buyck, Piet

Piet Buyck
SVP Solution Principal

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Doller, Jonathan

Jonathan Doller
Sr. Business Consultant

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Gorman, Matt

Matt Gorman
Sr. Business Consultant

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Ed Hamlin
VP, Partner Development

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ElizabethHazelton

Liz Ann Hazelton
Vice President, IT & Business Solutions, Hamilton Beach

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Morgan Jameson
Sr. Client Success Manager

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Kmetz, John

John Kmetz
Client Success Manager

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David Leonard Glen Raven

David Leonard
Supply Chain Manager,
Glen Raven Inc.

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Pany_Sarthak Deloitte

Sarthak Pany
Supply Chain AI Practice Leader, Deloitte CA

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Pittman, Jeff

Jeff Pittman
Sr. Business Consultant

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Slater, Joseph

Joe Slater
Business Consultant

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Gokhan Usanmaz
VP, Product Management

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Norm Williams
VP, Continuous Improvement Services

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