Healthwatch organisations were set up in England in 2012 by an Act of Parliament to pick up public and patient concerns and views of their local health and care services. There are 150 Healthwatch in England and each local authority must fund a Healthwatch service. Healthwatch use the insights gathered to advise council and NHS leaders about their communities’ needs, to ensure that residents’ views are heard and acted on in decisions about local health and care services. In this podcast seri ...
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Executive Platforms builds world-class forums to facilitate the sharing of ideas among the senior leadership of businesses and organizations with common objectives, interests, and challenges. Through conversations with leading experts, The bluEPrint will bring you insightful conversations, analysis and ideas surrounding key topics across multiple industries while uncovering real-world solutions to universal challenges that face leadership professionals in their daily work.
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Food Safety and Quality Data that Tells a Persuasive Story — A Conversation with Paul Bradley of TraceGains
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In the run-up to the 2024 edition of the North American Food Safety & Quality series we spoke with Paul Bradley of TraceGains about how FSQ professionals document, demonstrate, and communicate the value of their work through data, and how a new generation of data collection and analytics tools are allowing them to share and showcase their contribut…
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Chris Tamdjidi, Co-Author of The Resilient Culture: How Collective Resilience Leads to Business Success
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More and more, the last few years are coming to be dubbed an ‘Age of Disruption.’ For the senior leaders in Executive Platforms’ network, resiliency is the watchword of the day that promises organizations will find success even as the business landscape evolves around them. What does a resilient culture actually look like? How should senior leaders…
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Using Social Media to Achieve Your Goals as a Senior Executive — A Conversation with Erik Liederbach of Qnary
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For today’s interview we spoke with Erik Liederbach, a social strategy and marketing executive who specializes in partnering with C-Suite executives and other senior leaders to create and execute social media and marketing strategies that deliver results, maintain a positive presence, and build brands. Erik has worked for companies ranging from sta…
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Fostering a Culture of Food Safety Through Effective Training Methods — A Conversation with Amit Jagirdar of Bunge
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In the run-up to the 2024 edition of the North American Food Safety & Quality series we spoke with Amit Jagirdar, Bunge’s Director, Quality & Food Safety, about how training embeds, fosters, and reinforces Food Safety Culture not just with FSQ professionals and the hands-on operations teams but throughout the company as a whole. Listeners of this p…
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The Strategy to Deliver a Supply Chain's Long-Term Vision — A Conversation with John Mau of Ocean Spray Cranberries
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In the run-up to the 2024 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit we spoke with John Mau, the Director of Operations & Supply Chain Strategy, about the power and importance of long-term visions for supply chains, and the strategies involved in delivering on those far-reaching objectives. John will be hosting a focus group on thi…
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For this week's episode we want to do something a little different. Over the last year and a half the topic of AI has come up over and over again in conversations both on and off the record across all of the events we organize. If there is such a thing as a universally hot topic in the world of business right now, AI has to be among the most popula…
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Artificial Intelligence: Where Are We Now, and What Comes Next? — Dr. Andrew Hutson of QFlow Systems and the University of Missouri-Columbia
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For today’s episode, we do a deep dive into what must be the hottest topic of strategic and tactical business conversation across every industry and profession over the last 18 months: Artificial Intelligence. AI is not as new as the popular imagination thinks, but there is no denying it has stepped into the spotlight and is now performing an incre…
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Mickey Desai of The Nonprofit SnapCast — Being a Doer, a Donor, and a Door-Opener for the Causes that Matter to You
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For today’s episode, we want to do something a little different. Mickey Desai is a podcast host whose show, The Nonprofit SnapCast, talks about some of the challenges and opportunities unique to not-for-profit organizations. It’s a terrific series that is going to be of interest to many of our listeners who sit on boards or otherwise contribute to …
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Peter Shearstone of Thermo Fisher Scientific — Changing the Compliance Paradigm in Large, Global Companies
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As part of the 2024 edition of the Pharma Manufacturing World Summit we interviewed Peter Shearstone, Thermo Fisher Scientific’s VP Global Quality & Regulatory Affairs, about a themed lunch discussion he hosted that revolved around Compliance in the pharmaceutical space, especially as it related to companies with a worldwide footprint. How does Com…
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Helping Leaders Communicate Better with One Another — A Conversation with Lauren Schultz of Board.org
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At the 2024 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series we sat down with Lauren Schultz, an Executive Director with Board.org, to talk about what her organization does, and how like-minded executives in similar roles with similar seniority can collaborate, coordinate, crowd-source, brainstorm, and sense-check the things the…
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How AI is Changing Supply Chain Risk Management — A Conversation with Serena Peirson of ParkourSC
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At the 2024 edition of the Pharma Manufacturing World Summit we sat down with Serena Peirson, a Senior Director of ParkourSC, to talk about one of the hottest topics in the world of pharmaceutical manufacturing: How Artificial Intelligence is reinventing, reinvigorating, and revolutionizing how supply chain risk management works in the volatile and…
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Issues, Trends, Excitement, and Great News for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers — A Conversation with Teresa Gorecki of Compliance Architects
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At the 2024 edition of the Pharma Manufacturing World Summit we sat down with Teresa Gorecki of Compliance Architects to speak with enthusiasm and optimism about the future of medicine, the most recent developments and what they mean for patients, but especially the most recent ideas and information pharmaceutical manufacturers and other senior lea…
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Connected Supply Chain Planning for the Life Sciences — A Conversation with Bob Honer of Anaplan
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At the 2024 edition of the Pharma Manufacturing World Summit we spoke with Bob Honer, Anaplan’s Senior Director of Supply Chain Practice, to talk about connected supply chain planning and what it means for pharmaceutical manufacturers and the life sciences industry. As global business conditions continue to evolve and a whole new generation of medi…
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Staying Ahead of the Manufacturing Technology Curve — A Conversation with Shan Muthuvelu of UCBOS
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At the 2024 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series we sat down with Shan Muthuvelu, the CEO of UCBOS, to talk about technology trends manufacturers need to be aware of, and how to on top of developments as exciting new tools come onto the market. The biggest question that we keep finding new answers for is, “What are w…
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Daniela Ottini of Sanofi — How AI is Helping the Pharmaceutical Industry Reinvent Itself and Build Smart Factories
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At the 2024 edition of the Pharma Manufacturing World Summit we spoke with Daniela Ottini, Sanofi’s SVP, Manufacturing and Supply Head of Specialty Care, as a follow-up to a keynote presentation she gave the day before showcasing Sanofi’s ongoing transformation that is turning science into reality for patients. We explore how one of the giants of p…
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At the 2024 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series we sat down with long-time contributor Bart Talloen to talk about the future and how he hopes to contribute to it in his new role as an Executive Fellow at the World Economic Forum for the Advanced Manufacturing & Supply Chain Center. Bart has been a speaker and adviso…
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Endpoint Strategies to Achieve Cybersecurity Compliance — A Conversation with Romanus Prabhu of ManageEngine
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In the run-up to the 2024 edition of the North American Information Security Summit we spoke with security evangelist Romanus Prabhu of Manage Engine about how data security and cybersecurity professionals need to rethink and reevaluate their systems to account for new threats. The reality is protection can never get in the way businesses operate, …
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CPM, EPM, and What is Changing in the Market — A Conversation with Rob Knferowicz of Wolters Kluwer | CCH Tagetik
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At the 2024 edition of the North American Finance Executive Summit series we sat down with Rob Knferowicz of Wolters Kluwer | CCH Tagetik to talk about Corporate Performance Management and Enterprise Performance Management. A lot has changed in the last five to ten years. How are new regulatory requirements changing the way companies leverage their…
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Understanding What’s Next for Cybersecurity Professionals — A Conversation with Jerry Carlson and Jack Wilson of Bulletproof
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In the run-up to the 2024 edition of the North American Information Security Summit we spoke with Jerry Carlson and Jack Wilson of Bulletproof about a top-of-mind issue for every senior leader working in IT today: There are so many options out there right now to address challenges and capitalize on opportunities, and a new generation of AI tools is…
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What Can Autonomous Software and AI Offer Finance Executives? — A Conversation with Reeka Labh of HighRadius
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At the 2024 edition of the North American Finance Executive Summit series we sat down with Reeka Labh of HighRadius to talk in real terms about what AI and autonomous software can offer senior Finance executives. There is a lot of excitement and enthusiasm about this subject, of course, but Reeka points out that Finance teams actually have a lot of…
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In the run-up to the most recent edition of the North American HR Executive Summit we interviewed Christopher Shryock —who was at the time the SVP and Chief People Officer of Sam’s Club— on some of the issues and trends Human Resources professionals are facing, and how the position of Chief Human Resources Officer is changing to better meet the nee…
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What’s New in Workforce Development and Training for Manufacturers — A Conversation with Andrew Knez of Covalent Networks
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At the 2024 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series we sat down with Andrew Knez, the CEO of Covalent Networks, to talk about one of the most important issues facing manufacturers today. A number of industry trends have combined to make the tried, tested, and true ways of training a workforce ineffective in the modern b…
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The Role CDMOs Play in the Future of Medicine — A Conversation with JR Humbert of INCOG BioPharma Services
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At the 2024 edition of the Pharma Manufacturing World Summit held earlier this month in Boston, we spoke with JR Humbert, INCOG BioPharma Services’ VP Quality, about the crucial contributions CDMOs are making towards the future of medicine, both for large manufacturers and also for a whole range of new, small companies moving their Advanced Therapy…
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Driving Operational Excellence in Manufacturing by making Communications, Tasks and SOP Management Fully Mobile — A Conversation with Will Eadie of WorkJam
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As part of the 2024 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series we recorded an interview with Will Eadie, the Chief Revenue Officer of WorkJam, on an exciting new development in Operational Excellence for Manufacturers. A new generation of communications tools is allowing everyone from shopfloor to senior executive to coord…
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Alarm Management and What Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Need to Know — A Conversation with Michael Andrews of Applied Materials
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At the 2024 edition of the Pharma Manufacturing World Summit held earlier this month in Boston, we spoke with Michael Andrews, the Global Product Manager | SmartFactory Rx® of Applied Materials, to talk about an important issue facing pharmaceutical manufacturers and how the experience of the semiconductor industry can help: Alarm Management. In mo…
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Putting the Power of AI in the Hands of Frontline Workers — A Conversation with Willem Sundblad of Oden Technologies
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At the 2024 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series we sat down with Willem Sundblad to talk about how manufacturers are using AI to give shopfloor employees capabilities and knowledge once only available to experiences and senior staff. Right now, one of the biggest challenges manufacturing organizations face is having…
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4PL Solutions for Today’s Supply Chain — A Conversation with Jordan Kass of C.H. Robinson | TMC
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At the most recent edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with Jordan Kass, the president of TMC, a division of C.H. Robinson, to talk about how supply chain executives are rethinking their logistics in the post-pandemic business landscape of frequent disruption, and how 4PLs are contributing to that ongoing …
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At the 2024 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series we sat down with René Buck, the CEO of BCI Global, to talk about geopolitical issues facing manufacturers today. While supply chain disruption and global footprint optimization are hot topics that every company is looking to address, this discussion goes further to exp…
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At the most recent edition of the North American HR Executive Summit we sat down with Jason Lioy, the Chief People Officer of Dawn Foods, to talk about a themed lunch discussion he hosted on launching Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs. Jason’s own organization has a great story to share in this space, and he wanted to gather together other …
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For this special episode of Executive Platforms' bluEPrint Podcast series we had some of the top speakers from the 2024 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series sit down and speak to the challenges and opportunities submitted by attendees of the event as they filled out their delegate profiles, weighted by popularity. Wi…
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Connected Supply Chain Planning for Manufacturers — A Conversation with Bob Honer of Anaplan
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At the 2024 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series we sat down with Bob Honer, Anaplan’s Senior Director of Supply Chain Practice, to talk about connected supply chain planning and what it means for manufacturers. Today’s business landscape is one of frequent disruption and changing customer expectations. Demand planni…
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At the 2024 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series we sat down with Jon Sobel, the CEO and cofounder of Sight Machine, to talk what digital transformation really means to manufacturers today. For years we have been having conversations about the power of data, what it can mean to get it from the plant floor in real tim…
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At North American Food Safety & Quality 2023 we sat down with Julie McGill of Trustwell to talk about one of the most exciting tools available to Food Safety and Food Quality professionals: Real-Time Visibility tools that can connect people directly and precisely to produce, products, and goods at any point in the journey from origin point to point…
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At the 2024 edition of the North American Finance Executive Summit series we sat down with Dr. Kelly Richmond Pope, a professor at DePaul University and a national instructor with Becker Professional Education, to talk about fraud. Senior executives working in Finance need to understand fraud, both because they are their organizations’ best line of…
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Developing the Top Talent the Life Sciences Will Need to Support its Meteoric Growth — A Conversation with Diluks De Silva of Compliance Architects
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At the 2023 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series we sat down with Diluks De Silva to talk about one of the most important topics everyone working on the future of medicine today is facing: If the next generation of Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products really is everything we think it is going to be, where are we going to get all the s…
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Jessica Jones of Alliance Technical Group — Culture Transfer Strategies During Mergers and Acquisitions
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At the most recent edition of the North American HR Executive Summit we sat down with Jessica Jones, the VP of Human Resources & Legal Compliance at Alliance Technical Group. Jessica hosted a themed lunch discussion on culture transfer strategies during mergers and acquisitions, and in this interview she shared some of the key takeaways from that c…
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In preparation for the upcoming North American Information Security Summit taking place this June 16-18 in Denver, we spoke with Cynthia Kaiser, a Deputy Assistant Director with the FBI’s Cyber Division who leads the FBI’s cyber threat intelligence, cyber policy, and cyber partner engagement efforts. She offers an overview of how the FBI works with…
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At the 2023 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with Steven LaBruzzy, a Value Engineering VP and Supply Chain Expert at Celonis, to talk about how an evolving business landscape offers opportunities for supply chain professionals to rethink and reevaluate their systems and processes, tactics and toolkits. …
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Understanding, Identifying, and Mitigating Food Supply Chain Risk — A Conversation with Kim Daniels and Cheryl Alesso of RQA, Inc.
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At North American Food Safety & Quality 2023 we sat down with Kim Daniels and Cheryl Alesso of RQA to talk about the power of proactivity in Food Supply Chains, some of the big trends food and beverage manufacturers are facing right now when they look at their operations, and what companies can do when they need specific expertise and extra hands i…
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A Collaborative Approach for Service- and Solution-Providers Working in the Life Sciences — A Conversation with Yash Sabharwal of QbDVision
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At the 2023 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series we sat down with Yash Sabharwal, the CEO and Co-Founder of QbDVision, to talk about a real opportunity available to companies working in the Life Sciences right now. So many new and exciting things are happening right now as the biopharmaceutical industry prepares to create the next ge…
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Understanding the Rapidly Maturing Carbon Removal Market Landscape — A Conversation with Craig Stokes of Carbonfuture
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In preparation for the 2024 edition of the North American Sustainability & Responsibility Summit series we spoke with Craig Stokes of Carbonfuture about the carbon removal market, a topic area that is both little understood, and what most people do know is dated. Carbon removal markets are actually a quickly maturing space that is now taking a majo…
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Leo Howell of Georgia Tech — The Nexus of Cybersecurity, Automation, and Artificial Intelligence
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In preparation for the upcoming North American Information Security Summit taking place this June 16-18 in Denver, we spoke with Leo Howell, Georgia Tech’s Interim Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, about some of the issues that interest, excite, and challenge him most as an IT professional and security expert. …
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At the most recent edition of the North American HR Executive Summit we sat down with Kristen Bailey, Paradox’s VP, Talent Acquisition, to talk about how technology is challenging and changing some of the tried, tested, and true approaches to Talent Acquisition. TA has always been an area of special expertise among HR professionals, and many organi…
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For this special episode of Executive Platforms' bluEPrint Podcast series we had some of the top speakers from the 2024 edition of the North American Finance Executive Summit series sit down and speak to the challenges and opportunities submitted by attendees of the event as they filled out their delegate profiles, weighted by popularity. With topi…
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Sustainability: Innovations, Trends, and Opportunities — A Conversation with Steven Goldbach of Deloitte
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In preparation for the 2024 edition of the North American Sustainability & Responsibility Summit series we sat down with the leader of Deloitte’s Sustainability practice in the United States, Steven Goldbach. Every organization right now is on its own Sustainability Journey, and whether they have been making steady progress for many years, or they …
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Packaging Optimization for the Pharmaceutical Industry— A Conversation with Kristin Smith and Hannah Kinney of Sharp Services
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At the 2023 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series we sat down with Kristin Smith and Hannah Kinney of Sharp Services to talk about some of the challenges pharmaceutical manufacturers face when dealing with packaging, and how the right decisions can improve capabilities, reduce wait times, and increase capacity, especially as it relate…
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Bringing Clarity to Qualitative and Quantitative Sustainability Efforts — A Conversation with Tricia Murphy of Diligent
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At last year’s edition of the North American Sustainability & Responsibility Summit series we sat down with Tricia Murphy of Diligent to talk about setting Sustainability goals, working towards those goals, and documenting that work in a way people can rely upon. Across all industries, companies are incorporating green programs and Sustainability s…
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FP&A, EPM, AI, and the Future of Finance Software — A Conversation with Tim Caudill of Jedox
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FP&A, EPM, AI, and the Future of Finance Software — A Conversation with Tim Caudill of Jedox At the 2024 edition of the North American Finance Executive Summit series we sat down with Tim Caudill, Jedox’s Regional VP Solution & Value Advisory, Americas, to talk about how the next generation of technologies becoming available to senior Finance execu…
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Eliminating Waste in the Supply Chain, Process Optimization, Automation, and Workforce Issues — A Conversation with Dheeraj Prasad of Zebra Technologies
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At the 2023 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with Dheeraj Prasad to talk about how AI is helping supply chain organizations reduce waste, improve processes, enhance sustainability, and empower workers. From end to end of the value chain, AI-enabled automation is transforming how companies use data and a…
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The Tech-Enabled CFO, Empowered by Generative AI — A Conversation with Tom Hood of AICPA & CIMA
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At the 2024 edition of the North American Finance Executive Summit series we sat down with Tom Hood, AICPA & CIMA’s EVP — Business Engagement and Growth, to explore one of the most topical and timely topics out there at the moment: How is Generative AI going to impact me? Senior Finance leaders are in a particularly exciting place with this new and…
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