The bluEPrint by Executive Platforms

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 HR professionals who are on their own DEI journeys...

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.      With topics ranging from workforce develop...

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 planning has never been more complicated, and fulfilling...

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 time, how to analyze and understand it, and the impac...

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 of sale to the final customer. Things that wo...

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 defense against it, and also because so often the...

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 skilled technical operations experts and senior lea...

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 conversation. M&A activity is one of those...

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 companies to address cybersecurity threats, updat...

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. As businesses move from reactive responses to unpr...

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 in moments of crisis. This is a wide-ranging co...

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 generation of ATMPs like Cell and Gene Therapies —an...

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 major role in many organizations’ Sustainability j...

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. Leo will be hosting a themed lunch discussion at t...

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 organizations attribute their success at becoming employ...

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 topics ranging from talent acquisition, deve...

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 relates to changes and updates that could potentially bo...

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 strategies into their long-term business plans,...

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 executives. In many ways the Finance team is id...

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 allow their teams to be more productive without inc...

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 emerging technology, as their function alread...

For this special episode of Executive Platforms' bluEPrint Podcast series we had some of the top speakers from the 2023 edition of the long-running North American HR 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 topics ranging from employee and talen...

At the 2023 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series we sat down with Brian Curran to talk about one of the biggest issues biopharmaceutical manufacturers need to address: 80% of them are still working from paper records. Far from keeping things simple, analog records recorded by human operators in the moment and either filed away or perhaps manually inputted into a digital record at a...

At the 2023 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with Paul Greifenberger, Logility’s EVP, Americas, to talk about what Generative AI can offer supply chain executives. Earlier iterations of AI were task-oriented and required a lot of supervision. Generative AI works from a foundation of knowledge provided by the user and learns as it performs tasks, eventu...

For this special episode of Executive Platforms' bluEPrint Podcast series we had some of the top speakers from the 2023 edition of the long-running Biomanufacturing World 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 topics ranging from talent attraction, devel...