Digital transformation in supply chain isn’t just a technology challenge—it’s a leadership imperative. As organizations invest heavily in digital tools, the real differentiator lies in bridging the gap between technical capability and operational strategy. This keynote explores the executive role of “translator”—a leader who aligns cross-functional teams, fosters shared ownership, and ensures digital investments generate measurable impact. Through tested frameworks and real-world insights, we’ll examine how to turn misalignment into strategic advantage, accelerate adoption, and lead transformation that scales. Attendees will gain actionable strategies for building high-trust partnerships between business and technology—and driving enterprise-wide results.

From tariffs to trade wars to supply shocks, global disruption is no longer a risk—it’s a reality. This panel will explore what true supply chain resilience looks like in 2025 and how organizations are shifting from reactive recovery to adaptive planning. Learn how to strengthen agility at every layer of your operation—people, processes, partners, and platforms. Panelists will discuss best practices for navigating uncertainty, including changing trade policies and shifting political landscapes. Topics include building optionality into supplier networks, embracing adaptive planning cycles, and using real-time insights to drive faster, smarter decisions. We’ll also explore how organizations are balancing short-term flexibility with long-term strategic positioning. If disruption is the new normal, how are you preparing to thrive in it?

In many industries, the biggest failures don’t start on the factory floor—they happen at the digital intersections where technical data changes hands across teams. In this talk, Jason Ray, Co-founder & CEO of Paperless Parts and former Navy Supply Corps Officer and Pentagon advanced manufacturing lead, explains why today’s booming demand collides with a fragile, fragmented supply chain built on analog handoffs, opaque multi-tier outsourcing, and misaligned engineering–procurement incentives. He will map the hidden costs of RFQ sprawl, version drift, requirements lost in transit, and compliance risk—and show how insurgent players gain speed by collapsing these intersections through tighter control and a connected “digital thread.” Drawing on lessons from primes, vertical integrators, and 800+ manufacturers quoting hundreds of thousands of parts monthly on Paperless Parts, Ray outlines a pragmatic path from chaos to orchestration: a secure, shared source of truth; AI that surfaces complexity and enforces requirement flow-down; and multi-tier visibility that makes outsourced work behave like in-house. The result: faster iteration, lower risk, and scalable, resilient readiness.

This roundtable will explore how artificial intelligence and machine learning can help clean, enrich, and govern data across logistics operations—from planning and execution to tracking and payment. Participants will discuss the impact of poor data quality on supply chain performance and share approaches for achieving high-quality, actionable data. Expect insights on eliminating data silos, reducing exceptions, and enabling confident, ROI-driven decision-making.
Discussion Areas Can Include:

• Where do your data silos most commonly appear across your supply chain or logistics operations?
• Which parts of your shipping process create the most data silos—procurement, execution, tracking, or billing?
• What’s the biggest risk to your business when your shipping, financial, and customer data don’t align?
• How do incomplete or disconnected datasets hold you back from making decisions that drive revenue growth as well as cost control?
• Why do exceptions continue to persist in your processes, even after technology or automation investments?

The roundtable will explore the concept of Financial Supply Chains to do what matters for your enterprise:

1. Mitigate the need to ‘eat’ Tariff costs at an operational level

2. Use Intelligent Agents/Digital Assistants to ‘do the work’

3. Plan 2026 Budgets ‘to do more with less’.

Can you leverage how supply chain leaders like Dell, Amazon used Financial Supply Chains to create a competitive advantage?

In this roundtable, we’ll explore how leading supply-chain organizations built competitive advantage by turning visibility into action:

- Turn data into defensive moats — stop “eating” losses from shrinkage, delays, and blind spots
- Employ Smart Ambient IoT as your digital agents — automatically sense, alert, and act
- Embed visibility in strategic planning for 2026+ — allocate resources where they move the needle

In this hands-on tabletop simulation, executives face a sudden semiconductor supply disruption and must make rapid operational decisions in two timed stages — first during the initial shock, then again as new information emerges. The exercise challenges participants to think critically under pressure, collaborate across functions, and extract practical lessons on coordination, agility, and resilience in the face of uncertainty.