Dr. Marcell Vollmer, a renowned expert in the fields of digitalization, innovation, and sustainability. Marcell is a sought-after speaker and author that has dedicated his career to helping companies and individuals navigate the rapidly changing world of technology and business. He is passionate about helping others achieve success and is also a frequent contributor to industry publications and has been featured in Forbes, Bloomberg, and other major media outlets. With over 25 years of experienc...
Mar 15, 2023•1 hr
International speaker, author and business advisor, Catherine Weetman helps people use circular, regenerative strategies to help their business thrive by creating, capturing and circulating more value for everyone. Catherine Weetman Circular Economy talks, workshops and coaching. Her award-winning A Circular Economy Handbook, published by Kogan Page, is now in its 2nd edition, and she hosts the popular Circular Economy Podcast, with listeners in over 150 countries. Working for great companies li...
Jan 31, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Vivian Tai believes that the identification of everything makes anything possible. She says she would have an obsession with the convergence of emerging technology, identity, and sustainability. Vivian is currently working on the future of product identity, data carriers, and the circular economy at GS1 US. She graduated Summa Cum Laude Graduate from the Fashion Institute of Technology, and is an Advertising and Marketing Communications major while being a member of the Presidential Scholars pro...
Dec 21, 2022•51 min
Tom fell in love with computers and set up a software company while studying for a PhD in Plant Science in 1991. He has since worked for a number of companies at Global VP/CTO level. He recently left SAP after having been recruited in there in 2016 at Global VP level, where he worked as a Futurist, and Innovation Evangelist. Prior to that, he completed an almost eight year stint leading GreenMonk, the cleantech, energy and, sustainability practice of industry analyst firm RedMonk. Tom Raftery, G...
Dec 14, 2022•1 hr
Jim Tompkins is an international authority on designing and implementing end-to-end supply chains. Jim is currently Chairman of Tompkins Ventures and Tompkins Leadership. He has started 15 businesses that have done over $2 billion in worldwide revenue during his 50-year career while enhancing the profitable growth of numerous companies, giving him an insider's view into what makes great companies even better. In April 2020, he founded Tompkins Ventures, a global hands-on solutions network that h...
Dec 07, 2022•57 min
Scott is relentlessly curious and resists being defined too narrowly. He’s a technologist and a businessman, a programmer and a designer, a musician and a writer, a father and a coach. Scott is a veteran CTO who has built and led engineering, product, design, and marketing teams at multiple growth stage startups. He’s also served as a coach and advisor with a particular focus on the challenges faced by leaders in startups. What unites all of the threads of his life is a passion for creating beau...
Nov 29, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Fashinza is an AI-driven B2B marketplace for global fashion supply chains. They make it exceptionally easy for international brands to access design to delivery in as fast as 4 weeks with very low minimums. Fashinza offers access to a transparent production process that can be monitored 24/7 with 100% control enabled by their revolutionary FactoryOS. Their goal is to create a sustainable (i.e. net positive) supply chain by 2030 and empower SMB manufacturers with Industry 4.0 solutions. Fashinza ...
Nov 22, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Always having the itch to “do his own thing” Jason opened our Westport, MA office in January 2006 after 12 years of working for the man! He has grown our business to be the leading national search firm specializing in supply chain planning across industries such as Consumer Goods, High Tech, Medical Device, Pharma and Biotech. He currently leads the team working with companies – as small as $25 million in size and as large as $20 billion in size – to identify top talent in areas like demand plan...
Nov 13, 2022•59 min
VERSES is a next generation AI company and developer of COSM™, an operating system for AI, which powers context-aware applications that bridge the gap between digital and physical systems. COSM generates a unified intelligent network of contextualized data, policies, simulation models, and workflow automations that can be shared within and between organizations. https://verses.io GABRIEL RENÉ is a technologist, entrepreneur, author with a 25-year career in the Technology, Telecom and Media Indus...
Oct 25, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Jason is co-founder and CEO of Shipium where he guides the company’s vision towards becoming the world’s best supply chain technology platform for ecommerce and retail. Prior to founding Shipium, he spent 19 years at Amazon as VP of Retail Systems and VP of Forecasting & Supply Chain. While there, he owned the global software and operations group that powered Prime, Subscribe & Save and Pricing. He is a University of Washington grad, and an engineer at heart who loves solving complex sca...
Oct 17, 2022•59 min
Fostering a lifelong commitment to growth and excellence in his personal and professional endeavors, at fifteen years old Jason Azevedo began his first manufacturing company with $600. As a nationally-ranked wrestler during the start of his entrepreneurial journey, Jason used his spare time to study business and hand-built most of the early robotic manufacturing machinery used by his business. Resourceful, capable and self-taught, to this day Jason still uses these early skills to help his emplo...
Oct 10, 2022•58 min
CHARLIE PESTI is the world’s best PUBLICIST of Shipping, Supply Chain, and Logistics Technologies. Focused on the supply chain and logistics sectors, he and his shop pride themselves on being the only premier, full-service PR, and Marketing agency in the space. They are a global team of passionate and specialized professionals helping clients with Brand Recognition, Media and Public Relations, Content Marketing, Social Media, Web Traffic, and Lead Generation. Charlie Pesti - CMO (Chief Make-It-H...
Sep 15, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Tiffanie Stanard is known for following all her passions – an anomaly in many sorts because she is a techie, a creative, media personality/producer & an award-winning entrepreneur. Tiffanie has been named a U.S. Delegate for the Global Entrepreneurship Congress, One of the 15 Women Changing the Face of Technology by Philadelphia Business Journal, Innovator of the Year, One of the Top 100 Women Visionary Leaders to Watch by Innov8tiv Magazine, among many more honors (see below). Stanard found...
Aug 12, 2022•1 hr
Ryan Hunt is a physicist and bioengineer with degrees from the University of Georgia. Ryan has a passion for circular technologies including algae, photosynthesis, bioconversion and biopolymer manufacturing. Ryan co-founded ALGIX that creates sustainable technologies for environmental restoration and biomaterials under the BLOOM brand. His team collaborates with government and corporate partners for cleaning freshwater ecosystems and transforming municipal, industrial and agricultural waste prod...
Jul 24, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Marc de Wit is a Director at Circle Economy, an impact organisation that guides businesses, cities, and nations towards adoption of a circular system. Marc is a recognized thought-leader on implementation of the circular economy. In 2018 he initiated the Circularity Gap Report: an annual yardstick for the circular state of the global economy¬. He brings nearly 15 years of strategy and implementation experience in advising companies and governments in developing circular strategies and implementi...
Jun 24, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Marc de Wit is a Director at Circle Economy, an impact organisation that guides businesses, cities, and nations towards adoption of a circular system. Marc is a recognized thought-leader on implementation of the circular economy. In 2018 he initiated the Circularity Gap Report: an annual yardstick for the circular state of the global economy. He brings nearly 15 years of strategy and implementation experience in advising companies and governments in developing circular strategies and implementin...
May 09, 2022•58 min
Steve Statler is a writer, public speaker, and consultant working in the beacon ecosystem. He is also the SVP of Consulting, Business Development and Marketing at Wiliot, a semiconductor manufacturer developing a Bluetooth chip that powers itself by harvesting radio frequency energy that is being embedded into consumer-packaged goods and packaging. He trains and advises companies deploying Bluetooth beacon technology and is a thought leader in the "beacosystem" community. Previously he was the S...
Apr 11, 2022•1 hr 7 min
David Quintilio worked at UPS for over 36 years working up to senior global logistics and supply chain roles where his work arguably built one of the first supply chain as a service platforms (scaas). He is the founder of Leverage Supply Chain Group where he works with partners to produce global logistics acceleration. In this episode, David talks about the advent and obstacles of building a supply chain as a service. He also gives his thoughts on pandemic-era supply chain efficiency and his pos...
Mar 02, 2022•54 min
Kyle Ritchie works in sustainable design for architecture, and is the co-author of Circular Economy for Dummies. In this episode, Kyle talks about how the circular economy can and should be profitable for businesses, and that businesses and government agencies will really need to get involved in order to move the needle for environmental regeneration. You’ll also find out why Kyle thinks our current era of ongoing supply chain disruption is a blessing in disguise.
Jan 24, 2022•58 min
As Professor of Practice at the University of Houston College of Technology’s innovation program, Dave Crawley leads students through a transformational journey that unlocks innovation thinking skills. These are skills that Dave synthesized over the course of his extensive career in international marketing across many industries. He has developed his own strategies for creating markets, outmaneuvering competition and generating profitable ROI. He has since become a published multidisciplinary an...
Dec 22, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Bill Shevlin has spent his career at the forefront of energy efficiency and clean energy technology. Today he is the CEO of Mavericks Microgrids, a company that creates carbon neutral and carbon negative microgrids for commercial, industrial and residential applications. Bill shares his insights about the energy supply chain, the challenges it faces today, and how organizations can decarbonize their energy usage.
Dec 15, 2021•56 min
Former hedge fund manager Tyler Wood is now a part of Gravitas Infinitum group of cleantech companies. He shares some exciting technology the team has developed, including Carbotura’s use of hemp to mine carbon from the atmosphere, and using it to create graphene and graphite. You’ll find innovations galore—and hope in the fight against climate change—in this episode.
Nov 15, 2021•53 min
Stan Aronow has led supply chains at Intel and leads supply chain industry research today at Gartner. In this podcast, he shares his insights on how supply chain has evolved, and what makes a successful supply chain, and the qualities and technologies managers will need in their corners for years to come.
Nov 10, 2021•1 hr
Gabriel Plotkin talks to us about refrigerants as powerful greenhouse gases, Tradewater’s work to destroy them as part of the fight against climate change, and how funds generated by carbon offset credits make their work possible. Carbon offset credits from Tradewater are now available for purchase on the Requis platform. These high-quality credits are verified by either the American Carbon Registry or VERRA.
Oct 26, 2021•54 min
Supply chain consultant Jill Robbins has spent over 20 years helping to build procurement teams for large enterprises. She's helped procurement departments become more efficient and KPI-driven, and has played leading roles in digital transformation initiatives. On this episode of Supply Chain Next, Jill talks with host Richard Donaldson about what it takes to create true value chains that achieve business goals.
Oct 13, 2021•53 min
Mary Kate Love of Koch Disruptive Technologies talks about how large organizations can become more innovative, transparent and sustainable by partnering with startups. As part of Koch Industries’ investment wing, Koch Disruptive Technologies, her role is all about building effective partnerships to achieve greater efficiency, transparency and sustainability.
Aug 25, 2021•54 min
Venture capital and private equity investor Humberto Olivo talks about transparency and technology, and how they are leading the way to profitable businesses and a cleaner world for all.
Jul 22, 2021•57 min
What challenges need to be overcome to accelerate the adoption of International Supply Chain Day? Our all-star panel with Daniel Stanton, Deborah Dull and Brian Aoaeh discuss visibility, transparency, sustainability, risk and resiliency for International Supply Chain Day as well as the benefits and obstacles to achieving a dedicated day to our industry.
Jun 04, 2021•58 min
We all know supply chains need to modernize, but complexity makes this a difficult and risky undertaking. Ben Bellamy of The Visibility Council facilitates open, honest collaboration to advance industry across the world with next-generation supply chain principles and technologies. The focus is on cross-collaboration between enterprises—not just within members' own organizations—to achieve real-world, usable results as quickly as possible.
May 26, 2021•56 min
3D printing (and the related technologies of additive manufacturing) both virtualize and localize the physical creation of products required to keep industry functioning. John Bolto of AdditiveNow discusses additive manufacturing, and explains how it will change the supply chains of the future. When enterprises can manufacture what they need, when they need it, right where they are, costs and carbon footprints will undergo a dramatic reduction.
May 18, 2021•55 min
