A look at the lineup of speakers scheduled to appear at the first-ever Global Supply Chain Marketing Summit, presented by SupplyChainBrain and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professsionals.

Oliver Hedgepeth, supply chain logistics professor at American Public University System, discusses how consumer tastes and purchasing patterns have changed, and how food suppliers must respond.

Shawn Semer, director of sales and marketing with Signode, lays out the key deciding factors for companies looking to automate processes or integrate new equipment into the warehouse.

Chris Yeung, senior product manager with eMoldino, explains how digitization can improve supply chain back-end operations and enable the end-to-end flow of data.

Andrea Sordi, lecturer in the Supply Chain Management Department of the University of Tennessee, discusses how retailers are transforming their supply chains in the face of a possible recession.

The “democratization” of the digital twin means companies of any size can benefit from the technology, says Guy Courtin, vice president of industry and advanced technology at Tecsys.

Will Quinn, director of industry solutions and strategy at Infor, outlines the technology needed to deal with the labor shortage and other issues faced by distributors.

The need to engage the average warehouse worker with technology has intensified dramatically, says Lori Keston, sales account executive at Generix Group North America.

Is this the time for companies to hunker down and delay investing in technology, just to survive current crises? No way, says Shari Christofferson, president of Connect.

Open Sky Group, a global leader in solving supply chain technology challenges, announces its new Kaleidoscope Suite of supply chain management solutions.