AGENDA
- DAY 1 SUNDAY, JANUARY 19TH
- DAY 2 MONDAY, JANUARY 20TH - INDUSTRY DAY
- DAY 2 MONDAY, JANUARY 20TH - CPG TRACK
- DAY 3 TUESDAY, JANUARY 21ST - PRODUCT DAY
As always, xChange 2020 kicks off with a Nulogy sponsored social event and welcome reception.
Run Club led by Mehran Malek
Wake up with us on Monday and take in the sights as we lead you on a scenic run through downtown Phoenix. The run starts at 6:30AM and you can choose either a 3 mile or 5 mile run. Build up an appetite before heading to breakfast at 8AM.
Space is limited, sign up here to reserve your spot!
Speakers: Jason Tham & Kevin Wong
Speaker: TBD
In order to satisfy today’s complex consumer demands, brands are prioritizing agility and flexibility as key attributes in their supply chain networks. To enable this agility and flexibility, brands are increasingly adopting asset-lean strategies—relying more heavily on contract suppliers and service providers in order to bring hyper-specialized products and promotions to market.
In this session, learn how brand networks are evolving with asset-lean strategies to manage supply chain complexity, as well as how contract suppliers can stand out from the pack by meeting consumer demands with ease, speed, and quality.
Speaker: Steve Dennis
Shift happens. It’s just happening faster and faster all the time. In an ever noisier world where consumers are often overwhelmed with information and choice, without being intensely customer relevant and truly remarkable, brands risk falling further and further behind. Top retail influencer, strategic advisor and Forbes contributor Steve Dennis will share insights from his forthcoming book and lay out a framework and case studies for navigating this brave new world.
Speaker:Bob Ferrari
Speaker: Ron Puvak
Leading brands are turning more and more to their contract packaging partners as a new source of product, process and packaging innovation. We will look at some of the trends impacting these actions and what we might expect in the future. Leading food and CPG companies have never been more in need of innovation, fresh ideas, and new products. A perfect storm of unrelenting cost cutting, upstart brands siphoning off new high-margin markets, e-commerce pressures, stealth and private label growth is putting incredible pressure on major brands.
Speaker: TBD
Today’s technologies have given rise to new collaborative opportunities between brands and their late-stage customization partners. Thanks to the new levels of visibility, reliability, and trust offered by digitalized supply chains, brands and their external suppliers are able to respond with unprecedented agility to a dynamic retail and consumer environment, all while reducing waste and costs.
In this session, learn how brands and contract suppliers are leveraging agile customization capabilities in order to meet the demands of today’s volatile consumer environment, while enabling strengthened partnerships and collaboration.
The PackStar Award winners will be announced and celebrated at the PackStar Awards Dinner.
Run Club led by Mehran Malek
Wake up with us on Monday and take in the sights as we lead you on a scenic run through downtown Phoenix. The run starts at 6:30AM and you can choose either a 3 mile or 5 mile run. Build up an appetite before heading to breakfast at 8AM.
Space is limited, sign up here to reserve your spot!
Speakers: Jason Tham & Kevin Wong
Speaker: TBD
In order to satisfy today’s complex consumer demands, brands are prioritizing agility and flexibility as key attributes in their supply chain networks. To enable this agility and flexibility, brands are increasingly adopting asset-lean strategies—relying more heavily on contract suppliers and service providers in order to bring hyper-specialized products and promotions to market.
In this session, learn how brand networks are evolving with asset-lean strategies to manage supply chain complexity, as well as how contract suppliers can stand out from the pack by meeting consumer demands with ease, speed, and quality.
Speaker: Steve Dennis
Shift happens. It’s just happening faster and faster all the time. In an ever noisier world where consumers are often overwhelmed with information and choice, without being intensely customer relevant and truly remarkable, brands risk falling further and further behind. Top retail influencer, strategic advisor and Forbes contributor Steve Dennis will share insights from his forthcoming book and lay out a framework and case studies for navigating this brave new world.
Speaker:Bob Ferrari
Speaker: Phillip Short, Direct of IT at Mars Canada
Today’s consumer goods companies face a confluence of changing consumer preferences, new retail landscapes, and rapidly evolving technologies. To build resilience within a volatile market, brand leaders need to digitize their supply chains in order to move with the agility and responsiveness required to address market opportunities. In this talk, Mars Canada provides a window into the digital transformation journey of their external supplier network and how it enabled them to move with greater agility and future-proof against today’s fast-moving, unpredictable consumer market.
Speaker: Keenan Beasley, General Partner of Venture Noire
Rapidly evolving consumer preferences, the emergence of upstart brands, disruptions in retail, and the rise of direct-to-consumer models are increasingly driving brands to diversify their product offerings. As we enter this new era of complexity, the mass production oriented, one-size-fits-all paradigm of the past is being replaced by the hyper-specialized supply chain. Faced with this dynamic, more and more brands are adopting asset-lean models in order to harness the agility and specialized capabilities of their external supplier network. In this session, consumer goods Keenan Beasley discusses leveraging the external supply chain to enable agility, and bring highly differentiated products to market with ease, speed, and quality.
The PackStar Award winners will be announced and celebrated at the PackStar Awards Dinner.
Yoga led by Ariane Foucher
Need a recharge after our PackStar Awards Gala? Join us Tuesday morning at 7AM with yoga class. This class will include guided stretching and breathing techniques to help you get ready for your last day of sessions. Yoga mats will be provided.
Space is limited, sign up here to reserve your spot!
In these product adoption sessions, Nulogy’s Product Managers will do a deeper dive into some of the new features and functions that have been released recently or will be released soon. The Product Managers will highlight current market trends and challenges facing CPGs and their suppliers as a result. They will showcase Nulogy’s new capabilities and demonstrate how they have been built to help you overcome these challenges so you can better respond to market trends and improve customer service.
In these product adoption sessions, Nulogy’s Product Managers will do a deeper dive into some of the new features and functions that have been released recently or will be released soon. The Product Managers will highlight current market trends and challenges facing CPGs and their suppliers as a result. They will showcase Nulogy’s new capabilities and demonstrate how they have been built to help you overcome these challenges so you can better respond to market trends and improve customer service.
As part of Nulogy xChange, we’re excited to offer our customers 1 hour of free consulting services. During this hour, you will get an opportunity to discuss one business problem with Nulogy Experts and receive a prescribed solution for your issue. Spots are limited and will be assigned on a first come, first serve basis. Don’t miss out on this valuable consulting hour.
Sign up here to reserve your spot!