Sustainability
Monday morning Panel Discussion

Sustainability has risen to the top of the list for many SCM professionals. This panel discusses how to build support for sustainable initiatives and how to implement sustainable practices that will improve your supply chain and save you money. Best practices will be shared as well as real-world examples.

Antonella Candido, Director, Product Development, GS1
Maureen O'Higgins, Manager, Materials Management, BC Biomedical Laboratories Ltd.
Mark Pagell, Associate Professor, Operations and Management of Information Systems, Schulich School of Business, York University

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Innovation
Monday afternoon Panel Discussion

There is no substitute for innovation that matches the human imagination. However, innovative thinking is not second-nature to most, and like most skills it needs to be fostered and developed. In the area of innovative graduates, there is currently a gap between what universities supply and what companies need; traditional education leads not to innovative behaviour but to extensions of past innovation. This panel discusses the skills and competencies that will unlock innovation in today's graduates.

Simon Brown, Executive Vice President, PMMS Consulting Group Inc.
Dan Georgescu, Global Purchasing, Ford Motor Company of Canada
Nicholas Little, Assistant Director of Executive Development Programs and The Global Procurement and Supply Chain Benchmarking Initiative of the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, Michigan State University

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Performance Measurement
Tuesday morning Panel Discussion

Panellists discuss ways to measure performance beyond price. Total cost of ownership, balanced scorecards and quality, these are some of the performance measures that are providing value beyond initial cost savings.

Nicholas Austin, VP, Business Development, DraftFCB Canada
Alfred Guiffrida, Assistant Professor of Management and Information Systems, Kent State University
Avy Punwasee, Senior Consultant, Pricing Solutions
Philippe Richer, Deputy Director, Service Industry and Consumer Products Branch, Industry Canada

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The Future of SCM
Tuesday afternoon Panel Discussion

The future of SCM can be considered in a variety of dimensions – sourcing, logistics, sustainability and scarcity. Will sourcing move from a “parts” model to a “solutions” model?  How will logistics strategies mitigate against volatile transportation costs? How will lean SCM evolve to adapt to the need for reactive supply chains? How will scarcity change best-practices? Join a panel of SCM thought leaders to discuss these and other issues and trends that will shape the future of SCM.

Garland Chow, Associate Professor, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
Steven A. Melnyk, Professor of Operations Management for the Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management, Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State University
Jordan Kalpin, Executive for Enterprise Services Canada Commercial, Hewlett Packard
David Sinclair, Accenture