Industy Expert Panel Pharmaceutials

Enabling Tomorrow’s Medicines

In this session, we will hear from key leaders in the Pharmaceutical industry about their insights around how today’s supply chain is enabling tomorrow’s medicines. We will discuss the global trends in the pharmaceutical industry and how those trends affect how we move drugs through the supply chain to meet future needs. How does the role of eCommerce and other players change the pharma landscape? What can the pharma industry do better in order to be prepared for another pandemic? Join us to learn how we can enable tomorrow’s medicines today!

Marcus Delano East

Harnessing the Power of Digital Transformation

Marcus East will discuss the potential for digital innovations like AI, blockchain and robotics to radically change the next decade, bringing even more disruption than we saw in the last decade. With over 50% of Fortune 500 companies ceasing to exist since 2000 mainly due to an inability to handle digital transformation, it has never been more important for company leaders to understand it, and to have a strategy for addressing and embracing it. Marcus will provide a provocative view of the future landscape, and practical advice on how to navigate it.

Lee Hunter

Information Access in A Digital World

Don’t make ads, make entertainment: From TikTok to Instagram, how modern businesses connect with customers through video.

Across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and Facebook, this presentation will equally entertain and educate you. You’ll enjoy inspiring, creative examples of businesses that are using video to their advantage and learn how to stand out, be memorable, and leave a lasting impression.

We’re bombarded with hundreds of advertising messages every day, and your potential customers have little time or patience for the boring old methods of reaching them. So how do modern businesses adapt? By putting entertainment in their business, through the power of video.

Kimberly Kleiman-Lee

The Culture Edit

Knowing we all come from various backgrounds, having had various experiences, and practiced various customs and norms, etc. Which culture wins when we’re together? Which culture determines the behaviors that we choose? Do we need to build a new culture and if so…what do you want it be?

Jochen Apel

The 5G Revolution

As the world slowly recovers from the devastating impacts of the pandemic, manufacturers, logistics and supply chain companies are investing in automation and connecting more of their assets to digitally transform their operations. 5G is a transformative technology designed specifically to meet industry’s toughest requirements for business and mission-critical communications. 5G together with other emerging technologies like AI/ML, AR/VR, cloud networking and edge computing will enable new applications and support new use cases that were never before possible. By deploying a 5G private wireless network as part of their digital infrastructure, manufacturers, logistic and supply chain companies can achieve their business goals to become more efficient, resilient and sustainable.

Hell Thorning-Schmidt

Leading Through Change

Helle Thorning-Schmidt knows what it means to lead through change, because she’s done it. She became the first woman to hold the post as Leader of the Danish Social Democrats and in 2011 became Prime Minister of Denmark.

She says, “no matter where you are as a leader in times of change, you have to be courageous, get out of your comfort zone, embrace dilemmas and forgive yourself when you make mistakes. And you have to take a stand. But most of all you have to stay curious and cool.”

Helle is known to be a courageous woman with a strong charisma and a forceful personality; maybe because her father told her that:” Girls can do anything – also become the prime minister”, and during hard times, she reminded herself that what doesn´t kill you, makes you stronger.

Alex Bollig

Digital Twin – Boost Your Business

The performance of intralogistics processes within warehouses and distribution centers is an important lever at the e-commerce and logistics market. Simulation, validation, prediction and optimization of warehouse operations and material handling equipment already prior to physical realization is a key enabler to increase productivity in development and implementation of automated systems. Get to know how the digital twin enables maximum optimization of cost, quality and throughput for logistics centers.

Charlene Li

The Secret to Being Disruptive

Why is that some organizations seem to disrupt all the time while others never seem to get traction? Disruptive organizations and their leaders have a secret: they align everyone and everything with an eye on the future. They also make the difficult decisions today that turn their goals into reality. Charlene will show you how they do this and how you can get started on your disruption journey.

Dr. Anil K. Gupta & Haiyan Wang

Gearing Up Globalization: The New Global Reality

Historically, globalization has been viewed almost solely through the lens of trade in physical goods. But this is quickly becoming yesterday’s story. We’re in the midst of a fundamental transformation in the structure and dynamics of the global economy, with cross-border data flows that have been growing at over 40% annually for the last 20 years. The winners in the global economy will be the organizations that lead in discovering and exploiting new opportunities created by changes in their external environments.

This presentation highlights the key strategic implications for navigating this new world of “smart globalization”, and explains the value of going global early versus standing on the sidelines in this all-star game.

Alex Bollig

Vice President for Vertical Management Intralogistics, Siemens AG

Dr. Alexander Bollig is the Vice President for the Vertical Management Intralogistics at Siemens AG, Digital Industries. He has more than 20 years of experience in the automation industry from research, operational and strategic management perspective in international line- and project organizations. Prior to his assignment as Vice President for Intralogistics in Digital Industries, Alex served Siemens AG in the Digital Industries’ Business Unit Motion Control as the Vice President for Strategy, Regional Management and Marketing, following assignments in Product and Portfolio Management and Siemens Management Consulting.

Prior to Siemens, he worked as Research Assistant, Senior Engineer and General Manager at the Institute of Automatic Control, RWTH Aachen University. Alex holds a Diploma and PhD in mechanical engineering & mechatronics and control systems, respectively.

Maneesh Juneja

Digital Health Futurist

Maneesh Juneja is a global health expert who explores the convergence of emerging technologies to see how they can make the world a healthier and happier place.

Juneja’s research extends beyond understanding technology, it also includes economic, political and cultural trends. In 2017, some of the topics he examined were new models of care, digital biomarkers, and our relationship with machines as they become more intelligent.

Juneja’s thinking led him to TEDx Saint Peter Port, where he spoke about how Digital Health technologies could be used to make Guernsey the best place to live on the planet. In 2013, he gave another acclaimed talk at TEDx Porto, this time on his vision of 7 billion Citizen Scientists. He also participated at “FutureMed” at Singularity University, in Silicon Valley.

In 2012, Juneja left GlaxoSmithKline, to set up his own health consultancy, and in the same year also founded the Health 2.0 London Chapter, which he grew into the UK’s largest grassroots health tech community.

In a career spanning 20 years, Juneja has worked with data to improve decision-making across a number of industries. From supporting the UK Government study at University College London, managing the Tesco database at DunnHumby, and most recently, working with the world’s largest U.S. health insurance claims and European EHR databases at GSK R&D.

Hendrik Steckhan

Brand Growth Advisor, Former President Coca-Cola USA/Germany/Ecuador

Hendrik has over 20 years of international business experience in strategy, marketing, commercial and general management roles with The Coca-Cola Company and formerly with Kraft Foods in Europe. He was President of US Operations at Coca-Cola North America in Atlanta before retiring in 2017.

Hendrik served as General Manager of Coca-Cola Ecuador, and then Chief Marketing Officer and later Chief Operating Officer of Coca-Cola Brazil, the Company’s third largest market based in Rio de Janeiro. He later became President and General Manager of Coca-Cola North America’s Sparkling Brands business unit before he was President of the Coca-Cola Germany business unit in Berlin. Hendrik had an exceptional time there as a result of his effective partnership with the German Bottler, and driving cultural change under the ‘Change, Grow, Win’ program, leading to the accelerated turnaround of the German business unit.

He then served as President of Cocoa Cola’s Still Beverage Brands North America in Atlanta and from 2016 to 2017 he is President US Operations of Coca-Cola North America.

Hendrik holds a degree in Business Administration and Economics from the University of Saarbruecken, Germany.

Tristam Stuart

Founder, Toast Ale

Tristam Stuart is an international award-winning author, campaigner and expert on the environmental and social impacts of food.’

His books, The Bloodless Revolution: a cultural history of vegetarianism from 1600 to the present and Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal, have been described as “a genuinely revelatory contribution to the history of human ideas” (The Times) and have been translated into several languages.

Stuart started publicly campaigning on food waste as a lone pioneer in 2002. He has been a principal protagonist in building the global movement that has mobilized hundreds of organizations, millions of individuals, achieved mass behavior change, obtained commitments from the world’s biggest food companies and governments, and a Sustainable Development Goal (12.3) to halve food waste by 2030. Stuart is an official UN Champion of this Global Goal.

The environmental organization he founded in 2009, Feedback, plays a pivotal role in catalyzing and leading the global food waste movement. It advocates for a better food system; one that is circular, low-input and stable. Feedback has driven changes in supermarket policies and international legislation and consistently punches way above its weight at the highest level
globally.

In 2016, Stuart founded Toast Ale which upcycles unsold fresh bread into award-winning craft beer. After just 2 years of operations, Toast is brewing in 6 countries. 100% of its distributable profits go to Feedback and other aligned charities worldwide. It recently closed its first round of investment, raising over £1.3m within a unique impact investment structure Stuart devised called Equity for Good which allows investors to realize capital gains, but pledges them to use these for further positive impact investment and/or donations.

Stuart won the international environmental award in 2011, The Sophie Prize. He is an Ashoka Fellow, a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a UBS Global Visionary.

Raj Long

Deputy Director – Integrated Development, Global Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Raj Long is a senior executive with over 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. She brings a wide range of expertise in regulatory strategy and executive management experience having worked with the EMA, US FDA, CFDA and other Emerging Markets regulatory authorities.

She is currently a Deputy Director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). Previously, she was the Global Head of Regulatory GEHC-MDx in the UK responsible for the regulatory organization and regulatory access globally in Americas, EMEA and Asia. Prior to joining GEHC, she held the position of Head of Regulatory International AGL in Novartis, Switzerland and Vice President – Regulatory International at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, USA. She was responsible for setting up strategic organizations in Asia, Latin America, Middle East and Africa with a focus on shaping drug development strategy.

In 2014 Raj became a member to the World Dementia Council (WDC) as a global regulatory expert. She was requested by the UK Department of Health to assess innovative development pathway for dementia. The report and recommendations Raj made have been supported and published by the UK government Minister of Health and Minister of Life Sciences in 2015. She was also selected to serve as an expert in the Innovative Medicines and Medtech Review Advisory
Group appointed by the Parliament Undersecretary for Health.

Prior to that Raj has held various positions in industry expert groups including ICH Expert and as EFPIA Lead. In 2016, Raj has been elected vice-chair of the World Dementia Council in 2016 and 2017. In addition, Raj also served as an expert at the invitation of the Dutch Government as part of the EU presidency to evaluate accelerated access and incentivized pricing models for the EU and in 2017 by the OECD to look at access in HICs and LICs on request by the G20 presidency.

Max Thinius

Futurist

Max Thinius is one of Europe’s leading futurologists with a focus on society, sustainability, business and trade.

Since 1988 Max has been studying the effects of technological and cultural developments on our society and how a prospective community can emerge. This has resulted in a six-year study and future scenarios in which Max asks not only the „experts “, but also civil society about the necessities for a prospective future for all.

In trisectoral models (in the interplay of business, politics and civil society), Max is committed to „intellectual climate change “, a new ethical understanding of integral cooperation. Integral means that everything that arises in these tri-sectoral models must have a positive effect on society and every stakeholder.

Max is now a futurologist with appearances throughout Europe, was co-creator of a sustainable investment house, helped set up the first international financial rating agency and is now involved in tri-sectoral processes at the heart of the innovation of the food and health market. He works for various DAX companies such as small and medium-sized enterprises, political parties and trade associations. As a board-member of Earthrise, he also advocates intellectual climate change.

In addition to these activities, he is company spokesman for FORUM food at beverage (Bundesverband E-Commerce und Versandhandel Deutschland e.V), advisor to Deutsche Post DHL subsidiary AllyouneedFresh.de and co-inventor of „Next Generation Food “, the mother of all food think tanks.

Max Wittrock

Entrepreneur

Max Wittrock is co-founder and until 2019 one of the CEOs of mymuesli, an award-winning Muesli Startup. He is driven by his passion for food and e-commerce – and always looking for new ventures and opportunities.

Born in Munich, Max graduated from Law School (attending both the universities of Passau and Munich), he is also a trained journalist (University of Passau, Institut für Journalistenausbildung) and worked for smaller newspapers and freelanced for German Television (Bayerisches Fernsehen).

In 2007 Max started mymuesli together with two friends. mymuesli is active in five countries, has been granted several awards, including the German Gründerpreis in 2013, Germany’s most important award for entrepreneurial achievements.

mymuesli offers its customers to mix their favorite muesli from 80 ingredients – with 566 quadrillion possible mixes there’s something for everyone.

Max gives talks about mymuesli’s success story, entrepreneurship and related topics at universities, conferences or for corporate clients, including Porsche, DHL, and Apple.

Together with his friends and extraordinary teams he started several other ventures, including a Coffee brand (Green Cup Coffee), an orange subscription business (Oh!Saft), a tea brand (Tree of Tea). They are sometimes also active as Business Angels. Portfolio companies include Startups (e.g. Minubo, making Business Intelligence easy for everyone) or more traditional business models like biosanica (organic Apple Chips) and the chocolate producer Jokolade.

Kimberly Kleiman- Lee

Performance Strategist & Business Consultant

Kimberly Kleiman-Lee knows that humans are the most interesting part of work. She attributes any career success to her insatiable curiosity and voracious desire to learn about humans at work and in groups. She’s a pattern studier and tirelessly seeks innovative ways to help leaders thrive. She, like others, thinks the world is in the midst of a leadership crisis. Thus, Kimberly launched her consultancy to transform leaders into the curious, compassionate, and global stewards our future deserves.

Kimberly served General Electric for 20 years; with her final 7 years teaching and coaching at Crotonville (GE’s corporate university). Her team led the company’s Culture and Leadership Learning & Development strategy and solutions for 330,000 employees. Her honest, intuitional, and methodical approach to individual and team development earned her the respect of leaders throughout GE. In addition to serving her team, her individual work focused on GE’s top 5,000 leaders – teaching, coaching, provoking, and inspiring change.

She prides herself on evolving coaching engagements into trusted partnerships focused on actions and outcomes. Kimberly’s methodical approach aims to assess talent and then use that data to design coaching plans that build personal capability and impact a business’ bottom line. You can hear her thoughts on human performance during her weekly podcast series “Do I Dare” wherever podcasts are played.

Her workshops and keynotes engage the ‘Whole Human’ often with humor, rarely with PowerPoint, Kimberly believes the best way to learn about the world is to be out in it. Thus, her students find themselves in a Maasai village in Northern Tanzania, doing chores at a horse farm in Wyoming, walking the battlefields of Normandy, lost in Manhattan, or training with the Israeli army. She thrives on helping humans simplify their approach to leading in this fast-paced, sometimes chaotic, and always uncertain world.

Kimberly obtained her BA from the University of Wisconsin Madison and her Masters in Adult Education and Leadership Studies from Loyola University, Chicago. She is a hopeful guitarist, triathlete, certified Black Belt (Six Sigma kind), Siberian Husky lover (x3), die-hard Packers fan, and still doesn’t understand why humans under the age of 20 only ‘selfie’ 1/2 of their face for Snap. Kimberly lives in Delafield, Wisconsin with her husband of 22 years, Bob, and their 3 children: (Katie, Alyssa, and Sam).

Winnie Ahrens

Senior Sales, Dematic Central Europe

More than twenty years’ experience in engineering design and sales. Specialized in material handling equipment for fashion logistics and eCommerce sector.

Particular emphasis on GoH technology, automatic storage and sortation systems solutions.

My operational background provides a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the problems in distribution and a pragmatic and practical perspective in resolving distribution challenges.

(European experience and deep knowledge about the competitive situation and different technologies available on the market.)

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

Former Danish Prime Minister, Former CEO of Save the Children

Helle Thorning-Schmidt secured herself a place in the history books when she became the first woman to hold the post as Leader of the Danish Social Democrats and in 2011 as Prime
Minister of Denmark.

From 2016 to 2019 she was CEO of Save the Children International and hence held an international leading position in an organization with an annual turnover of more than DKK 10 billion and 17,000 employees in 100 countries. Since summer 2019, Helle spends time on her board roles and advisory activities as well as the international think tanks she is part of.

Helle grew up in the city of Ishøj with a single mother and has been politically active since her early youth. She has a Master’s Degree in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen, and a Master’s Degree in European Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges.

She is known to be a courageous woman with a strong charisma and a forceful personality. Maybe because her father told her that:” Girls can do anything – also become the prime minister”, and during hard times, she reminded herself that what doesn´t kill you, makes you stronger.

Helle is an incisive, honest, and direct speaker. Born in Copenhagen, she is fluent in English and has a working knowledge of French.

Paul Polman

Co-founder and Co-chair of IMAGINE

Co-founder and Co-chair of IMAGINE and his book, “Net Positive: how courageous companies thrive by giving more than they take” is due out in September 2021.

A leading proponent that business should be a force for good, Paul has been described by the Financial Times as “a standout CEO of the past decade”. As CEO of Unilever (2009-2019), he demonstrated that a long-term, multistakeholder model goes hand-in-hand with excellent financial performance.

Paul was a member of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel which developed the Sustainable Development Goals and as an active SDG Advocate he continues to work with global organisations and across industry to push the 2030 development agenda.

He is Chair of the B Team and Saïd Business School, Vice-Chair of the UN Global Compact and Honorary Chair of the International Chamber of Commerce, which he led for two years.

Hasan Dandashly

President, Dematic, KION Group Executive Board Member

With more than 25 years of global leadership experience, Hasan brings demonstrated capabilities in full-cycle profit and loss management, operations excellence and strategy execution through methodical business and culture transformation to the Dematic organization.

He joined Dematic in 2018 from General Electric where he was President and CEO, Oil & Gas Surface after having served as President and CEO, Downstream Technology Solutions. Prior to this, Hasan held various international executive roles at GE’s Industrial, Transportation, and Power Generation businesses, beginning in 1998. These included general management positions at GE’s subsidiaries in Italy, U.A.E, Qatar, and the U.S. Before joining GE, Hasan led engineering teams at Honeywell Industrial Automation and Honeywell Avionics.

Hasan holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the Lebanese American University and a master’s degree from the University of Minnesota.

Jeff Moss

Executive Vice President, Global Commercial, Dematic

As EVP, Global Commercial, Jeff is responsible for the commercial strategy and development of the business to drive growth and market share through corporate strategy, global account sales, commercial excellence, sales enablement, and global lifecycle services. Jeff and his leadership team take ownership of the customer experience making sure that all functions of the organization are aligned to meet Dematic’s strategic objectives and drive better outcomes for our customers in every region.

Prior to this role, Jeff served as EVP and CEO, Dematic International, EVP of Global Project Engineering, and EVP of Mechanical Solutions & SCi (Supply Chain intelligence) for the North American region. He also served as the SVP of Integrated Systems and consulted for Dematic North America before formally joining the company in June of 2010. Prior to Dematic, Jeff spent the majority of his career as an entrepreneur servicing the automotive industry where he was President and COO of a robotic systems integrator and co-founded an advanced laser cutting and welding business.

Michael Jerojin

Senior Vice President, Dematic APAC Region

As SVP of the Dematic APAC region, Michael is responsible for the development and growth of Dematic in this very important and growing region with 1,200 employees. Responsible for the sales and operations strategy across Asia Pacific, Michael is focused on expanding Dematic’s presence by breaking into new markets including Thailand, Korea and India, and developing the local and regional capability of our project management and lifecycles services teams across this geographically and culturally diverse region.

Michael started at Dematic as General Manager, Customer Service, ANZ in 2009 and has served in his current role since 2018, taking on the additional responsibility for China in 2021. Working closely with the business development teams, Michael has been actively involved in the successful growth of Dematic across the region. Initially working with the China team to establish and build the China services team, he was also responsible for the establishment of service teams in Korea, Thailand and the Philippines.

Bernard Biolchini

Executive Vice President, Dematic EMEA Region

As EVP of Dematic’s EMEA Region, Bernard is focused on leveraging the company’s scale across the diverse geography. In addition to the established Northern, Central and Southern European footprint, the EMEA region has recently expanded into new markets including Poland, Russia and the Middle East. In this role, Bernard will drive consistency, growth and operational excellence across the entire region and through its 3,500 employees.

Bernard brings more than 25 years of global multicultural leadership experience to Dematic. After leading the Southern Europe team as Managing Director, he was named EVP & CEO of the Americas Region in 2019, where he led the region to achieve incredible growth and operational excellence before assuming his current role. Bernard began his career with Hewlett-Packard and grew into leadership positions in their Computer Channel business. He has also held leadership roles at Invensys PLC (Schneider Electric) and AMD Corporation across many continents and industries including oil & gas, information communications technology, electronics, appliances and logistics.

Michael Larsson

Executive Vice President, Dematic Americas Region

As EVP of Dematic’s Americas Region, Michael is responsible for accelerating growth and driving a market leading presence in the US, Canada and Mexico. As Dematic’s largest geographical market, the Americas Region is home to over 5,000 employees and the company’s largest installed base footprint. Michael ensures we achieve customer expectations and outcomes through a focused approach on sales, service and execution across the region.

Michael joined Dematic in this role in 2021. He came to Dematic from ABB where he most recently served as Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Automotive in ABB’s Robotics and Discrete Automation business unit. Previous to that role, Michael also served as a Group Vice President and Head of Robot Systems, leading ABB’s turnkey solutions offerings to customers across global geographies in electronics, automotive, aerospace, and consumer goods clients. Having lived and worked on four continents, Michael brings a diverse leadership background to Dematic.

Dr. Anil K. Gupta

World Leading, Influential Expert on Strategy and Globalization, Best Selling Author

Anil is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy, globalization and entrepreneurship. Ranked by Thinkers50 as one of the “world’s most influential management thinkers,” he has also been named by The Economist as one of the world’s “superstars” for research on emerging markets in a cover story on “Innovation in Emerging Economies.”

Dr. Anil K. Gupta is the Michael D. Dingman Chair in Strategy, Globalization and Entrepreneurship and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the Smith School of Business, The University of Maryland at College Park. Anil also serves as chairman, The China India Institute, a Washington DC-based research and consulting organization. He is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, China and Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and has earlier served as a Chaired Professor in Strategy at INSEAD and a visiting professor at Stanford University and Dartmouth College. He received a doctorate from the Harvard Business School, an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad, and a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur.

Anil is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Stewardship Committee for the Initiative on the Future of Consumption, the Bretton Woods Committee set up by the World Bank and IMF to advise them on solutions to global challenges, and the CNBC Disruptor 50 Advisory Council. He is a frequent participant at the World Economic Forum’s annual summits in Davos as well as regional summits in China, India, and the Middle East.

He is one of only 3 professors in the world to have been elected by his peers as a Lifetime Fellow of all three of the most prestigious bodies in the field – Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, and Academy of International Business, with a combined membership of over 25,000 scholars worldwide. He is also the recipient of the 2017 Outstanding Educator Award from the Academy of Management for worldwide contribution to research, practice, and teaching on the topic of globalization.

Anil’s honors include the “Best Professor in Strategic Management” award from CMO Asia, recognition by BusinessWeek as an Outstanding Faculty in its Guide to the Best B-Schools, induction into the Academy of Management Journals’ Hall of Fame, and listing by Management International Review as a “North American Superstar” for research in strategy and organization. He is also a regular participant at the World Economic Forum summits, including the annual meeting in Davos and the regional meetings in China, India, and the Middle East. He is also a member of the Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Emerging Multinationals.

Jochen Apel

Vice President Digital Industries, Nokia

With more than two decades of experience in the industry, Jochen has established himself as a passionate leader, focused on generating growth by leveraging new technologies and market disruptions. In his current role, he’s responsible for Nokia’s engagement with Digital Industries – a pivotal component of the company’s Enterprise Business.

A key achievement of this period is Nokia’s outstanding business success in these segments with annual high-end double-digit growth rates.

Previously, while leading the Alcatel-Lucent’s CTO team for Central Europe, he played a key role in several new business incubations like Cloud Computing, IoT and Network Virtualization, growing Nokia’s global product portfolio footprint within the large customer base in central Europe. Since Jochen joined Nokia (fAlcatel-Lucent) he has held various management and senior management positions in delivery, sales, business and product development and strategy.

He has been an official Nokia executive spokesperson since 2012 and executive sponsor for Nokia’s engagement with various important industry associations in Rail, Aviation, Maritime and Industrial Manufacturing.

Gro Harlem Brundland

Former Prime Minister of Norway & Former WHO Director – General

Gro Harlem Brundtland was the first female prime minister of Norway, serving for three terms and later was director general of the World Health Organization. Trained as a physician, she became identified with public health and environmental issues and with the rights of women. In her native Norway, Gro Harlem Brundtland is affectionately known as “Landsmoderen,” or “mother of the nation.”

Dr. Brundtland completed her medical studies at Oslo University. As a newly qualified doctor, she won a scholarship to the Harvard School of Public Health. Later employed with the Ministry of Health in Oslo, Dr. Brundtland focused on children’s health issues. In 1974, she was asked to serve as Norway’s Minister of the Environment, focusing on the links between public health and the environment. At age 41, Dr. Brundtland became the first woman Prime Minister of Norway—and
the youngest person ever appointed. Her cabinet of eight women and nine men represented the highest level of gender equality in history as Dr. Brundtland continued to lead her country for more than a decade.

She returned to her roots in medicine serving as Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO)—a position utilizing her considerable skills as a physician, politician, and activist. Under her forward-thinking leadership, WHO confronted the global threat of the SARS virus and her rapid response and information networking are largely credited with helping prevent the widespread growth of the disease. Dr. Brundtland also intensified the debate on global health as key to economic development, and began programs to curb malaria, tobacco use, tuberculosis, and AIDS. Dr. Brundtland left WHO in 2003 after succeeding in getting support for the first ever negotiated agreement on a major public health issue: The Tobacco Convention.

She served as a member of the United Nations high-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change and was named to serve as UN Special Envoys for Climate Change. In 2007, she became a member of The Elders, a group founded by Nelson Mandela, Graca Machel, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu who contribute their wisdom, independent leadership, and integrity to tackling the world’s toughest problems with the goal of making the world a better place. In May 2007, the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, named Dr. Brundtland, as well as Ricardo Lagos, the former President of Chile, and Han Seung-Soo, the former foreign minister of South Korea, to serve as UN Special Envoys for Climate Change. She is a member of the Board of the United Nations Foundation and served as a member of “The Independent Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament.” In 2010, the UN Secretary General appointed her a member of his “High Level Global Sustainability Panel.” She holds numerous honorary degrees from major universities, including Oxford, Harvard, and Yale, as well as Cape Town and the All India Institute. Dr. Brundtland travels and lectures extensively as a leading voice for a healthier and better educated world, and a champion of sustainable development.

Bear Grylls

British Adventurer, Best Selling Author, and Television Presenter

Bear Grylls OBE, has become known worldwide as one of the most recognized faces of survival and outdoor adventure.

Trained from a young age in martial arts, Grylls went on to spend three years as a soldier in the British Special Forces, as part of 21 SAS Regiment. It was here that he perfected many of the survival skills that his fans all over the world enjoy, as he pits himself against the worst of Mother Nature.

Despite a free-fall parachuting accident in Africa, where he broke his back in three places and endured many months in and out of military rehabilitation, Grylls recovered and went on to become one of the youngest climbers ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

He then went on to star in seven seasons of the Discovery Channel’s Emmy Award-nominated Man vs. Wild TV series, which became one of the most-watched shows on the planet, reaching an estimated 1.2 billion viewers.

Since then, he has gone on to host more extreme adventure TV shows across more global networks than anyone else in the world, including six seasons of the global hit TV show Running Wild with Bear Grylls.

Running Wild has featured Bear taking some of the world’s best-known stars on incredible adventures. These include President Obama, Julia Roberts, Roger Federer, Will Ferrell, Channing Tatum, and Kate Winslet, to name a few.

Bear also hosts the Emmy Award-nominated interactive Netflix show You vs Wild, which was one of Netflix’s most watched shows in 2020. Netflix & Bear then forged new ground by making two interactive movie versions of You vs Wild including the second most watched film on Netflix US, titled: Animals on the Loose.

Bear has also won two BAFTAs, including one for his hit Channel 4 show The Island with Bear Grylls.

Bear also filmed an adventure with Prime Minister Modi of India, which achieved a landmark record as the ‘world’s most trending televised event, with a staggering 3.6 billion impressions.

His autobiography, Mud, Sweat, and Tears, spent 15 weeks at Number 1 in the Sunday Times bestseller list and he has written over 90 books, selling in excess of 19 million copies worldwide.

He is an Honorary Officer to the Royal Marines Commandos, the youngest ever UK Chief Scout, and the first ever Chief Ambassador to the World Scout Organization, representing a global family of some fifty million Scouts.

He is married to Shara, and together they have three sons: Jesse, Marmaduke and Huckleberry. They live on a houseboat on the Thames in London and a private island off the Welsh coast.

Bear’s life motto is simple: courage and kindness . . . and never give up!

Haiyan Wang

Managing partner of China India Institute, World Leading Expert on Emerging Asia, China, Global Strategy

Haiyan Wang is an Adjunct Professor of Strategy at INSEAD. She is also Managing Partner of China India Institute, a Washington, DC-based research and consulting organization with a focus on creating winning global strategies that leverage the transformational rise of China and India. She is a highly coveted speaker at conferences on smart globalization in the age of China and India. A native of China, Haiyan has spent the last twenty years consulting for and managing multinational business operations in China and the United States in several different industry sectors. Her career background includes managing steel imports for one of China’s largest conglomerates, leading international partnering efforts of a prominent New York-based B2B online exchange, and consulting clients on strategic decision making, complex project management, and organizational process redesign. Most recently, she was a senior executive with a U.S. headquartered global manufacturer of home decoration products.

Haiyan serves as a regular columnist for BusinessWeek and a contributing editor for the Chief Executive magazine. She is the co-author of two highly acclaimed books: Getting China and India Right, and The Quest for Global Dominance. Her opinion pieces have appeared in top international media such as The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Chief Executive, The Economic Times, China Daily, The Times of India, as well as other outlets. She has also been interviewed and quoted by CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, India Today, INSEAD Knowledge, and other prominent business media.

Haiyan has been listed by Thinkers 50 in “On the Guru Radar” and short listed for the “2011 Global Village Award.” She has also been named as a “New Guru” by The Economic Times, India’s #1 business daily.

Drawing on her broad international experience, she consults with clients and speaks at conferences on building and exploiting global presence with a particular focus on leveraging the rise of China.

Jochen Zeitz

Co-founder of The B Team and the Zeitz Foundation

Jochen Zeitz is recognized as one of the world’s leaders in sustainable business, conservation and philanthropy. He is the Co-Founder and Co-Chair of The B Team and Founder of the Zeitz Foundation for Intercultural Ecosphere Safety to support sustainable solutions that balance conservation, community, culture, and commerce (the 4Cs).

In 1993, aged 30, Zeitz became the youngest CEO in German history to head a public company. He served 18 years as Chairman and CEO of PUMA and under his leadership PUMA went from near-bankruptcy to become one of the top 3 brands in the sporting goods industry, growing sales to $4 billion and share price by 4000%. Zeitz believes in contributing to a new paradigm of corporate social, environmental, and financial sustainability. While at PUMA, he conceived and pioneered the ground-breaking Environmental Profit and Loss account (E P&L) that puts a monetary value on environmental impacts across a business’ supply chain, inspiring a new internationally-recognized environmentally and socially conscious business model.

In 2014, Zeitz co-founded The B Team with Sir Richard Branson, an initiative which includes 24 of the world’s top business leaders such as Professor Mohammed Yunus, President Mary Robinson, Mo Ibrahim, Paul Polman, and Arianna Huffington, promoting socially and environmentally conscious business practices across the globe.

He took over the post of CEO and Chairman of the Board at Harley Davidson in 2020. With a life-long passion for Africa, Zeitz conserves 50,000 acres of wildlife habitat in Kenya and in 2012 launched Segera Retreat, an entirely sustainable, luxury eco-safari retreat, named as the only 5-star safari lodge in Kenya by the Kenya Tourism Regulatory Authority. As a published author, Zeitz co-wrote The Manager and The Monk with Anselm Grün, which has been translated into 15 languages, and The Breakthrough Challenge: 10 Ways to Connect Today’s Profits with Tomorrow’s Bottom Line with John Elkington.

Zeitz is a Board Member of Harley Davidson, Cranemere, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), and until recently he served as Board Member and Chair of the Sustainability Committee for Wilderness Safaris and Kering, the international luxury goods group for whom he developed its global sustainability strategy.
During his professional career, Zeitz has received numerous awards, including ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’, 3-times ‘Strategist of the Year’ by the Financial Times, ‘Trendsetter of the Year’ and ‘Best of European Business Award’. In 2004, the German Federal President awarded him with the Federal Cross of Merit of the Republic of Germany. Zeitz was also appointed as an Honorary Warden of Kenya by the Kenya Wildlife Service, and a ZSL Conservation Fellow by the Zoological Society of
London. In 2015, Zeitz was ranked #18 of ‘The World’s Top 100 Compassionate Business Leaders’ by Salt Magazine and awarded for his advocacy of Responsible Capitalism by First Magazine.

In 2017, Zeitz launched the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz’ MOCAA) in Cape Town, South Africa, along with his partners at the V&A Waterfront. Zeitz MOCAA commits to preserving and exhibiting cutting-edge contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora, and houses the Zeitz Collection, considered to be one of the most significant contemporary African art collections in the world.

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President, Dematic, KION Group Executive Board Member

Dr. Anil K. Gupta

World Leading, Influential Expert on Strategy and Globalization, Best Selling Author

Bear Grylls

British Adventurer, Best Selling Author, and Television Presenter

Jeremy Gutsche

CEO of Trend Hunter & New York Times Author

Haiyan Wang

Authority on developing business in China, Managing Partner of China India Institute

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september 13-15, 2021

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Thank you for making the 2021 Material Handling and Logistics Conference a successful event.

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2021 Recap

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2021 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Hasan Dandashly

President, Dematic, KION Group Executive Board Member

Dr. Anil K. Gupta

World Leading, Influential Expert on Strategy and Globalization, Best Selling Author

Bear Grylls

British Adventurer, Best Selling Author, and Television Presenter

Jeremy Gutsche

CEO of Trend Hunter & New York Times Author

Haiyan Wang

Authority on developing business in China, Managing Partner of China India Institute

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