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Change is happening quickly and everyone is adapting to a constant flow of innovation, disruption, and opportunity. MHLC helps supply chain leaders grab those opportunities, drive operational efficiencies, and operate more effectively in this dynamic environment.

Through education, information, and cross-industry conversations, MHLC helps organizations address supply chain challenges. The event gives attendees the know-how to overcome these issues and future-proof their companies. Offering keynotes, educational sessions, and a full lineup of attending sponsors, this year’s MHLC presents the “best of the best” in supply chain.

EVENT HISTORY

Celebrating over 36 years of supply chain education, MHLC is a premier event that’s welcomed prominent keynotes from the business world, entertainment, sports and beyond. Virtual for 2021, MHLC will soon be expanding to in-person events in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

Why Dematic hosts this event

A world leader in supply chain technology and innovation, Dematic believes in sharing its expertise and insights with the broader industry. Each year, we bring together an all-star lineup of sessions, workshops, keynotes, and speakers—all of which are focused on helping attendees go Beyond to embrace the smart, connected future.

Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, Dematic is a member of KION Group, a global leader in industrial trucks and supply chain solutions, and a leading provider of warehouse automation. As subject matter experts in automation and innovation, our main goal is to help you work through challenges, solve your biggest supply chain problems, and leverage new opportunities.

Access 2021 MHLC

On-Demand Sessions

Marcus Delano East

Chief Digital Officer T-Mobile USA, Technical Director Google (2019-2021)

Marcus is a leading digital technologist with a passion for driving change through the use of technology and with more than 25 years of experience working at the forefront of technology and innovation for organizations across the globe. Marcus attended The Latymer Grammar School in London and subsequently read for an honors degree at the London Metropolitan University majoring in Management & Information Technology, and a Master’s in Management (major in Social Enterprise) from the University of Cambridge.

Since then, he has built a reputation for being a ‘creative technologist,’ someone who enjoys solving difficult problems in innovative ways, whether they are complex business challenges or life-changing social issues. He has spent half of his career working for leading technology companies building worldclass technology and the other half of his career helping brands to harness the power of technology to drive business value. He was for example CTO of Comic Relief, Apple’s Head of eCommerce Solutions, Global Digital Director of Marks & Spencer and National Geographic’s Executive Vice President of Product & Technology. From June 2019 until February 2021 he was technical director at Google. His team of CTOs worked across Google and with some of Google’s biggest clients around the world to help them harness the power of Google Cloud. At the beginning of 2021 he has become Chief Digital Officer for T-Mobile USA and also a Non Exec Director for a Fortune 200 company.

East is also very interested in policymaking related to technology, and he has also been involved in a number of government and public sector steering committees and think-tanks. Having lived and worked in the UK, Asia, and America, he has an international perspective on the challenges facing organizations and societies today, and how technology affects them — he has strong views on social exclusion, diversity in technology, managing technology talent and how large corporations should react to the challenges and opportunities that the advent of the digital age brings.

He is a Fellow of the BCS (British Computer Society), Chartered Institute for Information Technology (FBCS), and a Member of the Chartered Management Institute (MCMI).

Lee Hunter

General Manager TikTok, Australia & New Zealand, Former Google & YouTube Executive in the Asia-Pacific

Lee Hunter is TikTok’s General Manager in Australia and New Zealand since May 2020. Before joining TikTok, he worked for Google where he partnered with leading agencies and brands across the region to collaborate on innovative digital projects, helping redefine what’s possible using the power of the web. He was leading a team responsible for incubating and launching innovative campaigns, building insights, strategy and creativity to drive growth. His projects include new creative and strategies to bring the next 200 million people online in Southeast Asia, developing a Google Play mobile eSport initiative for Korea, Japan and Taiwan, and running strategy & innovation workshops throughout the region with Google marketers and external partners. He also drives creative partnerships including Google’s global search partnership with Marvel on the launch of Captain America: Civil War, and producing a feature film with Ridley Scott about how technology is revolutionizing and disruptive India.

Before taking on this role, Lee held several key positions within YouTube, including Head of Global Brand & Creative where he created and executive produced the YouTube Music Awards, Executive Producer of YouTube Comedy Week, and YouTube Geek Week. He was also YouTube Head of Consumer Marketing, EMEA, where he was responsible for consumer and partner marketing strategy for the YouTube brand. He represented YouTube at the World Economic Forum for the Davos Debates, and spoke on behalf of the organization across EMEA and APAC.

Lee’s achievements have been recognized by numerous organizations, and he has won numerous awards, including The Gold Lion at Cannes 2011 for “Life In A Day,” The American Marketing Association’s 2011 winner for Innovative Excellence in Marketing Education, winner of the 2009 Google Award for Innovation in Europe and overall winner in the 2008 European Google Marketing Awards.

Lee is a regular speaker on the international conference circuit, talking on digital innovation for brands such as Cathay Pacific, Kia, Hyundai, Lenovo and LG. He’s presented at various top tier universities around the world, including the London Business School, and has appeared on the BBC and CNN talking about innovation and trends in video and what’s next in digital.

Charlene Li

Author of New York Times Best Seller “Open Leadership” Co-author of “Groundswell”

For the past two decades, Charlene Li has been helping people see the future. She’s The New York Times best selling author of six books, including her newest release, The Disruption Mindset: Why
Some Businesses Transform While Others Fail, and Open Leadership, as well as co-author of the critically-acclaimed book, Groundswell.

Charlene is an entrepreneur who founded and ran Altimeter Group, a disruptive industry analyst firm that was acquired by Prophet in 2015. She continues working at Prophet as a Senior Fellow.
She was also a vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, worked in online newspaper publishing, and was a consultant with Monitor Group. With over 20 years of experience in tech and business, she has been a respected advisor to
Fortune 500 companies on digital transformation and leadership. Charlene also serves on the
regional board for YPO, a global network of CEOs.

Charlene is a sought after public speaker and has appeared at events ranging from TED and the World Business Forum to SxSW. She has appeared on 60 Minutes and PBS NewsHour, and is frequently quoted by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, and The Associated Press.

Charlene was named one of the Top 50 Leadership Innovators by Inc., and one of the most creative people in business by Fast Company. Charlene graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and received her MBA from Harvard Business School. She lives in San Francisco.

Jeremy Gutsche

CEO of Trend Hunter & New York Times Bestselling Author of Create the Future

Since the release of his award-winning first book Exploiting Chaos, Jeremy Gutsche has become a world-class expert on innovating through times of uncertainty. Our first impulse during a crisis may be to retreat, says Gutsche, but several of the world’s most iconic companies were actually founded during periods of recession. His latest book, Create the Future, features a foreword by Malcolm Gladwell, and won a 2021 Axiom Business Book Award in the category of business disruption and reinvention. In it, Gutsche teaches readers how to think disruptively and implement real change when we need it most. As exciting as it is actionable, the handbook features strategies that Gutsche has personally used in projects with the world’s most powerful brands, who have each relied on him to lead them through rapid change. As companies and leaders scramble to pivot their business in the wake of the pandemic, there is no timelier or more urgent read—nor a more trusted, sought-after guide: Gutsche’s talks regularly go viral, and his landmark innovation keynote has surpassed 10 million views—making it the most-watched in history.

In his previous book, the New York Times bestseller Better and Faster, Gutsche reveals six patterns of opportunity that help smart people and teams lead through change, destroy complacency, and realize their potential. The book reached #1 on Amazon and was chosen as a CEO Read “Select” book for CEOs, entrepreneurs, and managers. Gutsche even used insights from the book to lead a workshop for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, helping them integrate AI, become “lean, agile, responsive, and adaptive to change”—and, one day, get human beings to Mars.

When he’s not touring the globe as a futurist and sought-after innovation speaker, Jeremy is the CEO of Trend Hunter—the world’s #1 largest trend-spotting platform driven by artificial intelligence. Imagine the insight from a focus group made up of 100 million people—that’s Trend Hunter. With Gutsche at the helm, the company has grown into a powerful innovation engine and global showcase for what’s next—attracting three billion views in the process. The site’s been featured or cited in over 40,000 articles, and Gutsche is routinely sourced by the media, where his broad appeal ranges from The Economist and CNN to WIRED and The New York Times. He has been described as “a new breed of trend spotter” by The Guardian, an “Oracle” by the Globe and Mail, an “intellectual can of Red Bull” by Association Week, and “the rockstar of keynote speakers” by Meetings Professional International.

Gutsche is the winner of The Cisco Innovation Excellence Award and the BDC’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Before founding Trend Hunter, he was one of Capital One’s youngest Business Directors, where he grew a billion dollar portfolio of market leading products at the age of 28. Previously, he was a Management Consultant for the Monitor Group, advising Fortune 500 clients on top level strategy. He holds an MBA from Queen’s, is a CFA, and studied innovation at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.

Anne-Marie Roerink

President of 210 Analytics, LLC

Providing marketing research with a specialty in food retailing. Working closely with retailers, wholesalers, packer/processors, producers and trade associations, Anne-Marie has developed an excellent perspective on the ever-changing wants and needs of the meat consumer in a one-size-fits-no-one world. She understands the challenges and opportunities in the food and meat business today as well as the drivers of success tomorrow. Prior to founding 210 Analytics, Anne-Marie was the Head of Research for the Food Industry Association. Anne-Marie designs and authors the annual Power of Meat study and monthly performance reports, along with similar studies in produce, deli prepared, frozen, bakery, candy and other categories.