Keynote Speakers
Monday Opening Keynote
Stuart Whiting
SVP Logistics, Planning & Services, Global Supply Chain
Schneider Electric
Stuart serves as the Senior Vice President of the Global Supply Chain Logistics & Planning organization.
He drives the strategic agenda for the Logistics & Planning organization where significant investments have delivered positive returns for the company.
Stuart and his team are transforming Schneider’s delivery platform from a “One Size Fits All” model into a digitally enabled, customer-aligned platform capable of sensing, predicting, and responding to evolving customer demands and supply chain events.
A British national, Stuart is married with three children. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and holds a Global MSc in Logistics and Supply Chain Management from Cranfield University’s School of Management.
Monday Afternoon Keynote
Per Kristian Hong
Global Lead of Kearney Foresight and a Senior Fellow of Kearney’s Global Business Policy Council
Currently serving as the Global Lead of Kearney Foresight, a Senior Fellow of the Global Business Policy Council, and a core member of Kearney's Strategic Operations and Performance practice, Per brings over three decades of experience advising C-suite executives to anticipate and navigate disruption in their global operations and build long-term strategic advantage through supply chain transformations in both developed and developing markets. Known for his willingness to take strategic risks and challenge traditional thinking, Per helps organizations not only adapt to nearer-term value chain turbulence but also capitalize on longer-term opportunities, providing the hands-on experience and foresight needed to compete, grow and thrive in a fast-changing and unpredictable global environment.
As a recognized thought leader, Per is a frequent speaker and has authored numerous reports and white papers — helping to pioneer many of Kearney’s perspectives around resilience and the future rewiring of global value chains. Since 2018, he has led Kearney’s collaboration with the World Economic Forum, notably supporting its COVID Action Platform and the Advanced Manufacturing and Production System platform. His insights have been featured at the World Economic Forum's Davos Annual Meeting, in numerous prominent events, and he has been published in major publications including The Economist, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and on Bloomberg TV and CNBC.
Per's client work has taken him across the United States, Europe, Asia, and Russia, covering a diverse range of industries – primarily focused on consumer goods, specialty chemicals, and life sciences and healthcare sectors. His consulting career began in the UK based in Kearney’s London office for eight years; he transferred to Chicago from 2006 to 2009, served as the Managing Partner of Kearney’s Russia & CIS business from 2010 to 2016 based in Moscow, and now resides in Minneapolis with his family.
Monday Afternoon Keynote
Jo Marini
CEO
Mothership Materials
Jo Marini is CEO of Mothership Materials, enabling bio-based manufacturing at petroleum-competitive economics—and transforming global supply chains in the process. A 4× founder with 2 exits, MBA professor, and military veteran, Jo brings an unconventional advantage to legacy industry transformation: regenerative design principles applied with operational discipline. Mothership's pioneering on-site, on-demand manufacturing transforms industrial agricultural waste into cost-competitive inputs for packaging, textiles, fuels, adhesives, and beyond. For global supply chain leaders facing volatile costs and geopolitical disruption, Jois building the critical missing infrastructure that creates supply chains immune to tariffs and trade wars, sustainable materials that compete on economics not ethics, and the refashioning of global manufacturing powered by the molecules that make it possible.
Tuesday Opening Keynote
Roberto Canevari
EVP, Chief Value Chain Officer
The Estée Lauder Companies
Roberto Canevari is Executive Vice President and Chief Value Chain Officer at The Estée Lauder Companies, where he leads the company’s integrated global value chain, including manufacturing, planning, fulfillment, supplier management, quality, engineering, and packaging operations across all regions and channels. A member of the Executive Team, he is recognized for driving large-scale supply chain transformation, innovation, sustainability, and operational excellence.
Before joining Estée Lauder, Canevari held senior global supply chain leadership roles at Unilever, Burberry, Carrefour, Nestlé Waters, and Reckitt. Throughout his career, he has been known for building high-performing teams and connecting brands, functions, and regions to create meaningful business impact.
Tuesday Afternoon Keynote
Peter Larsen
Vice President
Amazon Supply Chain Services
Peter Larsen is a Vice President at Amazon, where he leads Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS) — extending Amazon's freight, distribution, fulfillment, and parcel shipping solutions to businesses of all sizes.
Peter's work life has been a series of startups and big companies, with key geographies spanning the US, Japan, and the UK. He's held many functional roles but is primarily a product leader who has grown into a divisional leader — with sales, marketing, business development, science, product management, software development, and operations reporting to him.
His Amazon career spans nearly two decades across three main arcs: part of the founding team of Amazon Devices (Kindle, Fire tablet, Fire TV, Dash, and Amazon Kids), part of the founding team of Amazon Transportation (line haul logistics, Amazon Shipping, Lockers, Key, and delivery products), and part of the founding team of Amazon Supply Chain Services.
Peter also founds and leads talent programs that extend beyond his operating role. He founded PM Lab, an advanced product management curriculum for Amazon Stores' strongest PMs, and Amazon Fellows, a program that embeds Amazon builders into nonprofits to help rebuild their operations and technology.
Before Amazon, Peter was CEO of Enpocket, a pioneering mobile advertising startup in London acquired by Nokia in 2007. Earlier roles include product management at Apple, Liberate Technologies (interactive TV, IPO'd 1999), and General Magic. He started his career at LINC Computer, a systems integration startup in Tokyo.
Peter holds degrees from Cornell and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He speaks conversational Japanese and holds multiple patents. Peter lives in Seattle, with his wife Miki, daughter Luli, and dog Naia.
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October 4–7, 2026
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