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 Featured Keynote
Jo Marini
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
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 Featured 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 Closing Keynote
Peter Larsen
Vice President
Amazon Supply Chain Services
Peter Larsen is a Vice President and leads Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS), which extends the company's freight, distribution, fulfillment, and parcel shipping solutions to businesses of all sizes. Peter started his career at Amazon on the Devices team, where he helped lead the creation and launch of multiple generations of Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TVs, and the Amazon Kids content subscription service. He then went to Amazon Transportation Services, serving as a business leader for Amazon's line haul logistics network. Prior to Amazon, Peter was CEO of Enpocket, one of the first mobile advertising startups, which was acquired by Nokia in 2007.
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October 4–7, 2026
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