Navigating Supply Chain Disruption with Intelligence

Executive Event

September 17, 2025 - New York City, NY

Visionaries

Bob Debicki Anaplan
Bob Debicki

Senior Director of CPG and Retail Industry Solutions

Anaplan

About Me

35 years of experience in retail, consumer products, and wholesale solution creation and implementation. In his role he engages with Anaplan customers and prospects to ensure that Anaplan's connected planning platform addresses the key use cases of value for retailers. Prior to Anaplan, Bob served in various sales, consulting and management roles for IBM, AC Nielsen, Information Resources, Inc., Seagate Technologies and J&J's consumer companies. Over the years Bob developed, sold and supported several Retail business data-driven analytic and planning applications including POS systems, customer engagement systems delivering end-to-end experience for B2C and B2B customers using 1st, 2nd and 3rd party data sources, and centralized analytic modules, and promotion planning, pricing, and markdown systems. Bob specializes in understanding customer buying behavior, evaluating campaign performance, optimizing experience across all channels of the customer journey, and ultimately optimizing campaign spend and ROI.

September 17, 2025

Agenda

All times Eastern Time

12:30 PM-1:20 PM

Registration & Lunch


1:20 PM-1:30 PM

Opening Remarks


1:30 PM-2:00 PM

Learn from AWS – Culture of Innovation

Gain inspiration from AWS's unique approach to sustained innovation at scale through an exploration of four key elements: culture, mechanisms, architecture, and organization. Learn how AWS maintains customer obsession while fostering innovation through Leadership Principles, sustainable flywheels, and the Working Backwards process. This session shares valuable insights, best practices, and lessons learned from AWS's cultural mechanisms that help drive continuous innovation and customer delight.


2:05 PM-2:35 PM

Empathy as a Business Strategy: Redefining Value Creation

In today’s experience-driven economy, empathy isn’t just a virtue—it’s a competitive advantage. Join James Walford, Senior Director, Global Innovation at Genesys, for a compelling keynote on how leading organizations are transforming trust and emotional intelligence into business value.

Through real-world stories and actionable insights, James will explore the shift from transactional to emotional loyalty, the rising importance of trust in digital interactions, and how AI can amplify—not replace—human empathy. Learn how future-fit leaders are blending emotional intelligence with intelligent technology to drive long-term customer loyalty and growth.

Attendees will leave with a new framework for embedding empathy into strategy, culture, and operations—and a fresh perspective on leadership in the era of AI.


2:35 PM-3:00 PM

Networking Break


3:00 PM-3:45 PM

Navigating Supply Chain Disruption with Intelligence


3:45 PM-4:00 PM

Final Thoughts


4:00 PM-4:30 PM

Networking & Cocktail Reception


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