Breakfast meeting – 16 June 2020, 8.00 am to 10.30 am, Eindhoven, NL

Future-proofing CPG organisations with digital transformation

European businesses face rapid change, from consumer trends and technological development to economic dislocation caused by the climate crisis and the rising strength of Asian economies.

But while these changes can seem difficult or even disruptive, they can also be the source of huge opportunity. How can your organisation take advantage of them? How can you make sure that it will be you, and not your competitors, who succeeds in this rapidly changing environment?

This breakfast debate will explore how digital technology is bringing major change to CPG markets, but also the tools to enable business to manage change and even thrive on it. We will consider:

• How consumers are becoming better informed, more powerful and more demanding, and how businesses should respond to this
• How the costs that come from the need to respond to changing consumer demands are being met by the efficiencies that can be derived from digital technology, and how time to market can be decreased
• How businesses have to become agile and innovative to survive, and how this requirement must affect their culture, their operations and their product development processes

Join this important discussion to explore how you can future-proof your organisation through digital transformation.

The questions we will explore

• What are the main trends affecting Benelux businesses operating in the CPG and food and beverage markets? How can your business respond to these trends?
• With more and more data being generated by organisations, how can your company create better insights about markets and production, and truly benefit from big data? How can digitalisation enable companies to achieve an increased speed to market?
• Digitalisation can bring advantages in terms of efficiency, cost reduction and improved time-to-market. How can you use technology to share data and collaborate better along the whole of your value chain internally and externally?
• How can product and business innovation be encouraged? How can you respond to constantly changing consumer demands while at the same time avoiding waste from failed product innovation?
• What are the benefits from sustainable manufacturing, and how can digitalisation be used to offset the additional costs of sustainable manufacturing?
• Is it possible to prepare for future marketplace and technology changes? How can you identify the emerging technologies that may be significant in five or 10 years’ time?
• Several well-known business transformation programmes have failed. How can you ensure that your digital programmes deliver the successful change that is promised? What is the role of the leadership in ensuring success?

Who is invited?

This breakfast meeting is designed for senior strategy and technology decision makers at the C-suite level, or reporting to the C-suite. These will include CEOs, COOs, heads of IT and OT, digital directors, procurement and supply chain leads, and sustainability leads. Delegates will work at large organisations in the CPG sector, particularly in the food and beverage and home and personal care sectors.

Be one of 12 senior business strategy and technology professionals around the table at the Restaurant de Karpendonkse Hoeve in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

For any enquiries, please contact Harry on +44 (0)208 349 5580 or email harry.p@business-reporter.co.uk.

This breakfast briefing is brought to you by Siemens Digital Industries Software and is only for senior executives as mentioned above. Registrations of junior professionals, consultants, solution providers or other sellers to this market won’t be accepted. To be eligible you must be employed by a corporate legal entity such as a private company – if you are a sole trader or in a partnership other than a legally incorporated one we will be unable to offer you a place.

This breakfast briefing is free of charge to attend. However, if you cancel your attendance less than two weeks prior to the briefing, you will have to provide a replacement of equal seniority otherwise you will be a subject of €150 cancellation fee.

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