Turning challenges into progress: Where next for healthcare supply chains
Explore this important question with us in person at an exclusive Chicago experience.
Join us to explore where we go next.
Thursday, 11 September
Kuehne+Nagel Chicago warehouse
Bensenville, IL, United States
Doors open at 08:00, event wraps at 13:00
Time zone: GMT -05:00
Join us to explore where we go next.
At this event, we’re bringing together industry leaders with expert guest speakers under one cool chamber roof. Together, we’ll explore how these current challenges bring possibilities and what that means for the future of healthcare supply chains.
From what we’re hearing across the industry, these topics can’t wait:
- Resilience as a long-term strategy in healthcare supply chains
- US tariff changes: navigating their implications for healthcare logistics
- The role of AI, data, and innovation in smarter, more optimized supply chain design
- Special live demo: Achieving CO2 and cost-savings goals through packaging transformation with Cool Corridors
- Exploring cell and gene therapy and how supply chains can keep pace
Take a look at the full agenda and speaker line-up below. We highly recommend you to take this unique opportunity to be part of the conversation that moves our industry forward.
Featured speakers
Vice President Analyst,
Gartner
Gartner
Maria Nieradka
Maria brings 36+ years of leadership in healthcare supply chain and logistics, driving global transformations at Fortune 500 companies. She's a strategic advisor, award program leader, and passionate advocate for innovation, resilience, and talent development in the industry.
Policy analyst and Where Next documentary speaker
Alexandra Helfgott
Alexandra is a policy analyst, Yale MPP candidate, and former Wilson Centre researcher. She explores global supply chains and North Americaen energy policy. A "Where Next" documentary cast member, she brings a fresh, policy-driven lens to logistics and cross-border collaboration.
Senior Director, Global Transport Solutions, Pfizer
Mark Baker
Mark brings over two decades of end-to-end logistics expertise at Pfizer, where he leads global transport innovation and delivery. As a supply chain strategist, he has made a career in driving performance, resilience, and patient-focused impact worldwide.
Moderator
Adam O'Sullivan
SVP Global Business Development Healthcare
Kuehne+Nagel
Kuehne+Nagel
Why attend
- Exclusive access to a behind-the-scenes facility tour in the cool chamber with a live, active-to-passive packaging demonstration.
- Conversations on supply chain resilience.
- Fresh insights from select, cross-industry thinkers facing similar challenges.
The speaker line-up:
Nico Sacco
SVP Strategy Global Healthcare
Kuehne+Nagel
Kuehne+Nagel
Maria Nieradka
Research VP in the Organizational Development, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Gartner
Mark Baker
Senior Director, Global Transport Solutions, Pfizer
Marcus Bennett
President & CEO North America Kuehne+Nagel
Greg Tompsett
Vice President Customs Brokerage USA, Kuehne+Nagel
Michael Giudice
Director International Air Gateway Development, Kuehne+Nagel
Michael Sweeney
Global Head of Strategy (CGT & DTP) QuickSTAT
Adam O'Sullivan
SVP Global Business Development Healthcare
Kuehne+Nagel
Kuehne+Nagel
Agenda
08:00 | Opening connections, registration, breakfast
09:00 | Welcome and opening keynote
09:00 | Welcome and opening keynote
- Keynote: Healthcare logistics in motion
VP Analyst at Gartner, Maria Nieradka, takes the stage to discuss how data and current trends are shaping tomorrow’s supply chains.
09:45 | Featured presentations
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Presentation: Cell and gene therapy logistics
What steps are we taking to make the next breakthroughs in supply chain excellence? QuickSTAT Global Head of Strategy Mike Sweeney takes us through the complexities of CGT distribution. - Presentation: Navigating US tariffs
Where are we at now, and what does it take to stay ahead? Greg Tompsett gives us a focus point for the US tariff situation, international regulatory challenges and what solutions are out there.
10:45 | Break
11:15 | Panel discussion: Building resilient, collaborative supply chains is the work of building logistics for every future
11:15 | Panel discussion: Building resilient, collaborative supply chains is the work of building logistics for every future
- Nico Sacco from Kuehne+Nagel welcomes to the stage Mark Baker from Pfizer, Gerardo Vargas from Johnson & Johnson to discuss logistics for every future and other insights with Alexandra Helfgott, policy analyst and WhereNext documentary speaker.
- Kuehne+Nagel CEO North America, Marcus Bennett.
- Re-thinking cool corridors with live demonstration of active-to-passive packaging with Michael Giudice and Sima Abdi.
The event theme, WhereNext
This is an invitation for you and other bright minds in the healthcare industry to address questions that matter about the future of your organization:
- What can healthcare logistics learn from other industries facing similar challenges?
- Where can we take supply chain durability next with cool corridors and the product lifecycle?
- Where do we find opportunities for customs and sustainability?