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In an uncertain regulatory and geopolitical world, today’s manufacturing supply chain is a complicated, constantly changing landscape. In a world where supply chain disruptions from tariffs, weather, pandemics, and geopolitics are creating chaos in supply chain management, what is the best course of action for manufacturers to address supply chain risk, or identify opportunities to leverage and seize so they can scale their business? In this Operations Summit we will have experts that bring thoughtful discussion and solutions, as well as useful tools that can be used to drive your manufacturing business forward. Special thank you to our headline sponsor, TMAC!

EVENT DETAILS:

Location TBD North Austin/Round Rock

March 11, 2025 9:00am - 12:00pm

Draft agenda (subject to change):

8:00am – 8:30am – Registration and breakfast

8:30am – 9:15am – Regulatory and Geopolitical Risk Mitigation

9:15am – 10:00am – How CPOs are Evaluating Supply Chain

10:00am – 10:10am – Break

10:10am – 10:40am – Benefits of Foreign Trade Zone Designation

10:40am - 11:10am – ITAR/IS/AS/CMMC – How to Address Alphabet Soup

11:10am – 12:00pm – Supply Management Tools

Breakfast will be served.

Confirmed speakers include:

Chris Siepman is the managing Director of Weller James. Chris advises business leaders on geopolitics, international strategy, tariffs, international policy, value chain risk mitigation, and related topics. He has over a decade of experience advising senior U.S. government and business leaders on a broad range of international trade issues. He previously served as Director of Trade Enforcement at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, where he was a subject matter expert and internal consultant to senior government executives on quantitative aspects of the U.S. - China trade war tariffs and exclusions. He also developed successful strategies for winning multi-billion-dollar trade disputes at the World Trade Organization, advised on negotiations between the U.S. and other countries, developed partnerships across the federal government, led multidisciplinary teams of experts, and managed various capacity-building projects for the Executive Office of the President. Before that, he led U.S. government investigations into unfair international trade practices at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration.

Roman Belotserkovskiy is a Partner at McKinsey & Company, based in Austin. He co-leads McKinsey’s Electric Power & Natural Gas Practice where he leads the Electric Power & Natural Gas Procurement & Supply Chain Service Line globally. Roman advises clients across all operational functions on accelerated cost reduction programs, operations performance transformations and supply chain transformations. In his role as leader of McKinsey’s Procurement and Product Development Practice he focuses on next generation and digital procurement, global sourcing, performance contracting for capital projects and services across sectors.

Ben Ramirez is the Vice President and Executive Director for the Center for Global Trade. He works with organizations to identify specific business goals and implement strategies which match their objectives. His expertise is providing chief executives and their teams with the tools they need to achieve sustainable growth in a continually changing global marketplace

Contact Liz Gori at liz@arma-tx.org for any questions.