Outgrowing Systems and Spreadsheets: Operational Excellence and AI-Driven Manufacturing Success

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What was covered

As operations grow more complex, legacy systems and spreadsheet-based processes create hidden risks, slow execution, and prevent organizations from scaling efficiently. Many facilities still lack a connected Smart Manufacturing Platform to drive consistency, visibility, and performance.

Join GR Technology and FactoryXT for a practical executive discussion on modernizing operational execution with an elastic Manufacturing Execution System (MES). Learn how leading manufacturers are reducing IT complexity, improving traceability, and enabling faster, AI-driven decision-making across planning and production.

Hear from Olam Food Ingredients as they share how they overcame manual planning challenges, standardized workflows, and protected critical operational knowledge during workforce turnover.

Discover how a truly connected Smart Manufacturing platform brings together people, processes, machines, and supply chains to drive smarter, more resilient operations.

Key Topics:

What agile event programs are and why they're essential

Strategies and tools for building agile event marketing

How to scale agile event programs without losing brand integrity or valuable data

Steps you can take right now to introduce agile event marketing into your business

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What You’ll Learn

As operations grow more complex, legacy systems and spreadsheet-based processes create hidden risks, slow execution, and prevent organizations from scaling efficiently. Many facilities still lack a connected Smart Manufacturing Platform to drive consistency, visibility, and performance.

Join GR Technology and FactoryXT for a practical executive discussion on modernizing operational execution with an elastic Manufacturing Execution System (MES). Learn how leading manufacturers are reducing IT complexity, improving traceability, and enabling faster, AI-driven decision-making across planning and production.

Hear from Olam Food Ingredients as they share how they overcame manual planning challenges, standardized workflows, and protected critical operational knowledge during workforce turnover.

Discover how a truly connected Smart Manufacturing platform brings together people, processes, machines, and supply chains to drive smarter, more resilient operations.

Tune in to hear more about how you can:

Replace spreadsheet risk with real time operational visibility

Strengthen control across planning, production, and traceability

Improve consistency across plants with standardized workflows

Lower IT burden through automatic updates and less maintenance

Accelerate decision making with trusted, unified performance data

Build an AI ready operating foundation that scales with growth

Your Panelists

Mark Joppru

Managing Director

ISN | FactoryXT

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Balasubramani Ganesh

Co-Founder, Executive Sponsor

GR TEchnology

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Marcus Merchant

IT Director

Olam Food Ingredients

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Your Hosts

Jake Hernandez

Chief Creative Officer

Openform

Jake Hernandez is senior director of product marketing at Openform, where his goal is to help people unlock the power of in-person events.

Leo Di Salvo

Sr. Technology Consultant

Openform

Leo Di Salvo is the Senior Technology Consultant at Openform, where his goal is to help people unlock the power of in-person events.

Run of show

12:00PM

Webinar Begins

Opening remarks from your hosts

12:15PM

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5 Tips for Creating Virtual Events

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Final remarks from your hosts

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Resource List

01

A Guide to Agile Event Programs that Can Survive Anything

Explore why the most dynamic leaders are building strategies for agile event marketing with a focus on scaling in-person and virtual events that are fast, flexible, and hyper-effective at driving meaningful connections.

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02

Crisis Mode: Ideas for Managing Events in Challenging Situations

Learn strategies, experiences and lessons learned from top event marketing leaders who have walked through the fire more than once and lived to talk about it.

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03

How to Build a Rock Solid Agile Events Program

The old way of doing event marketing—a large, inflexible investment in a small number of tentpole events—doesn't fit into a business world that demands adaptability and speed.

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