Digital Operations: rethinking your operations strategy in a rapidly changing environment
Speaker - Mike Kinder, Co-Founder & CEO of Veryable Inc.
Today, we are going to explore ways to think about operational innovation through the lens of a what it means to have a winning operations strategy.

* What do we mean by operational operational innovation and how should we structural our thinking about this topic?
-- recognizing that the landscape is a hype, reality, and hope
-- taking a market-back view of opportunities and enablers
-- organizing around functional use case categories vs technology-forward arbitrariness

* What are the headwinds / challenges facing producers and distributors today?
-- illustrating why is operational innovation necessary in today's landscape
-- describing the confluence of factors creating a perfect storm for producers and distributors

* What are the ‘Ways to Win’ going forward?
-- discussing how to take a market back approach to defining the right operations strategy
-- showing how this approach will expose opportunities for innovation

* What are some realistic enablers to help capitalize on those ‘Ways to Win’?
-- walking through the digital ops framework and mapping use cases to value creation
-- describing how to think about the sequence of events
-- highlighting some high impact items and a potential set of early steps on the innovation journey

Networking and beer/wine bar begins at 5:30 PM
Dinner service and announcements at 6:30 PM
Speaker presentation at 7 PM
Closing Remarks at 8 PM

Menu  - TBA

Veryable  was founded in 2016.  It is a ground breaking innovation for variable labor management in operations - manufacturing and supply chain- particularly important in a period of extremely dynamic demand and continual disruption of supply ( labor and materials). In 2018, Veryable was listed as #5 in the Hottest Startups in DFW.   In 2021 Veryable was awarded an SMU Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship at  the Cox School of Business- a Dallas 100 Entrepreneur award as  #15 in the "Dallas 100" for privately held companies headquartered in Dallas with strong growth over the prior 3 years.  D CEO and Dallas Innovates recognized Veryable as  one of five  Startup Innovators of the year.  In 2022 Veryable was listed a one of the Coolest Tech Companies to work for in Dallas and won the MHI Innovation Award for Best IT Innovation 3/30/22 at the MHI Industry night at MODEX ( Material Handling and Supply Chain Industry recognition).  According to an MHI press release, the MHI Innovation Awards recognize products that create “quantifiable and sustainable results in terms of ROI, cost savings, [and] customer satisfaction.”
Veryable’s on-demand marketplace achieves these results by providing companies access to flexible labor capacity and coaching them on the best ways to get the most out of an on-demand labor concept. With local teams in offices across the country, the company is a true partner to its customers- and has grown to serve over 4000 customers earlier this year..