Episode 261: Tech Summit: The Largest Gathering of Technologists in the Promo Industry
About two weeks ago, the largest gathering of technologists in the promotional products industry happened at PromoStandards Tech Summit. Over 150 attendees from over 60 companies gathered together at the premier tech event, and today on the skucast, we’re sharing with you a glimpse behind the scenes at Tech Summit, which includes a panel led by commonsku’s CEO Catherine Graham and also, a brief breakdown from Robert Cathro-Oliver, commonsku’s Director of Software Development on the work of the PromoStandards committee. Dave Shultz, commonsku’s Vice President of Supplier Partnerships, also joins us to answer this question: What is tech summit?
Also in today’s episode, we feature a panel interview led by commonsku CEO Catherine Graham, on how technology, automation, and digital transformation are allowing supplier companies to scale shop floors and warehouses in the Promotional Products supply chain.
Catherine led the panel discussion with three industry production leaders and technology experts to investigate the impact and challenges of these changes; the panel includes , Jon Norris. COO Starline; Phil Gergen. SVP Technology Koozie Group; and Donough Deutsch., VP IT Systems & Operations at Alphabroder.
The panel discusses some really fascinating topics, if you’re a distributor, we encourage you to listen closely as you hear the complicated processes and challenges your key partners often face in their transformation journey, topics like:
Relaying real-time information on orders in production
Robotics and how robotics is changing our industry
And do you know what cross-input items are?
How human skillset and machine skillset come together to manufacture your order
How blockchain can possibly one day impact transparency and traceability
Machine capacity vs. labor capacity
And more!