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ShowProDX COVID-19 has disrupted business and supply chains worldwide. ProMat 2021, the supply chain industry’s premier opportunity for face-to-face business interaction, has been cancelled. Your company’s quest to find new business and strengthen relationships with existing customers can never stop. That is why MHI’s new ProMat Digital Experience, ProMatDX, will be a crucial resource to discover new business.

Today’s supply chain industry professionals are not only looking for solutions, they are in search of partners to help them navigate these uncharted waters. The world relies on the material handling and supply chain industry to get things where they need to be. As the authoritative resource for material handling, ProMatDX will provide sponsors with a unique opportunity to tell your story to practitioners looking for solutions that will streamline supply chain operations.

Obtaining meaningful facetime with your customers and prospects in 2021 is harder to do than ever before. But conditions that are out of your control should not diminish the importance of filling your sales pipeline. Reaching potential buyers is even more important during tough times.

Expectations will need to be reimagined and total team effort will be more important than ever.

ProMatDX is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for marketing, business development, sales, leadership and ownership to leverage a digital experience that combines storytelling using the power of AI with MHI’s vast industry reach. ShowProDX will deliver sponsors the knowledge and content to help maximize your investment in ProMatDX.

KEYNOTES MONDAY, APRIL 12 • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT

TUESDAY, APRIL 13 • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT

Transformation in Action: Introducing The 2021 MHI Innovation Award Winners

Beyond COVID-19: Building Supply Chain Resilience Is the Key To Recovery and Preparing for Future Disruption

Join MHI CEO John Paxton as he introduces the winners of the 2021 MHI Innovation Awards for best new innovation, best IT innovation and best innovation of an existing product. During this keynote, you will learn about these innovative solutions and how they can power up and innovate your supply chain.

Moderator: John Paxton, CEO, MHI

Join American Logistics Aid Network’s Kathy Fulton as she and a panel of supply chain and disaster response thought leaders explore lessons learned from the pandemic and how building long-term resiliency into supply chain and logistics operations will be key to adapting and recovering when future disruption or disaster strikes.

Moderator: Kathy Fulton, Executive Director, American Logistics Aid Network

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14 • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT THURSDAY, APRIL 15 • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT 2021 MHI Annual Industry Report Preview Innovation Driven Resilience: How technology helps supply chains respond, recover and thrive even amid disruption This is your opportunity to be the first to have access to this new report on the supply chain trends and technologies that are transforming supply chains.

Thomas Boykin of Deloitte will join MHI CEO John Paxton in presenting the report findings. They will be joined by a panel of manufacturing and supply chain thought leaders to discuss the real-world significance of the report findings.

Moderators: John Paxton, CEO, MHI and Thomas Boykin, Supply Chain Specialist Leader, Deloitte

Women in Supply Chain: Delivering Proven Success Strategies During this keynote, you’ll learn how strong supply chains are built upon resiliency. A panel of women supply chain leaders will share their career experiences and how they successfully implemented, measured and showcased operational success and sometimes challenged the status quo. Get inspired, come away with techniques and ideas to take into action in your operations to develop the supply chain resiliency necessary in today’s world.

Moderator: Sheila Benny, President - Optricity Corporation

Panelists: Panelists: Randy V. Bradley, Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management, Haslam College of Business, The University of Tennessee Annette Danek-Akey, Executive Vice President, Supply Chain, Penguin Random House

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Maike Sievers, Vice President Logistics/Supply Chain at Hibbett Sports Megan Smith, CEO, Symbia Logistics Erin Donnelly, Director Supply Chain Development at The Home Depot Chaneta Sullivan, Esq, Director, Safety, Quality & Compliance, Chick-fil-A Supply

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WHEN THE SUPPLY CHAIN WORLD NEEDS MORE AGILITY AND RESILIENCY, IT POWERS UP HERE In these unprecedented times, supply chain solutions Only at ProMatDX, you can: are more critical to business success than they have • Experience the latest solutions from over 500 of ever been. To answer this call, MHI created the the leading solution providers in product showcases ProMat Digital Experience (ProMatDX), a new digital including live chat and digital product demos of the event experience designed to power up manufacturing latest technologies and innovations and supply chain professionals with critical access • Learn the latest ideas driving resiliency and to the latest solutions they need now to improve the efficiency in thought-provoking keynotes and in resiliency and agility of their operations. more than 100 digital seminars on emerging ProMatDX combines the power of the connections, technologies like IoT, AI, robotics and automation solution-sourcing and education that only ProMat can • Connect with solutions tailored to your specific deliver with the latest digital event technology in a needs with AI-matchmaking and request five-day event that will be the most important week of personalized video meetings with you and your 2021 for the manufacturing and supply chain industry. team to take a deeper dive with solution-providers Attending ProMatDX is your unrivaled opportunity in of your choice 2021 to find solutions, connect with your peers and • Build strong business partnerships with suppliers leading solution-providers and learn the latest trends from around the world and technologies that will take your supply chain to If it’s your job to innovate your manufacturing and the next level of success. supply chain operations, you can’t afford to miss ProMatDX - April 12-16.

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