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30 March 2022

How can a company respond to unexpected events and recover from disruptions?

This is the key question we aim to tackle during our mini-conference, where keynote speakers and gamified training solutions are inspiring you with ways to get there. With the introduction of COVID-19, many companies have realized that there are countless unexpected risks in their supply chains. Many countries took severe measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, resulting in the majority of companies closing down their production facilities, closing the physical stores, and moving their operations online.

Dependent on low-cost margins of global supply chains, a complex multiple-tier supplier base, or intransparent networks, many companies have been fighting to keep up their performance, efficiency, and sustainability of logistics operations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Alfons will be addressing the following questions:

• Why should Supply Chain Resilience receive continuous attention rather than being passive hype?
• How do you achieve the sense of urgency to realize a structural change?
• Why is it important to achieve resilience to rapidly revert to being your old self?

Alfons is partner at Involvation, where he is responsible for international improvement projects in S&OP/IBP, Supply Chain strategy, Supply Chain Risk Management and Supply Chain Resilience. He initiated Involvation’s learning approach, `The Value Chain Academy’. He studied industrial engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology and worked at ExxonMobil, DSM and Arizona Chemical, where he played a key role in the global implementation of S&OP, VMI and demand planning. Alfons has extended his expertise and experience through assignments at companies including ABInBev, AkzoNobel, Canon, Coca Cola, Danone, DSM, DuPont, FrieslandCampina, Henkel, Rituals and Whirlpool. Alfons is also visiting faculty at RSM for the executive program “From S&OP to IBP”.

Changing supply chain priorities in our Demand Driven World will demand companies to move away from silo mindsets, and will change performance expectations from Supply Chain Executives. In this session, Professional Trainers and Consultants Kaushik Ghatak and Ashish Mendiretta will discuss the T-Model of Talent Development, the magic circle of learning and how we should embrace experiential learning. They will discuss how New Technologies deliver Unique Virtual Learning Experiuences and how experiential learning can be included in the curriculum.

Ashish Mendiratta is a seasoned professional specialized in Supply Chain Management. His 25+ years of career includes working with a number of globally renowned and leading Indian organizations like Gillette, Nestle, BILT, Philips and Kohler. In his previous roles Ashish was Director-Supply Chain, Asia Pacific at Kohler and Director-Supply Chain, India & Pakistan at Philips. Ltd. He completed Masters in Industrial Engineering from NITIE in 1989 and holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from IIT Roorkee, 1988.

Over last few years he has been actively engaged in developing Supply Chain Talent and has worked on various assignments with well-known companies, that include Nestle, Nivea, Castrol, Becton Dickinson, Carlsberg, DB Schenker etc. on supply chain competency assessment & development. He is a certified trainer in the business simulation “The Fresh Connection”.

Birgit Zürn studied economics at the University of Hohenheim and graduated with a degree in economics. She worked at the Institute for Business Administration, Chair for Industrial Management, as a research assistant. She was also a freelance lecturer for business administration at the Stuttgart University of Business Education. Since November 2008 she has been heading the Center for Management Simulation Games (ZMS) at the DHBW Stuttgart. Birgits area of ​​responsibility includes the organization, implementation and optimization of business game courses; She is also entrusted with applied research activities on the topic. Birgit is board member of the management game association SAGSAGA, where she is responsible for finance. Birgit is a member of SAGSAGA, and ISAGA.

In this interactive session Prof. Felisa Higgins Preciado will lead a fascinating discussion with professors Chris Boone (US) and Bjorn Claes (UK). They will share their experiences and best practices on the integration of business simulation games in their course programs. Specifically, zooming in on the question: "Does game-based experiential learning indeed lead to a higher learning effect".

Björn Claes is Senior Lecturer in Operations Management at The Open University Business School in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. His research interests are related to the behavioral aspects in operations and supply chain management and to business processes in general. His work has been published in journals such as Human Resource Management, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Prometheus, Supply Chain Forum, International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, among others. He regularly teaches courses (including The Fresh Connection) at Kedge Business School in France, at IE Business School in Spain, and at Cranfield School of Management in the UK.

In this interactive session Prof. Felisa Higgins Preciado will lead a fascinating discussion with professors Chris Boone (US) and Bjorn Claes (UK). They will share their experiences and best practices on the integration of business simulation games in their course programs. Specifically, zooming in on the question: "Does game-based experiential learning indeed lead to a higher learning effect".

Dr. Christopher A. Boone serves as an Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management in the Department of Marketing, Quantitative Analysis & Business Law at Mississippi State University. Professor Boone has extensive experience teaching supply chain courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels and has received awards for teaching excellence at multiple universities. Professor Boone is also an award-winning scholar. His primary research interest is supply chain strategy and decision making. Topical themes of his research include studies on supply chain resiliency, service parts management, logistics service quality, product recalls, digital transformation, data quality, and supply chain analytics. Prior to entering academia, Professor Boone served 22 years in the United States Air Force. During his military career he served in a variety of logistics and transportation related assignments and commanded both an operational and combat logistics squadron.

Windesheim recently completed a major research project on Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM), which focuses on the impact of Covid-19 on supply chains. At 340 companies, a survey was conducted to determine the impact of Covid-19 on the various sectors in terms of turnover, cancelled orders, late payments and price fluctuations. We also looked at which strategies were used and how effectively these strategies are assessed, for example when it comes to data sharing, inventory management, labor input, payment terms and cash strategies. In this session we share the main results and discuss the implications of Supply Chain Risk Management for education. In particular, we discuss 2 challenges:

1. how do we implement SCRM & Supply Chain Resilience into courses and how do we update courses
2. how do we give enough attention to the underestimated financial component in SCRM & Supply Chain Resilience?

Christiaan de Goeij is a project manager and researcher in the field of Supply Chain Finance at the Windesheim University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands, and Politecnico di Milano in Italy. He started his career as a policy advisor in Economic Affairs and worked at the Dutch Chamber of Commerce and the Province of South Holland. After that he became a researcher and lecturer at Utrecht University and Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences in the field of Airport/Seaport Logistics and Supply Chain Management.

At Windesheim he is teaching supply chain courses using business simulation gaming and managing large-scale research projects on Supply Chain Finance with corporates, SMEs and industry associations in The Netherlands. Furthermore, he is writing project proposals for grants. In 2017 he won the RAAK-award for best applied research project in The Netherlands.

Changing supply chain priorities in our Demand Driven World will demand companies to move away from silo mindsets, and will change performance expectations from Supply Chain Executives. In this session, Professional Trainers and Consultants Kaushik Ghatak and Ashish Mendiretta will discuss the T-Model of Talent Development, the magic circle of learning and how we should embrace experiential learning. They will discuss how New Technologies deliver Unique Virtual Learning Experiuences and how experiential learning can be included in the curriculum.

Corine van der Sloot is an experiential learning, and Supply Chain Management professional, with over 20 years of business experience. She has held positions in different roles in multinationals (Philips), SME’s, her privately owned company, and was managing partner of a start-up company. At Inchainge Corine is Global Director of Education, as well as Senior Trainer. Corine is connected with the global leading universities in Supply Chain Management, and working on further business development of the academic market for the business simulation games that Inchainge has developed. Corine has an APICS certification and has finished different modules of the MIT EDX Supply Chain Management course program. She is an entrepreneur, always looking for opportunities, signaling those opportunities, and she dares to take risks if it serves a good purpose. Corine is board member of CSCMP Benelux RT, and is the Dutch representative of BVL (German SCM and Logistics Association) in the Netherlands. In her private live Corine is married, has two children, and is active as a running trainer.

In this session we will discuss several distance learning applications of the business simulations The Cool Connection and The Blue Connection in working with international partners in Higher Education. HAN University of applied sciences (the Netherlands) and SAMK (Finland) have developed a distance learning initiative in their curricula, where students from both institutions collaborate. Windesheim University of applied sciences has launched the Virtual Exchange Program (VEP) in which currently, students from 11 international partners participate. In the VEP, The Blue Connection forms the heart of the program, aligned with strong intercultural and networking components to further strengthen the learning impact. This session will help to understand why experiential learning with the business simulations becomes even more powerful for students when applied in these various international contexts.

Daniela Tanhua has been teaching International Business with the focus on Supply Chain Management and Risk Management at Satakunta University of Applied Science, Rauma, Finland for over 20 years. In the last 10 years, the internationalization competence to be fostered at home has evolved during joint projects with partner universities as well as in Europe as in the USA – benefitting from the educators community in the EFLE (European Forum of Logistics Education) network. The latest development was to introduce serious gaming as part of incorporated international learning into the degree curriculum by applying The Cool Connection in cooperation with HAN University of Applied Sciences.

In this session, we will zoom in on the practical application of the principles of Experiential Learning, such as the learning cycle, learning styles and learning flexibility. We will do this from the very specific angle which has been captured in the textbook Mastering the Supply Chain (2019), which offers an Integrated Learning Approach developed for courses and trainings on Supply Chain Management, applied in Higher Education and with an important role for a business simulation.

In this session, we will zoom in on the practical application of the principles of Experiential Learning, such as the learning cycle, learning styles and learning flexibility. We will do this from the very specific angle which has been captured in the textbook Mastering the Circular Economy (May 2021), which offers an Integrated Learning Approach developed for courses and trainings on Circular Economy, applied in Higher Education and with an important role for business simulation game The Blue Connection.

Ed Weenk MSc PDEng is an experienced lecturer, corporate advisor and workshop and training facilitator. His professional passions are sustainable operations and supply chain, managers and management, projects and project management, train¬ing and teaching, and business simulations and experiential learning.

He has extensive practical experience since the mid-1990s in managing interna¬tional logistics and distribution projects at strategic and operational level and is a strong believer in the principles of experiential learning. Alongside his practice as an independent professional, he is delivery partner and authorized trainer in the Inchainge business simulations of the Netherlands and the Palatine Group in New York.

Ed collaborates as a Senior Associate Professor at business schools such as EADA Barcelona (Spain), Maastricht School of Management (the Netherlands), TIAS School for Business and Society (the Netherlands), Antwerp Management School (Belgium), WU Wien Executive Academy (Austria), Rotterdam School of Management (the Netherlands) and Centrum Graduate School of Business (Lima, Peru). His specialization is on the topics of operations and supply chain management, circular economy, project management, and intra- and entrepreneurship.

Ed has previously written a management book, The Perfect Pass: What the manager can learn from the football trainer, published in English, Spanish and Dutch, about the importance of seeing the big picture, having good internal and external alignment and achieving coherence at all levels. In 2019 his second book was published, titled Mastering the Supply Chain: Principles, practice and real-life applications, now available in English and Dutch. Similar to Mastering the Circular Economy, this book combines relevant theory and frameworks with practical appli¬cation through a business simulation.

Data driven decision making is one of the important 21st century skills all business students should aquire. Read Data, Work with Data, Analyze data and Argue with Data. Learning by doing in a real life business context will boost the skill development. Learn how we blend hands on data analytics with the Inchainge business simulations into a powerful cocktail.

Egge Haak (57) started his career with several Supply Chain management positions in the industry. Egge made the transition to business consultancy in 1996. In 2001 he started Involvation, a mid sized consulting company in Supply Chain Management. As a partner he is involved in a large number of supply chain improvement projects. In 2010 he founded Inchainge, the company that drives several business (learning) simulations (like The Fresh Connection, The Cool Connection and The Blue Connection) on a global level.

He is the entrepreneurial type, building new things form scratch and working on new innovative ideas. Egge likes the motto of Maria Andretti (former F1 driver) : “ when everything is under control, you are driving too slow”

Egge likes sports like sailing, skiing, tennis and hockey.

Egge has a three kids (Karianne – 16, Minke - 19, Timo – 20) He lives in a small village in Mid-East of The Netherlands, near the woods.

In this interactive session Prof. Felisa Higgins Preciado will lead a fascinating discussion with professors Chris Boone (US) and Bjorn Claes (UK). They will share their experiences and best practices on the integration of business simulation games in their course programs. Specifically, zooming in on the question: "Does game-based experiential learning indeed lead to a higher learning effect".

Dr. Felisa Preciado Higgins is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education and a Clinical Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management at the Smeal College of Business. Dr. P, as many have come to know her, describes herself as a woman on a mission to change the world, one student at a time.

Dr. Higgins served as a 2016-2017 Administrative Fellow for the Office of the Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses prior to assuming her role as Associate Dean. She was awarded the George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2015, and the Smeal College of Business Fred Brand Jr. Award for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence in 2014.

She holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University, a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from Florida State University, and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Florida A&M University. Prior to joining Penn State, Dr. Preciado worked for Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KCC), where she was responsible for implementing process improvement solutions and demand planning methods throughout Latin America. Her previous work experience also includes the automotive and apparel industries.

Industry 4.0 is upon us and we are witnessing unprecedented change in the world of Supply Chains. New Digital Technologies are allowing us to innovate our business models, processes and systems as never before. As a student of supply chain, how does one make sense of this change? Understand the new terms and new flavours such as Big Data, Analytics, IoT, AI, Cloud and Blockchain, that promise a significantly different future world of supply chains? What are some of the key frameworks through which one can learn about the nature of such disruptions, and their ability to impact business performance? As new entrants to the world of business, how can the students evaluate the need for such technologies and take considered decisions around digital investments? This session will focus on the above topics and provide a sneak peek into the future of supply chains and a few frameworks that can be used to understand it’s nature and impacts on business performance.

Changing supply chain priorities in our Demand Driven World will demand companies to move away from silo mindsets, and will change performance expectations from Supply Chain Executives. In this session, Professional Trainers and Consultants Kaushik Ghatak and Ashish Mendiretta will discuss the T-Model of Talent Development, the magic circle of learning and how we should embrace experiential learning. They will discuss how New Technologies deliver Unique Virtual Learning Experiuences and how experiential learning can be included in the curriculum.

Kaushik has more than 25 years’ experience in Business and Digital Transformation engagements globally, in leadership roles in Asia-Pacific and the USA. Currently, Kaushik runs his own boutique consulting practice as a Value Advisor for Digital Technologies, Supply Chain, and Sales Performance

Kaushik’s diversified industry leadership experience covers Consumer Products, Retail, Consumer Electronics, Automotive, Industrial Manufacturing, Financial Services and Telecommunications across Asia and North America. This has included career stints with SAP, Oracle, PwC Consulting and IBM. He has driven business transformation programs across multiple industries and counts among his clientele PPG, HP, Equinix, Fuji Xerox, Canon, Foxconn, Huawei, Motorola, Uniqlo and Standard Chartered Bank among others.

Before starting his own consulting and training initiative, Kaushik was at SAP as the Vice President of Industry Value Engineering and Presales Group for SAP, South East Asia. In this role he led Business Value selling, Market Planning, Account Planning and Business Development initiatives, across all product areas and industry verticals. He was also a member of the APJ Management Development Board at SAP.

Prior to SAP, he was with Oracle, where he operated in multiple roles; as the ASEAN Insight leader (a Technology Value Consulting group), Global Supply Chain Tiger Team lead for APAC, APAC Product Management leader for Supply Chain products and in Pre-Sales.

Kaushik is passionate about consulting, facilitating and mentoring. He is also associated with SMU, NTU and IIM Udaipur as Visiting/Adjunct Faculty where he takes Digital Transformation and Supply chain courses for Graduate and Undergraduate students.

Kaushik holds a PhD in Supply Chain Management from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and a Bachelor of Engineering from NIT Trichy, both being top-tier educational institutes in India.

Even before I knew it I took a huge interest in how supply chains, and value chains worked. As a kid I could be glued to a television screen on Wednesday afternoons, to watch short movies about how things were made.

This has resulted in me being a trainer and educator in managing supply chains and value chains. I hugely enjoy to train, educate and learn from others at the same time. An important part of my role is consulting Learning and Development officers. I have the privilege to support them in developing and rolling out learning programs, so they can deliver desired learning outcomes. What I am passionate about is Experiential Learning, since it is so powerful and fulfilling at the same time. For learners as well as for trainers and educators.

In the last 15+ years I have accumulated thousands of training “flight hours” in multiple industries both at home and abroad. I have extensive experience with face-to-face delivery, online delivery and blended learning formats. A significant part of my training sessions I spend on training other trainers.

Dr. Hans van der Drift is partner at Involvation, a company that specialises in Supply Chain Management and optimisation. Hans is responsible for Involvation’s S&OP-IBP practice and has been involved in numerous consulting and training assignments in many different industries.

Before joining Involvation in 2008, Hans worked 15 years at Unilever, where he started as an internal supply chain consultant and subsequently became responsible for the supply chain of Iglo and later Lever Fabergé. In the latter job, he was the driving force behind the MCC (Manufacturers Consolidation Centre), the joint distribution centre of Lever Fabergé and Kimberly-Clark. This centre was awarded several national logistics prizes, because of its innovative and environmentally friendly design. During his last four years at Unilever, Hans worked as Plan Program Director for Europe. During his years at Unilever and Involvation, he built up a broad experience in supply chain optimisation and management, including S&OP, demand and supply planning and distribution.

Hans holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Delft University of Technology.

In this interactive session Prof. Felisa Higgins Preciado will lead a fascinating discussion with professors Chris Boone (US) and Bjorn Claes (UK). They will share their experiences and best practices on the integration of business simulation games in their course programs. Specifically, zooming in on the question: "Does game-based experiential learning indeed lead to a higher learning effect".

Prof. Igor Lopes is an Industrial Engineer from the Technological University of Havana, he received a PhD in Technical Sciences focusing in Logistics and Supply Chain (2013), is active in Teaching, Research and Business Consulting. He has accumulated more than fifteen years of experience as a teacher at Universities in Cuba and Latin America, and ten years of experience in joint work with Universities Worldwide, specially in Germany. Igor is also an Education Associate of Inchainge supporting universities in Latin America to utilize The Fresh Connection, The Cool Connection and The Blue Connection in their classrooms.

In this session we will discuss several distance learning applications of the business simulations The Cool Connection and The Blue Connection in working with international partners in Higher Education. HAN University of applied sciences (the Netherlands) and SAMK (Finland) have developed a distance learning initiative in their curricula, where students from both institutions collaborate. Windesheim University of applied sciences has launched the Virtual Exchange Program (VEP) in which currently, students from 11 international partners participate. In the VEP, The Blue Connection forms the heart of the program, aligned with strong intercultural and networking components to further strengthen the learning impact. This session will help to understand why experiential learning with the business simulations becomes even more powerful for students when applied in these various international contexts.

Jan H. Jansen (1955) holds state degrees in Economics and Statistics (MO KX & MO Q; equivalent to M.Ed) since 1978; during his professional career he had several updates in Finance at the London School of Economics and in Business Administration at the University of Hertfordshire.

He started (1978) his teaching career at a grammar school (Stedelijk Gymnasium Arnhem) and continued (1985) to become a senior lecturer at Arnhem Business School (faculty of economics of HAN University of Applied Sciences) in subjects like: Economics, Finance, Management Accounting, and Supply Chain Fiaince)

Lecturing as well abroad at: Handelshochschule Leipzig, University of Aruba, University of Westminster (London), Plekhanov Institute (Moscow), Chelyabinsk State University, FH ESB Reutlingen, FH Gelsenkirchen-Bocholt, FHTW Dresden, IUT Vesoul, FH Wildau, Duy Tan University - Da Nang), and KdG Antwerp.

Since 2001 he also joined the research group of Logistics & Alliances of HAN University of Applied Sciences of Professor Dennis Moeke.

• Supply Chain Finance
• Conceptual model of SCF for SMEs
• IT platforms for SCF (FinTec)
• O2C (and P2P) project
• SCF Quick Scan
• Didactics of Economics & Finance
• Serious gaming (TCC, TBC and Stocktrak)
• Innovation in learning & teaching (incl. Hybrid learning & teaching)
• Curriculum development

Mr Jansen is participant in several international networks of higher education (Canada, Belgium, UK, France, Germany, Russia and Vietnam) and leading editor website (www.efle.eu) / acting secretary of EFLE (= European Forum of Logistics Education).

Johan holds the position of Associate Professor in the domain of Logistics- and Supply Chain Management at the Department of Logistics; Stellenbosch University (South Africa). Apart from providing teaching and learning in this field of study at undergraduate and focused modules at postgraduate level, he is also responsible for research supervision of students’ postgraduate research and subject-related research and publishing. Prior to entering academia, Johan held various positions in the Petrochemical Industry. He originally graduated as an Industrial Engineer and later completed his MBA. He also completed his PhD in Logistics related to Advanced Supply Chain Planning. Johan gained extensive experience and recognition in this industry in numerous positions held related to, amongst others, Industrial Engineering (General), Maintenance Engineering (Mechanical), Engineering & Performance Enhancement (Process), Production Management & Planning, Business Development, Supply Chain Strategy & Implementation, Supply Chain Network Design & Configuration, Supply Chain Planning, People Competency Development, and Supply Chain Performance Management. His attention is now specifically focused on the field of Packaging Logistics, Warehouse Operations Management, Inventory planning and Management, and Visual Supply Chain Data Analysis.

Windesheim recently completed a major research project on Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM), which focuses on the impact of Covid-19 on supply chains. At 340 companies, a survey was conducted to determine the impact of Covid-19 on the various sectors in terms of turnover, cancelled orders, late payments and price fluctuations. We also looked at which strategies were used and how effectively these strategies are assessed, for example when it comes to data sharing, inventory management, labor input, payment terms and cash strategies. In this session we share the main results and discuss the implications of Supply Chain Risk Management for education. In particular, we discuss 2 challenges:

1. how do we implement SCRM & Supply Chain Resilience into courses and how do we update courses
2. how do we give enough attention to the underestimated financial component in SCRM & Supply Chain Resilience?

Luca M. Gelsomino, PhD, is a senior researcher at Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, in The Netherlands, as well as the Academic Director of the Supply Chain Finance Community. Within the SCF Community he is in charge of promoting academic collaboration in Europe and in the rest of the world, as well as oversee collaborative research projects within the business school parts of the Community. As researcher, his interests lie in the study of Supply Chain Finance, the application of innovative information technologies (such as Blockchain and Internet of Things) to supply chains and the study of the financial performance of supply chains. He also teaches International Business and Managerial Accounting at the Windesheim Honours College. He got his PhD with merit at the School of Management, Politecnico di Milano, in Italy, with a thesis titled: “Measuring the financial performance of a supply chain for the optimal adoption of Supply Chain Finance solutions”.

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After four decades of globalization, we recently have seen strong sentiments against globalization and commercialization. Issues like the US-China Trade War, Brexit, the tension in Southeast Asia, implementation of One Belt and One Road, and means of digitization create incredible influx and uncertainties of global supply chain management. What does this mean for trade, supply chain, human capital, and its broad implications to human civilization? How do we adapt as a country, society, company, and as an individual? How can companies strategize and execute their plan to not disappear from the scenery? In spite of all this uncertainty and influx, there is tremendous positive momentum that can carry humanity forward – but at what cost?

This Outlook 2025 will discuss these issues and will provide a more in-depth under- standing of local, regional, and global footprints to understand where we are heading.

Nick Vyas is the Academic/Executive Director and Co-founder of the Center for Global Supply Chain Management (GSCM) at the University of Southern California. As Associate Professor of Clinical Data Sciences and Operations, Nick teaches Lean Six Sigma, Supply Chain Finance, and Emerging Technologies. Previously Vyas managed global operations for Duty Free International, Sears, Federated Stores, and Toys R Us.

Michiel Steeman was selected in 2013 as the inaugural holder of the Supply Chain Finance Professorship at the Windesheim University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands. He is also the founder and chairman of the Supply Chain Finance Community that has already brought together over 30 leading business schools from more than 20 countries around the world who actively collaborate with companies, banks and governments in the developing field of Supply Chain Finance.

Michiel joined Nyenrode early 2012 to develop research and development projects in the area of Supply Chain Finance. Several research consortia were formed in which corporates, banks, consultancies, and governments were brought together. In 2020 Michiel concluded his PhD at Nyenrode and published his 'Exploratory Study on Supply Chain Finance Schemes'.

In 2012 he joined Inchainge where he launched The Cool Connection, a business simulation and training tool that bridges the physical and financial supply chain by bringing together finance, sales, procurement and supply chain in a virtual decision making environment.

From 2009 to 2012 Michiel was elected into the Executive Committee of Factors Chain International, a worldwide organization with more than 300 member in over 65 countries. He holds a Master’s degree in Financial Economics from Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

His working experience includes a variety of roles for Deutsche, NIB Capital, NMB-Heller such as relationship management, risk management and marketing. In his last role at ING he was member of the board and responsible for product development and strategy for leasing and factoring with operations in 14 countries and almost 3000 employees.

In this session we will discuss several distance learning applications of the business simulations The Cool Connection and The Blue Connection in working with international partners in Higher Education. HAN University of applied sciences (the Netherlands) and SAMK (Finland) have developed a distance learning initiative in their curricula, where students from both institutions collaborate. Windesheim University of applied sciences has launched the Virtual Exchange Program (VEP) in which currently, students from 11 international partners participate. In the VEP, The Blue Connection forms the heart of the program, aligned with strong intercultural and networking components to further strengthen the learning impact. This session will help to understand why experiential learning with the business simulations becomes even more powerful for students when applied in these various international contexts.

Roelijn Kok works as an international coordinator at Windesheim Business School and specializes on the theme of Intercultural competences.

In 2018, she introduced a comprehensive approach to developing intercultural competences by means of the WISE programme (Windesheim Intercultural Skills Explorer)

As an international coordinator,  she is passionate about connecting university partners and their students to foster global learning in all kinds of ways.

In this session, we will zoom in on the practical application of the principles of Experiential Learning, such as the learning cycle, learning styles and learning flexibility. We will do this from the very specific angle which has been captured in the textbook Mastering the Circular Economy (May 2021), which offers an Integrated Learning Approach developed for courses and trainings on Circular Economy, applied in Higher Education and with an important role for business simulation game The Blue Connection.

Rozanne Henzen holds an MSc in Strategic Communication Sciences from the University of Antwerp, and received a Fellowship at the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship during her studies, both focusing on consumer behaviour and circularity for the textile industry.

Currently, Rozanne is researcher and innovation consultant within the Expertise Centre for Sustainable Transformation at Antwerp Management School (AMS). Her research and consultancy services involve research for several national and international research projects within the field of sustainable transformation.

She manages the AMS Corporate Leadership Groups, whereby companies jointly commit to public annual actions to promote the circular or well-being economy. As part of her work for AMS she gives Circular Economy 101 lectures and is part of the Global Leadership Skills faculty team.

Rozanne was previously a member of the Dutch National Think Tank focusing on Accelerating the Transition to a Circular Economy and conducted research on individual sustainability leadership.

In 2020 her first book was published for the Dutch market, titled De kleine Circulaire economie for Dummies, being the first official For Dummies book on a circular economy with a clear and thorough explanation, and tips to contribute to a fully circular Netherlands. She is currently being recognized for her sustainability efforts as one of the Sustainable Young 100 of 2020 in the Netherlands. In her spare time, she tries to make the complexity of a circular economy and other sustainability related topics accessible for everyone through her Instagram (@reduce.reuse.rznn). In doing so, she hopes that people will see the transition to a circular economy as an adventure, instead of a restriction.

In this session Thomas Frandsen will share his best practices on teaching finance to his students by embracing game-based experiential learning. Learn how he motivates his students by informing them that it is his objective that hey will become best friends with the Chief Financial Officer. Viktor Elliot will share some inspiring best practices on how he combines teams of BA students and SCM students with different knowledge areas to foster the development of T-professionals.

Research
My research is focusing on how companies can design and manage their operational capabilities to support their strategic direction. Within this field I am especially interested in understanding how product, service and process architecture can be designed and configured to support responsiveness, flexibility and customisation. My particular interest is on understanding how principles of modularity can be applied to the design of product, service and process architecture to support these objectives

Current project - Servitization as a driver of competitiveness
Manufacturers are increasingly directing their attention to services as a strategic response to competitive pressures. Firms are targeting the potential of value propositions in which products and services together form integrated solutions. While there are clear potentials of this transformation known as servitization it is a challenging task for manufacturers. It implies that they adjust their business model and requires a different strategic mind-set as well as new operational capabilities and alignment of organization and incentives.

Teaching
I currently teach courses at the bachelor, master and diploma programs within the subject areas of Operations and Supply Chain Management, Management Accounting and Managerial Economics. These areas deal with the challenges of enhancing competiveness by improving operational effectiveness and efficiency. This involves identifying and analysing trade-offs between key decisions, which impact multiple dimensions of performance such as flexibility, speed, dependability, quality, and cost.

In this session Viktor Elliot will share some inspiring best practices on how he combines teams of BA students and SCM students with different knowledge areas to foster the development of T-professionals. Thomas Frandsen will share his best practices on teaching finance to his students by embracing game-based experiential learning. Learn how he motivates his students by informing them that it is his objective that hey will become best friends with the Chief Financial Officer.

Dr. Elliot finished his PhD on Performance Management Systems, Regulation and Change in Swedish Banks in 2015. Since than Dr. Elliot has won research funds for four projects related to Supply Chain Finance, banking, consumer finance, regulatory arbitrage, and digitalization within which he is currently conducting research.

Dr. Elliot has published his work in several leading academic outlets. He also teaches courses in accounting and finance including financial institutions and markets, topics in finance and enterprise risk management as well as executive educations for retail bankers and board of directors.

He is a frequent speaker at various industry conventions and member of the board of the Supply Chain Finance Community as well as the Trade Finance specialist group at Business Region Gothenburg. Dr. Elliot is currently senior lecturer and director of the Business IT Lab at the School of Business Economics and Law at Gothenburg University, where he focus extensively on issues surrounding digitalization in finance, trade and education.

In this interactive session Prof. Felisa Higgins Preciado will lead a fascinating discussion with professors Chris Boone (US) and Bjorn Claes (UK). They will share their experiences and best practices on the integration of business simulation games in their course programs. Specifically, zooming in on the question: "Does game-based experiential learning indeed lead to a higher learning effect".

President of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals CSCMP´s Colombian RT. Country Representative for Colombia at Inchainge - Advanced Business Simulation.

Magister in Advanced Engineering of Production, Logistics and Supply Chain, with broad experience of leading Logistics Procesess, Supply Chain Network Design SCND, Planning Process (S&OP/IBP) and Supply Chain Execution. Oriented to increase levels of global productivity, sustainability, profitability and efficiency for multiple companies across diverse industries such as Automotive, FMCG, Oil & Gas and Packaging. Moreover, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and project management using PMI methodology.

Teamwork and communication skills. Expertise in supply chain optimization, logistics management and continuous improvement processes in productive environments. Global mind set, abroad experience, transformational leadership, strategic thinking, goal-oriented, decision making skills and the ability to work with cross-functional and multi-cultural teams.