- Live simulation (teams role-play as retailers, manufacturers, logistics providers).
- Sudden disruption announced (e.g., ingredient shortage, cyberattack, shipping strike).
- Teams make decisions in real time — highlighting strengths and weaknesses.
Niti Patel
President & Founder
Unleashed Positioning
- Demo of real-time visibility platforms (IoT, blockchain, AI dashboards).
- Mapping product journeys from farm to shelf.
- How traceability builds both resilience and consumer trust.
- Hands-on scenario planning: droughts, port closures, ingredient shortages.
- Participants map vulnerabilities in their own supply chains.
- Tools for building contingency playbooks.
FutureChain Pre-Day 2026
Replacing vulnerable ingredients with climate resilient alternatives, using upcycled ingredients or byproducts to reduce dependency on single-source crops, investing in lab grown alternatives
- Lessons from moving regenerative practices beyond demonstration projects.
- Financing and policy levers that unlock widespread adoption.
- How to accelerate uptake without losing integrity
- How sanctions, trade restrictions, or export bans impact access to critical ingredients.
- Mapping vulnerabilities in agriculture, natural and synthetic ingredient supply chains
- Strategies for diversifying sourcing regions and suppliers.
Patrick Grady
CEO
TetraScience
Patrick serves as co-founder, chairman, and CEO of TetraScience. Prior to TetraScience, Patrick spent three decades building, backing, and scaling market-defining companies and technology stacks within the high-performance computing, SaaS, cloud, and AI markets.
Patrick was the founder, CEO, and CTO of the first intelligent agent company of the Internet era, built one of the world’s first three SaaS companies, the first enterprise SaaS business, one of the first ten global technology unicorns, and the first AI unicorn.
To deliver these AI agents to market, Patrick played a well-documented role in pioneering and/or commercializing several enabling technologies, including web services, SOA, and multi-tenancy, which now undergird the trillion-dollar cloud market.
Recognized as a leading innovator by numerous publications and peer groups over the years, Patrick was a recipient of the 2006 Fast Company award, given to the top 50 people in the world most likely to change the way we live and work for his seminal efforts in personal agent AI.
Lydia Gushgari, PhD
Chief of Staff
SPOC Biosciences