Virtual Food Talk Show: From Cloud Foundation to AI Advantage

Everyone wants AI. But manufacturers getting real value from it built the foundations first. 

 In this live talk show, ⁠Ines Ashton, Digital and AI Strategy Director at ⁠The Compleat Food Group, shares how she built the data, cloud, and process foundations for AI, and where it’s now delivering. Ines previously led digital transformation globally at ⁠Mars across supply chain, R&D, procurement, and manufacturing, spearheading its AI and machine learning supply chain agenda.  

She’ll be in conversation with ⁠Cam Greening of Fortude, who works closely with some of the largest food and beverage manufacturers and distributors in Australia and New Zealand. 

Together, they’ll have a candid conversation about why adoption comes before sophistication, how AI is catching errors in recipes and bills of materials before they reach production, how to decide what to build vs buy, and what Ines would do differently if she started her ERP journey again.