The Fabric and Home Care World Conference, October 28–31, 2018, at the Boca Raton Resort & Club, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, will bring together hundreds of industry leaders from around the world. As a cooperating organization, we know the program will be exceptional. Join us by contacting Ouyang Zhi at +86-10-65271586-8010 for future-focused presentations exploring everything from home robotics and artificial intelligence to big data and digitization.

　　The 2018 presentations focus on the rapidly approaching technological innovations and disruptions that could directly affect your organization’s business model and bottom line.

　　Confirmed presenters are included below. The full program is currently under development and is subject to change.

　　Monday, October 29, 2018Sailing into the Future — Are you ready to lift anchor?

　　Keynote: New Technologies and Their Impact on the World of Cleaning

　　João Benjamin Parolin, CEO, Oxiteno, Brazil

　　Keynote: No Ordinary Disruption: Global Business and Economic Trends

　　Sree Ramaswamy, Partner, McKinsey & Company, USA

　　E-Commerce

　　Hopping: How Digitalization Allows Incumbents to Expand Across the Value Chain and Establish Direct Customer Relationships

　　Olaf Acker, PwC EMEA Digital Services Leader, PwC Strategy& (Germany) GmbH, Germany

　　The Future of Robotics in Home Cleaning

　　Who Really Wants to Wash Clothes? Trends and Perspective of the Out-of-Home Laundry Dynamics

　　Sundar Raman, General Manager for Fabric Care, The Procter & Gamble Company, USA

　　Home of the Future

　　Zeynep Yalım Uzum, Chief Marketing Officer, Arçelik A.Ş., Turkey

　　Revolutionizing the Laundry and Dry Cleaning Industry to Keep Pace With Modern Consumer Needs

　　Florian Färber, Co-Founder & Managing Director, ZipJet, Germany

　　Artificial Intelligence

　　Reinhard Stolle, Vice President Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, BMW Group, Germany

　　Tuesday, October 30, 2018Delivering with Agility and Digitization — Are you up to speed?

　　Keynote: Shaping the Future – How to Navigate the Global Transformation

　　Stephan Füsti-Molnár, President, Henkel North America Consumer Goods, USA

　　Digital Supply Chain: Connecting Customers, Suppliers and Providers

　　Kevin Fenton, Managing Director, Accenture, USA

　　Opportunities and Risks of Digitalization in the Process Industry

　　Martin Flechsenhar, Senior Vice President for Process Technology & Engineering North America, Evonik Corporation, USA

　　The Future of Supply Chain Leveraging Digital Technologies

　　Yannis Skoufalos, Global Product Supply Officer, The Procter & Gamble Company, USA

　　The Department of the Unknown: Getting the Most out of Big Data

　　Tricia Wang, Co-founder, Constellate Data, USA

　　Digital Marketing and its Future Value for the Consumer Products Business

　　The Digital Future of Biotechnology Innovation

　　Claus Crone Fuglsang, Senior Vice President, Research & Technology, Novozymes A/S, Denmark

　　Efficient Innovation with Digitally Augmented Detergency Experimentation

　　Rodrigo Olmedo, Director-General, CONSUMERTEC, Ecuador

　　Lifestyle Digitalization and the Value of Toiletry Technology – The Role of Toiletry Technology in Digitalizing Household Life

　　Tomomichi Okano, Executive Officer, Executive General Manager of Production Engineering Research Headquarters, Lion Corporation, Japan

　　Illusion 4.0: Industry 4.0 is a Step Into the Past

　　Andreas Syska, Professor of Production Management, Hochschule Niederrhein, University of Applied Sciences, Germany

　　Wednesday, October 31, 2018Growing Responsibly — Are you above board?

　　Keynote: Connecting With Care: Human-Centric Innovation Across the Industry

　　Michitaka Sawada, President & CEO, Kao Corporation, Japan

　　Innovating for the Next Seven Generations

　　Joey Bergstein, CEO, Seventh Generation, USA

　　More Plastics in the Oceans Than Fishes by 2050 — A Solvable Task?

　　Daniel Maga, Head of Sustainability and Resource Management, Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety, and Energy Technology UMSICHT, Germany

　　Not Just for Granola Anymore: The Consumer Surge for Natural and Organic Products in the Cleaning Aisle — It’s Real, but What do These Consumers Really Want?

　　Todd Wichmann, President, CEO & Founder, HealthPro Brands Inc., USA

　　Working Towards the New Plastics Economy

　　Gary Crawford, Vice President of International Affairs, Veolia, France