Fabric and Home CareWorld Conference

October 28–31, 2018 | Boca Raton Resort & Club | Boca Raton, Florida, USA

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NAVIGATING GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION

Sailing into the Future — Are you ready to lift anchor? MONDAY, OCTOBER 29

KEYNOTE New Technologies and Their Impact on the World of CleaningJoão Benjamin Parolin, CEO, Oxiteno, Brazil

KEYNOTE No Ordinary Disruption: Global Business and Economic TrendsSree Ramaswamy, Partner, McKinsey & Company, USA

What the Membership Economy Means For Fabric and Home Care ManufacturersRobbie Kellman Baxter, Principal, Peninsula Strategies LLC, USA

Hopping: How Digitalization Allows Incumbents to Expand Across the Value Chain and Establish Direct Customer RelationshipsOlaf Acker, Partner, PwC Strategy& (Germany) GmbH, Germany

Who Really Wants to Wash Clothes? Trends and Perspective of the Out-of-Home Laundry DynamicsSundar Raman, General Manager for Fabric Care, The Procter & Gamble Company, USA

Home of the FutureZeynep 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

What is the Focus of AI at BMW? — How We LearnReinhard Stolle, Vice President Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, BMW AG, Germany

Delivering with Agility and Digitization — Are you up to speed? TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30

KEYNOTE Shaping the Future — How to Navigate the Global TransformationStephan Füsti-Molnár, President, Henkel North America Consumer Goods, USA

Digital Supply Chain: Connecting Customers, Suppliers and ProvidersKevin Fenton, Managing Director, Accenture, USA

Opportunities and Risks of Digitalization in the Process IndustryMartin Flechsenhar, Senior Vice President, Process Technology & Engineering North America, Evonik Corporation, USA

The Future of Supply Chain Leveraging Digital TechnologiesYannis Skoufalos, Global Product Supply Officer, The Procter & Gamble Company, USA

The Department of the Unknown: Getting the Most out of Big DataTricia Wang, Global Technology Ethnographer and Co-founder, Sudden Compass, USA

The Digital Future of Biotechnology InnovationClaus 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 LifeTomomichi Okano, Executive Officer, Executive General Manager of Production Engineering Research Headquarters, Lion Corporation, Japan

Illusion 4.0: Production’s Digital Wrong TurnAndreas Syska, Professor of Production Management, Hochschule Niederrhein, University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Growing Responsibly — Are you above board? WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31

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

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NAVIGATINGGLOBAL

TRANSFORMATION

Claus Crone Fuglsang

João Benjamin Parolin

Stephan Füsti-Molnár

Tomomichi Okano

Tricia Wang

Michitaka Sawada

Rodrigo Olmedo

Gary Crawford

Andreas Syska

Joey Bergstein

Daniel Maga

Robbie Kellman Baxter

Todd Wichmann

Sree Ramaswamy

Florian Färber

Zeynep Yalım Uzum

Olaf Acker

Yannis Skoufalos

Reinhard Stolle

US $1,295 through June 29

US $1,495 June 30–August 31

US $1,695 after August 31

All official conference activities will take place at the Boca Raton Resort & Club, a Waldorf Astoria Resort. Guest rooms for the Fabric and Home Care World Conference are available at the resort for US $255 per night. Visit FabricHomeCare.aocs.org to reserve your room.

BE PART OF THE CONFERENCESubmit an abstractDo you have exciting research or recent innovations in fabric and home care to share? Submit an abstract for consideration and your research could be presented to more than 600 top-level executives from around the world. Visit FabricHome-Care.aocs.org for details on the e-poster format and to submit an abstract.

Sponsorship opportunities The Fabric and Home Care World Conference is the perfect opportunity to position your company in front of a global gathering of industry leaders.

Be an exhibitorMeet face-to-face with current and potential busi-ness partners as an exhibitor. Connect with executives working in research, product development, technical services, processing, raw materials and more during a variety of networking activities and in meetings on the exhibition floor.

REGISTRATIONConfirm your plans early to secure the best possible registration rate.

Visit FabricHomeCare.aocs.org to register online today.

To participate or learn more,

contact:Christina Morley+1 217-693-4901

christina.morley@aocs.org

Are you on course?The Fabric and Home Care World Conference is the premier executive forum for knowledge sharing and network-ing in the fabric and home care industry. The conference will be held in the United States for the first time, October 28–31, 2018, in Boca Raton, Florida, USA.

As an attendee, you will participate in strategic discussions with fellow leaders and help shape the future of the global fabric and home care business. The conference program explores cutting- edge technologies, including home robotics, artificial intelligence, digitization and more.

Discover innovations and disruptions that can affect your organization’s bottom line — visit FabricHomeCare.aocs.org to con-firm your attendance.

SCHEDULE AT-A-GLANCESunday, October 28 Tuesday, October 30

5–7:30 p.m. Registration6–7:30 p.m. Welcome Reception

8 a.m.–6 p.m. Registration9 a.m.–Noon Presentations10 a.m.–6 p.m. ExhibitionNoon–1:30 p.m. Conference Luncheon1:30–5 p.m. Presentations5–6:30 p.m. Happy Hour Reception

Monday, October 298 a.m.–6 p.m. Registration9 a.m.–Noon Presentations10 a.m.–6 p.m. ExhibitionNoon–1:30 p.m. Conference Luncheon1:30–5 p.m. Presentations5–6 p.m. Happy Hour Reception

Wednesday, October 318 a.m.–Noon Registration8–11 a.m. Exhibition9 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Presentations

Visit FabricHomeCare.aocs.org for a complete and up-to-date schedule of events.

NAVIGATING GLOBAL

The Exhibition serves as the center of social and business-to-business activities during the conference. It is the place to meet one-on-one and develop new relationships with key suppliers of equipment, chemicals and services in the fabric and home care industry.

Make connections with fellow leaders in the fabric and home care industry during a variety of networking events held throughout the Fabric and Home Care World Conference. From lun-cheons to Happy Hour Receptions, the conference offers a multitude of opportunities to exchange knowledge and resources, allowing you to benefit from the expertise of other attendees.

Learn more and register at

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TRANSFORMATION

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEEThomas Müller-Kirschbaum, Chair, Corporate Senior Vice President, Research &

Development/Sustainability, Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, GermanyVictor Aguilar, R&D Manager, Global Fabric Care, The Procter & Gamble Company, USAPatrick Donnelly, CEO, AOCS, USAKeith Grime, President, JKG Consulting LLC, USAJonathan Hague, Vice President R&D, Homecare Discover, Unilever, UKAndrés Jaffé, Senior Vice President, Global Home & Personal Care Business, BASF SE,

GermanyOle Kirk, Vice President, Household Care Application Research, Novozymes A/S, DenmarkManfred Trautmann, President and CEO, ManTra-Chem, SwitzerlandMasaki Tsumadori, Research Fellow R&D, Kao Corporation, Japan

“I do not think there is any more relevant and salient venue that brings together leaders from major consumer product companies worldwide, to showcase not only technology and innovation, but also changes in businesses, substantiality and relevance in European, Asian and North American markets.”

—Steve Bolkan, Director of New Product Development, Church & Dwight Co Inc

WHY ATTEND?

SKWSchweizerischer Kosmetik-und Waschmittelverband

Association suisse des cosmétiques et des détergents

The Swiss Cosmetic and Detergent Association

COOPERATING ORGANIZATIONS

MEDIA PARTNERS

MISSION STATEMENT | AOCS advances the science and technology of oils, fats, proteins, surfactants and related materials, enriching the lives of people everywhere.