Encore: Mega Trends: Trusted Products

September 24, 2019
Hosted by Bonnie D. Graham

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The buzz: “Brands are all about trust. Trust is earned in drops but lost in buckets!” (Kevin Plank). About 64% of consumers and companies worldwide buy or boycott a brand – food, components, spare parts, raw materials, chemicals, software, data – solely based on its position and practices on a social or environmental issue that matters to them. Reality check: in a global economy with complex supply networks, the challenge of gaining and maintaining trust grow with the distance between producer and consumer. Can new technologies help create trusted products, leading to higher revenues and customer satisfaction and loyalty? The experts speak. Tony Costa, Bumble Bee Foods: “If you can dream it, you can do it” (Walt Disney). Jeff Howell, SAP: “Chance favors the prepared mind“ (Louis Pasteur). Tom Kohnen, SAP: “Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that [bleep] reflection” (Lady Gaga). Join us for Mega Trends: Trusted Products.

Game-Changing Mega Trends, Presented by SAP

Tuesday at 9 AM Pacific Time/12 Noon Eastern Time on VoiceAmerica Business Channel

Our planet will soon host 10 billion people in a globally connected economy. The world’s political, social, and economic leaders, and every single one of us, need to find new ways to create a sustainable and livable planet.

How? Exciting, disruptive technology is helping the world run better and improve people’s lives.

Our panels of experts will explore global social, economic and environmental challenges including health, education, energy and mobility, and discuss how technology can help address mega trends to create a better world and open new business opportunities.

Whether you are a business owner, leader, or a citizen simply concerned about the future, join host Bonnie D. Graham as she invites you to take an additional coffee break with game-changers for our series on game-changing mega trends.

Bonnie D. Graham

Bonnie D. Graham produced and hosted her first live talk radio show in 1998 on AM1240–WGBB, Long Island, NY’s oldest terrestrial radio station. A few years later, she moved from terrestrial to Internet radio with her author interview show, “Up Close and Personal.” In 2011, working at the enterprise software leader SAP, she developed the concept for a weekly live global business thought leadership roundtable series on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel – and launched “Coffee Break with Game-Changers” on October 5, 2011. Over the next nine years, Bonnie D. created, produced and hosted 46 additional SAP series on the Business Channel, attracting millions of listeners around the world. Since becoming an independent broadcaster in 2019, she has developed and hosted live radio and podcast series on the Business Channel for eight additional organizations, as well as her own weekly series, “Read My Lips: Cool Conversations with Creatives with akaRadioRed,” on the Empowerment Channel. In 2023, her live-streaming “Technology Revolution: The Future of Now” series was ranked No. 6 on FeedSpot’s Top 70 Technology Podcasts to Listen to in 2023. What powers Bonnie D.’s passion for radio? She “loves speaking with smart people!”

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