VLE: Facility Operations and AI: What Do Retailers Need to Know?
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In this VLE, we delve into the factors that lead facility professionals to embrace AI, their decision-making process in selecting AI tools, and the outcomes they have witnessed, along with valuable lessons learned.
Todd Brinegar
Senior Vice President of Sales
BrainBox AI
Todd is a global sales and marketing leader - EBITDA Growth and Market Development Across Diverse Technology Sectors. He is an innovative business performance strategist and tactician with more than 20 years of sales, marketing, and market repositioning experience, with a strong record of revenue growth in software, hardware, services and human capital management solutions acquisition.
Robbie Drake
Sr Manager, Operations Maintenance
Murphy Oil USA, Inc.
Robbie leads the Regional Maintenance Manager team for Murphy USA and is responsible for all aspects of break\fix maintenance and energy management for over 1500 stores in 25 states. Robbie has over 30 years of experience in the facilities maintenance industry with 15 years in retail FM and 8 years with Murphy Oil USA Inc.
Josh Witte
Director of Energy, Sustainability, and ESG
Dollar Tree, Inc.
Joshua Witte is a sustainability, facilities, and design/construction professional with over 25 years experience in the retail space. Wide variety of expertise in decarbonization and climate change risk mitigation, energy management, facilities/construction management and consulting, store and fixture design, building operations, customer/vendor relations, real estate asset management and contract negotiation.
Cody Shive
Global Partner Solutions Architect, Grocery
AWS - Amazon Web Services
Cody Shive is the Global Partner Solutions Architect for Grocery, Drug, and Convenience Retail at AWS, where he works with both cloud and physical store retail partners. Cody has over 20 years in Retail as an independent consultant, a technical lead for IBM/Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, and as a Retail Transformation architect for NCR. Cody specializes in deep data analytics and keeps himself involved in self-service solutions and AI-driven retail solutions using generative AI. He is passionate about grocery, stemming from his very first job at Albertsons in Florida. Cody is a graduate of the University of North Florida, with a degree in Computer and Information Sciences and a minor in Business Management.