Ahead of their fireside chat at Summerfest TechAI 2026, Schreiber Foods CIDO Sri Kantamneni and Vadar Alpha CEO Stephen Pounds joined Steve Glynn of Experience Milwaukee for a short conversation about how a food manufacturing company and a startup founded two years ago work together.
Read the full article and listen to the conversation on Experience Milwaukee →
What the conversation covers
Using examples from a lemonade stand, Sri and Stephen explain how Vadar Alpha helps Schreiber manage pricing, risk and the spread between what it buys and what it sells. Glynn presents the conversation as a real example of cutting through AI hype to solve a business problem, and he argues that the best partnerships pair deep data and expertise with the agility to use them.
Takeaways from the piece
Glynn closes with four takeaways:
- Selling to an enterprise takes a strong offer. Solving the problem is the minimum. Good vendors add value across the way the enterprise works and delivers.
- Technology should make people more capable. Both leaders use technology, data and AI to make their people more capable and empowered, not obsolete.
- It comes back to people. Asked what they are excited about, both answered: connecting with people.
- See it live. The Summerfest TechAI session, a panel with Kathleen Gallagher, shows how a startup and an enterprise grow a working partnership.
Why it matters to us
Glynn credits Sri with becoming an important part of the regional tech community, showing up at events and connecting companies to what is being built, and he concludes that Schreiber's bet on Vadar Alpha is working well. We are grateful to Schreiber for the partnership, and to Experience Milwaukee for telling the story.