Digitization of Supply Chains Workshop – Building Resilience

Resilience in Supply Chains have become more important than ever – and digital technologies promise to help with both efficiencies and resilience.

Join us for a workshop to explore the future of supply chains. Bringing together experts from industry and academia, we will discover how digitization will help to bring down walls between individual organizations, making supply chains more integrated and transparent ecosystems.

Whether you work directly in supply chain or if you are a leader who wants to explore efficiencies that can be gained through supply chain digitization, this workshop will have content and connections for you.

 

Friday, May 5, 2023

2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

3rd Floor Event Centre, Mathison Hall, Haskayne School of Business,
University of Calgary - 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB

Registration is free - but space is limited.

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Schedule

  • 1:45 – 2:00   Registration
  • 2:00 – 2:10   Welcome
  • 2:10 – 2:20   Digitization is the Future for Supply Chain Management, Dr. Osman Alp, PhD
  • 2:20 – 2:50   Fireside Chat, Brent Willett
  • 2:50 – 3:20   Success Stories How Digitization Has Helped Industry, Dr. Marco Bijvank, PhD
  • 3:20 – 3:40   Break
  • 3:40 – 4:00   Digitization for Innovative Supply Chains Consortium
  • 4:00 – 4:30   AI-Powered Decision Making in Supply Chains, Dr. Enes Bilgin, PhD
  • 4:30 – 5:00   Networking

Speakers

Brent Willett

Brent Willett brings over a decade of experience being a supply chain advisory expert with Deloitte consulting and as many years in industry to the conversation. He is currently the President and CEO of the Alberta Insititute of Supply Chain Canada, and previously lead the implementation of AI supply chain solutions for AltaML. Brent is a Chartered Professional Accountant who will blend operations, technology and financial impacts into the discussion. He will provide his outlook on how all things 'digital' will drive innovation within the supply chain. Looking forward to connecting with you all on May 5th!

Brent Willett

Dr. Enes Bilgin, PhD

Dr. Enes Bilgin is a long-time machine learning and operations research practitioner with a particular focus on reinforcement learning. He is currently working as a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Latitude AI (a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company) in Silicon Valley on artificial intelligence applications for autonomous vehicles. Prior to his current role, Dr. Bilgin worked at Microsoft, Amazon, AMD, and MathWorks as a researcher and engineer. He also held adjunct faculty positions at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin and at the Ingram School of Engineering at Texas State University. Enes is an author of an Amazon bestseller book, “Mastering Reinforcement Learning with Python.” He holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from Boston University and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University.

Dr. Enes Bilgin, PhD

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Friday, May 5, 2023

2:00 – 5:00 p.m.

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