Panel Discussion: Riding the Waves of Disruption in Manufacturing

Jackie leads Global Operations Strategy for Western Digital. A passionate leader with proven success in transforming organizations through technology adoption, business process improvement and culture change. Jackie drives 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) transformation, delivering world class operational excellence, augmenting workforce and driving sustainability implementation in global operations with a footprint of more than 12 factories across 6 countries. Jackie led company's advanced manufacturing sites and value chains to 5 World Economic Forum Global Lighthouse designations. 1st in the country of Malaysia, 1st in the country of Thailand and 1st in the Philippines. Jackie spear-headed ESG for global operations, took Western Digital to industry leadership in achieving 2 Sustainability Lighthouse designations from the World Economic Forum. Jackie has deep expertise in product and process development, program management and global operation delivering performance while improving organizational capability.

Chetan Gupta is a leader in the field of Industrial AI. At Hitachi, he is the GM of the Advanced AI Research Center in Japan, leads the Industrial AI Lab in NA, and leads the Global AI CoE. He is proud to be a part of one of the strongest teams in the area of applied AI that is building fundamental horizontal technologies for Industrial AI, building solutions across verticals, and opening new research frontiers in AI applied to real world challenges. Chetan has close to 200 papers and patents in the area of applied AI, data mining/machine learning, data stream systems, complex event and related topics. Chetan holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics and M.S. in Mathematical Computer Science and Chemical Engineering.

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