Digitizing the Supply Chain: Smart & Sustainable
When & Where
Transforming the Supply Chain to be Smart & Sustainable for the Digital Age Volatility & Complexity
Supply chains have been under tremendous pressure in the last few years - economic uncertainties, geo-political risks, microclimate disruptions, net-zero emissions requirements, and the need for faster decision-making.
The Supply Chain of the future needs to be nimble, sustainable, cost-efficient, and intelligent.
How are experts enabling this transformation? This track offers perspectives from:- Supply Chain leaders in retail, manufacturing, and logistics
- Innovators and Entrepreneurs with compelling technology solutions
- Investors/VCs
Join this session to learn from Supply Chain experts and emerging solution providers how they are addressing these challenges.
Track Agenda
- 05/05/2023 | 10:00 am – 10:30 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall A2Speakers
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Connectivity, Cloud and NetworkingQualcomm Technologies, Inc Rahul PatelSenior Vice President and General Manager, Connectivity, Cloud and Networking
Qualcomm Technologies, IncRahul Patel serves as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Connectivity, Cloud & Networking Business Unit of Qualcomm Technologies Inc. In this role, Patel will help drive our strategy across Wireless Infrastructure and Networking (WIN); Mobile, Computing and connectivity (MCC); and Cloud/Edge AI that will support the billions of devices that are getting connected as every industry undergoes digital transformation.
Prior to joining Qualcomm Technologies, Rahul was the senior vice president and general manager for Wireless Connectivity in the Broadband and Connectivity Group at Broadcom where he managed the product roadmap, R&D engineering, marketing, business development and applications engineering organizations to expand Broadcom’s Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS leadership across all market segments. During his 13-year career with Broadcom, Rahul had a strong track record of developing successful product lines, driving P&L growth and developing strong teams.
Prior to Broadcom, Rahul worked at HIFN, Inc., Samsung Semiconductor, Tritech Microelectronics and EPSON/S-MOS Systems.
Rahul is a veteran of the semiconductor and telecommunications industry with more than 25 years of experience in engineering, product, and business development for networking and wireless connectivity solutions.
Rahul holds an MBA from Santa Clara University, a master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Arizona State University in Tempe, and a B.Tech in Electronics and Communications Engineering from NIT in Warangal, India.
Bob ODonnell is the president, founder and chief analyst at TECHnalysis Research, a technology market research and consulting firm that counts many of tech industrys largest vendors among its clients. The firms research and ODonnells opinions are also regularly used by major media outlets, including Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg TV, CNBC, the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and more. ODonnell writes regular columns for USAToday and Forbes, as well as a blog for LinkedIn that is also published on TechSpot and SeekingAlpha.
Prior to founding TECHnalysis Research, ODonnell served as Program Vice President, Clients and Displays for industry research firm IDC. ODonnell is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame.
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- 05/05/2023 | 10:30 am – 11:00 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall A2Speakers
Christian is co-founder of Watershed, the enterprise climate platform. Watershed works with leading companies to help them measure, report, and act on their carbon emissions.Christian studied mathematics and physics at Harvard before building and running engineering teams at Stripe. While there he helped launch Stripe’s climate program, and experienced first-hand the pain of tracking, compiling, and structuring the carbon data needed to make everyday business decisions. Watershed was founded to make it easier to meaningfully reduce carbon emissions with modern tools.At Watershed, Christian leads a team of data scientists and engineers developing the systems and mathematical models that make sense of the scattered, unstructured data that makes up a corporate carbon footprint. He lives in San Francisco where Watershed is based.
Vice President, Environmental, Social, Governance and Chief Sustainability OfficerVMware Nicola AcuttVice President, Environmental, Social, Governance and Chief Sustainability Officer
VMwareNicola J. Acutt, Ph.D., is Vice President, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) in the Office of the CTO. Nicola is a change maker, thought leader, and strategist whose leadership experience spans business, government, and nonprofits. She is responsible for sustainability across operations, product, and people, and is passionate about a business-focused approach to corporate sustainability strategy.
Hired in 2010 to launch the VMware Foundation, Nicola implemented a novel approach that calls upon the companys 18,000-plus global employees as “citizen philanthropists” to shape the direction of VMwares corporate giving. In 2014, she assumed additional responsibility as Vice President for Global Community Affairs, chartered with leading an effort to revitalize the companys values and employee experience. This work culminated in VMware being named one of Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” for the first time in 2015. Nicola now leads VMwares Sustainability Strategy focusing on the companys product impact as well as stronger operational efficiency and performance.
Prior to joining VMware, Nicola was a faculty member of the Presidio Graduate School in San Francisco, where she led Curriculum Development and rose to rank of Associate Dean. Earlier in her career, she worked as a consultant to the South African Government on natural resource policy and, as a Ph.D. candidate, undertook research at the Center for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment in the UK. Originally from South Africa, Nicola received a Commonwealth Scholarship to complete her Ph.D. at the University of East Anglia in the UK and has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
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- 05/05/2023 | 11:00 am – 11:30 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall A2Speakers Suri is a serial entrepreneur with over three decades in IT which includes experience in building successful global businesses for not only his own ventures but also for companies he worked for. He takes pride in having leveraged “Nearshore” as a key differentiator for both his entrepreneurial ventures that he started with US as its headquarters. He completed his degree in computer science from University of Ottawa (Canada) in 1983. He started his first venture, FocusFrame Inc. as a co-founder in 2001 with a successful exit in late 2006 to Hexaware Technologies. FocusFrame leveraged the concept of nearshore Mexico for the first time in 2001 and Suri found it a great complement to onsite and offshore options. While his current venture, Digital OnUs which was acquired by Tech Mahindra in 2021, delivered IP led Agile services around DevOps and other cutting-edge technologies, his vision to create a nearshore center in Canada and Mexico proved to be a great strategic differentiator again. At the time of acquisition, Digital OnUs had about 300+ Cloud Engineers/architects spread across 3 locations in Mexico (Monterrey, Saltillo and Guadalajara) and over 100+ Cloud Engineer/architects in two locations in Canada (Ottawa and Toronto). Mustapha helps CEOs bring their vision to life very quickly. Mustapha is an expert in scaling organizations and delivering outstanding impact toward their mission. His experience has been in growth, product development, engineering, go-to-market, operations, strategy, and cost management. Mustapha has demonstrated world-class achievements in these areas for Tesla, where his team is responsible for the $16B non-cells raw materials across both the Global Supply Management and Supplier Industrialization Engineering activities, including saving Tesla >$1B in COGS. Mustapha earned his MBA from the University of Oxford, Saïd Business School and his B.S. in Investment Finance and Operations & Supply Chain Management from Brigham Young University - Hawaii. Mustapha loves basketball, coaching and mentoring, and reading biographies. Mahesh is a seasoned technology executive having previously held leadership roles at Kroger, Walmart, Ticketmaster / Live Nation, eBay, PayPal. He has also held various CXO roles in multiple startups in the Silicon Valley. His focus has been leading the areas of engineering execution, software architecture, product and operations. Mahesh comes with deep technical/product expertise in cloud native platforms - PaaS & SaaS, microservices, eCommerce, cyber, hyper-scale, digital transformation, data & machine learning, mobile. He has also been scaling/growing technology organizations through his experience in identifying, attracting and retaining talent in multitude of locations around the world. Chelsea PeetConsul and Senior Economic Officer
Ontario (Canada) Trade and Investment OfficeChelsea Peet has served as the Consul and Senior Economic Officer leading the Ontario (Canada) Trade and Investment Office in San Francisco since November 2018. Co-located with the Canadian consulate, the office supports Ontario companies seeking to connect with new partners and buyers, and supports U.S. companies considering expansion opportunities in Canada. The office’s region covers California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, Alaska and Hawaii. Chelsea came to this role from Ontario’s Ministry of Intergovernmental Affairs – Cabinet Office, where, as the Senior Manager for International Operations, she led a team in the strategic planning and delivery of Premier-led international missions, as well as broader international engagement efforts in Ontario. She also previously served as the Senior Manager, as well as the Policy Manager, of the Program Policy and Design Unit at Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities. Chelsea has extensive policy and operations experience, and a broad background in international relations, including spending time with the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C, where she reported on trade issues and supported diplomatic outreach. She holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, as well as an Honours Bachelor of Arts from McMaster University, with a focus on international relations and comparative politics/public policy. Director, International Promotion and Business DevelopmentSecretariat of Economic Development of the State of Jalisco Martha PadillaDirector, International Promotion and Business Development
Secretariat of Economic Development of the State of JaliscoMartha is an international businesswoman by profession, advisor to various companies and institution. As a professional, she has been involved in different areas, from the private sector in the logistics area, in academia and in the public sector in international areas, such as; International Trade with the European Union, international promotion of the State and attraction of foreign investment. Likewise, it is involved in the process of supplier development, import substitution and production chain. In her 17 years in the public sector and as specialist in attracting investment, she has managed to complete more than 160 investment projects for the State of Jalisco, which represented an approximate investment amount of 2,357.6 million USD and around 9,719 new jobs. Currently, Martha Padilla is in charge of the General Direction of Business Development and Investment Attraction in the Secretariat of Economic Development of Jalisco, where she is in constant contact with all national and international companies established or to be established in the State from different sectors such as the automotive, aerospace, information technology, electronic. manufacturing, to name a few, as well as managing various government incentive programs to attract investment.
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- 05/05/2023 | 11:30 am – 12:00 pm PDT
- 30 mins Hall A2Speakers
Joel de la Garza is a partner focused on information security related investments and other chaos adjacent businesses. He believes information security is getting better with security products that combine usability and security, the move to the cloud, the rise of hardware-based multi-factor authentication, and other trends.
Prior to a16z, he was the chief security officer at Box, where he joined post Series B and scaled up through post IPO. From 2007 to 2013, Joel was the global head of Threat Management and Cyber Intelligence for Citigroup, where he built the first open and closed source intelligence center outside of the defense industrial base. He also ran incident response for Deutsche Bank and founded and worked at assorted security startups. He attended Stanford University where he studied Computer Science and German.
Feross is the founder and CEO of Socket, a developer-first open source security tool. Feross has been an open source maintainer for the past 10 years, writing some of the most downloaded open source packages in the JavaScript ecosystem. Feross is also a lecturer at Stanford University where he teaches CS 253 Web Security. Socket, the company Feross founded, enables security and developer teams to work together to securely use and maintain OSS within the organization. Thousands of organizations in every industry use Socket to protect their apps from security threats originating in open source code. Yuriy Bulygin is the CEO and founder of Eclypsium, a company that provides supply chain security by continuously verifying the contents, authenticity, integrity and vulnerability of every device and critical external technology. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, the company was named to Fast Companys annual list of the Worlds Most Innovative Security Companies for 2020, the CNBC Upstart 100 list, and Gartner's Cool Vendor list for Security Operations and Threat Intelligence. Previously Yuriy led the Advanced Threat Research team at Intel Corporation, and the Microprocessor Security Analysis team at Intel Corporation. He also created CHIPSEC, the open-source firmware and hardware security assessment framework. Dylan Ayrey is the author of the open source TruffleHog, and CEO of Truffle Security. He has a background in cybersecurity research, and has spoken at such conferences as Defcon, Blackhat, and others on a range of topics including cloud security, application security, and infrastructure security. Prior to founding Truffle Security, he worked as an application security partner on the Netflix security team, and has spent his career researching, evangelizing and improving a wide range of security problems.
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- 05/05/2023 | 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm PDT
- 30 mins Hall A2Speakers PS Subramaniam is a partner at Kearney based in the Dallas office. He serves as the Global Leader of the Supply Chain Plan Tower at the firm. He is a member of the Strategic Operations Practice and the Hi-Tech Practice at Kearney. He specializes in digital supply chain design and transformation, having driven tangible impact to several Hi-Tech, CPG and Retail clients. He has been an operator, having served in leadership roles at Manhattan Associates (a leader in supply chain software) and Nokia (a pioneer in mobile communications). He has lived in, and managed multi-cultural teams based in USA, Finland, India, South Korea and China. His thought leadership has been widely published in industry articles and the media. PS holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, an MS in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Iowa State University and a BE in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bombay.
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