Supply Chain Management in the Post-Pandemic and AI Age Conference

This conference is being hosted by Rutgers Supply Chain Management Department with support from Rutgers Business School Dean’s Office

Sessions will be held on two separate days: June 14 and 15, 2023. Lunch and dinner on June 14 and coffee breaks are included. The conference schedule can be found here.

Registration 

Doctoral Dissertation Awards

We invite doctoral dissertations to compete for the dissertation awards (1st prize $3000, 2nd prize $2000, and 3rd prize $1000.)

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Keynote Speakers

• Arnab Chakraborty, Senior Managing Director - Applied Intelligence North America Lead at Accenture
• Pankaj Chopra, Head, Enterprise Business Analytics & Insights Johnson & Johnson
• Maxime C. Cohen, Professor and Scale AI Chair in Data Science for Retail, McGill University 
• Helen Davis, Head of Supply Chain, BPC & HC, Unilever
• Ming Hu, University of Toronto Distinguished Professor of Business Operations and Analytics, Editor-in-Chief of Naval Research Logistics
• Subodha Kumar, Paul R. Anderson Distinguished Professor at Temple University's Fox School of Business, Deputy Editor and a Department Editor of Production and Operations Management

Panelists 

• Manish Airen, Group Manager, Supply Chain Operations, Panasonic Connect North America
• Paul Amajor MD, MSHSM, Director, CE Health Equity and Strategic Initiatives, Healthfirst
• Arash Azadegan, Professor, Dean’s Research Professor, Rutgers Business School
• Arun Kumar Bhaskara-Baba, Chief Digital and Information Officer, Honeywell Aerospace
• Pankaj Chopra, Head, Enterprise Business Analytics & Insights Johnson & Johnson
• Vrunda Desai, Associate Director Quality Strategy and Business, Bristol Myers Squibb
• Tom DiMattina, Vice President Customer Service Operations & Order to Cash, Bayer
• Joe Geunes, Professor, Marilyn and L. David Black Faculty Fellow and Associate Department Head, Industrial & Systems Engineering, Texas A&M University
• Vik Govindan, Executive Director, Demand Excellence Lead, The Estée Lauder Companies
• Ashish Gupta, Vice President - Head of Supply Chain and Therapy Areas at GSK
• Jeff Hermann, Chairman & CEO at Hermann Services, Inc
• Joanne Jaeger PE, CIH, CRMP, CBCP, Principal Owner Jaeger Associates, Former Senior Director Risk Management at Johnson & Johnson
• Aisha Kahn, Vice President Strategy and Insights, Momentum Commerce
• Ron Katims, the former Crowley Chair in logistics, United States Merchant Marine Academy
• Guangwen Kong, Associate Professor and Cochrane Research Fellow, Fox School of Business and Management, Temple University
• Laurent Lefouet, Chief Customer Officer, Aera Technologies
• Raj Nakum, SVP, Global Brand Supply Chain & Planning at The Estée Lauder Companies
• Hua Ni, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Analytics and Data Scientist, IBM
• Pamela Ofri, Director of Own Brands, Wakefern Food Corporation
• Erik Palkhiwala, Director, Head of Procurement, Century Therapeutics
• Sachin Samdani, Vice President, Sourcing Strategy and Planning, PVH Corp
• Sridhar Seshadri, Alan J. and Joyce D. Baltz Endowed Professor and area chair for information systems/operations management/supply chain/analytics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Debdatta Sinha Roy, Sr. Research Scientist - Operations Research and Data Science, Oracle Retail Data Science R&D
• Jaideep Vaidya, Distinguished Professor and Department Vice Chair, Management Science & Information Systems Rutgers Business School
• Yao Zhao, Professor and Co-Director of Rutgers Supply Chain Analytics Laboratory, Rutgers Business School

Moderators

• Joseph Agresta, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, Department of Supply Chain Management, Rutgers University, Formerly Vice President for Procurement, Johnson & Johnson
• Tony Bell, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, Department of Supply Chain Management, Rutgers University, Formerly Director, Supply Chain System Integration, Johnson & Johnson
• John Hellriegel, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, Department of Supply Chain Management, Rutgers University, Formerly Vice President for Global Supply Chain, The Estee Lauder Companies, Inc.
• John Impellizzeri, Director of the Rutgers Center for Supply Chain Management, Formerly CFO and CPO at Schindler Elevator
• Rudolf Leuschner, Associate Professor, Department of Supply Chain Management, Rutgers University

The 4th Online Doctoral Workshop on Supply Chain Analytics

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Learn more and Register for the 4th Annual Supply Chain Analytics Doctoral Workshop

Critical Dates

• Conference registration: by June 2, 2023
• Dissertation submission for the doctoral dissertation award competition: by May 19, 2023