TWI Webinar - Digital Supply Chain Hub

TWI and the Digital Supply Chain Hub

TWI experts have been supporting the growth of the Made Smarter Innovation | Digital Supply Chain Hub programme by presenting at workshops, attending break-out discussion groups, as well as networking and engaging with our Industrial Members to assist their introduction to the Hub.

The network already includes manufacturing professionals, tech experts, suppliers, buyers, entrepreneurs, and influencers, this free to attend webinar will outline how the hub provides an additional resource for companies to connect with others in industry.

Agenda

12:00 - Digitally Empowered Supply Chains
Tim Stephenson Digital Supply Chain Business Partner Digital Catapult

12:05 - NICE Flagship Presentation
Esther Lau Product Owner Digital Catapult

12:15 - Interoperability Flagship Presentation
Hassan Mahmud Lead Technologist - AI/ML Digital Catapult

12:25 - CMBEE Flagship Presentation
Ben Hopper Principal Research Engineer National Composite Centre (NCC)

12:35 - Intro to Testbeds
Tim Lawrence Director of Digital Supply Chain Hub Digital Catapult

12:40 - Hydrogen Testbed
See Wah Cheng Head of Product Hydrologiq

12:50 - Supply Chain Resilience
Alok Choudhary Professor of Supply Chain Management & Head of Supply Chain Group at WMG University of Warwick

13:00 - Future of Supply Chains
Tim Lawrence Director of Digital Supply Chain Hub Digital Catapult

13:05 - Q&A
All presenters

13:30 - End

Speakers

Tim Lawrence

Director of Digital Supply Chain, Digital Catapult

Tim is Director of Digital Supply Chain at Digital Catapult leading a £30m programme to build a Digital Supply Chain Hub to accelerating digital innovation in UK Supply Chains funded through Made Smarter Innovation and Industry.

Tim has extensive experience in improving global supply chains working within the Automotive, Consumer Goods, Aerospace, Defence, Construction, Life Science and Industrial Sectors. His experience includes 25 years in supply chain consultancy, leading companies to deliver transformation in their business and operations focused on strategy, operating model and organisational design, digital supply chain, restructuring and performance improvement. He has extensive global experience having worked across 16 different countries in Europe, US and Middle East advising over 50 different companies in that time.

An inspirational thought leader, Tim develops leading insights into global supply chain management, digital and manufacturing and is regularly quoted in the press and speaks on these topics at conference platforms across Europe.

Esther Lau

Product Owner, Digital Catapult

Esther is a Product Owner at Digital Catapult, with experience in AI startups and supply chain innovation ecosystems.At Digital Catapult, she works on impactful projects, including CM-NICE (Critical Minerals - Network Insight Collaboration Environment), which supports collaboration across supply chains by enabling trusted and privacy-preserving data sharing. She also plays a key role in building and delivering features for Veritable, a platform for digitising trust relationships in the supply chain, via facilitating secure, verifiable B2B communication, empowering businesses to manage their digital identities and data sharing with confidence.

Hassan Mahmud

Lead Technologist - AI/ML, Digital Catapult

Hassan is an AI/ML scientist with 15 years of experience across academia and industry, all in AI/ML. At Digital Catapult he leads the Cutting Edge AI Technologies Team. Prior to that, he worked as a data scientist in industry and built and deployed first of its kind machine learning systems in sectors such as anti financial crime and supply chain control and optimisation. He has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was a research fellow in AI/ML at the Australian National University and the University of Edinburgh. His interests and  research covers a broad spectrum of AI/ML, from foundational theory, to practically effective methods and to robotics.

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