Supply Chain Intelligence: Can AI Help You Manage Your Supply Chain?
Speakers
Matt Ekroth
EMEA Corporate Data Strategy
Bloomberg
Matthew leads EMEA Corporates Supply Chain and Data Strategy at Bloomberg in London. Matthew specializes in advising and working with clients on data strategy matters, focusing on supply chain management, sustainability and on incorporating external data into company operations. Prior to joining Bloomberg, he spent over 18 years as a quantitative portfolio manager at firms including Goldman Sachs and Citigroup in New York and London. More recently he headed data strategy for equities trading at Morgan Stanley in London. Matthew holds an MSc in Finance from London Business School.
Risto Miikkulainen
VP of AI Research
Cognizant
Risto Miikkulainen is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin and a VP of AI Research Cognizant AI Labs. He received an M.S. in Engineering from Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University) in 1986, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 1990. His current research focuses on methods and applications of AI in decision-making, particularly those based on neuroevolution and generative AI, as well as neural network models of natural language processing and vision; he is an author of over 500 articles in these research areas. At Cognizant, and previously as a CTO of Sentient Technologies, he is scaling up these approaches to real-world problems. Risto is an AAAI, IEEE, and INNS Fellow; his work on neuroevolution has recently been recognized with the IEEE CIS Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award, the Gabor Award of the International Neural Network Society, and Outstanding Paper of the Decade Award of the International Society for Artificial Life.