2024 Supply Chain Analytics Institute Annual Conference
Theme: Move beyond AI Hype: Analytic Approach for Managing Supply Chains
This conference is hosted by the Supply Chain Analytics Institute, the Department of Supply Chain Management at Rutgers Business School.
Sessions will be held on two separate days: June 6 and 7, 2024. The tentative conference schedule can be found here.
Pricing:
- Individual (non-student): $100
- Student: $10
- Corporate group: $500 (only one person has to sign up/create an account and pay for the whole group. Please then email the names, email addresses and titles of the additional attendees from your company/organization/university to Nora Driscoll at ndriscoll@business.rutgers.edu)
The registration fee covers the 2024 annual conference registration, with dinner on June 6 and breakfast, lunch, and coffee breaks on June 6-7 included, along with the SCAI Webinars in Quarters 3 and 4 of 2024 and Quarter 1 of 2025. Each webinar costs $10/person (non-student) or $5/student if being registered separately.
Doctoral Dissertation Awards
We invite doctoral dissertations to compete for the dissertation awards (1st prize $3000, 2nd prize $2000, and 3rd prize $1000.)
Critical Dates
- Conference registration: by May 31, 2024
- Dissertation submission for the doctoral dissertation award competition: by May 17, 2024
Keynote Speakers

Arun Kumar Bhaskara-Baba, Global Chief Digital and Information Officer, Honeywell Aerospace

Jane Connell, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Verizon

Wendy Herrick, Senior Vice President, Head of Customer Operations, North America, Unilever

Michael Luber, Vice President of Business Transformation & Operational Excellence at Liberty Coca-Cola

Hua Ni, Distinguished Engineer, Chief Analytics & Data Scientist, IBM

Warren Powell, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University/Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, Optimal Dynamics

Norman Sadeh, Professor, the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University

Tim Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA)

Huseyin Topaloglu, Amazon Scholar and Howard and Eleanor Morgan Professor at Cornell University

Yao Zhao, Professor and Co-Director of Rutgers Supply Chain Analytics Laboratory, Rutgers Business School
Panelists

Erez Agmoni, Global Head of Innovation, Maersk

Kostas Bekris, Professor, Computer Science, Rutgers University

Esra Buyuktahtakin Toy, Associate Professor, Grado Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech

Mitch Cahn, President, Unionwear

Hao Dong, Senior Director, Global Readiness, AI and Service Cloud, Salesforce

Charles Eaton, Commander, United States Navy; Executive Officer and Assistant Professor of Naval Science, Navy ROTC, Rutgers and Princeton University.

Brendan Englot, Geoffrey S. Inman Junior Professor and Director, Stevens Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ken Fordyce, Director, Analytics without Borders, Arkieva

Mahesh Harvu, Transformation Strategist & Advisor, Microsoft

Jeffrey Hermann, Chairman & CEO, Hermann Services, Inc

Qingwei Li, Principal ML/AI Specialist, Amazon Web Services

Michael Magent, Director, Data Science, Air Products

Subbiah Mahalingam, Vice President, Digital Transformation, Technology & Global Services, Becton, Dickinson and Company

Evren Ozkaya, Founder and CEO, SCW.AI by Supply Chain Wizard.

JD Risson, President, Eyeon USA Inc.

George Yuhasz, Vice President, Global Head of Analytics Product & Solution Delivery, Digital Technology & Innovation, Fresenius Medical Care
Conference Organization Committee
- Joseph Agresta, Director of MS in Supply Chain Analytics Program, Rutgers University, Formerly Vice President for Procurement, Johnson & Johnson
- John Impellizzeri, Director of the Rutgers Center for Supply Chain Management, Formerly CFO and CPO at Schindler Elevator
- Lian Qi, Chair and Professor, Department of Supply Chain Management, Rutgers University
- Sundar Raman, Director of Road to Supply Chain Leadership Program, Department of Supply Chain Management, Rutgers University, Formerly Vice President for Global Supply Chain, The Estee Lauder Companies, Inc.
Sponsors
Price
This event is $10.00 - $500.00