Lora Cecere is the Founder of Supply Chain Insights. She works with supply chain leaders to take teams to higher levels of excellence.

Her research firm Supply Chain Insights is paving new directions in building thought-leading supply chain research. Lora loves to write and research is in her veins. She is the author of the enterprise software blog “Supply Chain Shaman.” and her book, Metrics that Matter publishes in December 2014.

As an enterprise strategist, Lora focuses on the changing face of enterprise technologies. Her research is designed for the early adopter seeking first mover advantage. Current research topics include the digital consumer, supply chain sensing, demand shaping and revenue management, market-driven value networks, accelerating innovation through open design networks, the evolution of predictive analytics, emerging business intelligence solutions, and technologies to improve safe and secure product delivery.

She comes to the stage with over 35 years of diverse supply chain experience. She has spent nine years as an industry analyst with Gartner Group, AMR Research, Altimeter Group and is now the founder of her own firm. Prior to becoming a supply chain analyst, she spent fifteen years as a leader in the building of supply chain software at Manugistics and Descartes Systems Group, and twenty years as a supply chain practitioner at Procter & Gamble, Kraft/General Foods, Clorox, and Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream (now a division of Nestle).

Praveen Kombial Is the Global Sales Head at EdgeVerve, an Infosys company, managing relationships, alliances, solution consulting and customer success. His mandate is to leverage the EdgeVerve product lines of Automation, Digitization, Artificial Intelligence and Supply chain Networks to drive a digital transformation agenda with Global 2K companies.

Prior to Infosys, Praveen spent many years at GE Capital and GE Money in India and did a gamut of functions and roles across Retail and Commercial Finance and Risk management.

The Digital and AI industry is at the cusp of building scale and Praveen and his team are involved in solving for scale connected automation, multi enterprise networks, SaaS platforms and all such aspects that truly help build a Connected Enterprise.

With his background across core Industry domains and the evolving cutting edge technology landscape, Praveen is on the forefront of driving change and brings a practitioner’s view to translate concepts to reality.

Global Head of Data, Analytics & AI for Consumer Goods, Retail, Logistics & Manufacturing, Infosys