Keynote
KEYNOTE #1: Kevin Callanan
EV Revolution: Why Supply Chains Must Adapt or Die
Saturday, November 23rd at 2:50pm
The rise of Electric vehicles (EVs) is reshaping global supply chains, requiring innovative strategies to manage new materials, technologies, supply chain partners, and market dynamics. To ensure their survival and competitiveness, automotive supply chains must adapt. This keynote presentation will explore the impacts of the EV revolution on supply chains, offering insights into the current state of EV supply chains, emerging challenges and opportunities, and the strategic adaptations needed for achieving resilience and success in this rapidly changing industry.
Biography
Kevin Callanan is Vice President of Supply Chain at Lucid. Kevin has broad responsibilities for the integrated supply chain, including direct and indirect procurement, supplier quality, working capital, and driving efficiency, quality, supply, and cost while ensuring a high-performing global network of strategic partners.
Prior to joining Lucid, Kevin served as Senior Vice President of R&D at Novartis and Direct Procurement at Sanofi based in Europe where he drove measurable and sustainable improvement in the life cycle development and manufacturing impacting some of the largest blockbusters in medicine while building out world-class procurement organizations.
Before that, Kevin lead all of Dell’s Services Procurement based in Shanghai transforming services procurement and supply chain into a best-in-class organization. Kevin was recruited to Apple in Cupertino where he served in a variety of leadership roles at Apple driving complex strategic commercial deals across all of Apple’s products including, IP, licensing, contract manufacturing, new product launch, marketing and advertising, corporate, construction, R&D capital equipment and leading M&A activities in procurement, operations, and supply chain.
Kevin is a serial entrepreneur involved in several successful start-ups while practicing law in New York City. Kevin earned a Master of Business Administration in Supply Chain Operations from Pennsylvania State University, a Juris Doctor degree from New York Law School, and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the State University of New York at Albany.
Kevin Callanan
Lucid
Moderator
Ken Boyer
Fisher Designated Professor of Operations and Business Analytics | The Ohio State University
KEYNOTE #2: Nada R. Sanders
AI and the Future of Business Research
Sunday, November 24 at 10 am
The digital transformation under way for several decades was merely the predicate for the AI revolution catalyzed by the global pandemic. AI is now referred to as society’s “Promethean moment.” It represents such a disruptive change that it is not sufficient to change any one thing – but requires us to change everything. We have to change how we create, how we compete, how we work, learn, collaborate, and look at problems and solutions in a very different way. Organizations have changed, work has changed, and the global operating environment has changed. So too the study of businesses and their operations must change. But how and what should we do? Based on latest research involving CEO interviews we look at how the study of business problems should evolve and what researchers need to do now.
Biography
Dr. Nada R. Sanders
Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management
Northeastern University
Dr. Sanders is an internationally recognized thought leader and expert on forecasting, global supply chains, risk and resilience, and human-technology integration. She holds a PhD in Operations Management from The Ohio State University and is the Distinguished Professor at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. Throughout her career Nada has successfully held a range of leadership roles in both academic and professional organizations, is an award winning scholar, has served on numerous executive boards, and is a frequently called upon keynote speaker. She has consulted with leading organizations, including Amazon, Dell, Kinaxis, Lego, and many others.
She is author of seven books, including The Humachine: Humankind, Machines, and the Future of Enterprise, 2nd ed. (Routledge, 2024), is highly published in leading scholarly journals, including, Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Production and Operations Management Journal, Journal of Operations Management, and was ranked as World’s Top 2% of Scientist by Stanford Study.
She is a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute, has served on the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Forecasters (IIF), Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), and is Past-President of the Production Operations Management Society (POMS), an organization that in 2020 created an award in her name for her contribution. She is a frequent keynote speaker, has consulted with numerous Fortune 100 companies, and serves on the Board of Economic Advisors of the Association of Industries of Massachusetts (AIM).
Nada R. Sanders
Northeastern University
Moderator
Bekki Brau
Assistant Professor | Brigham Young University