Conference 2024 – How Generative AI Supports the Optimization of Sustainable & Innovative Value Network Processes
| BUSINESS & ACADEMIC PARTNERSHIP Supply Chain Management for Efficient Consumer Response Hybrid Conference Program 17-18 October 2024 ————————————————————————— 15th Supply Chain Management for Efficient Consumer Response Conference How Generative AI Supports the Optimization of Sustainable & Innovative Value Network Processes First day – Thursday 17 October 2024 09:00 – 09:30 Recording presentations/Connection 09:30 – 10:00 (Bucharest Time Zone – Eastern European Summer Time (EEST), UTC +3) Inauguration Hybrid Session – Welcome Speech OXFORD Hall Valahia University of Târgoviște Time: Oct 17, 2024, 09:30 AM Bucharest (GMT+3) Chairmans Host & Organizers: Virgil POPA and Ruediger HAGEDORN 9:30 – 9:40 Welcome address by the Conference Host & Organizer Virgil POPA 9:40 – 9:45 Welcome address by the Conference, Host & Organizer Ruediger HAGEDORN 9:45 – 9:50 Welcome address by the Conference, Academic Chairman Theodor PURCĂREA 9:50 – 9:55 Welcome address by the Vice Rector Valahia University of Târgoviște Professor Daniel Emil Constantin DUNEA, PhD. ing. hab. 1st Hybrid Session 9:30 – 16:15 Conference Presenter – Alina TĂBÎRCĂ, Assist. Prof., Ph.D. Time: Oct 17, 2024, 9:30 AM Bucharest (GMT+3) Session Chairman: Professor Theodor PURCAREA 10.00 – 10:45 Speaker: Professor Virgil POPA Ph.D. (On-site) Founder & Coordinator of Supply Chain Management for Efficient Consumer Response Conferences Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Supply Chain Management Journal Valahia University of Târgoviște Generative AI – Integrator of new Technologies for the Reliability and Sustainability of Supply Chains 10:45 – 11:00 Discussion & Change connection 11:00- 11:20 Keynote Speaker: Professor Michael BOURLAKIS Ph.D. (Online) Director of Research for Cranfield School of Management Group Head (Logistics, Procurement and Supply Chain Management) and Director of Centre for Logistics & Supply chain Management – Cranfield University How food supply chain members collaborate to support disadvantaged consumers in light of the current economic challenges that consumers face going to food banks 11:20 –11:30 Discussion & Change connection 11:30 – 12:30 Coffee break 12:30 – 13:15 Speaker: Assistant Professor Gökhan KIRBAÇ and Mehmet Zikrullah BODUR (Online) Head of the Air Logistics Department Istanbul Kültür University, Turkey The Impact of Blockchain Technology on Reliability and Sustainability of Global Food Supply and Demand Chains 13:15 – 13:30 Discussion & change connection 13:30 –14:15 Speakers: Professor Costel NEGRICEA Ph.D. Hab and Dr. Matei PURCĂREA (Romanian American University) (On-site) A Pressing Issue in Higher Education: Developing AI Literacy, Getting Students Ready for the Gen AI-Driven Workforce, Considering Supply Chains’ Social, Economic, and Environmental Impact at Each Stage of E2E Process in SCM 14:15 – 14:30 Discussion & change connection (Online from China) Director End-to-End Value Chain & Standards Pillar The Consumer Goods Forum AI-Powered Supply Chains: Predicting the Unpredictable And Dr. Gerd WOLFRAM (Online from Germany) CEO and Owner IoT Innovation & Consult I Partner Digital Connection I Author I Cologne Area, Germany Management Consulting to Consumer Goods Forum – Paris 15:00 – 15:15 Discussion & change connection 15:15 – 15:40 Speaker: Associate Professor – Ed LINDOO (Online from Denver – Colorado, USA) Regis University Denver – Colorado, USA 1st. Effectively teaching supply chain logistics by way of the anyLogisticx and 2nd. Generative AI and its Impact on the CS Classroom and Programmers 15:40 – 15:45 Discussion & change connection 15:45 – 16.10 Speakers: Assoc. Prof. Marta STAROSTKA-PATYK Ph.D. Hab., Helena KOŚCIELNIAK and Paulina Grunt (Online) Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland From Industry 4.0 to Supply Chain 4.0 – How Digital Transformation Shapes SCM Processes with Modern ICT Solutions 16:10 – 16:15 Discussion & change connection Second day – Friday 18 October 2024 2nd Hybrid Session 10:00 – 13:45 (Bucharest Time Zone – Eastern European Summer Time (EEST), GMT +3) Conference Presenter – Alina TĂBÎRCĂ, Assist. Prof., Ph.D. Session Chairman: Professor Theodor PURCAREA 10:00 – 10:25 Speakers: Col. Prof. Tomasz JAŁOWIEC, Ph.D. Hab. and Katarzyna PIETRZYK- WISZOWATY Ph.D. (Online) War Studies University, Poland Innovations in Military Supply Chains Management 10:25 – 10:30 Discussion & change connection 10:30 – 11:15 Keynote Speaker: Professor Theodor PURCĂREA (On-site) Professor at the Romanian American University Member of the Advisory Board of the Romanian Competition Council President of the Romanian Distribution Committee Advancing Value Chain Analysis and Data-Driven Decisions Regarding Sustainable Value Chains, Improving Supply Chains’ Performance by Valorizing LLMs and Intensifying Compliance 11:15 – 11:20 Discussion & change connection 11:20 – 11:55 Speaker: Associate Prof. Mihaela ȘTEȚ, Ph.D. ing. (Online) Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania Greening the Supply Chains using Generative AI Capabilities to Optimize Transportation Networks 11:55 – 12:00 Discussion & change connection 12:00 – 12.25 Speaker: Professor Borna ABRAMOVIC Ph.D. (Online) Head of Chair of Railway Transport Management University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences Department of Railway Transport How the AI can help us in Supply Chain Management? 12:25 – 12:30 Discussion & change connection 12:30 – 13:00 Coffee break 13:00 – 13:25 Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Paula BAJDOR, Ph.D. Hab. (Online) Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland Evaluating Current and Future Impacts of Cloud Computing on Enterprise Operations: A Comparative Analysis 12:25 – 13:30 Discussion & change connection 13:30 – 13:45 Conclusions and Conference Closing Speech |