"Supply Chain Secrets for Warp-Speed Resilience” Who better to chat with FedEx about planning for and securely navigating supply chain disruptions than the “visionary logistician” responsible for leading the most successful vaccine development and distribution effort in history? General Gustave Perna explains how he identifies supply chain weaknesses, how he leverages technology and AI to test for and mitigate operational risk, how he manages security assurance (including cybersecurity) and makes use of redundancy to ensure future flexibility.
Red Hat® subject matter experts will review & demonstrate Red Hat Decision Manager and OptaPlanner. OptaPlanner is a lightweight embeddable planning engine. It uses artificial intelligence optimization algorithms to solve planning and scheduling challenges.
Who should attend? Executives, architects, developers, and anyone interested in supply chain
In-person Time: 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM CT Location: Marriott Memphis East *In-person event terms and conditions All attendees at in-person Red Hat events must be masked, except when eating/drinking. All attendees must be fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. |
Virtual Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CT *A virtual meeting link will be sent before the event |
General Gustave Perna, Leader of Coronavirus Task Force’s ‘Operation Warp Speed’ vaccine deployment and Supply Chain Expert
Gus Perna, USA (ret.) served as Chief Operating Officer of Operation Warp Speed, the public-private partnership behind the most successful vaccine deployment effort in global history. While most vaccines take a minimum of four years “from lab to jab,” Perna and his team completed their mission in less than 12 months, delivering over 390 million COVID-19 vaccines between December of 2020 and July of 2021. He accomplished similar feats in previous commands, solving the Army’s housing crisis and streamlining the fighting force’s global supply chain. A natural storyteller known for his just-get-it-done attitude, Perna’s principles of leadership, teamwork, secure operations, supply chain mastery, logistics and strategy show business leaders how to make their own organizations hum with “warp-speed” resilience.
Jeremy Davis, Chief Architect for App Dev Technologies, Red Hat
Jeremy works with Red Hat's customers to design and deliver applications. Before joining Red Hat® he wrote a lot of code in C, C#Groovy, JavaScript, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Visual Basic, and of course Java.
Geoffrey De Smet, Lead Engineer, Red Hat
Geoffrey is the founder and lead of OptaPlanner, the open source AI constraint solver in Java™ that is used across the globe to automatically solve employee rostering, vehicle routing, task assignment, maintenance scheduling, and other planning problems.
Jeremy and Geoffrey De Smet, OptaPlanner Lead Engineer, will review Red Hat Decision Manager, OptaPlanner followed by a demonstration.
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Registration check-in & networking | 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM CT |
Buffet lunch | 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM CT |
Streaming keynote speaker: General Gus Perna
“Supply Chain Secrets for Warp-Speed Resilience”
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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CT |
OptaPlanner Product Presentation & Demo | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CT |
Close & adjourn | 3:00 PM CT |
SESSION | TIME |
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Streaming keynote speaker: General Gus Perna “Supply Chain Secrets for Warp-Speed Resilience” |
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CT |
Location:
Marriott Memphis East
5795 Poplar Avenue
Memphis, Tennessee 38119
In-person time: 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM CT
Virtual time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CT
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