Julian SK Tan is the AP leader for IBM's Supply Chain Transformation Analytics Solutions team. He has a strong passion for developing Cognitive Analytics technologies for IBM's Enterprise Mainframes, Servers and Storage Technologies in managing and avoidance of quality issues within the supply chain.
Over the course of his career, he has held several technical roles revolving around data storage and analytics. He started his career in IBM as a Critical Situations manager in the data storage business. His role later expanded to include Supplier management roles as well as assuming responsibility for electronic technologies qualification. He most recently became the senior manager for the Analytics Solutions team and is also IBM Singapore’s Quantum Business Dev Leader.
He has won several local and international awards for use of AI and Blockchain in solving supply chain challenges. He was named the prestigious global 2017 Frost & Sullivan (F&S) Manufacturing Leadership Visionary Leadership Award recipient for his work around artificial intelligence in the quality practice, which also contributed to IBM being named 2018 F&S Large Enterprise Manufacturer of the Year Award.
He speaks frequently at technology conferences globally, owns 6 patents around technology and analytics and has also published 9 technical papers.
Presentation Title:
Keynote 2: Predicting - Building a Cognitive Enterprise
In an increasingly volatile global supply chain landscape, it has become more vital to detect problems as quickly as possible than ever before. Even a small delay in detecting any problems can have big costs and impact to revenue, like missed-orders, product rework or recall of defective products, higher costs in warranty claims, loss of customer satisfaction and so on. Through IBM’s supply chain journey, see how cognitive technologies are used on the quality front to analyze big data to track product performance and predicted quality issues enabling us to take proactive actions…These AI technologies helped IBM save millions of dollars per year.
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