REFASHIOND Sequential Decision Analytics March2021

REFASHIOND Ventures Executive Salon Series / MARCH 2021 KEYNOTE Speaker - Warren Powell, Professor Emeritus of Princeton University and Cofounder of Optimal Dynamics Sequential Decision Analytics: A New Field for Supply Chain Management Every business has to make a sequence of decisions, with new information arriving after each decision. Management has to optimize decisions spanning the entire range from designing supply chains, planning inventories, managing people and equipment, pricing, marketing, and even financial planning. Uncertainty pervades each of these decisions. In this invitation-only executive salon, Warren Powell, Professor Emeritus of Princeton University and cofounder of Optimal Dynamics, will discuss a new framework, developed over 40 years of research at Princeton working with industry, for making decisions in the presence of different forms of uncertainty in a broad range of business contexts, but centered on the range of challenges within supply chain management. Moderated Fireside Chat Warren Powell, Cofounder, Optimal Dynamics Kara Yokley, Principal, RRDS Chicago Dirk Robers, Corporate Digital Strategy & Disruption, Cargill Brian Aoaeh, Cofounder & GP of REFASHIOND Ventures and Cofounder of The Worldwide Supply Chain Federation