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Rhett is the Director for Asia IT and Smart Manufacturing at Allegro MicroSystems. Since joining in 2014, he has transformed the company’s manufacturing capabilities from a traditional, manual-based production facility to a digitally centered organization, utilizing enabling technologies such as IIoT, digital twins, equipment automation, data analytics, low-code development, MES, SCADA, and more. He has over 20 years of experience in semiconductor and high-tech manufacturing, working for Amkor Technology, Cypress Semiconductor, and REMEC Broadband Wireless. Rhett has been pushing for greater Smart Manufacturing adoption in the Philippines through his work with the Philippine government, speaking seminars in higher education institutions, and, as Chairman of SEIPI’s (Semiconductor and Electronics Industries of the Philippines) Industry 4.0 Technical Working Group, who’s charter is to drive more industry 4.0 implementation for semiconductor and electronics manufacturers in the Philippines. In partnership with MESA International, he co-authored the Philippine Smart Manufacturing Maturity Index, a baseline tool used by the Philippine government to measure Smart Manufacturing adoption in the country. Rhett is a graduate of Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.
I am responsible for tracking Digital Transformation and the Internet of Things (IoT) at Counterpoint Research. I have over two decades of rich industry experience having worked with large tech companies like Accenture, Airtel, Nokia, and Microsoft in the past.
Before joining Counterpoint, I was the co-founder & CEO of a start-up in the competitive and market intelligence space utilizing big data and AI. I am a keen follower of the developments in devices and key internet technologies like IoT, Blockchain, AI, etc.
Han Tiong is APJC lead for Manufacturing and Industrial Sector, ISG at Cisco. He leads Cisco’s boardroom relevance in the Manufacturing industries to help our customers accelerate their digital transformation journeys. We do this by aligning Cisco’s unified technology platform & digital capabilities to our customer's business imperatives.
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Han Tiong is a strong leader in Industrial Sector. In his 30 years of industry experiences, he leads Industrial sector for HP, IBM, Microsoft and Cisco in the Asia Pacific. In my jobs, I love to customer achieved sustainable business performance and agility breakthrough through operation and digital maturity. Operation maturity refers to documented and optimized processes within an organization where it can be measured by assessing how well-defined and repeatable processes are, how well they are documented, and how effectively they are being followed. Digital maturity refers to organization’s ability to leverage on shifting trends of technology to create hyper aware operation to create agile informed decision making and execution. In my works, I witness, understand, document, and improve on operation and digital maturity of top industrial leaders of Asia Pacific.
Soumen is a Senior Research Analyst who is tracking IoT, Automotive and Telecommunication ecosystem at Counterpoint Technology Market Research. He is interested in IoT applications, connections, components, electric vehicles, connected cars, autonomous vehicles, semiconductors, shared mobility, services and emerging technologies.
He started his career as an Energy Analyst with Manikaran Power Ltd. He has experience in working with DISCOMs and SLDCs in Indian power and energy industry.
He is currently based in Gurgaon. He holds an Electrical Engineering degree and MBA in Marketing & Finance.
David is the Co-Director of the Continental-NTU Corporate Lab which is a joint lab with Nanyang Technological University (NTU) focusing on developing technologies for future urban mobility applications. He also took on the role of Director (Academic Liaison) in Continental Automotive Singapore from 1 Nov 2018 to manage innovation activities with universities, research institutes and startups. Before that, he was with Airbus Singapore for 12 years, managing research projects aimed at adapting state-of-the-art technologies for increasing operational efficiency of aircraft maintenance. David started his career in 2004 as a Senior Officer at Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR), looking after the development of R&D strategies and partnerships for research institutes under the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) as well as managing research grants. He obtained a Diploma in Electronics, Computer and Communication Engineering from Singapore Polytechnic in 1994. In 2000, he graduated from NTU with a Bachelor's Degree in Applied Science with Honours (First Class). He went on to obtain a Ph.D. in Data Mining from NTU in 2004. His research interests include association rule mining, classification, cluster analysis, and stream mining. He has published several papers in top journals and conferences including the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) and the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). He is married with one son and is an avid writer, blogger and Youtuber. He also has a Diploma in Freelance Journalism and his portfolio can be found at www.davidwoon.com. Feel free to connect with him here too: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwoonyewkwong/
More than 22 years of experience in Supply Chain, Logistics, business consulting domain in variety of Industries and Geography. Professional experiences include procurement management, business processes re-engineering, Subject Matter Expert (SME), SCM & Logistics business operations and supply chain & logistics solution implementation and business consulting/ Solution Architecture.
Role & Responsibility: Manage various strategic business functional roles such as SME, Buyer, Customs Process, logistics solution owner, SCM & Logistics consulting, business process re-engineering, pre-sales, vendor & 3PL Management, project/program manager & strategic customer account management etc. Had opportunities to interact with variety of customers and LSP such as NIKE, POLO, Esprit, LG, Samsung, Dell, Infineon, Dole Fresh Vegetables, Caterpillar, Motorola, Timex, Huawei, Millipore, Infocus, 3M, DHL, FedEx, UPS, DB schenker, Expeditors, Nippon, SDV, TNT, Toll Logistics, Panalpina, K&N, Kerry Logistics and local LSP.
Skill & Expertise: Excellent problem solving & analytical skills with strong negotiation ability, the primary area of expertise is include different functional of SCM /Logistics such as Procurement, Logistics management, Customs, Air / Ocean freight, international shipment optimizer, shipment consolidation, contract logistics, Domestic Transportation & Distribution, warehouse management, network optimization, Sales & Operation Planning, Demand Forecasting, order fulfillment, Master Planning, Inventory Planning, Capacity Planning, Factory Planning, manufacturing & Scheduling etc.
Industry Experience: Various industries including Retail, Hi-tech and Telecommunication, Semiconductor, Consumer Electronics, Consumer Products, FMCG, Energy & Utility Medical & life Science and Automotive etc.
Geography: Extensively traveled /worked in more than 50+ countries in North America, Europe and APAC Region.