Benjamin Lowe is a Senior Manager at Verizon and leads business intelligence for the Global Supply Chain which includes analytics, data engineering, master data management and reporting.  He is involved in advancing supply chains, which includes the digitizing the supply chain.  Formerly, he was the director of the Bell Labs, North America and technical manager doing research on supply chains in Dublin, Ireland.

Ben has BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from John Hopkins University and an MBA from Columbia University and holds several patents and received various awards including the Shingo Prize for Manufacturing Excellence, IndustryWeek Best Plants Award, NJ’s Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award and several Bell Lab’s Gold and Silver awards.

Demystifying Blockchains

Blockchains are about to change the world.  Find out how this new technology is shaping and moving beyond the bitcoin hype. In this talk, Ben will attempt to reveal the principle behind Blockchain, explain how other companies have applied it to supply chains and describe the mechanism of the technology and relationship to digital currencies.

Audience:

- Students interested in next-generation technologies

- Supply chain practitioners

- Supply chain managers

- Finance practitioners interested in digital currencies

- Computer scientists