Speaker Event - Blockchain
The CSCMP Raleigh Roundtable Chapter invites you to join us for networking, dinner and a presentation on Blockchain on Wednesday, September 12th from 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm. What is Blockchain? The Blockchain is the protocol which makes Bitcoin (the cryptocurrency) possible but it is much more. It has attributes which make it very attractive for business applications as well. It makes possible a shared, replicated, and distributed ledger of transactions that can be utilized by a business network. These attributes include privacy through cryptography, transactions requiring consensus amongst members of the network, and smart contracts which enable business rules to be embedded in the blockchain. These combine to provide security, provenance, immutability, and finality. There are use cases in the world of Finance, Supply Chain, the Internet of Things, Digital Identities, Healthcare, and Government to name a few. The talk will cover What is Blockchain?, Why is it relevant for Business?, and show some Example Use Cases.
About the presenter:
Steve Rogers has been at IBM for 35 years. He joined IBM in Charlotte, NC in 1981 as an Industrial Engineer after receiving a BSIE degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 1986 he joined finance after receiving an MBA from the Babcock School at Wake Forest. He was the Division Controller for the PC business for both the Americas - headquartered in Raleigh, NC and Europe, ME, & Africa - headquartered in Paris, France. Later he became the Server Group Controller for Manufacturing where he had responsibility for all IBM’s server manufacturing locations worldwide and had a seat on IBM’s Corporate Manufacturing Operations Board in Somers, NY. In January of 2002 Steve joined the newly formed IBM Integrated Supply Chain organization as the Director of Supply Chain for the Retail Store Solutions business then VP for Demand/Supply and Inventory Planning for all IBM hardware brands. In June of 2006 Steve transferred to the role VP of Supply Chain for System X and Storage where he was responsible for the end to end supply chain execution for two separate multi-billion dollar brands. In August of 2008 he took on the newly created role of Supply Chain VP for Software, Services and Solutions. In July of 2013 he became VP of Supply Chain Transformation with responsibility for Manufacturing, Planning, Procurement, and Logistics with the recent addition of Asset Management. In April Steve has been named as the VP of Blockchain Initiatives for Supply Chain within the Blockchain business unit. Steve has served on the Advisory Board of the Georgia Tech School of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
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