Past Events Archive

Distinguished Speaker Series: Robert C. Johns, Director and Associate Administrator at Volpe

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Robert C. Johns
Director and Associate Administrator at Volpe, The National Transportation Systems Center

Volpe has been helping the transportation community navigate the most challenging problems for more than 40 years. As the National Transportation Systems Center, its mission is to improve transportation by anticipating and addressing emerging issues and advancing technical, operational, and institutional innovations across all modes.

Robert C. Johns serves as director and associate administrator of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems...

Supply Chain Leadership Workshop

MIT CTL Headquarters

The SC Leadership Workshop is the first of a series of workshops that will be focused on the leadership skill challenges facing supply chain leaders today. The workshop series will be conducted by MIT CTL’s Dr. Shalom Saar, who teaches leadership at MIT and several other institutions globally.

This first session will be an intense workshop focused on exploring the importance of leadership development and effectively managing talent within the organization.  The session will bring 32 senior executives from MIT CTL Supply Chain Exchange (SCE) partner companies who can impact or influence human...

Distinguished Speaker Series: Pier Luigi Sigismondi, Chief Supply Officer at Unilever

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Pier Luigi Sigismondi
Chief Supply Chain Officer at Unilever

 A World Class Supply Chain that Delivers Sustainable and Profitable Growth

Unilever's vision is to double the size of its business while reducing its environmental footprint and increasing its positive social impact. The supply chain, through its unique model of leveraging global scale whilst maintaining local agility through a set of world class capabilities, is proving to be a true competitive advantage for the business. Learn how the supply chain is at the heart of Unilever's world renown sustainability program and is driving...

Distinguished Speaker Series: Practicing Leadership

Massachusetts Institute of Technology E51-325

Stephen J. Szilagyi
Supply Chain Executive, Lowe’s Companies, Inc.

Practicing Leadership
The first talk in MIT CTL's Distinguished Speakers series is here! As Supply Chain Executive at Lowe’s Companies, Inc., Steve Szilagyi oversees a logistics and distribution network that serves all 1,745 Lowe’s stores. During this talk, Steve will discuss the critical role of leadership as well as his 25+ years of supply chain experience. 

Steve Szilagyi was named Lowe’s Supply Chain Executive in January 2013. He is responsible for serving the team that leads Lowe’s inventory management, transportation...

Counting Carbon: Lessons from the South African Fruit and Wine Industry Initiative

Register: https://mit.webex.com/mit/j.php?ED=39390858&RG=1&UID=0&RT=MiMxMQ%3D%3D

Speaker: Shelly Fuller, Project Manager for the Confronting Climate Change: Fruit & Wine Industry Initiative

The South African fruit and wine industry exports 2.2 megatons of fruit and 412,000,000 liters of wine each year. As the threat of climate change continues to mount, governmental bodies and retailers are beginning to consider labeling schemes and other measures to track and reduce carbon emissions. In addition, the price of fuel will likely continue to rise, providing a potentially more significant incentive to reduce fossil fuel consumption. In response, the South African Fruit and Wine Industry worked together to develop a calculation methodology and local data set to help growers understand...

Future City Living, Civic News Participation, and Community Logistics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The purpose of the debate will be to discuss the city role in the rapid advance of the digital economy (DE) (e.g. the Internet of things, Cloud Computing paradigm, Big Data) and the advance of futuristic urban logistics, data driven news media models and smart city designs. The primary aim of this debate will be focused on answering the following questions:

1. In what ways are changes in digital technology (the internet and social media) impacting on the economic and social well-being of communities?
2. How can we encourage young people to become involved with the future social and economic...

Visualization Analytics Roundtable

Visualization Analytics Roundtable

• The roundtable will run from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM - location will be the MIT Faculty Club
• Attendance is invitation only with a priority to CTL Supply Chain Exchange members.  Limit of 1 person per company (with limited exceptions)
• Total attendance is capped at 36 people (not including MIT)

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SCALE Alumni ReConnect 2013

MIT Campus

MIT SCALE RECONNECT (for alumni of our SCM, ZLOG, MSCM, and GCLOG programs)

The annual MIT SCALE Alumni ReConnect welcomes alumni back to campus to network with each other and continue their professional education. Wednesday Evening Reception in Hayden Library Courtyard and Thursday Seminar in Room E51-315.

Crossroads 2013: SCM as Future Enabler: Reinventing Markets (partner page)

Wong Auditorium @ the Tang Building (E51) (Map)

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SCM as Future Enabler
Reinventing markets with faster, nimbler, smarter supply chains  

Forty years ago when the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) was founded, trade between the US and China was non-existent, freight transportation was heavily regulated, floppy disks with a capacity of 3,000 punched cards stored data, data storage cost thousands of dollars per megabyte, the first IBM PC was eight years away, and the UPC barcode had just been introduced.

Fast forward to 2013, and innovations such as cloud computing and high-speed robots are transforming the way...

Crossroads 2013 - SCM as Future Enabler

MIT Building E51 - Tang Center Wong Auditorium

Reinventing markets with faster, nimbler, smarter supply chains  

Forty years ago when the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) was founded, trade between the US and China was non-existent, freight transportation was heavily regulated, floppy disks with a capacity of 3,000 punched cards stored data, data storage cost thousands of dollars per megabyte, the first IBM PC was eight years away, and the UPC barcode had just been introduced.

Fast forward to 2013, and innovations such as cloud computing and high-speed robots are transforming the way companies operate. The pace of...