Lora Cecere: Lora Cecere is the founder of the research firm Supply Chain Insights. She is co-author of the new books Bricks Matter and Metrics that Matter. She is also the author of the enterprise software blog Supply Chain Shaman. Lora has more than 30 years of diverse supply chain experience, and spent 9 years as an industry analyst with Gartner Group, AMR Research, and Altimeter Group. Prior to becoming a supply chain analyst she spent 15 years as a leader in the building of supply chain software at Manugistics and Descartes Systems Group, and several years as a supply chain practitioner at Procter & Gamble, Kraft/General Foods, Clorox, and Dreyers Grand Ice Cream (now a division of Nestle).

 Igor Rikalo: Igor Rikalo is President and Chief Operations

Officer at o9 Solutions, a leading software company that is powering enterprise planning and decisioning models across 30-plus industry verticals with its groundbreaking, AI-powered Digital Brain platform. Igor oversees the global operations of the organization and plays an integral role in ensuring o9 continues to scale and build upon its founding premise: Connecting the siloes of enterprise planning and execution to transform end-to-end decision-making is the top value-creation driver in a world of rising volatility and uncertainty. At o9, he has developed a successful track record of building high-performing teams, managing global strategic initiatives, and delivering strong business results. Throughout his 20-plus year career, Igor has helped many of the world's largest companies across consumer goods, high-tech, aerospace and retail industries transform their planning processes and drive value through the application of analytics