Keynote Speaker 

 

Petri Helo, University of VAASA, Finland

 

Petri Helo is Professor of Industrial Management, Logistics Systems and the head of Networked Value Systems research group, at School of Technology and Innovations, University of Vaasa, Finland. His research addresses the management of supply demand networks and use of information technology in operations.  Prof. Helo is also partner and board member at Wapice Ltd, a software solution provider of CPQ and IoT solutions.

 

 

 

 

 

Guido Orzes, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Guido Orzes is Associate Professor in Management Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the Free University of Bolzano (unibz). He graduated in Management Engineering at the University of Udine (Italy) in 2011 and received his PhD on Industrial and Information Engineering from the same university in 2015. He was also Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter Business School (UK) and Visiting Scholar at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA). His research focuses on three main areas: Industry 4.0 technologies, sustainability certifications and circular economy assessment, and international sourcing & manufacturing. He has published more than 130 scientific works on these topics in leading operations management journals as well as in conference proceedings and books (2,200 citation and H-index of 24 in the database Scopus). He has been involved (as work package leader or co-investigator) in various EU-funded research projects. Winner of various best paper awards at international conferences, he is President the international scientific association European Decision Sciences Institute (EDSI) for 2022-2023, member of the steering committee of the unibz Competence Centre for Mountain Innovation Ecosystems, and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Operations and Production Management and the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management.

 

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