Global Business Management and Project Management
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IEOM Global Business Management Education focus on quality education and curriculum improvement, assessment, learning and career development. It addresses readiness for business management graduate for industry ready around the globe. IEOM Global Business Management Education focuses in the following areas but not limited to:
- Operations management, supply chain management, logistics management, MIS, IT, cybersecurity, finance, project management, business intelligence and analytics, risk management, ERP/CRM, quality management, inventory management, lean management, management science, productivity management or similar topics
Each speaker needs to submit a title of the talk, photo and a short bio as well as power point presentation. All will be included in the 3rd Australian Conference proceedings. If you are interested to be distinguished feature speaker, please contact info@ieomsociety.org for details.
Session I: IEOM Global Supply Chain and Education
8:00 – 9:40 am, Thursday, September 26 – Room 1
Chair:
Dr George Panas, Enterprise Fellow, Management and Marketing
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Co-Chair:
Dr Arshia Kaul
Associate Lecturer
Management and Marketing
University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia
Arshia Kaul is a PhD., MPhil., M.Sc. (Gold Medalist) in Operational Research, Master Trainer Program – Teaching, Training & Developing Professionals (EIU). She is a Post Graduate Diploma in Instructional Design and Diploma in Virtual Online Teaching course. She is also a certified Green Belt in Lean Six Sigma and recently completed a Professional Certificate in Design Thinking and Innovation Management. She has completed a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment from Boxhill, Institute, Melbourne, Australia. She has published 20+ research papers published in journals of national and international repute and presented at 10+ conferences. One of her most recent articles was published in Business Strategy and the Environment (Impact factor- 10.302). Her current research interests are quality management, supply chain management and Education 4.0.
Speaker I
Dr George Panas
Enterprise Fellow
Management and Marketing
University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia
Dr George Panas has 25 years of senior management experience in industry and consulting. After that, he transitioned to academia with the completion of my PhD in 2022. His areas of interest or specialisation include:
e-commerce supply chains (grocery, general merchandise & apparel retail), Supply chain and the UN SDGs (including modern slavery, environmental / food and packaging waste, procurement diversity), Supply chain strategy & network design/optimisation, Retail global sourcing & logistics, Supply chain operations in Asia (including China, HK, Singapore, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, etc),International supply chain management (sea & air freight, freight forwarding, origin value added services, etc), Corporate strategy, financial planning and analysis, Financial/Mathematical optimisation modelling & techniques, Supply chain commercial finance
Speaker II
Obuks Ejohwomu, PhD, MSc, BEng, FNSE, FHEA
Academic (Teaching & Research) Reader in Sustainable Built Environment & Project Management
Infrastructure and Resilience
University of Manchester, UK
Obuks Ejohwomu is a Reader (Associate Professor) and founder of Nudge SIG (Special Interest Group) at The University of Manchester. He is the current Head of Admissions in the School of Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering. He is listed as one of Manchester’s Heritage Heroes for the impact of his research work. Obuks is also a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the unit lead for commercial and procurement management. Obuks particularly leads a research group focusing on a future sustainable built environment with expertise in decarbonised projects, indoor/outdoor air pollution monitoring using low-cost sensors, occupational health & safety and digitalisation in the built environment. He is a Better World Showcase 2022 award winner for outstanding contributions to environmental sustainability. An award winner for notable contribution to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. He has managed grants valued at over GBP £1.3m, with funders including EPSRC, Association of Project Management (APM), GCRF, Lloyds Register Foundation, NHS Foundation Trust, and UKRI. He is the PI on a high-impact multidisciplinary research project probing the “societal value of quality low-cost urban air monitoring in low resource environments (SQUARE). Before joining MACE he worked as a contracts manager on several building construction projects totalling over N100m (Lukayson Ventures Ltd), a systems engineer in the telemetry and laboratory business area of Scottish Water, Glasgow, Research Assistant on a Black Country learning and skills action research project (University of Wolverhampton), Research Fellow (University of Reading) on the EPSRC Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre (HaCIRIC), Programme Manager (W D Consults Ltd), Lecturer in Civil Engineering (Covenant University), Senior Lecturer in Project Management and Head, Department of Management Technology (Bells University of Technology).
Speaker III
Dr Albert Munoz
Senior Lecturer, UOW School of Business
Faculty of Business and Law
University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia
Topic: Taking charge of the genAI elephant in the room: Adapting the operations management educator from within
Dr. Albert Munoz is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wollongong within the Supply Chain and Analytics Discipline in the School of Business. After receiving his PhD from the University of Wollongong, Albert has dedicated over 10 years of experience in teaching and learning operations and supply chain management. Throughout this time, Albert has developed considerable expertise in leveraging emerging technologies to enhance the student experience. Recently, Albert has leveraged the emergent capabilities of genAI to further enhance educational designs, while remaining consistent with established teaching and learning theories. One recent example is the use of constructivism and gamification to refocus operations management education towards analytic skills development. Future endeavours will focus on the implementation of assessment reforms in the age of genAI that preserve the integrity and validity of assessments.
Speaker IV
Speaker V
Session II: Supply Chain and Logistics Education
1:00 – 2:40 pm, Thursday, September 26, 2024 – Room 1
Session Chair:
Speaker I
Speaker II
Speaker III
Dr. Tarvo Niine
Associated Professor of Supply Chain Management
Tallinn University of Technology
Tallinn, Estonia
Tarvo Niine is a senior lecturer at Department of Business administration in the School of Business and Governance of TalTech in Tallinn, Estonia. TalTech is one of three major public universities in Estonia, housing more than 10K students. TalTech is quite international with more than 2000 students from 100 countries. Recently, TalTech School of Business and Governance achieved its first “EFMD accredited” badge. Tarvo’s teaching topics are inventory and supply chain management. He is serving as a programme head of business administration. His research themes include logistics competences and future of smart urban mobility.