Overall Conference Program
Preliminary Program
Day 1 – July 17 (Monday) – Online
- Student Competitions
Day 2 – July 18 (Tuesday)
- 8:00 -9:30 am – Global Engineering Education and Parallel Sessions
- 9:30 – 10:00 am – Welcome Address – Host University Leadership and Professor Don Reimer, Chief Operating Officer, IEOM Society International
- 10:00 -10:40 am – Keynote Speaker I: João Paulo Ribeiro, Senior Vice President Operations and Supply Chain, Visteon, Portugal
- 10:40 – 11:20 am – Keynote Speaker II: Prof. Virgílio Cruz Machado, Professor, Nova School of Science and Technology – FCT NOVA, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
- 11:20 -12:00 pm –Keynote Speaker III: Dr. Tomohiko Sakao, Professor of Sustainable Product/Service Systems, Linköoping University, Sweden
- 12:00 – 12:40 pm – Keynote Speaker IV: Vânia Gomes, Director of Quality and Food Safety and Assistant to the Production Management, Chocolates Excelsior Company, Lisbon, Portugal
- 1:00 – 2:00 pm – Lunch
- 2:00 – 3:45 pm – Global Engineering Education, WIIA Panel and Technical Parallel Session
- 4:00 – 5:45 pm – Global Engineering Education Panel and Technical Parallel Session
Day 3 – July 19 (Wednesday)
- 8:00 -9:30 am – Industry Solutions and Parallel Sessions
- 9:30 – 10:00 am – Conference Chairs Remarks
- 10:00 -10:40 am – Keynote Speaker V: António Novais, Managing Director, Palmetal – Armazenagem e Serviços, Thyssenkrupp Group, Palmela, Setúbal, Portugal
- 10:40 – 11:20 am – Keynote Speaker VI: Luís Ferreira, Professor at Universidade Coimbra, Portugal
- 11:20 -12:00 pm –Keynote Speaker VII: Ana Paula Póvoa, Professor at Técnico / Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
- 12:00 – 12:40 pm – Keynote Speaker VIII: João Matias, Professor at Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
- 1:00 – 2:00 pm – Lunch
- 2:00 – 3:45 pm – Industry Solutions and Technical Parallel Sessions
- 4:00 – 5:45 pm – Industry Solutions Panel and Technical Parallel Sessions
- 6:00 – 8:30 pm – Diversity and Inclusion Panel sponsored by Ford Motor Company
Day 4 – July 20 (Thursday)
- 8:00 -9:30 am – GSCM and Parallel Sessions
- 9:45 – 10:00 am – Conference Chair Remarks
- 10:00 -10:40 am – Keynote Speaker IX: Luís Bastos, Digital Industries Country Head, Siemens Portugal, Amadora, Lisbon, Portugal
- 10:40 – 11:20 am – Keynote Speaker X: Jürgen H. Lenz, Research Professor, Augsburg Technical University, Nördlingen, Bavaria, Germany
- 11:20 -12:00 pm – Keynote Speaker XI: Luis Lopes Pereira, Country Director, Medtronic Portugal, Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
- 12:00 – 12:40 pm – Keynote Speakers:
- Pedro Monteiro, Operational Excellence Manager for Europe, Asia and New Zealand, Allied Motion Technologies, Founder and Editor, theleanmag and Associate Founder, projectoSONAR, Porto, Portugal
- Dave Harry, CEO of Process Whisperer® Consultants LLC, Greeneville, Tennessee, USA
- 1:00 – 2:00 pm – Lunch
- 2:00 – 3:45 pm – GSCM and Technical Parallel Sessions
- 4:00 – 5:45 pm – GSCM Panel and Technical Parallel Session
- 6:00 – 9:00 pm – Conference Awards Ceremony
Past Conference Programs
- Program – Dubai 2020 – 10th Annual
- Program – Riyadh 2019 – 1st GCC
- Program – Toronto 2019 – 4th North American
- Program – Pilsen 2019- 3rd European
- Program – Bangkok 2019 – 9th Annual
- Program – Pretoria 2018 – 1st African
- Program – Washington DC 2018 – 3rd North American
- Program – Paris 2018 – 2nd European
- Program – Bandung 2018 – 8th Annual
- Program – Bogota 2017 – 1st South American
- Program – UK (Bristol) 2017 – 1st European
- Program – Rabat 2017 – 7th Annual
- Program – Detroit 2016- 2nd North American
- Program – Kuala Lumpur 2016 – 6th Annual
- Program – Orlando 2015 – 1st North American
- Program – Dubai 2015 – 5th Annual
- Program – Bali 2014 – 4th Annual
- Program – Istanbul 2012 – 3rd Annual
- Program – Kuala Lumpur 2011 – 2nd Annual
- Program – Dhaka 2010 – 1st Annual