Keynote Speakers (Online)
IEOM ICSCML 2026
8:30-10:30 am, June 11, 2026 (UK Time)

Moderator:

Prof. Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes
Professor of Operations Management
Head of the Centre for Supply Chain Improvement
Derby International Business School
University of Derby
Derby, DE1 1DZ, UK

Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes is a professor of Operations Management and Head of the Centre for Supply Chain Improvement at the University of Derby, UK. He is actively involved in industrial projects where he combines his knowledge, expertise and industrial experience in operations management to help organisations achieve excellence in their internal functions and supply chains. He has also led and managed international research projects funded by the European Commission, British Academy, British Council, Innovate UK and Mexico’s National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT). As a leading academic, he has published over 400 articles in leading scientific journals, international conferences and eleven books. For 6 years in a row (from 2020 to 2025) he has been ranked amongst the most highly-cited scientists in the world, according to research by Elsevier and Stanford University. Beyond academic circles, his work has been used to shape policy documents produced by the European Commission, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, The British Academy as well as policy documents issued by various governments, e.g. UK, Finland, Sweden, Canada, Spain and Iraq, contributing in this way to policy formulation and real-world decision-making. Prof. Garza-Reyes is Associate Editor of the Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, Editor of the Int. J. of Supply Chain and Operations Resilience and Editor-in-Chief of the Int. J. of Industrial Engineering and Operations Management. Areas of expertise and interest for Professor Garza-Reyes include Operations and Production Management, Supply Chain and Logistics Management, Sustainability within the context of Operations and Supply Chains, Industry 4.0 technologies application in operations and supply chains, among others.

Keynote I (8:30 – 9:00 am, June 11, Thursday – UK Time)

Dr.  Robert de Souza
The Executive Director
The Logistics Institute – Asia Pacific (TLI – Asia Pacific)
Senior Fellow, National University of Singapore

Dr. Robert de Souza is the Executive Director of the The Logistics Institute – Asia Pacific (TLI – Asia Pacific). Robert is a Chartered Engineer and a distinguished writer, speaker, consultant and advisor in the area of supply chain management. Prior to this appointment, effective May 1st 2004, Dr Robert de Souza served as Deputy Executive Director (Industry) and IT Director at TLI – Asia Pacific. Previously, Dr de Souza was Executive Vice President (Asia Pacific) for V3 Systems. His extensive tenure in the industry also includes serving as the Corporate Senior Vice President and Global Chief Knowledge Officer at Viewlocity Inc. and co-founder, Vice Chairman and CEO of SC21 Pte, Ltd., a Singapore-based supply chain software firm. As an educator, Dr de Souza is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and also a Senior Fellow in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the National University of Singapore and has previously served as a professor and in several senior positions in the School of Mechanical and Production Engineering at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Dr. de Souza is a member of the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing and the International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications. Dr de Souza also serves on the Advisory Panel of The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, Singapore (CILTS), as a Council Member of the Singapore eSupply Chain Management (eSCM) Council and on the Boards of Directors/Advisors of several IT- based corporations.

Keynote II (9:00 – 9:30 am, June 11, Thursday – UK Time)

Prof. Nyoman Pujawan
Rektor ULBI
Professor Supply Chain Engineering, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS), Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia

Nyoman Pujawan is the Rector of ULBI and is a Professor of Supply Chain Engineering at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS), Surabaya, Indonesia. Before taking over the Rector position at ULBI, he was the Dean of the School of Interdisciplinary Management and Technology (SIMT) in ITS. He was the President of the Indonesian Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (ISLI). He received a Bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering from ITS, Indonesia, Master of Engineering in Industrial Engineering from Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) Bangkok, Thailand, and PhD in Management Science from Lancaster University, UK. He also holds Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) from APICS (USA) and CPLM and CSCM (ISCEA, USA).

Keynote III (9:30 – 10:00 am, June 11, Thursday – UK Time)

Dr. Shraddha Gawankar
Assistant Professor for Practice at Economics and Decision Sciences
Beacom School of Business
University of South Dakota
Vermillion, South Dakota

Dr. Shraddha Gawankar is an Assistant Professor for Practice at Economics and Decision Sciences at the Beacom School of Business, University of South Dakota. She received her doctorate from Indian Institute of Management–Mumbai, Mumbai India in (2015) specializing in ‘supply chain performance measurement’.

Her teaching and research interests include Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Data and Programming for Analytics. Much of her research use large-scale field data to identify causal relationships that generate new scholarly insights regarding the connections between operational factors, decision-making, and performance.

She is author of book titled “Supply chain performance measurement – towards business excellence” and her research has been published in top multi-disciplinary management journals, including International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Process Safety and Environmental Protection.

Shraddha considers herself a teacher and researcher and sees an interesting duality in the two roles. “In the classroom, my research background helps me to create unique content that is particularly tailored to students’ interests while being academically rigorous.

Keynote IV (10:00 – 10:30 am, June 11, Thursday – UK Time)