Keynote Speakers (Online)
IEOM ICSCML 2026

Moderator:

• Prof. Jose Garza-Reyes, Professor of Operations Management and Head of the Centre for Supply Chain Improvement at the University of Derby, UK (Conference Chair of ICSCML) and EiC, IJIEOM (Q2, Scopus)

Keynote I – 30 min

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

Keynote II – 30 min

Keynote III – 30 min

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 – 30 min

Keynote V – 30 min

Keynote VI – 30 min