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Building a Culture of Analytic Excellence

Mar

25

1:00 - 2:30 p.m. ET

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Do you have a strategy for building analytic excellence in your organization? 

Your competitors do.  If your industry or organization has a high level of process or product innovation, you need analytics to remain competitive in today’s marketplace. 

Join us for discussions exploring real-world examples from organizations with analytic cultures that let them excel, examining how they use collaborative analytics throughout the enterprise to solve engineering, development and manufacturing problems faster, sustain innovation and maintain a competitive edge.

Featured Keynote

Loren Perelman, Statistically Speaking

Loren Perelman

VP of Science, Riffyn

If you want to enable a stronger analytic culture, data literacy is imperative. Curiosity helps, too. But what are the elements that enable faster, better and more efficient science? Loren Perelman will share his perspective on the topic, from years of experience at science and manufacturing organizations.

Panel Discussion

The best organizations spread awareness and knowledge of analytics to everyone who needs it. They do more than talk about being a data-driven company; instead, they strive to put data analytics at the heart of all decision making. They embrace both traditional and modern methods of analysis, such as statistically designed experiments and machine learning, to generate and apply new knowledge. And they build infrastructure that supports the appropriate use of analytics by all job functions. Hear examples from innovative organizations during a discussion with:

  • Loren Perelman, VP of Science, Riffyn
  • Andre B. Argenton, Vice President Core Research and Development, Dow
  • Kumar Subramanyan, Director of Data Sciences, Unilever

What will you learn?

For an organization to develop a culture of analytics, it needs a shared vision, constancy of purpose and continual reinforcement. It needs software tools that can facilitate, even encourage, the use of analytics and to train people in their effective use. This fosters adoption and engagement, makes decision making more objective and transparent, and promotes data-driven collaboration within and between teams and stakeholders.

You'll gain a better understanding of:

 

  • The key ingredients needed to create and promote a data-driven culture.
  • The basic steps required to use data effectively, whether for solving problems or for improvement and innovation.
  • Strategies for removing common bottlenecks to generating and sharing new knowledge.
  • The importance of visualization to make results more interpretable and easily communicated.
  • How to use technologies that help surface problems worth solving and make the right data available to drive solutions.
  • The crucial role of training programs and reward systems in developing a facilitative culture that can drive change.

Meet the Speakers

Loren Perelman

VP of Science, Riffyn

Victor Guiller, FUCHS

Loren Perelman focuses on providing customers with the best experience they can have in implementation, training and utilization of Riffyn Nexus. Prior to Riffyn, he was Director of Quality, Analytics and Manufacturing at Bolt Threads. He also worked as a Senior Scientist at Amyris in Quality and Analytical Chemistry, and as a Scientist at Nitto Denko Technical Corporation, where he led Analytical Chemistry within the pharmaceutical CMC group. Perelman has a PhD in materials science from the University of California, San Diego, and a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Harvey Mudd College.

Andre B. Argenton 

Vice President, Core Research & Development, Dow

Andre Argenton oversees a broad portfolio of corporate research programs and world leading innovation capabilities that enable technology development across multiple key market segments. Previously, Argenton was the Global R&D Director of Industrial Intermediates & Infrastructure. His responsibilities included managing the innovation pipeline across multiple chemistry envelopes including Polyurethanes and Industrial Solutions.

Argenton has held multiple leadership roles in the research groups of Home & Personal Care, Polyglycols & Surfactants and Chelating Agents. In 2010, he became the senior strategy leader for Global R&D, working for Dow's Chief Technology Officer. From 2012‐2015, Argenton was director for Dow Corporate Venturing, External Technology, and the R&D Statistics Group, where he was responsible for the pipeline of programs in disruptive technologies and new business development. Argenton is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt and has a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Sao Paulo.

Kumar Subramanyan 

Director, Data Sciences, Unilever R&D

Kumar Subramanyan has more than two decades of experience in the science and technology of personal care products. In his current role, Subramanyan delivers leading-edge analytics capability and strategy to R&D as a part of Unilever’s Digital Transformation program. Subramanyan focuses on creating new opportunities for data science to improve productivity and business growth. He does this by building and leading global teams, connecting people across geographies and cultures, and challenging the status quo.

His areas of expertise include consumer insights, big data, predictive modeling, AI and machine learning applications. Subramanyan was previously Director, Clinicals, at Unilever R&D in Shanghai, China, responsible for clinical testing for Unilever’s Personal Care and Food’s product portfolio in Greater China and East Asia. He has a PhD in Applied Chemistry from Columbia University and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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