The Supply Chain Opportunity

Overview

The panel discussion is about the Project of the Future session and Intelligent Production. Intelligent Production is a system that is able to self-organize and self-optimize. It builds on the capabilities of IoT sensors and wireless networks to collect data and quickly optimize the production system, controlling it without the need for manual decision-making. The panelists discuss the blend between mechanical engineering, robotics, artificial intelligence, and construction and how it’s going to change the traditional trade contractors’ job. The project of the future looks like having a better understanding and transparency of the process of construction from start to end, making decisions based on data and facts, and not on feel.

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Speakers

Matt Parsons
Accenture

Matt Parsons is a Managing Director in Accenture’s Houston Office where he serves as the NA Utility Strategy Lead. Over the course of his consulting career, he has supported multiple cross-functional transformations and improvement programs, particularly in the areas of integrated operations transformations and capital transformations in the Energy Industry. Before joining Accenture, Matt spent 14 years at McKinsey & Company and BCG.

Prior to his consulting career, Parsons served as a submarine officer in the U.S. Navy for 10 years, where he held various responsibilities related to the construction, operation, and maintenance of naval nuclear power plants.

Matt earned a B.S. in Control Systems Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1996 and an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in 2002, where he was designated a Palmer Scholar and Siebel Scholar. He is also a PhD candidate in Construction Management at Arizona State University.

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