THE POD CAST (Proof of Delivery)

Digital Twin Series Introduction - Routeique

Welcome to the first episode in The Proof of Delivery Cast’s series on Digital Twins.
 
In the introductory episode, hosts Mike Allan, Kaitlin Mercier, and Brent Bawel, discuss the vernal concept and applications of digital twins within the supply chain industry. In the following episodes within this series, we will dive deeper into digital twins, some real-world applications and use cases, and how Routeique is amongst the companies working to further progress within the digital twin field.
 
Key Takeaways:
- What is a digital twin (00:00 - 15:45)
- Introduction to Insight (15:45 - 22:26)
- Introduction to Foresight (22:26 - 29:50)
- Introduction to Oversight (29:50 - 35:40)
- Wrap up of Insight, Foresight, and Oversight (35:40 - 36:18)
- What companies can do to prepare for a digital twin (36:18 - 46:24)
 
Keep your eye out for the next episode in the series where we talk more in depth about how digital twins create better insight through improved visibility and transparency in real-time.

Supply Chain Micro-credentials - Tai Munro

Tai Munro
 
Tai is an assistant professor of sustainability studies at MacEwan University. Prior to this position, Tai was the director of education development, assisting in the creation of micro-credential programs. Tai believes, “A learner is not a brain that comes to class for me to fill. They are people, collectively and individually, who have the potential to strive and fail, to grow and learn, to contribute and converse.”
 
MacEwan University
 
MacEwan University, located in Edmonton and founded in 1971, provides a transformative education in a collaborative and supportive learning environment. Through research and innovation that engages students, faculty and the community, creativity thrives.
 
Key Takeaways
 
About Tai and MacEwan University
What micro-credentials are and why they are important in today’s professional landscape
What led to the decision to create supply chain micro-credentials
Why Routeique was chosen as industry experts
What the future of micro-credentials looks like
 
Links
 
Tai’s LinkedIn
 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/taimunro/
 
MacEwan University’s LinkedIn
 
https://www.linkedin.com/school/macewanuniversity/
 
MacEwan University
 
https://www.macewan.ca/home/

Agnostic Automation - Luke Buckberrough

Luke
 
Luke is a founding partner and Chief Growth Officer of The Rubic. He is an innovative and result-oriented accomplished sales professional with 6 years of very diverse industry experience. A dynamic voice and bi-lingual presenter with a true entrepreneurial spirit that embodies the values and character of a sales “ hunter” with a proven ability to forge strong business connections and relationships in all levels of industry. Luke also has his BBA from Toronto Metropolitan University.
 
The Rubic
 
The Rubic is building a future where robots seamlessly integrate into diverse operations, transcending the limitations of traditional automation. Their vision is to create robotic solutions that are not only flexible but can also easily adapt to the evolving needs of an ever-changing supply chain market. By developing systems that effortlessly integrate into ongoing operations, they aim to revolutionize the way goods are moved around the world.
 
Key Takeaways:
 
The early days of The Rubic
How The Rubic aims to enhance the human workforce rather than replace it
How The Rubic differs from traditional robotics solutions
What facilities need before adopting The Rubic
Why Calgary is a great place for entrepreneurship 
 
Links
 
Luke’s LinkedIn:
 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lbuc/?originalSubdomain=ca
 
The Rubic’s LinkedIn:
 
https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-rubic/
 
The Rubic Website:
 
https://www.therubic.com/

Democratizing ESG - Tee Ganbold & David Aikman

Tee Ganbold
 
Tee Ganbold is CEO and co-founder of OpenESG, founded in 2020.
 
Tee is a Mongolian born and British raised entrepreneur with experience as an operator in global B2B2C technology companies (from OpenESG, Clear AI, Cambridge Analytica, ConsenSys) and investor in venture capital firms (Intrepid Capital Partners, Fabric Ventures and Stelium Ventures), specializing in identifying product market fit, building global business ecosystems, and crafting go-to-market strategies.
 
David Aikman
 
David Aikman is Chairman and co-founder of OpenESG, founded in 2020.
 
David is a proven leader in creating innovative partnerships between companies and non-profit organizations, that create sustainable, shared value on a global scale. Over the last 25+ years, working for the International Olympic Committee and the World Economic Forum, David has created, curated, and led innovative communities that have changed the world for the better.
 
OpenESG:
 
OpenESG, founded in 2020, aims to neutralize greenwashing by nudging companies towards positive action and highlighting progress - not assisting them to fulfill compliance tick boxes. By using novel Web3 design principles, OpenESG incentivizes stakeholders within the system to serve people and planet while still allowing them to focus on creating financial value. OpenESG is resting trust in ESG scores while proving to companies that it pays to care. 
 
OpenESG is building digital infrastructure, products and services that enable businesses, consumers, creators and other builders to generate positive impact in the world. Their unique value proposition combines radical transparency with meaningful consumer engagement, creating new incentives for businesses to behave better and become leading forces in shaping a more equitable and sustainable world.
 
Key Take Aways:
 
What is OpenESG?
How OpenESG is working towards ESG alignment around the world
The biggest challenges they face, and what their team is doing to overcome them
How OpenESG not only scores businesses, but what they do to help them improve
Preparing for evolving regulations around the world
How to get in touch 
 
Links:
 
Tee’s LinkedIn
 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tee-ganbold-37aa50130/ 
 
David’s LinkedIn
 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-aikman-2456b/ 
 
Open ESG’s Twitter
 
https://twitter.com/esg_dao?lang=en 
 
Open ESG
 
https://www.openesg.com/ 
 
Open ESG’s LinkedIn 
 
https://www.linkedin.com/company/esgdao/

Journey to Intelligent Supply Chain - Dr. Matt Taylor

On this episode of The POD Cast, hosts Mike Allan and Kaitlin Mercier talk with guest, Dr. Matt Taylor, form the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute about how to get started on the path to employing AI.
 
Matt Taylor
 
Matthew E. Taylor (Matt) received his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin in the summer of 2008, supervised by Peter Stone. He then completed a two-year postdoctoral research position at the University of Southern California with Milind Tambe and spent 2.5 years as an assistant professor at Lafayette College. He was then an assistant professor at Washington State University where he held the Allred Distinguished Professorship in Artificial Intelligence. In 2017, he temporarily left academia to help start an artificial intelligence lab in Edmonton, Alberta, with Borealis AI, the artificial intelligence research lab for the Royal Bank of Canada. He is now a tenured associate professor in computer science at the University of Alberta, a Fellow-in-Residence at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, and remains an adjunct professor at Washington State University. He has been a PI or co-PI on over $6M USD in competitively awarded research funding from federal, state, and industrial sources, including the National Science Foundation CAREER award. He has (co-)supervised 7 graduated PhD students and 5 MS students, as well as published over 120 peer-reviewed papers in conferences and journals. His current fundamental and applied research interests are in reinforcement learning, human-in-the-loop AI, multi-agent systems, and robotics.
 
AMII
 
AMII’s mission is to make artificial intelligence and machine learning the primary drivers of sustainable growth for Alberta’s economy – through great research, advisement and education.
 
We began in 2002 as the Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Machine Learning (AICML), a joint effort between the Government of Alberta and the University of Alberta (UAlberta). Originally funded through the Alberta Ingenuity Fund, the research centre soon became known as the Alberta Innovates Centre for Machine Learning after being brought under the umbrella of Alberta Innovates. In 2017 the centre rebranded as Amii, becoming part of the CIFAR Pan-Canadian AI Strategy and launching as a not-for-profit in the heart of Edmonton’s downtown core. Over its twenty-year history, and thanks to forward-looking investments by Alberta Innovates and the Government of Alberta, Amii has built a world-class team of researchers at the University of Alberta and affiliated institutions. Since our inception, we have increased research capacity in AL/ML nearly nine-fold, starting with four co-founding members at the University of Alberta and now funding the research of 28 Fellows (including 23 Canada CIFAR AI Chairs) and eight Canada CIFAR AI Chairs at universities across Western Canada.
 
Key Takeaways
 
What is AMII and what they do to optimize the supply chain
Who is Matt Taylor and why he entered this industry
What are the biggest challenges to the supply chain that AMII is working to solve
What is the next big thing coming to the industry
Advice for people in supply chain, where they should be looking and focusing their efforts
 
Important Links
 
Matt Taylor LinkedIn 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewedmundtaylor/?originalSubdomain=ca
 
AMII
https://www.amii.ca/
 
AMII LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/amii/
 
AMII Twitter
https://twitter.com/AmiiThinks?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Manual Process Optimization - Rene Grzeszick

On this episode of The POD Cast, hosts Mike Allan and Kaitlin Mercier talk with guest, Rene Grzeszick, co-founder and CTO of MotionMiners. 
 
 
Rene Grzeszick
 
 
Rene is co-founder and CTO of MotionMiners, the primary responsibility of his work being the area of data analysis. Rene received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in computer science from TU Dortmund University in Dortmund, Germany, in 2010 and 2012 respectively. He later joined the university’s Pattern Recognition in Embedded Systems group in the Department of Computer Science as a Ph.D. student. He has always been interested in the area of pattern recognition, which was a heavy area of focus for his research at Dortmund. 
 
 
Motion Miners
 
 
In 2014, Sascha Feldhorst conceived of the concept for MotionMiners while jogging, originally imagining it as a fitness tracker. This concept would lead to the eventual founding of MotionMiners in October of 2017 with partners René Grzeszick and Sascha Kaczmarek. During the first two years, MotionMiners was closely associated with the Fraunhofer Institute, but since the summer of 2019 they have been completely spun off. Motion-Mining® makes it easy for companies to perform analysis regarding efficiency and ergonomics for process optimization. Utilizing MotionMiner’s sensors and AI, you can automatically carry out analysis with 80% less effort than conventional methods. MotionMiners aims to provide the world’s most flexible and comprehensive analysis toolbox for human activities. 
 
 
Key Takeaways
 
 
What is MotionMiners and how it works with businesses to analyze and optimize manual processes.
How integrating your operations own data can help optimize even better.
How MotionMiners and the industry as a whole have evolved and changed AI and machine learning methods.
How the recent years have driven the interest of digitization and data driven optimization. 
Common process and ergonomic recommendations and insights provided by MotionMiners.
The difference between making changes and making well-informed, data-driven changes within your operation.
How the desire for ergonomic changes has increased over the years.
 
Important Links
 
 
Rene’s LinkedIn
 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rene-grzeszick/?originalSubdomain=de
 
MotionMiners
 
https://www.motionminers.com/en/
 
MotionMiners LinkedIn
 
https://www.linkedin.com/company/motionminers-gmbh/
 
MotionMiners Twitter
 
https://twitter.com/MotionMiner

Smart Compliance - Erik Westblom

Mike Allan, and co-host Kaitlin Mercier , speak with CEO of Provision Analytics, Erik Westblom, about traceability and compliance in the supply chain of food.
 
Erik Westblom
 
In 2016, Erik became a sommelier, and quickly learned that many processes within the wine industry were still being done on paper. He saw the opportunity to  In 2018, Erik founded Provision Analytics alongside Michael Gibbons. Erik has been in the software and finance industry for over 17 years, contributing to Alberta successes like 3esi and Cortex. Erik moved to Copenhagen in 2018 for the mentorship of food titan, Maersk, and since his return to Calgary, has grown Provision by more than 20 times. 
 
Provision Analytics
 
Provision Analytics was founded in 2018 in Copenhagen with mentorship from the world’s largest shipping company, Maersk. Provision makes it easier to capture processes and catch mistakes, making food safer, and making management faster. Their user friendly software solves food safety issues such as manual record reviews, undetected deviations, mock recall traceability, and more. Provision enables operators to improve the accuracy, speed, and depth of the data capture process, streamlining the management of record submissions, policies, suppliers, and more. Utilizing cloud storage, provision can be used anywhere and on any internet-connected device. Provision has offices located in Calgary, AB (CAN) and Chicago, IL (US).
 
Key Take Aways:
 
Erik acquired a level 3 sommelier position in his late 20’s which spawned his interest in improving visibility and eliminating fraud in the wine industry. This later transformed into an interest in identifying opportunities for all food safety. 
Companies like Routeique and Provision will provide the data that drives the de-commoditization in the food industry. 
Where your products came from is only one part of the traceability spectrum. Erik discusses how the concepts of “one up, one down” and “mock recall” are important to further the reach of traceability and make the overall supply chain experience more optimized. 
Erik discusses how the importance of shortening the amount of time product stays within the supply chain, rather than focusing on shortening the supply chain itself. 
Erik touches on how data will shape the future. As more data becomes available and collected by companies like Routeique and Provision, new business models may arise and form an entirely new economy around food.
 
Important links:
 
Erik’s LinkedIn
 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-westblom-mba-20b3023/ 
 
Provision Analytics
 
https://provision.io/ 
 
Provision Analytics LinkedIn
 
https://ca.linkedin.com/company/provision-analytics 
 
Provision Analytics Twitter 
 
https://twitter.com/provisionapp?lang=en

Micro-Factoring - Bill McGraw

Mike Allan, and co-host Kaitlin Mercier, sit down with president of FactorChain, Bill McGraw, about micro-factoring in supply chain by utilizing technology to analyze risk to more accurately and effectively help businesses in the industry.

Algorithms & ML - Dr. Dustin Feld

Mike Allan, and guest-host Brent Bawel, talk with Dr. Dustin Feld about how technology can "always help as a vehicle to make the world better, easier, and also more interesting."
 
Dustin Feld:
 
Dr. Dustin Feld is the co-founder and managing director of adiutaByte, a holistic support system developed to handle various planning challenges by combining specialized human processes and algorithmic strength in mathematical optimization. Dustin has spent more than a decade at the Fraunhofer Institute in the Algorithms and High-Performance Computing department developing modern combinations of optimization and AI in real-world scenarios. He and his team founded adiutaByte GmbH from Fraunhofer with a focus on the care industry, even though adiutaByte serves many other industries as well. Since 2011, Dustin was employed at SCAI, first as a research assistant, then as a PhD student, and finally a Postdoc and Senior-Scientist. He completed his PhD on dynamic placement optimization for integrated circuits in October 2016, and has had work published in numerous publications such as Taylor & Francis Journal-Articles and IEEE Proceedings. 
 
adiutaByte:
 
Optimizing a route plan with adiutaByte is done in seconds with just a few clicks. With their “Augmented Realtime Optimization” approach, the planner is actively involved in the optimization process and provides expert knowledge within the highly complex mathematical process of planning optimization, thus combining the human and algorithmic power. adiutaByte is already working within various industries and uncovering new potential across the entire value chain and helping make better use of existing strengths. 
 
Key Takeaways:
 
Dustin has always been a “full-blood nerd”. He started programming at a young age, before he learned his first, second language.
adiutaByte comes from the world of tour plan optimization, but they started in the ambulant health care sector, trying to mitigate some of the issues seen during the health care crisis in Germany at the time. 
adiutaByte’s focus on route optimization is how their partnership with Routeique came to be. 
With adiutaByte, Dustin aim to combine science and technology, transforming it into real-world adaptivity that the whole world can access. 
Dustin loves the idea of the digital twin, and making AI that behaves like the real world in order to simulate problems and optimize them digitally before making any real-world implementations. 
adiutaByte has recently become part of MEDIFOX DAN, one of the most tech aware and innovative healthcare software groups in Germany. 
adiutaByte’s platform is also prepared to be “quantum ready” so they can get their technology into quantum computing in the future.
Links:
 
Dustin’s LinkedIn
 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/d3feld/ 
 
adiutaByte’s Twitter
 
https://twitter.com/adiutaByte
 
adiutaByte
 
https://www.adiutabyte.de/
 
adiutaByte LinkedIn 
 
https://www.linkedin.com/company/adiutabyte/

Proof Of Delivery Cast Trailer

We're incredibly excited to bring you the Proof of Delivery Cast, hosted by Mike Allan, and Kaitlin Mercier. In this Trailer, hear from Mike about what this show will be offering, and what to expect in the coming episodes.