[dbjapan] 22日 １７時半 SAP WenSyan LEE 講演 at 東大駒場

[Masaru Kitsuregawa <kitsure [at] tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp>]

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スタンフォード大学を卒業後、NECサンフランシスコ研究所、
IBM,そして現在SAPで活躍中の WenSyan Lee氏の講演は
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喜連川優（国立情報学研究所、　東大）


Title: When Software becomes Digital Transformation Strategy

Abstract: Without question, the digital economy is growing at an 
exponential rate. Digital business is built on new computing 
infrastructure – the pillars of mobile, cloud, Big Data, and analytics – 
accelerated by the Internet of Things (IoT), advances in machine 
learning, and innovations like blockchain. These disruptive technologies 
are giving companies the ability to radically change business models, 
and create new products and services. With software used in every aspect 
of their daily business, customers have come to expect end-to-end 
outcomes that can be delivered through their business systems. In this 
session, we will introduce software make everything connected, smart and 
digital. And shows few case studies how the companies develop the 
roadmaps to navigate to the digital transformation journey.


Bio: Dr. Wen-Syan Li is Senior Vice President of SAP SE and Head of SAP 
IoT Digital Supply Chain & Strategic Projects in Asia, Japan, and 
Greater China. His team works on the new IoT enabled digital supply 
chain applications like SAP Global Track & Trace, SAP Transportation 
Resource Planning, SAP Extended Warehouse Management, & SAP 
Transportation Management and etc. Also focus on the IoT strategic 
engagements with Huawei, NTT, Intel, and etc. His team is also 
responsible for building predictive analytics capabilities in SAP’s 
in-memory database HANA.
He received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Northwestern 
University (USA). He also has an MBA degree in Finance. Dr. Li’s 
research interests include databases, distributed computing, data 
mining, machine learning, optimization & scheduling, and IoT. Before 
joining SAP, he was with IBM Almaden Research Center and NEC Research in 
Silicon Valley USA.  He was the winner of 2007 IBM Research Award and 
2004 Best of CeBIT America Award in Enterprise Software. He has 
co-authored 100+ journal articles and conference papers in various 
areas, and co-invented 100+ granted/pending US patents.