Dr. Dmitry Ivanov is a Professor of Supply Chain and Operations Management and Director of the Digital-AI Supply Chain Lab at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin), Germany. For 25 years, he has taught operations management, supply chain management, and logistics at the undergraduate, graduate, PhD, and executive MBA levels. He is an internationally renowned expert in supply chain and operations management, industrial and control engineering, and artificial intelligence. He has authored over 470 publications, including over 180 papers in international academic journals and several books published with Springer. He has made fundamental and influential contributions, particularly exploring structural dynamics and control in complex networks with applications to supply chain resilience, Industry 4.0, supply chain simulation, risk analytics, and digital supply chain twins. Author of the Viable Supply Chain Model and founder of the ripple effect research. He is an active editor for several leading international journals and chairs major international conferences. Dr. Alexander Tsipoulanidis, MBA, is a Professor of Supply Chain and Operations Management at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin), Germany. He has over 25 years of international experience in factory planning and restructuring, optimizing existing operations, and supply chain and operations consulting. Dr. Tsipoulanidis has led teams to conduct “Lean Operations Assessments” within a production network spanning more than 40 international sites, has implemented SCM collaboration portals, and has run global SCM efficiency and restructuring programs. His research focuses on supply chain excellence and lean operations during the digital transformation. Dr. Jörn Schönberger is a Professor of Business Management at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, where he holds the Chair of Transport Services and Logistics as part of the Friedrich List Faculty of Transportation and Traffic Science. Before his current position, he was a Professor of Supply Chain and Operations Management at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (BSEL), Germany, and a senior researcher at the University of Bremen, Germany. He has been involved in several academic programs at different study levels in Germany and abroad, offering various courses at the interface of engineering and business management. His research interests include the model-based optimization and control of complex logistics systems, and the synchronization of information and material flows.
