MassChallenge 2022 Challenge Convention

About the Challenge Convention Series

As the global network for innovators, MassChallenge is a leader in solving massive challenges through entrepreneurship across the world. Key insights from the last 12 years prove that when there is specificity, intention, and focus on emerging sectors founders and corporate innovators experience success for their businesses.

The Challenge Convention hosted by MassChallenge will explore six areas of industry where society and humanity face the greatest challenges of our time; and where the explicit intersection of innovation and entrepreneurship can have game-changing impact on the way we live, work, and play.

Join MassChallenge and our esteemed speakers from around the world to learn from their perspectives building at the bleeding edge of business, technology, and social impact.

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The impact the next wave of AI has on value chain optimization is exponential.

Stephen DeAngelis, CEO of Enterra Solutions, and Ian Roberts, CTO of Bühler sit down to discuss how leading-edge technologies and management practices can help enable startups and transform corporations within the food value chain. They will cover how Autonomous Decision Science™ is optimizing the food value chain, and how startups and corporations can leverage data to create competitive advantage and add value to society. Enterra Solutions is the leading Autonomous Decision Science™ company providing prescriptive and anticipatory analytics and insights for companies across a broad range of industries. Enterra automates a new way of problem-solving and decision-making, going beyond advanced analytics to answer queries, generate insights, and make decisions at the speed of the market. The world’s biggest brands work with Enterra Solutions to optimize their value chains and create decades of competitive advantage.

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Stephen DeAngelis is the Founder and CEO of Enterra Solutions®. As a technology entrepreneur and patent holder, DeAngelis has over 25 years of experience helping pioneer the application of advanced cognitive computing technologies and applied mathematics to commercial industries and government agencies. Stephen has held a range of academic and national laboratory appointments, including positions at the Department of Chemistry at Princeton University, the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He also currently serves and has served on several Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards of private corporations, philanthropic and research-oriented organizations.

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Ian Roberts has served as CTO of Bühler since 2011. During that period the company has undergone a digital transformation, developed a collaborative innovation culture, building and engaging with broad ecosystems and continued to strengthen an innovation leadership position. A strong advocate for entrepreneurship and sustainability, he is a co-founder and president of the startup accelerator MassChallenge Switzerland, a board member of RESTOR, a global ecology and land restoration platform and an Ambassador for the education programme Aiducation. Ian Roberts has a PhD in Chemical Engineering and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chemical Engineers. He has more than 25 years experience in the food industry, having previously worked in a range of innovation and business development roles for Nestlé.

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