Mr. Chen Shao Pin is Consulting Manager of IBM Global Business Services Distribution Sector Retail team, providing consulting service to external clients. IBM Global Business Services Distribution Sector Retail team provides high integration solution and service to help customers innovation.
As Consulting Manager of IBM Global Business Services Distribution Sector retail team, Mr.Chen leads and delivered the supply chain projects in retail sectors.

Colm Rafferty is the Vice President – Asia Pacific for Vermeer Corporation and is Chairman of Vermeer China Limited.

Vermeer is an equipment manufacturer from the Midwest of the United States, with products used for agricultural mechanization, environmental protection, infrastructure development, and non-blast surface mining. Vermeer’s CEO is the 2015 Co-Chair of the B20 Global SME & Entrepreneurship Committee, is a member of President Barack Obama’s Export Council (PEC), and is former Chair of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), the largest industrial trade association in the United States.

Prior to joining Vermeer, Colm was Director of China Distribution Operations for Cummins (NYSE: CMI), with both operational and P&L responsibility for the company-owned distributors. During his time with Cummins, Colm held a variety of leadership roles including Head of Emerging Markets Strategic Planning, where he oversaw the company's strategy & business development efforts in China, India, and Russia. Before joining Cummins, Colm worked for Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA), where he was employee #120, and Director of Business Development.

Colm received an MBA from the Yale School of Management, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in East Asian Studies from Brown University. He currently serves on the Yale University Asia Development Council, the Yale School of Management’s Greater China Advisory Board, the Executive Committee of the Beijing Chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO), and is Vice Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China.

William Watts, Sr. Director of the Walmart Food Safety Collaboration Center (WFSCC), is an experienced professional in government relations, international business, and business technology. Watts is currently responsible for government engagement and building strategic partnerships with others in industry, academia, and research for the WFSCC. Watts focuses on strategic food safety programs and, in particular, concentrates on innovation and technology in food quality and agriculture. Before joining Walmart, Mr. Watts served as an Economic Officer in the U.S. Department of State and was a business technology consultant with Fortune 500 firm Accenture.

Watts studied at three different Chinese universities during his college years- Southwest University for Nationalities in Chengdu, East Normal China University in Shanghai, and Heilongjiang University in Harbin. Watts holds a degree in Economics with a minor in Asian Studies from the University of Arkansas where he graduated summa cum laude. Mr. Watts is conversant in Mandarin and has varying fluency in Japanese, Russian, Spanish, and Italian.

Dr. Zhang is the China lead of Food Safety research. His research focuses on the core technology in advanced analytics, optimization and blockchain and their applications in key areas, especially in food safety, supply chain and logistics industry innovations. He has coinvented more than 5 U.S. patents and coauthored more than 10 research articles in leading international conferences and academic journals. He is a member of the editor board of Journal of Business & Management and serves as referees for many research journals. As a technical leader, he has also been responsible for the delivery of many innovation projects in close collaboration with IBM’s business partners and has won numerous IBM outstanding technical achievement awards.

Dr. Zhang graduated from Tsinghua University with a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering and received his Ph.D. Dual Degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from The Pennsylvania State University, University Park. He is a member of the engineering honor society - Tau Beta Pi.

Mr. Zhang Sheng is Senior Manager of IBM Supply Chain Service (SCS) team, providing consulting service and outsourcing service to external clients. IBM Supply Chain Service team provides unique expertise from internal resource of IBM’s supply chain teams in support of clients’ supply chain transformation and optimization, including strategy and planning, business process reengineering, total quality management, business analytics for supply chain system, new technology introduction, operation improvement and business outsourcing.
Mr. Zhang Sheng joined IBM in 2007 and held positions in IBM Procurement as Senior Manager of Asia Pacific Production Procurement Dept., Cost Management Leader, Global Commodity Manager. As Senior Manager of IBM SCS, he leads and delivers projects cross industries, like Retail & Foods, Energy & Utility, Internet+, Manufacturing. In the food industry, he held experiences on foodservice supply chain optimization, food traceability platform. etc.. He is focusing on management reinvention of supply chain with new technologies, like Block chain, AI, IoT, etc..
Prior to joining IBM, Mr. Zhang Sheng worked as procurement project manager for HUAWEI, he also worked as university teacher in Wuhan University of Technology. He holds a bachelor's degree in Electronic and Information Engineering and a master’s degree in Communication & Information System from Wuhan University of Technology.