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ROKLive Digital Strategists Conference
June 10th - 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM CDT
Tech Intensity in Manufacturing: Innovating Through Disruption
With the recent global pandemic causing unprecedented business disruption worldwide, there has never been a more transformational time in the history of manufacturing. What Microsoft calls tech intensity—building and mastering one’s own digital capabilities—is now even more critical. We are navigating a new world that must be more agile and resilient in the face of global disasters. And manufacturers are responding: accelerating investments and applying new capabilities around the intelligent edge/intelligent cloud, increased automation and AI, and “remote everything” to reshape manufacturing operations and supply chains, modernize factories and reskill the workforce.
In this session, Microsoft VP of Manufacturing Industry Çağlayan Arkan will explore how Microsoft is partnering with Rockwell Automation to help companies rethink manufacturing, sharing best practices from today’s digital leaders.
Caglayan Arkan, Vice President, Manufacturing Industry, Microsoft
As Vice President, Manufacturing Industry at Microsoft, Çağlayan Arkan is currently responsible for managing the digital transformation for manufacturing companies across high-tech and electronics, industrial equipment, aerospace, and chemicals/agrochemicals globally, as well as guiding growth and compete strategies for Microsoft in these verticals worldwide.
Arkan is passionate about empowering customers to position themselves as first movers or fast followers in today’s disruptive era. By supporting organizations with new technology-led capabilities, strategies and insights that will fundamentally reinvent their products, services and business models, Arkan and his team are helping businesses drive sustained growth, agile innovation and operational excellence.
Prior to his current role, Arkan held several leadership roles at Microsoft and Siemens, successfully spearheading new strategic growth, market penetration and business development initiatives.
Arkan is currently based in Bellevue, Washington with his family.
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