Manufacturing AI & Advanced Analytics
Albemarle Corporation

Jonathan Alexander is the Manufacturing AI & Advanced Analytics Manager within Albemarle’s global Manufacturing Excellence team. He has held a variety of roles within Manufacturing, including working within both Maintenance & Operations for both the Hydroprocessing Catalyst Plant in Bayport, TX and the Aluminum Alkyl plants in Pasadena, TX, along with leading a site’s Technology Implementation for Competitive Advantage (TICA) program. In his current global role, he has been focused on powering the potential of people by scaling AI (Albemarle Intelligence) and changing Albemarle’s culture around Manufacturing Data Analytics, an integral part of their journey towards Digital Transformation. Mr. Alexander holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Louisiana State University and a Masters in Business Administration from The University of Houston in Clear Lake.

Director, Office of Business Technology Planning and Strategic Initiatives
Southern Company

James Goosby is Business Technology Planning & Strategic Initiatives Director, responsible for ensuring that initiatives that require technology follow a framework that enables predictable outcomes. He serves as chair the Operations Technology Leadership Team that facilitates business technology planning and implementation while ensuring alignment to business priorities. He has served for more than 26 years at Southern Company, most recently in the role of Assistant to the Executive Vice President of Operations, where he helped advance work in Moving to Equity and co-led a project to strategically align Operations-wide cyber and NERC-CIP program management. James earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Auburn University and served our country in the U.S. Marines.

Alan Ho, Former – Product Management Lead – Google Quantum AI, Engineer, and Entrepreneur
Keynote presentation on Quantum Computing: Going beyond the Buzzwords

Christian Gogolin, Quantum Computing Expert @Covestro R&D | Quantum Information Scientist and Software Developer | Founder Quantum Journal, Covestro

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