Digital transformation
Dr Ashmita Randhawa Director of R&D at Sunderland Software City and Digital Catapult, North East & Tees Valley Talk summary
Biography Dr Ashmita Randhawa is a biomedical engineer turned social scientist. Having worked in corporate R&D for Procter & Gamble for over six years formulating consumer goods products, she pivoted career and discipline to focus on understanding the impact of policymaking on the development of STEM skills, completing her PhD at University of Oxford: here she focused on understanding how education and policy systems can have an impact on educational innovation. Ashmita is the director of R&D at Sunderland Software City and leads the work for the Digital Catapult in the North East and Tees Valley, supporting businesses on their digital transformation journeys. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at the SKOPE Research Centre, University of Oxford and Visiting Professor at the National Innovation Centre for Data, Newcastle University.
Demonstrating a commitment to sustainability is fast becoming a prerequisite for successful business partnerships, with an increasing emphasis on sustainable innovation as an enabler of not just efficiencies for a business, but also demonstration of sustainability success. This talk will focus on the role digital technologies such as AI, the industrial internet of things, distributed ledger technology and even the use of digital twins can play in realising an organisation’s sustainability goals. Ways in which these technologies have been deployed in the supply chains of businesses will be presented, drawing on the Digital Catapult’s Digital Supply Chain Hub, which aims to make supply chains not just digital but more sustainable using these technologies. The talk will also focus on the need for business to think about future workforce capabilities, drawing on the collaborative work of the Digital Catapult with Innovate UK’s Workforce Foresighting Hub.
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