Nick Vyas is the Executive Director and Co-founder of USC Marshall's Center for Global Supply Chain Management and Academic Director of the M.S. Global Supply Chain program. Based in Los Angeles, California, he previously managed global operations for Duty-Free International, Sears, Federated Stores, and Toys R Us.Aljosja Beije is Director of Blocklab, a technology company that specializes in the application of emerging technologies in the logistics and energy domains and senior researcher at of Supply Chain Finance at Windesheim University of Applied Sciences in Zwolle, The Netherlands.Bhaskar Krishnamachari is Director of USC Viterbi Center for Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, California.