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Ganesh Prasad Kumble
Ganesh Prasad Kumble
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Ganesh Prasad Kumble

Ganesh Prasad Kumble is an expert in emerging technologies and business strategy. He has co-founded, bootstrapped, and mentored several start-ups and initiatives across SaaS, e-commerce, IoT, Blockchain, and AI. He is a contributor to several open source projects, including Ethereum and IPFS. He authored TEXA in 2017 - an ethical AI initiative based on the Turing test that is used to safely assess multi-context robots and AI models in a quantifiable manner. He is currently leading platform innovation efforts at Aicumen Technologies, Inc. and KIP Foundation, building a general-purpose business protocol featuring identity management, third-party services, distributed compute, and immutable storage. Ganesh is also a moderator at the Ethereum Research forum.
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Applying AI and blockchain to supply chains

Supply chain management is crucial to the success of many industries and growing economies around the world; some consider supply chains to be the nervous system of trade. Managing a supply chain is an operation-oriented practice that requires efficiency and effectiveness, from the early phases of planning, procurement, and warehousing, to the logistics of shipping goods from producers to consumers.

The following sample diagram identifies the stakeholders involved in the supply chain management of a laptop:

Fig 3.2: Stakeholders in the supply chain of a laptop

You can check out this diagram by Andreas Wieland at, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_chain_management#/media/File:Supply_and_demand_network_(en).png. Here is the license to the diagram, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.

Now, let's understand some of the issues faced by the supply chain industry.

Issues in the domain

The following are three of the top issues faced...

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Ganesh Prasad Kumble is an expert in emerging technologies and business strategy. He has co-founded, bootstrapped, and mentored several start-ups and initiatives across SaaS, e-commerce, IoT, Blockchain, and AI. He is a contributor to several open source projects, including Ethereum and IPFS. He authored TEXA in 2017 - an ethical AI initiative based on the Turing test that is used to safely assess multi-context robots and AI models in a quantifiable manner. He is currently leading platform innovation efforts at Aicumen Technologies, Inc. and KIP Foundation, building a general-purpose business protocol featuring identity management, third-party services, distributed compute, and immutable storage. Ganesh is also a moderator at the Ethereum Research forum.
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