The con­ser­v­a­tive chem­i­cals indus­try is now at a cross-roads with unprece­dent­ed low oil prices, abun­dant shale gas reserves, and a chang­ing R&D plat­form.  Com­pa­nies of all sizes are redefin­ing their port­fo­lios with rapid merg­ers and divesti­tures in an attempt to max­i­mize mar­gins and expand mar­kets — indus­try lines are clear­ly blur­ring.  Tra­di­tion­al com­pet­i­tive levers are col­lid­ing with dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies, lead­ing to a once in a gen­er­a­tion oppor­tu­ni­ty to reimag­ine busi­ness mod­els and process­es.  New lead­ers are emerg­ing with inno­v­a­tive approach­es.  This web­cast offers SAP’s per­spec­tive on the rapid changes that are tak­ing place with­in the chem­i­cals indus­try as com­pa­nies embrace dig­i­tal technologies.

1. Under­stand SAP’s dig­i­tal frame­work for the chem­i­cals industry
2. Review inno­v­a­tive cus­tomer examples
3. Learn how to get start­ed on dig­i­tal transformation

Speak­er

Don Mahoney, Glob­al VP of Chem­i­cals, SAP

Don Mahoney is Vice Pres­i­dent and Glob­al Head of Chem­i­cals at SAP.  Don is respon­si­ble for ensur­ing supe­ri­or cus­tomer return on IT invest­ment while dri­ving prof­itable growth in SAP’s solu­tion port­fo­lio for the glob­al chem­i­cal indus­try.  Don also sits on the Advi­so­ry Board for Inno­va­tion, Cre­ativ­i­ty and Entre­pre­neur­ship (ICE) at the Vil­lano­va School of Busi­ness, and the Indus­try Advi­so­ry Board for Enter­prise Inte­gra­tion at Penn State Uni­ver­si­ty.  Don brings with him more than 22 years of expe­ri­ence with var­i­ous com­pa­nies in the process indus­try and its ecosys­tem, includ­ing DuPont, Hypro­tech (now Aspen­Tech), Logisight Corp, and Ver­ti­core Tech­nolo­gies.  Pri­or to join­ing SAP, Don co-found­ed and served as Chief Oper­at­ing Offi­cer for BDMet­rics Inc., a cloud-based soft­ware com­pa­ny pro­vid­ing CRM, social media, and busi­ness intel­li­gence appli­ca­tions to the world’s largest indus­try asso­ci­a­tions. Don has a Master’s degree in Engi­neer­ing from Pur­due Uni­ver­si­ty; an MBA from the Lern­er Col­lege of Busi­ness and Eco­nom­ics at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware; a Bachelor’s degree in Engi­neer­ing from Penn State; and is co-author of a uni­ver­si­ty-lev­el engi­neer­ing text­book enti­tled A Real-Time Approach to Process Con­trol, pub­lished by Wiley.