Technology Magazine November 2018 | Page 241

Sylvain Duval
NORTH AMERICA control tower will always be a piece of the puzzle though , because we need intuition built-in to some of these decisions . We need to regularly re-programme the artificial interface to ensure that the right things are being learnt by the machine and that the next decision that it makes will be correct .”
AI and ML , then , have the potential to make existing practice efficient , but even today supply chain is seen as a very linear , end-to-end process . SigmaPoint looked for a holistic model that would link each of the nodes direct to the digital core in real time . “ The linear model introduces latency as it
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EXECUTIVE PROFILE

Sylvain Duval

Sylvain has over 27 years ’ experience in New Production introduction in the high-tech sector . For 10 years , he worked at Nortel Networks as Test Engineering Director and Senior Produce Line Manager . He then followed an entrepreneurship path , working as Test Engineering Director for ultra long-haul optical networking startup , Ceyba , in early 2000 . He then co-founded his own startup , Daito Test Services in 2003 and co-founded Jordale Technology in 2006 . Sylvain returned to the EMS world as Customer Service Director at Varitron before joining SigmaPoint . He holds a Bachelor ’ s Degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master ’ s Degree in Concurrent Engineering from Sherbrooke University .
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