Oliver Wu: Foresight Practitioner, Supply-chain Scenario Planning

Helping the Clean Energy Program at Apple work towards a 100% renewable supply chain by forecasting the geographical movements of suppliers in the next 5~10 years and planning strategies for different scenarios.

Developing patent strategies for Siemens by utilizing Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Virtual Reality to analyze 1000+ patent data around Apple's acquisition of Metaio, a former partner of Siemens.

Advised the go/no-go decision of a legal firm on entering the EU General Data Protection Regulation compliance- advisory market by leading a team of 7 to analyze the market size of the top 5 countries in EU data usage. • Provided market entry strategies to Vary Gap, a professor-led wireless charging technology start-up, by leading a team of 6 to conduct market research in 5 potential areas including electric vehicles, drones, and medical devices. • Transformed the decision-making process of Speaker4Schools, an educational charity, from judgments based on human experience to a statistical model based on public data, significantly reduced the decision-making time.

Recommended a 4-billion-dollar industrial park to attract companies in the clean energy and smart manufacturing industries based on analysis of their synergy and business potential with projected revenue of 1.5-billion-dollar. • Planned the urbanization of a 950-acre industrial area by estimating the demand for office, commercial and dwelling space in 2030 and adjusting building space allocation accordingly to meet new government regulations.

Improved Microsoft Flow, a web service automation platform, by integrating 6 services such as Facebook and eBay into Flow and providing feedback to the product team. 3 suggested features were later implemented.

• Re-erected the Guinness World Record's highest altitude wind turbine at 16,000 feet on top of a glacier. • Electrified the village of Playa Blanca by constructing and installing small-scale wind turbines in a team of 7.