SESSION + Live Q&A
Logistics as a Service: Building the Ocado Smart Platform
Selling groceries online at a profit is considered by many to be the Holy Grail of retail. The Ocado Smart Platform is the result of 15 years of learning through the application of technology to this domain, from control protocols for an army of 1000 warehouse robots, through optimising delivery routes as customers shop and using machine learning to predict what products customers might want. In this presentation, we will show how the architecture of this cloud-native platform has allowed Ocado to fulfill an order of 50 grocery items in less than five minutes. We will also present how Ocado Technology has built a scalable, AWS-based microservices architecture and Google Cloud-powered data analytics combined with a swarm robotics grid controlled by an intelligent air traffic system running on private cloud that is unlike anything currently available on the market.
Speaker
Paul Sweetman
Head of Software Architecture @Ocado
Paul has spent his career leading development teams for some of the UK’s leading online brands. Since working at Ocado, he has provided technical stewardship for Ocado’s real-time automated warehouse control systems, their award winning website and mobile apps, and more recently the...
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Alex Harvey
Head of Robotics and Autonomous Systems @Ocado
After studying Mechanical Engineering followed by Computer Science at university in Edinburgh, Alex started his career as a software engineer and vibration analyst in the aerospace industry. He worked for HGL Dynamics and was subcontracted into Rolls Royce as a vibration expert. Alex led the...
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Fleming, 3rd flr.
Track
Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Topics
Cloud ComputingRoboticsMulti-cloudArchitectureMicroservicesScaleMachine LearningPredictionsOcadoLondonShare
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