Ocado joins the speaker line-up at The Engineer Conference, 6-8 June 2017, NEC

Ocado warehouse

Sid Shaikh, manager of the R&D engineering team at Ocado, will talk about the bespoke automation, software and automation systems Ocado has developed to deliver a completely disruptive way of grocery shopping.

It will look at the scale of the challenge and the solution, what drove the development of the automation, and why it had to be bespoke, as well as the approach to handling data.

It could also look at how Ocado aims to develop this further, what the next challenges are, and Shaikh’s take on the impact of automation in the sector in future.

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