Glenn Allison

Glenn Allison

Nashville Metropolitan Area
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Glenn Allison is Vice President, Enterprise AI Platforms and AI Solution Engineering for…

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    Tractor Supply Company

    Brentwood, Tennessee, United States

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    Brentwood, Tennessee, United States

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    Brentwood, Tennessee

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    Brentwood, TN

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    Greater Chicago Area

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    Greater Chicago Area

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    Greater Chicago Area

Education

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Volunteer Experience

  • Greater Nashville Technology Council Graphic

    Member Board of Directors

    Greater Nashville Technology Council

    - 5 years 1 month

    Science and Technology

    The Nashville Technology Council exists to be a catalyst for the growth and influence of Middle Tennessee’s technology industry. By connecting, uniting, developing, and promoting our community, the NTC propels the Nashville area forward to become a national leader in technology-based innovation and development.

    https://technologycouncil.com

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    Board of Directors EIC@WCS Catalyst Network

    Williamson County Schools

    - 3 years 1 month

    The Williamson County Schools Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center leads the nation in education for students with entrepreneurship. The facility will include a modern collaborative workspace for students, innovation and maker lab, and office space for use by student entrepreneurs.

    https://eiccatalystnetwork.org

  • Campaign Chair

    United Way of Williamson County TN

    - 2 years

    Led record $1+ million campaign with United Way of Williamson County. The United Way organization is uniquely positioned to pull together a diverse group of stakeholders and resources from businesses, government, education, nonprofits and individuals in order to mobilize around issues important to strengthening Williamson County.

  • Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) Graphic

    (R)Tech Council

    Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA)

    - 3 years 10 months

    Science and Technology

    The (R)Tech Center for Innovation was created to help retailers navigate the industry’s transformation by empowering innovation executives with research, insights, and collaboration, as well as, exposing other executives to the technologies and innovations defining retail’s future.

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    Leadership Brentwood Alumni Board

    Williamson, Inc.

    - 2 years 7 months

    The Leadership Brentwood program is sponsored by the Williamson County Chamber Foundation, the non-profit arm. The program offers individuals the opportunity to become involved and to make a difference in Brentwood and in Williamson County.

Projects

  • Diginomica - Tractor Supply puts the power of data into the hands of its Team Members

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    Tractor Supply Company is using Honeywell devices and software to give its staff real-time access to apps that are supporting smoother business operations and better customer experiences.

    Source: https://diginomica.com/tractor-supply-puts-power-data-hands-its-employees

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  • Coresight - Voice Tech Is Transforming Retail Engagement

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    Tractor Supply is leveraging voice in its mobile app by integrating natural language with AI (artificial intelligence) to enable its customers to find products quickly. Tractor Supply leverages voice for assisted curbside pickup, notifying a team member to meet the customer on arrival. This tool enhances convenience and efficiency, reducing the time of curbside pickup from seven minutes to a few seconds. Tractor Supply is also leveraging voice in stores, changing the role of the store Team…

    Tractor Supply is leveraging voice in its mobile app by integrating natural language with AI (artificial intelligence) to enable its customers to find products quickly. Tractor Supply leverages voice for assisted curbside pickup, notifying a team member to meet the customer on arrival. This tool enhances convenience and efficiency, reducing the time of curbside pickup from seven minutes to a few seconds. Tractor Supply is also leveraging voice in stores, changing the role of the store Team Member, assisting with training, onboarding and sales plans, and even introducing gamification into these tasks.

    Source: https://coresight.com/research/day-two-at-nrf-2023-retails-big-show-retailers-tap-tech-to-streamline-the-consumer-journey/

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  • Forbes - Connectivity Powers Tractor Supply Company’s Success

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    Tractor Supply team accelerates digital capabilities in response to Covid-19, including contactless curbside pickup, Theatro AI digital communicators, store WiFi, and initiatives to promote team member and customer safety as part of pandemic response.

    Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2021/02/01/connectivity-powers-tractor-supply-companys-success/?sh=40b20cfe2695

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  • Tech Target - Tractor Supply Innovates with 5G and WiFi 6 Technology

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    Tractor Supply team accelerates deployment of digital capabilities for customers as part of Covid-19 response, including contactless curbside pickup, enhanced store WiFi, high speed technology using 5G, and modern WiFi 6 technology.

    Source: https://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/feature/Pandemic-pushes-enterprise-connectivity-to-take-new-path

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  • Coresight Research - Tractor Supply Pivoting to Meet Consumer Demand in the New Retail Landscape

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    Tractor Supply is meeting consumer demand in challenging times by rolling out innovative fulfillment models, supporting talented team members and ensuring health and safety, and driving greater efficiency through use of data and advanced analytics.

    Source: https://coresight.com/research/open-for-business-with-glen-allison-tractor-supply-company-pivoting-to-meet-consumer-demand-in-the-new-retail-landscape/

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  • United Way - Tractor Supply Record Breaking $1 Million Campaign

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    Tractor Supply’s achieves record breaking annual charitable campaign over $1 million. This is the first ever million-dollar United Way campaign in the history of Williamson County. Based in Brentwood, Tennessee, Tractor Supply, the largest rural lifestyle retailer in the United States, attributes its record-breaking support to overall team member engagement and the campaign steering committee’s innovative incentives and successful themed activities.

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    Tractor Supply’s achieves record breaking annual charitable campaign over $1 million. This is the first ever million-dollar United Way campaign in the history of Williamson County. Based in Brentwood, Tennessee, Tractor Supply, the largest rural lifestyle retailer in the United States, attributes its record-breaking support to overall team member engagement and the campaign steering committee’s innovative incentives and successful themed activities.

    Source: https://coolsprings.com/united-way-recognizes-milestone-campaign-at-tractor-supply/

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  • JPMorgan Chase - Building the Right Workforce for the Right Jobs

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    Tractor Supply partners together with Nashville State to develop innovative “Learn and Earn" program that combines classroom instruction with real-world work.

    Source: https://www.jpmorganchase.com/news-stories/building-the-right-workforce-for-the-right-jobs

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  • Chain Store Age - Tractor Supply Company Avoids Growing Pains with Science

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    As part of a overall drive toward greater efficiency, Tractor Supply moves to a private cloud-based virtual infrastructure. Tractor Supply determined that migrating from its existing server-based infrastructure running Windows and UNIX to a Web-scale architecture would drive cost predictability. In addition, a modernized architecture would deliver scalability and the ability to “self-heal,” or detect and in many cases remediate problems automatically.

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    As part of a overall drive toward greater efficiency, Tractor Supply moves to a private cloud-based virtual infrastructure. Tractor Supply determined that migrating from its existing server-based infrastructure running Windows and UNIX to a Web-scale architecture would drive cost predictability. In addition, a modernized architecture would deliver scalability and the ability to “self-heal,” or detect and in many cases remediate problems automatically.

    Source: https://chainstoreage.com/news/feature-tractor-supply-co-avoids-growing-pains-science

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  • eWeek - Tractor Supply Company to the Cloud

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    The Tractor Supply team works together with partners to revamp and migrate the company’s online retail operation to the cloud. The new website provides Tractor Supply customers with an easier way to connect, browse and shop for goods and services online. The redesigned TractorSupply.com site provides customers optimal viewing across all devices, easier integration with social media pages, and a simplified check-out process.

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    The Tractor Supply team works together with partners to revamp and migrate the company’s online retail operation to the cloud. The new website provides Tractor Supply customers with an easier way to connect, browse and shop for goods and services online. The redesigned TractorSupply.com site provides customers optimal viewing across all devices, easier integration with social media pages, and a simplified check-out process.

    Source: http://www.eweek.com/cloud/ibm-moves-tractor-supply-company-to-the-cloud.html

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  • UC Strategies - Driving Innovation with Software Defined Networking Infrastructure

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    The Kellogg's team, together with Sonus, is recognized for improving collaboration capabilities while also lowering costs through use of software defined networking infrastructure.

    Source: https://www.bcstrategies.com/Kellogg-s-Driving-Innovation-with-Software-Defined-Networking-Infrastructure

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  • BizTech - Creating a Modern Workplace

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    The Grainger team is recognized as an early adopter of UC tools, and using them to improve service to customers and help team members better collaborate.

    Source: http://www.biztechmagazine.com/article/2013/06/history-it-innovation-drives-success-grainger

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  • Grainger Deploys Fully Converged IP Infrastructure to Enhance Customer Service While Improving Efficiency

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    The Grainger team, together with Cisco and Spanlink, implement one of the world's first distributed IP contact centers to improve customer service, increase efficiency, and enable business growth. Incremental annual revenue over $60 million per year and reduction in $3.4 million in operating costs.

    Case Study: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac79/docs/wp/Grainger_CS_10_05.pdf

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Honors & Awards

  • 2024 CIO 100 Award

    IDG

    Tractor Supply was recognized for innovation with AI in 2024 for chainwide deployment of generative AI and computer vision technology in stores to enable store Team Members to provide legendary experiences for customers.

  • 2024 Innovation Initiative

    Nashville Tech Council

    The Tractor Supply Company Team recognized with 2024 Innovation Initiative of the Year from Nashville Tech Council. The Hey GURA generative AI application runs on Microsoft Cloud and provides realtime access to product information, recommendations, training information, and much more. Store Team Members can access using voice or text message natural language using AI.

    We appreciate all the cross-functional Teamwork to support accelerated deployment chainwide to all store Team Member…

    The Tractor Supply Company Team recognized with 2024 Innovation Initiative of the Year from Nashville Tech Council. The Hey GURA generative AI application runs on Microsoft Cloud and provides realtime access to product information, recommendations, training information, and much more. Store Team Members can access using voice or text message natural language using AI.

    We appreciate all the cross-functional Teamwork to support accelerated deployment chainwide to all store Team Member mobility devices and AI voice communications with Theatro.

    Thank you to the Greater Nashville Technology Council , tech community in Nashville, and all of the Partners that helped support go live with the project including Microsoft , UDig , Theatro , Tiger Analytics , Nashville State Community College

  • 2023 CIO 100 Award

    IDG

    The CIO 100 Awards celebrates 100 organizations and the teams within them that are using IT in innovative ways to deliver business value, whether by creating competitive advantage, optimizing business processes, enabling growth or improving relationships with customers. Tractor Supply was recognized for enabling Team Member Productivity through 5G, Mobility, and AI Technology.

    Source: https://events.foundryco.com/event-series/cio100-symposium-and-awards/cio-awards-august-2023/

  • 2023 Retail Transformation of the Year

    NRF - Vendor in Partnership Awards

    This award recognizes retailers that demonstrate measurable and sustainable transformation across business models, technology modernization, organizational/cultural transformation or business process transformation.

    Source: https://coresight.com/research/vip-awards-2023-retails-core-is-human-and-rooted-in-partnership/

  • 2023 Computerworld Best Places to Work in IT

    IDG

    The Best Places to Work in IT list is an annual ranking of the top 100 work environments for technology professionals. Rankings are determined by a comprehensive questionnaire and extensive surveys of IT workers.

    Source: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3681081/best-places-to-work-in-it-2023.html

  • 2022 Computerworld Best Places to Work in IT

    IDG

    The Best Places to Work in IT list is an annual ranking of the top 100 work environments for technology professionals. Rankings are determined by a comprehensive questionnaire and extensive surveys of IT workers.

    https://www.idginsiderpro.com/article/3623739/best-places-to-work-in-it-2021.html

  • Tennessee Board of Regents Chancellor Award - Tractor Supply & Columbia State

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    The Tennessee Board of Regents’ Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Philanthropy awards individuals, companies and organizations who go “above and beyond” to donate their resources, finances and personal time to TBR colleges. College presidents submit nominations for the award, and winners are chosen by a panel of college representatives, Regents and Trustees.

    https://www.columbiastate.edu/news/details/2020/05/tsc_2020_chancellors_award.html

  • Innovation of the Year Award - Tractor Supply & Columbia State

    League for Innovation in the Community College

    The League’s Innovation of the Year Award was devised as a way to recognize significant innovations at Board and Alliance member colleges. These innovations reflect capstone achievements and the continuing renewal of the spirit of innovation and experimentation upon which the League was founded. The award honors faculty, staff, and administrators at member colleges who have created and implemented innovative programs, practices, partnerships, policies, and activities that improve the…

    The League’s Innovation of the Year Award was devised as a way to recognize significant innovations at Board and Alliance member colleges. These innovations reflect capstone achievements and the continuing renewal of the spirit of innovation and experimentation upon which the League was founded. The award honors faculty, staff, and administrators at member colleges who have created and implemented innovative programs, practices, partnerships, policies, and activities that improve the institution’s ability to serve students and the community.

    https://www.league.org/web-page/2019-innovation-year-award-winners

  • .NEXT Best in Enterprise Cloud - Tractor Supply

    .NEXT

    The Best in Enterprise Cloud award honors a team that has helped transform their organization through innovation in the datacenter. This innovation should have demonstrable benefits in either the customer experience, operational savings or increased availability and efficiency.

    https://www.nutanix.com/company/customers/tractor-supply-company

  • CIO 100 Award - Tractor Supply

    CIO.com

    CIO 100 awards program recognizes organizations for their business and technology innovation.

    https://www.cio.com/cio100/detail/2787

  • Nashville Business Journal 40 Under 40

    Nashville Business Journal

    Hailing from accounting to technology to everything in between, Nashville's "40 Under 40" are making big names in Nashville's business scene. Candidates were scored on a variety of criteria, including business accomplishments, community involvement and more.

    https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/print-edition/2016/05/27/40-under-40-glenn-allison-tractor-supply-co.html

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