• Utilize visibility to provide live cargo insights to your partners to improve the quality of your service and aid in their ongoing digital transformation by providing key data points to drive efficiencies.
• Integrate insights from upstream visibility to power predictive systems with wider market data and engage in thorough analysis to provide more than just transportation for your clients.
• Ensure accuracy of pricing through connections with other entities – be it shippers, carriers, or other LSPs - and provide this transparency to increase trust in your partnerships.

Todd Florence, Chief Information Officer, Estes Express Lines

• Overcome reactive and piecemeal tech adoption through clear implementation strategy that aligns technology with your unique organizational needs to achieve the best possible ROI.
• Ensure that, in an increasingly connected world, your LSP can engage with the wider ecosystem and take advantage of additional data streams through the adoption of interoperable and flexible systems.
• Unlock tech synergies in your organization by analyzing where data streams and systems must converge to extract greater value from your digital advancements and infrastructure.

Erin Goheen, Vice President Technology, XPO
Karthik Jeevakumar, Head of Technology, Caliber.global
Kirk Serjeantson, Chief Information Officer, American Expediting
Moderator: Douglas Kent, Executive Vice President, Corporate & Strategic Alliances, ASCM

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• As your business becomes more digitally enabled, utilize new data streams to highlight or prevent bottlenecks fast and lay the foundations of a tech ready business, capable of keeping pace with future advancements.
• Uncover efficiencies internally through interchangeable data sets to increase interoperability of internal systems and lessen the workloads of internal teams by ensuring that data can be plugged into applications at will.
• Focus on ensuring that defined data standards are kept via rolling audits and evaluations to ensure that future technologies come online in the most effective and efficient way possible.

Amit Prasad, Chief Data Science Officer, Transportation Insights / NTG

• Insulate your organization from labor shocks in the warehouse by automating key bottlenecks in your operations, enabling your associates to upskill and develop into value-add roles.
• Move beyond basic automation on the simplest of tasks and unlock new efficiencies in your warehouse by increasing autonomous robots for specific tasks, maximizing productivity and operational safety.
• One size does not fit all. Carefully navigate the volume of warehouse technology available by discerning the appropriate strategic path forwards for your warehouses, whether that is through internal development or total outsourcing.

Jonas Swarttouw, VP Customer & Business Development, NewCold
Adrian Stoch, Chief Automation Officer, GXO Logistics
Remington Tonar, Co Founder & Chief Growth Officer, Cart.com
Cary Vandenavond, Chief Revenue Officer, Dexterity

• Examine how AI and machine learning are transforming supply chain management in eCommerce
• Discuss the use of predictive analytics to forecast demand, optimize inventory levels, and minimize delivery times.
• Discover how AI-driven logistics and route optimization can reduce shipping costs, improve order fulfillment, and ensure that stakeholders can take advantage of a truly omnichannel service.
• Learn how associates in the warehouse can be augmented with robotics, leading to a symbiotic partnership which amplifies productivity while ensuring safety.
• Understand how external partners can be integrated into a holistic digital transformation.

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Rajeev Ravindran, Chief Information Officer, Ryder

• Learn how to move from reactive to proactive planning of shipper demand by utilizing advancements in AI to streamline & increase accuracy of pricing for today and tomorrow.
• Fight to overcome a fragmented industry through behavioral models and ascertain what will do next to better provide the service which you know they will need ahead of time.
• Explore how to best integrate data (both industry specific and macro) to understand where supply and demand fluctuations will peak and fall, to help navigate spot pricing fluctuations and protect your bottom line.

Alyssa Myers, Vice President Technology, RXO
Raj Subbiah, Head of Product, Uber Freight
Ahemd Abdalla, Chief Technology Officer, Capstone Logistics
Derek Perry, Chief Technology Officer, Sparq

Cybersecurity for Resilient Logistics: Safeguarding Data and Infrastructure
• Explore advanced encryption techniques, multi-factor authentication, and regular security audits to maintain a resilient defence against evolving and sophisticated cyber risks.
• Foster a culture of cybersecurity awareness and responsibility throughout your organization by conducting regular cybersecurity training and awareness programs for employees
• Forge partnerships with cybersecurity experts and collaborate with other logistics stakeholders to exchange knowledge and best practices against threats as your operations become consistently more digital.

Become Your Shippers Trusted Advisor
• Resilience is no longer a luxury. Utilize advances in AI & predictive analytics to assess risk in real time and provide your shipper with a service which is more than just moving their goods from A to B.
• Become a ‘one stop shop’ by offering your shippers a flexible service to spread risk and explore new lanes of transport to help them satisfy their stakeholders by providing an intelligent & secure service.
• Go beyond reaction and become truly adaptable by providing increased visibility for your shippers and use advanced modelling to be ready for the next black swan event, whenever it may come.

Maximize Efficiencies Through Coopetition
• Whatever the size of the issue, sharing of data facilitates gains. Uncover how even the most macro of headwinds can be quashed through limited and thoughtful sharing of data.
• Discover how to overcome opaque pricing practices which are preventing ecosystem efficiencies, with calculated, restricted sharing of data that can lead to holistic ecosystem visibility & huge efficiency gains for all.
• Become a responsible custodian of the supply chain. Unearth net gains through mutual sharing of limited routing and truckload data to competitors. Future proof the Logistics ecosystem by reducing total dead miles and pleasing external stakeholders.

Moderator: Adhish Luitel, Senior Analyst, ABI Research

• Optimize basic visibility by bringing new data streams online, ensuring visibility is maintained at all times.
• Go beyond simple visibility; enable prediction, planning, and rapid response times for your customers.
• Learn how to leverage control towers to apply the above to create an optimized truly intermodal strategy.

In partnership with PartnerLinQ
Ahmed Samnan Raza, Chief Technology Officer, PartnerLinQ

Discussion on how infrastructure, technological investments, and policy shifts are needed to reinforce the US as a leader in the global supply chain, while navigating ever-changing geopolitical circumstances and tensions.

Peter Levesque, President & Chief Executive Officer, CMA CGM North America
Krister Holladay, VP Government Relations, CMA CGM North America
Moderator: Adhish Luitel, Senior Analyst, ABI Research

• A holistic strategy doesn’t just appear. Align your entire business toward digital enablement and move away from fragmented and siloed advancements to isolated business needs.
• Hybrid tech approachesa are more common than a complete “Build or Buy” strategy, be confident that your digital gains will not be hampered by blockages by ensuring your organization can interface between both proprietary and 3rd party products.
• Improve internal visibility in your organization through centralization of operations. Enable teams to derive insight and drive productivity by having easy access to previously siloed data points.

Nathan Johnson, Chief Information Officer, AFS Logitics
Todd Earls, Chief Information Officer, OIA Global
Eric Rempel, CIO, Redwood Logistics
Ravi Subramanyan, Director of Innovation, HiveMQ

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