Opening Keynote
Susan Etlinger
Etlinger is an industry analyst at Altimeter, where her research focuses on the impact of artificial intelligence, data and advanced technologies on business and culture. She is a sought-after keynote speaker and has been quoted in media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, BBC, and The New York Times.
Thought Leaders
Steve Banker
At ARC Advisory Group, Banker has been covering supply chain technologies since 1996. His focus areas include transportation management, managed transportation services, warehouse management, and supply chain planning.
Bart De Muynck
For Gartner, De Muynck conducts research in the supply chain focused on supply chain delivery processes. He also covers innovative technologies such as AI and ML in transportation, blockchain, autonomous vehicles and drones.
Drew Ferguson
Conference Chair
Linda Fonkoue
Fonkoue is a global supply base manager in logistics for Deere and Company. She manages the performance of the LTL and dedicated carriers within Deere’s supply base by developing and implementing effective sourcing strategies.
Paul Scott Abbott
A journalist for more than 40 years, Scott Abbott has specialized in writing about transportation and logistics for the past quarter century, including for the American Journal of Transportation.
Evan Armstrong
Armstrong serves as president of Armstrong & Associates. Prior to joining Armstrong & Associates in February 2000, Armstrong was vice president of pricing at Roadrunner Freight Systems. Armstrong has over 25 years of experience in supply chain management.
Spencer Askew
Steve Banker
At ARC Advisory Group, Banker has been covering supply chain technologies since 1996. His focus areas include transportation management, managed transportation services, warehouse management, and supply chain planning.
Bill Cassidy
Cassidy is senior editor for trucking at The Journal of Commerce, the logistics and transportation online news service and weekly magazine founded in 1827. He joined the publication in 2009, after 13 years at Traffic World magazine, where he served as executive editor, managing editor and associate editor.
Sonny Catlett
Catlett serves as the Senior Vice President of HNRY Logistics, where he is responsible for integrating the resources of one of the largest LTL networks in North America.
Jon Cox
Cox has more than 10 years of solutions design experience in home delivery, network transportation and network design, and postal aggregation and parcel solutions. He currently works in the solutions design team at DHL Supply Chain, supporting development of comprehensive, integrated transportation solutions.
Bart De Muynck
Bart De Muynck conducts research in the supply chain area focused on the delivery processes: transportation planning, transportation execution, freight payment, analytics, visibility, yard management, vehicle routing and scheduling, and fleet telematics. He also covers innovative technologies such as AI and ML in Transportation, Blockchain, Autonomous vehicles and drones.
Mathew Elenjickal
Elenjickal founded FourKites in 2014, and his vision for the product continues to define FourKites' success and growth. Prior to founding FourKites, Matt spent seven years in the enterprise software space, working for market leaders such as Oracle Corp and i2 Technologies/JDA Software Group.
Susan Etlinger
Susan Etlinger is an industry analyst at Altimeter, a Prophet Company. Her research focuses on the impact of artificial intelligence, data and advanced technologies on business and culture, and is used in university curricula around the world. Susan’s TED talk, “What Do We Do With All This Big Data?” has been translated into 25 languages and has been viewed more than 1.2 million times. She is a sought-after keynote speaker, and has been quoted in media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, BBC, and The New York Times.
Bob Farrell
Farrell, chairman and CEO of GlobalTranz, has more than 30 years of experience in the supply chain industry and a proven track record of building high-growth software and technology-driven companies. Prior to GlobalTranz, Bob served as president and CEO of Kewill, a global leader in multimodal transportation management software.
Drew Ferguson
Joe Finney
Finney brings more than 30 years of industry experience to his role of chief operating officer at the Dependable Companies. Through the years, Finney has held every position in the industry in both union and non-union environments.
Linda Fonkoue
Fonkoue is a global supply base manager in logistics for Deere and Company. She manages the performance of the LTL and dedicated carriers within Deere’s supply base by developing and implementing effective sourcing strategies.
Brian Glick
Prasad Gollapalli
Gollapalli is founder and CEO of Trucker Tools. As Trucker’s Tools chief strategist and solution visionary, Prasad brings to the company nearly 20 years of experience in management and product strategy with trucking and shipping software companies
Shawn Graves
Justin Hall
As Chief Customer Officer of YRC Worldwide, Hall has responsibility for digital customer experience, corporate strategy, business intelligence, enterprise sales and marketing. Prior to joining YRCW, Hall was president of Logistics Planning Services, which later merged into GlobalTranz.
Ben Harris
Harris serves as director of supply chain and advanced manufacturing at the Metro Atlanta Chamber, where he is responsible for enhancing metro Atlanta’s efforts to recruit, retain and expand companies and investment within the supply chain ecosystem. Prior to joining the Chamber, Harris was senior manager of market development for Manhattan Associates.
Lance Healy
Healy is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Banyan Technology in 2001. Healy graduated, with honors, from Ohio University with degrees in African Studies and French, and he lives in beautiful Cleveland, where the company is headquartered.
Jeff Heller
Heller is vice president of intermodal and automotive on July 1 at Norfolk Southern, and he oversees marketing, sales and business processes for those concentrations. Prior to joining NS, Heller held various sales and marketing management positions in the container shipping business, both in the U.S. and abroad.
Frank Hurst
Hurst has served as president of Roadrunner Freight since June 2017. Hurst spent 3 years at North American Corporation, and he was executive vice president for Vitran Express. Hurst served for 16 years at FedEx Freight.
Veneetia Smith Johnson
Johnson serves as a senior technology and innovation manager at Delta Air Lines. Through the years, her experience includes airport operations, warehouse management and HR systems. Johnson also serves on the board of BiTA.
Rebecca Kelly
Dr. Walter Kemmsies
Mike Levans
Levans is group editorial director of Peerless Media's supply chain group of publications and websites including Logistics Management, Supply Chain Management Review, Modern Materials Handling, and Material Handling Product News.
Adam Lovell
John Martin
Terry Matthews
Matthews is executive vice president and president of intermodal at J.B. Hunt. He began his career in transportation with North American Van Lines, joining Hunt in 1986.
Jamie McAtee
McAtee is technical product owner for Honeywell. She manages products for the connected aircraft enterprise.
Rob Moseley
Moseley is the chairman of the transportation practice group of Smith Moore Leatherwood, LLP. He represents parties to transportation contracts, including shippers, trucking companies, brokers, forwarders and other logistics providers.
Geoff Muessig
Muessig has more than 30 years of experience in the transportation industry. He started his career with PITT OHIO in 1988 as a sales representative. Today he serves as the organization’s chief marketing officer and executive vice president.
Randy Mullett
Mullett is founder and principal of Mullett Strategies, LLC, where he focuses on transportation and freight policy, sustainability, security, and issue advocacy messaging. Prior to his current role, Mullett was vice president, government relations and public affairs, for XPO Logistics.
Ken Penhanick
Kenneth Pehanick is president and CEO of SaaS Transportation. He consults both emergent & established technology and third party logistics enterprises in design of business, marketing & product strategies for successful growth in the SCM marketplace. He also advises manufacturers, distributors and LSPs in their solution architectures for transportation management, including the selection, implementation and performance management of best fit vendors.
Ted Prince
Prince is chief operating officer for Tiger Cool Express, LLC. He also currently serves on the Board of Directors of SeaCo Ltd. Prince has spent his career of more than 30 years in the transportation industry.
Dr. Don Ratajczak
Ratajczak is emeritus professor of the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University and a consulting economist for leading businesses and governmental agencies. Ratajczak is one of the world's most celebrated economists.
Mark Redini
Redini is the vice president of pricing for Echo Global Logistics. He is responsible for LTL carrier relationships and establishing rating programs across the modes of LTL, small parcel and international freight.
Justin Sachs
Mahesh Sahasranaman
Mahesh Sahasranaman is principal architect for UPS Supply Chain Solutions. In that capacity, Sahasranaman leads technology innovation, strategy, architecture and governance for applications supporting third party services. Sahasranaman is an advocate for blockchain technology across UPS.
Bryant Schneider
Schneider is the director of transportation procurement, technology and carrier administration within the global supply chain at W.W. Grainger. His teams are focused on improving cost and service by delivering on initiatives while managing the portfolio of carrier partners.
Bill Shults
Shults is SMC³’s vice president of cost systems. He has worked in transportation cost analysis for more than 30 years.
Candace Sider, CCS, CTCS
As vice president, government and regulatory affairs, Canada, for Livingston International, Sider is the company’s primary representative focused on regulatory changes that impact global trade, compliance and risk management. Sider manages political engagement with federal, state and provincial officials, Customs administrations, regulatory agencies and key policymakers.
Dr. Manjeet Singh
Brian Thompson
As chief commercial officer, Thompson oversees SMC³’s sales, marketing and industry education departments. Thompson helps tailor SMC³ tools to address new developments and changes in the transportation arena. His vast experience serving shippers and 3PLs gives him a detailed understanding of what these customers need in a transportation solutions provider.
Julie Thuston
Beth Turner
Pradeep Vachani
Vachani is senior vice president and global head of the travel, transportation and logistics business at EXL, where he and his teams drive business transformation in operations, analytics, finance and digital areas for EXL clients.
JP Wiggins
Wiggins is co-founder and vice president of logistics for 3GTMS, where he runs channels, partnerships and is a member of the executive team. Prior to 3GTMS, JP held logistics related executive roles at SAP, Descartes Systems, G-Log (now Oracle TM) and Red Prairie (now JDA.)
Billy Wyatt
Wyatt is currently the director of LTL operations at eShipping. Prior to eShipping, he spent 14 years with FedEx Freight with time spent in both the sales and pricing arenas.
Peter Yost
Yost is the senior director of strategic alliances at FourKites. In his role, he works with the company’s alliance partners, including SMC³, to position the company’s products with large shippers and 3PLs.
Zeke Ziliak
At PROS, Ziliak’s team is responsible for price optimization, revenue management, and quoting technologies for the transportation & logistics space. His work at PROS has had a particular focus on cloud-based machine learning for both leg-based and origin and destination network carriers as well as asset-light players.
Kiko Zuniga
