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Day 1 :
- Thursday, Apr 18, 2024
- 08:30 AM - 09:00 AM
Andrés Cadenas: Head of Commercial & Trade, MARGUISA SHIPPING LINES
- Adaptability and flexible solutions to achieve the best possible performance
- Global connectivity – West Africa is now closer than ever
- Saving time and costs to end customers
- 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Priyanka Gowrishankar: Logistics Manager, JBF RAK LLC
- Supply chain professionals are increasingly facing a challenge known as Insomnia, which negatively impacts efficiency and resilience. Addressing this issue is crucial, considering the various risks involved: geopolitical conflicts, currency fluctuations, port congestions/strikes, pandemics, shifting consumer demands, fuel price changes, and environmental regulations.
- Understanding the demand plan is the initial step in mitigating supply chain risks. Collaborative Planning Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) is a shared ecosystem approach to planning that enhances visibility and speeds up decision-making, making supply chains more resilient
- The second step involves sustainable procurement that considers the economy, society, and environment. Digital procurement, like E-auctions, can enhance efficiency and secure favorable prices. Diversifying suppliers and clear spend management are strategies to manage delays and raw material shortages.
- 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Carl Lauron & Mike DeAngelis
: Founder & CEO &Head of Ocean Senior Director,
International Solutions, BuyCo & FourKites, INC
- Effective planning of door-to-door container shipments and monitoring their preparation to mitigate risks and prevent costly disruptions
- Real-time visibility of container shipments to enhance responsiveness throughout your supply chain.
- Utilizing data to optimize your supply chain operations, boosting efficiency, reducing costs and safety stocks.
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Andy Symonds: Head of Commercial Owners & Managers RightShip
- Who is RightShip to the maritime industry let alone the container shipping sector?
- The changing risk landscape of arriving vessels from the perspective of ports.
- Transparency of vessel information and insights, including both quantitative and qualitative
- 11:30 AM - 12:00 AM
Pradeep Raman : Vice President Strategic Business, Wiz Freight
- Renewable Energy is the new age energy , with Solar and Wind and also the new energy such as Green ammonia is growing year on year globally. How does Container shipping help this and will the transportation of Container shipping assist this growth
- Will talk on multiple Transportation of goods right from Solar Modules, to spare parts , to trade routes to grow expected in the next 5 years. How does container shipping help, and assist the Growth of this segment globally . I will first talk on the new age renewables and then talk on the biggest trade routes and what is the best form of transportation.
- 12:00 AM - 12:30 AM
Matt Goker : CEO, ATA
- An integrated supply chain approach leverages advanced technologies, digital-first resources, and best practices, helping container companies and ports, including the leading 50 ports handling approximately 27,000 containers daily, address increasing disruptions.
- Applying advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, shipping container companies benefit from supply chain visibility, valuable data and related insights, contributing to optimized container utilization, sustainability, and shipping operations.
- Data-driven container management utilizing AI-based algorithms enable informed decision-making, improved resource utilization, sustainability, and on-time distribution and delivery of the industry’s estimated 20 million containers.
- 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
Enrico Schlick: Business Product Owner Transportation, Schaeffler
- In-house developed digital logistics tool that identifies the most affordable, efficient, reliable, and eco-friendly route options for your business needs
- Automated solution for rate uploads and quality checks which is highly flexible and requires no IT involvement for any system changes.
- We provide a digital twin of the transportation network that serves as a foundation for cost-reduction strategies, risk mitigation, and limiting your carbon footprint
- 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Ramana Jampala: President & CEO, Avlino Inc.
- The technological drivers facilitating next-generation solutions.
- Utilizing AI-based technology to manage conflicting business goals
- Impact of AI-driven operations in reducing carbon emissions
Day 2 :
- Friday, Apr 19, 2024
- 08:30 AM - 09:00 AM
Christoph Rasewsky: Global Container Sector Lead, American Bureau of Shipping (ABS)
- New construction market trends: Giving an insight into orderbook trends, fleet age, new construction prices and scrapping activity.
- Design trends: Identification of trends resulting from the changing market environment.
- Future fuels on the rise: Examination of fuel options for container ships and emerging developments.
- 09: 00 AM - 09:30 AM
Lars Karlsson: Global Head of Trade and Customs Consulting Maersk , A.P. Moller – Maersk
- Global Trade 2.0 is here. The world is changing and there will be more changes the next 5 years than we seen to global trade the last 50
- The industry is changing to meet new unknowns and new demands, including various regulatory reforms and new ESG supply chain legislation
- We see emerging trusted trade lanes managed by supply chain visibility using smart containers through smart borders
- Trade digitalization creates new opportunities to plan for the unplannable
- 09: 30 AM - 10:00 AM
Michael Eichstedt: Lead Strategy & Consulting, Freight & Logistics Industry Practice Accenture
- Definition of Vertical Integration in logistics including industry examples
- Current market dynamics – Need for versatility of services
- Future outlook – which capabilities will be required to succeed?
- 10: 30 AM - 11:00 AM
Ivic Vodopija: East Adriatic Managing Director , A.P. Moller – Maersk
- Saving 3.000 nm and CO2 emission, Adriatic is becoming priority for reliable, resilient, cost effective and CO2 neutral supply chain
- Compatibility between North and South supply chains in/from Europe
- Future of European Supply Chains
- 12: 00 PM - 12:30 PM
Amanda Martyniuk: Head Of Sales, eShipper
- Over the last 6 years we have seen a significant upswing of US based companies importing containers into Canada and Mexico in order to facilitate their North American fulfillment. There are many reasons that this has happened, including, but not exclusively limited to the Trump Tariffs that were imposed during his first-term as President.
- Trump recently announced that he would impose tariffs of 60% or higher on Chinese goods if he is elected for his second term in office.
- Businesses have an opportunity to avoid these tariffs by taking advantage of Section 321—and if they are really savvy, duty drawback.
Day 1 :
- Tuesday, 30 May 2023
- 08:30 AM - 09:00 AM
Lissa D’Arcy: Solutions Integration,
Digital Marine with Emerson
Cold Chain, Emerson
- Focus is shifting to connected supply chains to drive efficiencies in managing complex and dynamic logistics.
- Interoperability is a hot topic, but many are still unclear on how to achieve it
- Within the Maritime sector, significant progress is being made towards interoperability.
- How can the supply chain leverage insights from the maritime industry and develop a scalable framework to achieve greater interoperability?
- 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Ngibip Marcel
: Chartered Ship-Broker
, StilFresh
- Shippers consign cargo per sales contract but still receiving notifications from the buyer about rejections, losses or damages to the cargo at destinations.
- Consignee is caught between the carrier and consignor when problems arise and wants to be sure the shipper followed the instructions in the sales contract and the transporter wasn't careless
- Carriers are receiving claims against them and want to be sure cargo owners are conveying correct information about cargo issues and need proves cargo was handed in accepted condition.
- 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Carl Lauron : Founder and CEO, BuyCo
- Supply Chain resiliency is a mega-trend in our industry. With COVID, the Suez Canal blockage, the war in Ukraine, and fluctuations in box availability and freight rates, we know that disruptions happen. As the backbone of business, supply chains need to be resilient and agile in order to mitigate the risk of disruptions.
- In the container supply chain, resiliency means building a network of diversified partners. However, this brings more complexity in managing all the involved parties. In this session, Chad Jones will explain what the cost of a resilient supply chain is and the tools required to manage its complexity.
- This is a new and evolving area, where speed is of the essence. Citizen developers, Low code / No Code
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Matt Goker: Chief Executive Officer Quloi
- First Mile Supply Chain Challenges
- Digitalizing, Optimizing Key Processes
- Today’s supply chain operations and related challenges demand resiliency not attainable with manual, error prone processes, but instead through the leveraging of advanced technologies and digitalization.
- 11:30 AM - 12:00 AM
Miguel Navalón: CEO, Navlandis
- The problem, empty container management and the value proposition of Zbox foldable containers.
- Real use cases 2021-2023
- Current status & next steps
- 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Judah Levine: Managing Director, Digital
Transformation Consulting, Freightos Group
- The Air Cargo Mode: How airlines digitized over 50% of global capacity in just four years, passing millions of low-touch bookings with instant digital distribution
- The Modal Difference: Why ocean liners missed the boat, the COVID impact, and the early signs of change, leveraging internal research data and forward-looking indicators
- What it All Means: How BCOs, freight companies and ocean liners may adapt these changes differently, the new channels this will create, and the changing ecosystem.
- 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
James Thatcher: Import Export Manager, Totes Isotoner
- Will the current state of the market hold through 2023 and beyond?
- West Coast US vs East Coast US, who should we choose to take to the dance?
- I just want to come inland, why is that so hard?
- 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Jeffrey Atkin: CEO, World Forest Group
- We make a sustainable ground protection product in Brazil for use in infrastructure construction. Good news: Best product on market. Bad news: Very low value vs. weight ratio
- Freight moved from $1500 to $13,000 per can. We adapted by using a different value metric. Instead of selling price, we used strength and Total Cost of Ownership.
- We also kept “in the game” with customers by offering ship load quantities of mats at substantially lower prices than by containers.
Day 2 :
- Wednesday, 31 May 2023
- 08:00 AM - 08: 30 AM
Niraj Mahapatra :
Director of Strategic
Solutions, CDL 1000, Inc
- Drayage without Demurrage
- Sustainability in Logistics
- Next Level Visibility and Analytics
- 09: 00 AM - 09:30 AM
Md. Shamsuddin Bhuiyan : Assistant General Manager,
Supply Chain, Gildan
- Not only financial but also time, energy can be great savings through SMART collaboration. In this globalized challenge period none can survive by his own rather combine can shine.
- 09: 30 AM - 10:00 AM
Ashutosh Prasad: Founder & CEO KoiReader
- Exploring the benefits of Edge Computing and IoT in Supply Chain & Ports
- Streamlining Container Operations at the Ports through Digitalizing the Ecosystem
- Examining the Impact of Digitalization on the Container Service Industry
- Reducing Trade Friction and Increasing Operational Visibility through the Digital Twin of the Ports
- 10: 00 AM - 10:30 AM
Mac Sullivan: Head of Technology and Digital Promotion NNR Global Logistics USA
- Fragmentation, media frenzy, greed, attention deficiency and simply not enough "smart" and experienced interdisciplinary individual(s) causing logistics and transportation opportunity of a generation to be wasted.
- in this presentation, Mac Sullivan will cover a mix of academic, historical, and personal takeaways on potential tangible actions that companies, professionals and students could take to move the needle towards a better future of the logistics industry.
- Mac's research and focus is primarily on freight forwarding, so he will be referencing mostly cases from this discipline however welcomes all to participate, discuss and summarize a call to action before the last of the Covid-19 / Digitalization dollars and interest fades away.
- 10: 30 AM - 11:00 AM
Andrea Martin:
FreightViewer Coordinator at
Conqueror/Coop/Globalia, FreightViewer
- Impact of Industry 4.0 in the logistics industry
- Finding a place in the industry 4.0 based on a well granted digital strategy.
- Challenges for freight forwarders in stablishing a digital strategy
- 12: 00 PM - 12:30 PM
Johnathan Finlayson : Project Logistics Director GEODIS
- Global Indicators
- Global Ocean Volumes
- Global Ocean schedule reliability
- Global Spot Rate Trends
- What to expect for 2023?
- Q2 2023 - Market Situation
Day 1 :
- Wednesday, 18 May 2022
- 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Lennart Heip: Global Modal and Technology Leader International Trade Operations, Dow Chemical Company
- How has Dow faired in MPC since 2020?
- What strategies has Dow deployed to face the challenges in the container market?
- The future: how will Dow change and digitize its work process to be better prepared for the future?
- 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sebastian Sanders
: Kissflow
- COVID impacts and delays of products being transported, what does this look like in the next 5 years? How will logistics better forecast to prevent mishaps?
- How to strategically build an supply chain operations through pre planning physically & virtually
- 11:30 AM - 12:00 AM
Kyle Henderson : CEO, VizionAPI
- Strategic solutions for improving efficiency of “End-to-End Logistics”
- Emerging Digitalization technologies into Supply Chain & Ports and its benefits, impact and performance - How APIs Are Bringing Confidence To Stakeholders Who Hear ‘Where Is My Container’ And ‘When Will It Arrive?’
- The Use Cases Of Cargo And Freight Shipment Tracking APIs For Visibility -Reliability & Ocean ETAs
- 12:30 AM - 01:00 AM
Mike Bush : Terminal Relationship Manager Wood PLC
- How more transparency during the loading process would help to alleviate hurdles on the back end (i.e. is there a way to load ships that would make it easier to unload them)?
- A deeper look at how appointment systems are creating unnecessary hurdles for truckers.
- A quick discussion of how labor utilization could be optimized to further remove friction
- 01:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Sue Tomic
: Interim Chair, Supply Chain & Logistics
Association of Australia
- Global container supply crisis and outlook-congestion and reasons for delay in container supply
- What issues the supply chain has faced during Covid-what we have learnt, mitigation measures deployed by industry to keep goods moving
- Emerging technology assisting Supply Chain Operators in the management of issues presented by the Covid Pandemic-managing people and premises to minimise disruption and build Resiliency
- 01:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Mac Sullivan: Vice President Business
Solutions, NNR Global Logistics USA
- Through the lens of a practitioner and an academic, we will look at how the adoption and utilization of 4IR technologies have gone from hype and fear to the new normal
- A brief analysis of what 4IR technologies will and won’t be put into practice across supply chains. What role does pragmatism play in top-down vs. bottom-up in an effective digital transformation?
- 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Julian Alvarez: Founder & CEO, Logixboard
- Importance of Digitization: Analysis from surveying 100+ BCOs
- Tech that Drives Sales: 3 technologies that can help win more business
- Making the Digital Shift: Tips for adopting and implementing new technologies
- Case Study - 3 stories of using digital tech to win new business
- 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Sayed Habib: DGM – Business Development, Danube Home
- Role of China in Supply Chain Crisis
- What can retailers do to reduce the disruption caused by the Supply Chain crisis?
- Identify alternate suppliers before they are actually needed
- Test the availability of the supply chain
- Managing customer demands through techniques like auction, substitution or demand shaping.
- Push the customers to buy the essentials before they are out of stock- Many international retail chains have started pushing Christmas Ads earlier this year!
- 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Fergus Eley: Maritime & Supply Chain
Excellence, BHP
- BHP uses global shipping liners to move some 50,000 TEUs annually – shipping commodities such as copper, nickel and uranium to customers around the world, and importing all the goods and materials that our Mining Assets require. More broadly BHP is one of the world’s largest dry bulk charterers, and our Maritime team works across all sectors of the maritime industry, including container freight.
- We are passionate about decarbonising the world’s maritime supply chains having recently procured 5 Newcastlemax LNG-fuelled bulkers, conducting biofuels trials with our industry partners, and investigating wind-assist technology on the fleet that moves our commodities.
- Out ambition is to build deep connections within the containerised freight ecosystem and along the end-toend commodity supply chain to target emissions reduction and efficiency improvements leveraging emerging technologies and solutions.
- We believe that data-democritisation is a key enabler to decarbonising our end-to-end supply chains. We think about this in three areas – future fuels, onboard/supply chain innovations and our partnering/chartering choices.
Day 2 :
- Thursday, 19 May 2022
- 10:30 AM - 11: 00 AM
Carl Lauron
:
Founder, BuyCo
- Process automated
- Results achieved and costs reduction
- Key success factors
- 11: 00 AM - 11:30 AM
Jordi Espin: Secretary General, European Shippers’ Council
- Transparency and digitization as missing tools of the level playing field.
- How to reflow the maritime supply chain to make the cargo move efficiently?
- Shippers as active proactive global stakeholders
- 11: 30AM - 12:00 AM
Pankaj Gupta: Global Sourcing (Logistics & Supply Chain, Welspun Group
- How to get real time visibility all across the value chain
- Reducing cost to customer without reducing profit
- 12: 30 AM - 01:00 AM
Oliver Ritzmann: Senior Solutions Architect Willowglen Systems
- Data as the new oil for the shipping industry
- Standardizing processes: key to offset rising logistics costs
- Building resilience through a multi-sourcing strategy
- 01: 00 AM - 01:30 PM
Johnathan Finlayson:
Project Logistics Director , GEODIS
- The Value Chain - Cost versus Value added Services to Deliverables
- The Changing Environment - A Rebuild of Current practices
- Measures that Forwarders have taken and future adaptations available
- 01:30 AM - 02:00 AM
Michael Symonanis:
Project Logistics Director, Louis Dreyfus
- Strategic Perspective
- Mid-South Chassis
- Street Turn Fees
- Rail Appointments
- A Call to Action
- 02:30 AM - 03:00 AM
Thomas Cook : – Blue Tiger International
- Global Supply Chains in 202 & 2021: Fighting the Pandemic
- Anticipation of continual supply chain disruption
- Cost, delay and confusion
- Specific Impact on Ocean Shipping
- Preparing for 2022 and Beyond
- Mitigating Strategies for both Sort and Long-Term Planning
- 03: 00 PM - 03:30 PM
Walaa Maher : Head of SC&L – Supply Chain & Logistics, RAK Ceramics
- Triangulation & Cross Docking as a Social Benefit and Cost Saving Project
- Case Study to reduce 50% of Trucking Costs
- How Supply Chain improve Sustainability and Environmental impact
- 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Sean OMalley:
CEO, BlueX
- Fintech will have major impacts to the International supply chain in 2022 — particularly for freight forwarders and shippers— who freight and goods costs have risen significantly over the last 18 months
- Freeing up working capital by offering faster payments and better financing will allow for better cash management -- and be offered by logistics-specific fintech solutions
- Integrated supply chain payment and financing solutions will be a standard solution for supply chain and logistics players in 2022
- 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Tan Miller:
Director, Global Supply Chain
Management Program, Rider University
- Supply disruptions brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic have accelerated the rise in importance of risk management factors in the end-to-end logistics landed-cost decision-making processes of shippers and all firms.
- This trend was well underway before the onset of Covid-19, however, this pandemic has substantively increased the weight that risk management now plays and will continue to play in logistics network planning and decisions.
- We review the evolution of this trend and explore its implications for supply chain participants
Day 3 :
- Friday, 20 May 2022
- 10:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Shailesh Gupta:
Growth Manager, Portcast
- Current and predictive view: Portcast port congestion index
- Quantifiable impact on cargo movement
- How can shippers deal better with this?
- What can the wider logistics ecosystem do to mitigate this?
- 10:30 PM - 11:00PM
Kareem Naouri:
CEO, LogistaaS
- An explanation of emerging digitalization technologies and standardization of data exchange between carriers, freight forwarders, customs, and other supply chain members.
- A road map of how a freight forwarder can go digital.
- 11:00 PM - 11:30 PM
Martin Hubert:
CEO, Freightgate Inc
- AIS
- Schedules
- EDI (Carrier, Ports / Terminals / Community Systems, Rail ** Pull vs. Push)
- API (Carrier, Ports / Terminals / Community Systems, Rail ** Pull vs. Push)
- IoT
- ELD
- WareHouses
- 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
Pierre Garreau:
Co-founder & CEO, Searoutes
- Climate change - The Worrying Role of Transportation
- Current Challenges - With traditional CO2 calculations
- Better data = more accurate results
- Find the most Co2 efficient port-to-port routes
- Analytics to identify areas for improvemen
- Tools suite to manage risk
- Benefits with Searoutes
- Value of Searoutes
- 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Birgit Davidia:
Account Executive Energy, Microsoft
- Advanced Optimization with Machine Learning vs Reinforcement Learning
- Best Practise Example & Technical Demonstration
- 01:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Michael Chapnick: , LTD Commodities
- Covid risk assessment
- Container optimization
- Cross Docking and Port to Port moves due to reduction of IPI moves
- Carrier Monopoly and the cost increases occurring in the ocean freight industry
- Equipment disruptions and lack of appointments to return empty equipment
- Reduction of dangerous goods options (especially GDSM goods with batteries)
- 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
James Artis: CEO, Jibchain
- Using Flexible Technologies to Monitor and Mitigate Risk.
- Harmonizing human intelligence with emerging tech to evaluate risk and combat disruption within supply chain operations
- Conducting Supply Chain Risk Assessment to Evaulate 3rd party suppliers and illuminate the supply chain
- Strengthen Cyber Defense in Supply Chain Operations
- Adoption of Zero Trust Architecture to limit Cyber Attacks on our National Supply Chain
- Government +Industrial Base- Working together to build strategic solutions that drive performance, cut costs, and maximize opportunities in each ecosystem.
- 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Deric Dube : COO, Kuvimba Mining House
- Rail and road solution comparison on Beira and Maputo ports (Mozambique)
- Dry port facilities for landlocked countries (Zimbabwe and Zambia)
- Container turn-in solutions in areas beset with economic downturn
- Impact of logistical efficiencies in economies with modern freight and handling infrastructure (South Africa)
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