Keynote Speakers
Roberto Isaias
Executive Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer
Mattel
Arun Tirumale
Chief Technology Officer
Amazon, Canada
Dr. Noel Hacegaba
Chief Executive Officer
Port of Long Beach, California
Gene Seroka
Executive Director
Port of Los Angeles
Tod Burwell
President & Chief Executive Officer of BAFT
Bankers Association for Finance & Trade
Nick Vyas
Founding Executive Director
Randall R. Kendrick Global Supply Chain Institute
Geopolitics, Trade Policy & Cross Border Risk: Why Global Trade Keeps Breaking
Vincent Iacopella
Chief Strategy Officer
Alba Wheels Up International LLC
Ambassador Carlos González Gutiérrez
Consul General of Mexico
Consulado General de México en Los Ángeles
Dr K. J. Srinivasa
Consul General
Consulate General of India, Los Angeles
E Commerce: The E-Commerce Fulfillment Cost Trap
Kate Jostworth
Head of First Mile
Maersk
Robert Khachatryan
Chief Executive Officer
Freight Right Global Logistics
Dennis Yao Yu
Founder and CEO
Sapiera AI
Maia Benson
Chief Commercial officer
GCG Companies
Alexandria Collis
Chief Customer Officer
Comfrt
Wynn Austin
Founder and CEO
Wynn’s Kitchen
Food, Agriculture & Essential Supply Chains: Feeding the World Under Constraint
Dimitrius Geges
Vice President of Operations
Levitt Foods/Branding Iron Ranch/Ranchers Processing
Carl Mount
Senior Vice President, Chief Supply Chain Officer
Jack in the Box
David Harriss
Managing Partner
Heroic Maritime
Eric Holbik
Director of Trade Development
Port Houston
John Pandol
Director of Special Projects
Pandol Bros.,Inc.
Finance, Risk & Network Design
Caryn Pace Messenger
Managing Director, Global Trade & Supply Chain Finance
Bank of America
Judd Tirnauer
Chief Executive Officer
JPT, Inc.
Alvin Moreno
Director of Global Supply Chain Credit Risk
Nestle USA
Logistics, Transportation & Network Flow, Last Mile Delivery: Logistics: The Shock Absorber That’s Cracking
Sally Canario
Adjunct Professor
University of Southern California
Lev Peker
Chief Executive Officer
Diversified Foodservice Supply
Jacques van der Merwe
Head of Implementation
GXO
Carsten Jepsen
Chief Executive Officer
MVP Logistics
Markus Mau
President
Bhavin Jindal
Sr. Manager
Supply Chain Technology, AI & Digital Enablement
Bethany Abbate
Director, AI Policy
Software and Information Industry Association
Han Ryoo
Head of Product, Automation & Intelligence
Freight Right Global Logistics
Tim Ryder
General Manager, US High Tech and Process Manufacturing
Microsoft
Chad Engelgau
Chief Executive Officer
Innovairre
Julio Andres Diaz
Head of Lead Logistics, North America Region
A.P. Moller – Maersk
Back to Basics: The Human Operating System of Supply Chains – Human Capital, Talent
Dr. Sue Sundar
Professor & Director, Operations and Supply Chain Program
University of Utah
John Cordova
President, HRforGrowth
Growth Catalyst Group
Christophe Kolb
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Taller Technologies
Abe Eshkenazi
Chief Executive Officer
ASCM
Andrea Adarmes
Regional Head
Maersk
Manufacturing, Capacity & Production Strategy: Source. Make. Move.
Dr. Karen Eng
President and CEO
CSMI
Michael Saludares, PMP
Director, Project Management office
Top Hat Engineering
Craig Ruffolo
Owner, Vice President
McKeany-Flavell Company
Heather Perry
Chief Executive Officer
Klatch Coffee, Inc.
Dr. Nicole Mau
Co-Founder
Mau Consulting
Healthcare, Regulation & Humanitarian Supply Chains
Wendy Fong
Chief Procurement Officer
American Red Cross
Lyanna Ly
Associate Vice President and System Executive Director
Rush University Medical Center
Dr. Krishna M Sundar
Professor Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
University of California, Davis
Sustainability, ESG & Climate Driven Supply Chains
Stephanie Hughes
Global Client Director
A.P. Moller Maersk
Jon Poelma
Managing Director
APM Terminals
Jennie Abarca
Owner
King Fio Trucking, LLC
Adam Browning
Chief Strategy Officer
Forum Mobility
Daniel Salter
Senior Engagement Manager, The Climate Pledge
Amazon
Selling through the Storm: When Sales, Ops, and Tech Collide
Alex Albert
Vice President of Supply Chain & Procurement
Xponential Fitness
Charan Lalwani
Vice President, Supply Chain Planning & New Product Integration
Starbucks
Kristina Soric, PhD
Business Department Chair
Sun Kwok
Vice President of Supply Chain Solutions
Niagara Bottling
Fred Gilbert
Head of Product Strategy & Growth Enablement (Sales) - NAM Contract Logistics
Maersk
Contracting: Aerospace, Defense, Cybersecurity, and Risk Mitigation
Tom Koponen
Manager, Subcontracts - Energy, Intelligence, SI and EMS
General Atomics
Kraig Conrad
Chief Executive Officer
NCMA
Dustin Pavon
Director
Parker Manufacturing Group
The Ecosystem Behind Intelligence: Capital, Compute, and the Future of AI
Prof. Omar El Sawy
Professor
USC Marshall
Brexton Pham
Global Co-Head, Compute Infrastructure
Cantor Fitzgerald
Maneesh Apte
Co-Founder and CEO
Parker AI
Dr. Nasim Afsar
Managing Director
Healthcare Innovation Partners LLC
Breakout Session Option A: Executive & Operational Decision Making Roundtable: Making the Hard Calls Under Pressure (10 executives) limited audience
Prof Feng Chen
Professor
Randall R. Kendrick Global Supply Chain Institute
Carl Mount
Jack in the Box
Chief Supply Chain Officer
Caroline Brown
Senior Vice President
Bank of America
Stephanie Hughes
Global Client Manager, Retail & Lifestyle Brands
Maersk
Carsten Jepsen
CEO and President
MVP Logistics
Robert Khachatryan
CEO
Freight Right Global Logistics
Manish Kapoor
Founder and CEO
Advatix
Breakout Session: Option B: Operational Lab (Open): When tariffs hit, what breaks first? (scenario, forced trade-offs, operator reactions)
Technology Challenge & Live Demos
Maneesh Apte
Co-Founder & CEO
Parker AI
Nilay Parikh
Chief Executive Officer
Arvist AI