PANELISTS AND SPEAKERS

Keynote Speakers

Dipti Gupta

Head of SRM Business
Samsung SDS America
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Yujie Su

Head of Product Innovation
Maersk Global Innovation Center
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Jett McCandless

CEO
project44

Geoff Brady

Head of Global Trade & Supply Chain Finance, Bank of America
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Gene Seroka

Executive Director, Port of Los Angeles
Chief Logistics Officer, City of Los Angeles

Dr. Noel Hacegaba

Deputy Executive Director/COO
Port of Long Beach

Maneesh Apte

CEO
Real Simple Labs

Nick Vyas

Executive Director
Randall R. Kendrick Global Supply Chain Institute
USC Marshall School of Business
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Randy Kendrick

Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Xebec

Technology Panel

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Ana Achaval

Senior Manager, Globalization and Localization
AMD

MODERATOR

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Barbara Bickham

Founder & Managing Partner
Trailyn VC
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Sam Vahie

President and Chief Solutions/AI Officer
Advatix
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Kimon Drakopoulos

Associate Professor of Data Sciences and Operations
USC Marshall School of Business
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Robert Khachatryan

Founder and CEO
Freight Right

Manju Devadas

Founder and CEO
Pluto7

Sales and Operations

Alex Albert

Vice president, Xponential

MODERATOR

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Aaron Zelhart

Senior Vice President, Global Supply Chain
Mattel
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Alexandria Collis

Senior Director of Operations
Princess Polly
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Andre Winters

Founder and Principal
HudsonWinters & Co. LLC
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Chris Allison

Principal Consultant and Engineer
Explorer Systems and Industry, LLC
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Michael Suh

Ocean Carrier Service Manager
Hyundai Glovis

Supply Chain Finance

Kaylee Karumanchi Lord

Director, North American trade product head
Bank of America

MODERATOR

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Alvin Moreno

Director, Global Supply Chain Credit Risk
Nestle USA
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Nicholas Sopkin

Managing Director, Head of North America
Procura Inventory Management
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Tod Burwell

President & Chief Executive Officer
BAFT (Bankers Association for Finance and Trade)

Navigating the Digital Commerce Landscape

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Dennis Yao Yu

VP of Sales and Business Development
Firework

MODERATOR

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Rathna Sharad

CEO and Founder
FlavorCloud
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Ronald Escopete

Co-founder/COO
BOBABAM
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Sean McCartney

Chief Supply Chain Officer
StockX
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Wynn Austin

CEO and Founder
Wynn's Kitchen

Environmental Social Governance

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Dr. Greys Sošić

Senior Vice Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs
USC Marshall school of Business

MODERATOR

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Bonnie Nixon

Director of Sustainability
Port of Long Beach
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Brandon Frank

President/CEO
Pacific Product Components

Dr. Karen Eng

President/CEO
CSMI

Dr. Nicole Mau

CEO
Mau Consulting
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Jack Braniff

Sr Director, Global Alliances
project44
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John Keisler

CEO & Managing Partner
Sunstone Management, Inc.

Logistics

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Gene Ochi

Board Member
TrendPoint Systems

MODERATOR

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Andre Bryan

Managing Partner
BridgePort Group, LLC
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Andrew Hwang

Director of Transpacific Export and Government Affairs
Wan Hai Lines USA
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Jason Walker

Regional Head of Maersk Contract Logistics, NAM Region
A.P. Moller - Maersk
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Rob Choy

SVP Hi-Tech
DP World
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Scott McMurrey

Manager Specialty Sales
Fedex

Food Supply Chains

Carl Mount

Chief Supply Chain Officer
Zaxby’s

MODERATOR

Ron Volpe

CEO and Co-founder
TraceChain
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Gregory V. Brown

Executive Director
The Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability

Dimitri Geges

Senior Director of Operations
Levitt Foods
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David Stepp

Partner
Crowell & Moring LLP

Supply Chain Best practices

Sally Canario

Global Head of Continuous Improvement, Contract Logistics
Maersk

MODERATOR

Wayne Jepson

Global Key Account Manager
Rohlig

Mary McNelly

Vice President-Global Distribution and Logistics
Fender Musical Instruments Company

Markus Mau

President
European Logistics Association

Chris Longhito

Senior Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer
Global Industrial
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Chris Bonner

SVP, Global Logistics
Lululemon

AI in Higher Education

Dr. Laird Burns

Associate Professor, Management Science Department
The University of Alabama in Huntsville

MODERATOR

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Vishal Gupta

Associate Professor of Data Sciences and Operations
USC Marshall School of Business
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Lisa Cherivtch

Distinguished Professor of Business
Oakton College
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Elyse Hallstrom

Senior Data Scientist
Intel Corporation
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Dr. Subhro Mitra

Associate Professor
University of North Texas - Dallas
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Carlos Paternina-Arboleda

Assistant Professor
San Diego State University

Rethinking Higher Education Business Models

Dr. Sue Sundar

Director Operations & Supply Chain Program; Professor-Lecturer
University of Utah

MODERATOR

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Dr. Yao Zhao

Professor
Department of Operations and Information Systems, Rutgers University
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Dr. Tony Bell

Assistant Professor of Professional Practice
Supply Chain Management (SCM) Department, Rutgers University
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Dr. Alireza Kabirian

Associate Professor of Clinical Data Sciences and Operations
USC Marshall