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
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
Andy Call
Interim Dean
University of Southern Califronia
Randy Kendrick
Founder & CEO
Xebec Realty
Why Global Trade Keeps Breaking: Geopolitics, Policy, and Cross-Border Risk
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
The E-Commerce Fulfillment Cost Trap: Where Speed, Service, and Margin Collide
Kate Jostworth
Head of First Mile
Maersk
Robert Khachatryan
Chief Executive Officer
Freight Right Global Logistics
Maia Benson
Chief Commercial officer
GCG Companies
Alexandria Collis
Chief Customer Officer
Comfrt
Wynn Austin
Founder and CEO
Wynn’s Kitchen
Cold Chain Under Pressure: Food, Agriculture, and the Predictability gap
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.
Supply Chain Finance
Caryn Pace Messenger
Managing Director, Global Trade & Supply Chain Finance
Bank of America
Kathryn Moncur
Sr. Partner & VP, Banking & Financial Markets
IBM
Pawan Joshi
Chief Strategy Officer
e2open, WiseTech Global Group
Brent Causey
Managing Director, Head of Supply Chain Finance
City National Bank
Orchestaring Intelligent, Customer-Centric Logistics Networks in an Era of Volatility
Sriram Dasu
Department Chair, Data Sciences and Operations
USC Marshall
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 Transformation.
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
Henry Pray
General Manager, Logistics
UP.Labs
Back to Basics: The Human Operating System
Dr. Sue Sundar
Professor & Director, Operations and Supply Chain Program
University of Utah
John Cordova
President
HRforGrowth
Christophe Kolb
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Taller Technologies
Abe Eshkenazi
Chief Executive Officer
ASCM
Andrea Adarmes
Regional Head, Upskilling & Standardization
Maersk
Tawanda Starms
Chief People Officer
Din Tai Fung
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
The Last Mile to the Patient: Risk, Regulation, and Resilience in Healthcare 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
David Reeve
Vice President of Supply Chain and Manufacturing
American Red Cross
Dan Solis
Assistant Commissioner for Import Operations
Retired FDA
Sustainability Without the Spin
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
Nayan Khamar
Director of Server Demand Planning
Microsoft
Aerospace & Defense Supply Chains
Tom Koponen
Manager, Subcontracts - Energy, Intelligence, SI and EMS
General Atomics
Kraig Conrad
Chief Executive Officer
NCMA
Dustin Pavon
Director
Parker Manufacturing Group
Sergio Perez-Torreslara
Assistant Professor
CETYS Universidad
The Ecosystem Behind Intelligence: Capital, Compute, and the Future of AI
Omar El Sawy
Professor of Data Sciences and Operation
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
“Meet the Moment”: Agile Stability for Supply Chains of the Future
Jeff McDonald
President
NNR GSP Inc
Peter Penseel
President
Delta Air Lines Cargo
John Parkinson
Partner & Managing Director
ParkWood Advisors LLC
Jennifer Guarino - Strawn
Senior Vice President Global Procurement
A2 Global Electronics
Kristina Garbe
Key Client Director Automotive
A.P. Moller – Maersk
AI at the Operating Edge: Where Technology Should Make Decisions, Where Humans Must Stay in Control
Feng Chen
Professor
Randall R. Kendrick Global Supply Chain Institute
Laird Burns
Professor
University of Alabama in Hunstville
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
Chief Executive Officer
MVP Logistics
Manish Kapoor
Founder and CEO
Advatix
Geoff Tumang
Chief Operating Officer
Parker Manufacturing Group
Sean McCarthy
Co-Founder and CEO
BackOps AI
Stefan Teulon
President
UP.Labs
Nick Vyas
Executive Director
USC Marshall
Vivi Tran Lynch
Managing Director, Operations Advisory
LIDD Consultants
Wayne Jepson
Global Key Account Manager USA
Röhlig Logistics
Chad Stricklin
Manager, Retail Operations
Disney Experiences
Beyond Operational Risk: Financial Risk, Compliance, and Governance
Scott Garger
Sales Director
creditsafe
Yesinne Alvarez
Director of Partnerships and Alliances
creditsafe
Alvin Moreno
Director of Global Supply Chain Credit Risk
Nestlé USA
Supply Chain Tech Impact Challenge: Live Startup Demos
Maneesh Apte
Co-Founder & CEO
Parker AI
Nilay Parikh
Chief Executive Officer
Arvist AI
The Execution Gap: An Interactive Operations Lab on AI, Automation, and Decision-Making
Sean Elmurib
GTM Lead
BackOps AI