Event Program

Featured Partners

Presented by

Partners

Organizing Committee

Amynah KarmaliPuget Sound PMI

Devyn HeimbeckCSCMP-PS / Trade Tech

Dragana PopadicUW Bothell SCMC

Gaurav MehraPuget Sound PMI

Jack ByrneCSCMP-PS / Navigate

John JuanISM-WW / Microsoft

Kellen BettsISM-WW / PredictiveChain

Nancy MillerAPICS Puget SoundRichard LefrandtAPICS Puget Sound

Morning Sessions Afternoon Sessions8:00-9:00 — Check-in and light breakfast in Mobius Hall

9:00-9:10 — Opening Remarks in Mobius Hall

Opening Remarks by Kellen Betts from CONNECT Welcome Remarks by the UW Bothell School of Business Remarks by BarTender by Seagull Scientific

9:10-10:00 — Keynote in Mobius Hall

Todd Rawlings Inventor, Digital Trans. Architect, Azure R&D at Microsoft

The Future and Sustainability of Supply Chain Technologies from AI and the Cloud to Underwater Datacenters!

10:00-10:15 — Break

10:15-11:05 — Session 1

11:05-11:20 — Break

11:20-12:10 — Session 2

12:10-13:00 — Lunch in Mobius Hall

Mobius Hall ARC 1 ARC 2

Customer at the CenterA Better Supply Chain

Presented by Plaster GroupTechnology on the Move

Presented by FourKites

The CUSTOMER at the Center of the Supply Chain A Green Future for Freight The Future of Freight Forwarding

Flavio RossiCEO/Managing Partner of Conectar

Eric BeckwittFounder & CEO, Freightera

Kevin KeoughDirector & GM Seattle, Flexport

Mobius Hall ARC 1 ARC 2

Customer at the CenterA Better Supply Chain

Presented by Plaster GroupTechnology on the Move

Presented by FourKites

Customer at the Center of Last Mile Strategy

Panel: Supply Chain Sustainability, Responsibility, Compliance and Regulation

Panel: New Frontiers in Domestic Logistics and Warehousing

Matthew BergersonREI Co-op

Joan Krajewski (Microsoft), Joseph Williams (State of WA),

& Surya Pathak (UW Bothell)

Jack Byrne (Navigate),Lorin Seeks (Convoy),Megan Evert (Flexe), &

Sam Howard (Plaster Group)

13:00-13:05 — Remarks in Mobius Hall

Remarks by the UW Foster Master of Supply Chain Mgmt.

13:05-13:55 — Keynote in Mobius Hall

Gerald Jackson Vice President of Digital Product Management, GE Digital

IIOT, AI and the Transformation of Industrial Supply Chains

13:55-14:10 — Break

14:10-15:00 — Session 3

15:00-15:20 — Break and Mentorship Program in Mobius Hall

15:20-16:10 — Session 4

16:10-16:25 — Break

16:25-18:00 — Startup Pitch Competition in Mobius Hall

Presented by PredictiveChain

Mobius Hall ARC 1 ARC 2

Management Skills for Today Cutting Through the HypeBuilding a Global Perspective

Presented by Portland State Univ.

Networking, Leveraging Social Capital and Mentorship

Panel: Supply Chain Visibilityand Traceability

Neurodiversity - The Brain, Culture and the Implications for Leadership

Gregg D. RichieP8, LLC

Chris Senden (FourKites), Elizabeth Sinclair (BarTender by

Seagull Sci.), Kellen Betts (PredictiveChain), Kevin Norman

(Verizon) & Lucas Pereira da Cunha (Otrafy Technologies)

Samad AidaneResearcher, trainer, consultant, and

coach; Instructor, OSU

Mobius Hall ARC 1 ARC 2

Management Skills for Today Cutting Through the HypeBuilding a Global Perspective

Presented by Portland State Univ.

Strategic Project ManagementMade Simple

Panel: AI, ML, Data and Securityin Supply Chain Panel: International Trade

Terry SchmidtManagementPro

Amit Kulkarni (REI), Andrew Marshall (Microsoft), Bhaskar Ballapragada (Throughput),

MeharPratap Singh (Procogia/INFORMS) & Yuan Shen

(OneClick.ai)

Christine Kelley (U.S. Commercial Service), Daniel Wong (Portland

State Univ.), Jay Fortenberry (Fortenberry Group), Jeff Watson

(SSI), Spencer Cohen (CAI)