FreightWaves LIVE: An Events Podcast

Is there anything more important to a successful sales team than culture? The challenges of building a strong company culture become exceedingly difficult over the last year as teams and organizations adopted a remote work environment. Charley Dehoney and Jon Rapp talk about how your team can protect and build a good culture when your team is all working remotely. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sales challenges are different for an adolescent startup and an advanced organization, though in many ways they're similar. Andrew Leto has founded multiple companies and scaled them to success. How does the role of a founder evolve through different stages of growth and how can sales teams develop along the way? FreightWaves President George Abernathy gets the inside scoop in this fireside chat. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hope White, CEO and Founder of HD White Logistics, founded her brokerage in 2016 with the goal of beating out her competition in the highly competitive truckload brokerage market. Hope managed to see an opportunity in early 2020 to launch container services a little outside Savannah to capture the growing share of import volume and propel her business up and to the right. Watch and listen as Hope explains to SONAR Account Executive Luke Falasca her journey and her plans for taking her company to the next level. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Logistics companies come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Each structure has it's own strengths and advantages, while making sacrifices in other areas. Armstrong Transport Group President and CEO Brian Mann discusses with FreightWaves Chief Strategy Officer JT Engstrom the benefits of and success strategies in each model and what brokers should know to thrive in either environment. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You already know you need to start creating. After all--most of your competitors are offering the same equipment, services, and rates. It's time to stand out from the pack by addressing the four most common fears companies and brands are facing before they start creating video and podcast content, in this fireside chat with Digital Dispatch founder Blythe Brumleve and FreightPlus' Director of Marketing Kyle MacNaught. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this session featuring FreightWaves SONAR VP of Product Marketing, Adam Robinson and Jason Fishman, SVP of Digital Strategy at Digital Niche Agency talk about the importance of creating a marketing strategy that puts your audience at the center. Adam and Jason walk through the importance of strategy, aligning messaging to your audience’s problem, the role of marketing channels, setting proper expectations with leadership, and using analytics to continuously improve. You don’t want to miss this best practice laden session if you are looking to close more deals and gain a better ROI from your marketing resources. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Learn how manufacturers, distributors and consumer brands can predict and manage supply chain disruption, better collaboration between the buyer and supplier and, ultimately, improve supply chain performance that boosts the bottom line, in this fireside chat between JT Engstrom, Chirf Strategy Officer at FreightWaves, and Tom Kieley, CEO and Co-Founder of SourceDay from the North American Supply Chain Summit. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2020 was a year of tremendous challenges, at the same time a valuable opportunity to rethink our supply chains and diversification of production facilities, analytics, and technology. Because of COVID, there was a repositioning of supply chains on a scale never seen before along with a massive boom and shift of consumer spending habits. We are certainly not done yet – the continued demand for medical supplies, the upcoming need to rush vaccines to all points on the planet at once, and the uncertainty of consumer spending habits will continue to place incredible pressure on supply chains and resources. Shawn Stewart, President and Managing Director, North America for CEVA Logistics breaks it down with Kevin Hill in this fireside chat from the North American Supply Summit. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Heather Kettelhohn started as executive director of Global Planning and Supply Management at automotive engine supplier Cummins Inc. in March, just as the global pandemic forced assembly plants to shut down. How did she manage inventory control when no one was ordering and how did she get products flowing as new truck demand soared with the clamor for consumer goods? Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this panel, Kyle Lintner discusses the current and future challenges tied to contract freight, and the innovation currently underway to improve upon the seemingly broken system on both the Shipper and 3PL sides of the Supply Chain. Kyle is joined by Andrew Silver from Molo, Michael Carlisle from US Cold Storage and Josh Phelan from JB Hunt. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do companies develop a sustainable supply chain? The answer lies in taking a holistic approach. This includes sustainability strategies throughout a supply chain, from procurement of all materials and transportation. Kevin Hill, Director of Editorial and Research at FreightWaves talks with the VP of Sustainability & Capabilities Procurement at Anheuser-Busch, Angie Slaughter. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In advance of their upcoming report on 2021 Supply Chain forecasts, Peter Bolstorff discusses with George Abernathy their expectations for the near future. After the chaos of 2020, what do supply chain managers need to know to thrive when the dust has settled? Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alison Bodor, President and CEO of the American Frozen Food Institute shares how COVID-19 has impacted the frozen food industry and its supply chains over the past nine months. She additionally shares insights on how the supply chain has permanently changed and where uncertainties remain for the industry as we look ahead to 2021 and eventually the new “normal” marketplace and operating landscape. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With a multitude of moving parts, coordinating supply chains of the 21st century is an art as much as a science. New advantages are being given to those first-movers who adapt on the fly. In an age of immense data collection, what are the metrics that matter? How can supply chain managers eliminate the noise to focus on what's really important? Andrew Cox, Market Research Analyst at FreightWaves talks with Meghan Nicholas, Senior Director, Supply Chain Strategy and Planning at Dollar General in this keynote address. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Terry Virts, Former Astronaut, speaks with Dooner and Michael Vincent at the North American Supply Chain Summit. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lori Ann Larocco, Author of "Trade War: Containers Don't Lie", speaks with Dooner and Michael Vincent at the North American Supply Chain Summit. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gene Seroka, Executive Director of the Port of Los Angeles, speaks with Dooner and Michael Vincent at the North American Supply Chain Summit. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Natural resources in space will present new opportunities here on Earth and for eventual human endeavors throughout space. How will these be procured and what are the possibilities for energy and other needs? Tom James literally wrote the book on Deep Space Commodities, and talks to FreightWaves Director of Editorial & Research Kevin Hill about these forthcoming challenges and opportunities. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A rocket doesn't break down on the side of the road and require a tow truck. Keeping your space supply chain operational is significantly more challenging, not to mention expensive, than anything known on Earth. Centauri Technical Director Darren McKnight diagnoses and repairs satellites from his seat on this planet. Hear him discuss with FreightWaves Chief Strategy Officer JT Engstrom how we will tackle the same challenges when the vehicle is thousands of miles above the ground. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The maritime trade has rarely been this volatile and the need for transparency has rarely been this high. Spire Maritime General Manager Simon van den Dries outlines to FreightWaves Senior Editor Greg Miller how satellite technology can provide a vital view from orbit of where ships are and where they’re going. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sydney Do is literally the guy designing the supply chains to support human colonies on Mars. Given that the days of human exploration on the red planet are not too distant, the infrastructure needed to carry humans there is being built today. What will the logistics on Mars look like in addition to the logistics of getting supplies to Mars? Sydney talks to Andrew Cox, Market Research Analyst at FreightWaves about what all this entails. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Space Race of the 21st century is hotter than ever. The only difference between today and the race of decades ago are the number of players and the growing role of the private sector. Keith Cowing, Editor at NASA Watch, has spent years reporting on different space agencies around the world and discusses with FreightWaves Chief Product Officer Travis Rhyan where the race for extra-terrestrial supremacy stands today. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

J. Brant Arsenau, Space and FinTech Entrepreneur at 9Point8 Capital examines the hurdles and opportunities in financing the commercial space sector. What should interested investors look for? Additionally, he and FreightWaves President George Abernathy discuss the role that logistics companies can and should play in the commercial space sector. Which brand name transportation company will be the first to put their logo on the side of a cargo rocket? Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As space becomes more competitive, both in the public and private sectors, the risk for dispute grows. Much like the expeditions into new continents hundreds of years ago, there are enormous geopolitical and security concerns that must be addressed. Denisa Scott, President and Principle Consultant for NüsPrime Endeavors examines these issues with FreightWaves Director of Editorial & Research Kevin Hill. The sooner we can discuss these issues, the better we can avoid conflict. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The days of building goods on Earth and launching them into space will soon be behind us. What will the manufacturing sector look like when it's operating in zero-gravity? Robots will be an essential component of the space manufacturing sector and it'll be happening a lot sooner than you may think, as John Kingston the Editor-At-Large at FreightWaves talks with Yuske Taguchi, Director of Business Development at GITAI in this fireside chat. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Wiese, Manager of Deep Space Logistics, Gateway Program at the NASA Kennedy Space Center unpacks the importance of, and exciting opportunities for, the logistics industry to collaborate with the Gateway Program’s Deep Space logistics commercial supply chain in support of NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration program to land the first woman and next man on The Moon by 2024. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Live Interview With Dooner and Michael Vincent: Dave Fischer, Astroscale U.S., Inc. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Live Interview With Dooner and Michael Vincent: Alexander William Salter, Texas Tech University Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Live Interview With Dooner and Michael Vincent: Krystian Gebis, Autobon AI Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Live Interview With Dooner and Michael Vincent: Franklin Chang Díaz, Ad Astra Rocket Company. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dooner and Michael Vincent talk to Justin Baird, Vice President and Head of Innovation, Asia Pacific, DHL about how reaching for the stars drives DHL's down to earth ambitions. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dooner and Michael Vincent field questions for NASA's Mark Wiese, Mark MacDonald, and Maxwell Briggs LIVE at SpaceWaves. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When it comes to supply chain visibility, the jewelry industry is one sector where demand is high for predictive data that can help insurers mitigate risk - particularly for international shipments - which can lead to lower transportation prices and better service. This discussion between executives from a supply chain tech startup and the largest insurer of retail jewelers in the U.S. will reveal how AI-enabled IoT is bringing new levels of supply chain visibility to an established industry that has been reluctant to embrace technology. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Supply chains have been focused on cost and scale rather than flexibility, with a heavy emphasis on China. Shifts in manufacturing and logistics patterns are underway, but they vary by industry. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The trucking industry is grappling with sharp increases in insurance premium renewals due to large jury awards and some providers exiting the market. Listen to Robert Haley, VP of Transportation USI Insurance Services and Pierre Laguerre, founder and CEO of Fleeting, a marketplace providing vetted CDL drivers to fleets, discuss tips on risk mitigation for carriers. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SPACs — special purpose acquisition corporations — have come a long way from being regarded as the “skunk at the garden party” to a welcome investment vehicle. John Larkin, an operating partner at Clarendon Capital, and Dan Hennessy, the chairman and CEO of Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp., discuss the recent popularity of SPACs, particularly in the electric vehicle and alternative fuel industries. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As e-commerce demand continues to skyrocket, logistics companies are looking for more efficient ways of delivering goods in cities. In this fireside chat, Peter Harris, international sustainability director for UPS, discusses bikes, smart grids and other innovations to manage congestion and reduce emissions in urban delivery. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Digital tools and platforms are giving freight-industry participants the flexibility they need to deal with the COVID-heightened pace of change. Eric Rempel, chief innovation at Redwood Logistics, discusses the digitalization trend – and how his company’s product, RedwoodConnect, is faring in the “new normal.” Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

During a virtual fireside chat Friday as part of FreightWaves LIVE @HOME, Ryder System Inc.'s Dave Belter, vice president and general manager of transportation management, joined FreightWaves President George Abernathy for an “Inside Look: The Freight Market During the Upcoming Wildest Holiday Season.” “This industry was affected differently by the pandemic - when I look across the board at our volumes, they are up to pre-pandemic levels, to 2018 levels.” Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FreightWaves will announce the winners of the 2021 FreightTech 25. A peer group of CEOs, industry leaders and freight investors selected the winning companies from the 2021 FreightTech 100. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jacques DeLarochellière, President and Co-founder of ISAAC Instruments, discusses the ways rate of digitization has increased during the pandemic in this Wavestalk. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a discussion entitled “How technology is making the job of being a truck driver safer and more enjoyable,” Jay Gustafson of Echo Global Logistics talks with Anthony Petitte of Truckpark about how tools from in-cab cameras to to ELDs have made driver’s life better...for the most part. But there have been drawbacks as well, and the two of them discuss that aspect of technology. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Securing the air cargo supply chain takes collaboration between industry and government because there are so many interconnected pieces. Find out how the Transportation Security Administration engages with industry players and some of its priorities for securing cargo on passenger aircraft and freighter in this fireside chat between John Beckius, the Executive Director, Air Cargo Division, Policy, Plans and Engagement for the Transportation Security Administration and Steve Alterman, the President of the Cargo Airline Association. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

American shippers are adjusting their inventories to meet increased at-home customer demand during and after COVID-19. Logistics services providers, such as Estes Forwarding Worldwide, are rapidly adapting their business models to tackle this changing dynamic. Andrew Cox hosts this roundtable discussion between Eric Goldapske, Director of Sales - Sporting Goods and Mass. with Johnson Health Tech, Michael Campese, Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing with Estes Marketing Worldwide, and Donna Kintop the Senior Vice President, Client Experience at DDC FPO. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There may not be a better time in the history of the U.S. trucking industry for companies to digitize their operations. Cloud-based technologies for transportation companies are rapidly driving down systems infrastructure price tags and are much easier for trucking companies to deploy. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Once a lightly regarded alternative to a traditional initial public offering, the special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, is here to stay, says Vincent Cubbage, CEO of Tortoise Acquisition Corp. After marshaling the public debut of natural gas Class 8 truck driveline maker Hyliion Holdings, Cubbage is hunting again. His new SPAC is one of more than 170 so-called blank check companies sifting the startup landscape for candidates to financially enable the growth that supports public trading. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hyliion Founder and CEO Thomas Healy delivers this keynote highlighting Hyliion's plans to bring forward electrified fleets. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aaron Wood, the Trailer Management Lead at U.S. Xpress and Siamak Azmoudeh, VP PLM and Business Development at SkyBitz talk about the ROI achieved from metrics-driven fleet management. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trinity Logistics President Sarah Ruffcorn responds the same way to practically every business challenge and opportunity: focus first on relationships. Whether completing a merger as Trinity did with Burris Logistics in 2019 or determining the best approach to the warp-speed changes in logistics technology, making sure all stakeholders are considered is her go-to philosophy for running a business. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some transportation companies have leaned into the headwinds and supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic. ArcBest’s CEO Judy McReynolds and FreightWaves’ President George Abernathy discuss the challenges COVID-19 has presented and how ArcBest is using its customer-centric approach to thrive in the chaos. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices