Chicagoland Supply Chain Forum

Forum Agenda

8:15 AM Registration

8:45 AM Opening Remarks by Dr. Sulin Ba, Dean, Driehaus College of Business

9:00 AM Keynote by Erin Aleman, Executive Director, CMAP and Board Chair for CAGTC

9:30 AM Panel 1: State of Logistics in Chicagoland

- Victoria Rahmanovic, Director of Route Development, ALPI USA INC

- Kelsey Muruato, VP, Intermodal Association of Chicago

- Amber Romando, VP Operations, BWS Logistics

- Wes Lujan, Vice President – Govt and industry Affairs, GATX

- Moderator: Dr. Manish Tripathy, DePaul University

11:00 PM Coffee Break

11:15 AM Panel 2: AI in Supply Chain

- Adam McElhinney, CEO, Uptake

- Jessica Lenz, Enterprise Sales Director, Goodship

- David Peckman, COO, CloneOps.ai

- Sara Niakian, Director of Supply Chain, SIG Group

- Moderator: Dr. Sina Ansari, DePaul University

12:45 PM Networking Lunch

1:45 PM Panel 3: Managing Geopolitical Risk in Supply Chains

- Sarah Monroe, Director of Procurement, Mann+Hummel

- Brian Bourke, CCO, SEKO Logistics

-Panelist 3 TBA

-Panelist 4 TBA

- Moderator: Dr. Nidhal Bouazizi, DePaul University

3:15 PM Coffee Break

3:30 PM Panel 4: Industry – Academia Partnerships

- Dr. Andrew Zeiser, Assistant Professor, John Carroll University

- Brit Videbeck, CSCO, Feeding America

- Dr. Nidhal Bouazizi, Professional Lecturer, MS in Business Analytics

- Arun Bapu, Reyes Holdings

- Moderator: Dr. Zheng Han, DePaul University

5:00 PM Closing Remarks by Dr. Nezih Altay

Director of Master’s in Supply Chain Management

5:15 PM Networking Reception

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Host or Publisher DePaul University, Driehaus College of Business, Department of Management