TRANSPORT & FREIGHT MANAGEMENT
BREAK-OUT SESSIONS
The Future of Transportation Management
Elmer Spruijt, VP Transportation Management, Descartes Systems Group
Transportation is evolving from an operational necessity into a strategic advantage. Discover how connected Transportation Management Systems (TMS), transportation networks, and AI are transforming execution. Learn how organizations are moving beyond visibility toward intelligent decision-making and autonomous execution—reducing costs, improving service levels, resolving disruptions faster, and building more resilient, scalable supply chains.
2.45 -3.00 PM CET
Turn Your Alerts Into Actions
Marc Boileau, Managing Director, EMEA and APAC
Disruption is the one constant in transport. Capacity tightens without warning, a lane closes, a supplier runs late, costs jump mid-quarter. The job has never been to prevent all of it. The job is to absorb it and keep goods moving without the whole operation lurching into crisis mode.
Real-time visibility helped by showing the disruption sooner. But seeing it earlier still leaves your team to work every exception by hand, and when volatility spikes, there aren't enough hands. That's where control starts to slip.
This session looks at how AI agents change that. They can sense a disruption, decide a response, and act on it across the network, holding performance steady while conditions move underneath you. The operation bends instead of breaking.
Using real examples from global shippers, we'll look at where this works today, and where it doesn't yet. You'll leave with a clearer sense of where it fits your own network.
3.30 - 3.45 PM CET