Jeremy Utley

Join us for a fun and enriching day exploring Florida’s wildlife, culture and cuisine!

The adventure begins with an exciting Everglades wildlife presentation led by Ashley Lawrence—wildlife expert, rescuer, and cast member of Animal Planet’s Gator Boys. She’ll share firsthand stories from her work in the Everglades and introduce guests to live animals. Her energetic style makes learning about Florida’s ecosystem both fascinating and fun for all ages.

Next, guests will enjoy a relaxed, family‑friendly walking tour of historic Worth Avenue, known for its Mediterranean Revival architecture, charming courtyards and hidden passageways. Guides will highlight Addison Mizner’s influence, Old World design elements, and the iconic figures who shaped Palm Beach’s glamorous history.

Along the way, guests will sample bites from select Palm Beach restaurants, offering a delicious taste of the area’s refined culinary scene. Younger attendees can visit Pan’s Garden, where they’ll learn about butterfly gardening, native plants, and enjoy a hands‑on nature activity.

To finish the day, guests can unwind with free time to explore Worth Avenue’s renowned shopping district, filled with luxury boutiques, galleries, and timeless Palm Beach charm.

In this energizing, perspective-shifting session, Stanford’s Jeremy Utley reveals why most leaders are missing AI’s true potential—not because of the tools, but because of their mindset. Drawing from his acclaimed work on AI-powered innovation, Utley demonstrates how AI can become a strategic thought partner, amplifying creativity, accelerating problem-solving, and unlocking breakthrough ideas previously out of reach. With real examples from his research and global advisory work, he challenges audiences to move beyond task-based uses of AI and embrace a bold, collaborative approach where humans and machines think together. Attendees will leave with a practical, repeatable framework for transforming AI from a novelty into a force multiplier for innovation, impact, and organizational performance.

Step into a high impact arena where the most influential minds in logistics and supply chain reveal how they’re shaping the future. These conversations go beyond strategy to expose the bold decisions, innovative thinking, and real world leadership driving transformation across the industry. Experience the perspectives of executives who aren’t just reacting to change — they’re creating it. This series spotlights the leaders who deliver the clarity, conviction, and competitive insight leaders need to stay ahead of what’s next. Step into a high impact arena where the most influential minds in logistics and supply chain reveal how they’re shaping the future. These conversations go beyond strategy to expose the bold decisions, innovative thinking, and real world leadership driving transformation across the industry. Experience the perspectives of executives who aren’t just reacting to change — they’re creating it. This series spotlights the leaders who deliver the clarity, conviction, and competitive insight leaders need to stay ahead of what’s next.

As the U.S. moves through the second half of 2026, forecasts point to moderating inflation, a gradual labor market stabilization, and a return to steadier GDP growth heading into 2027. At the same time, persistent global disruptions, shifting trade dynamics, and uneven sector performance continue to influence costs, investment, and freight demand across the economy. This session delivers a clear, executive-level view of the financial forces that will shape LTL volumes, Capital planning and strategic decision-making as LTL leaders prepare for another dynamic year.

Step into a high impact arena where the most influential minds in logistics and supply chain reveal how they’re shaping the future. These conversations go beyond strategy to expose the bold decisions, innovative thinking, and real world leadership driving transformation across the industry. Experience the perspectives of executives who aren’t just reacting to change — they’re creating it. This series spotlights the leaders who deliver the clarity, conviction, and competitive insight leaders need to stay ahead of what’s next. Step into a high impact arena where the most influential minds in logistics and supply chain reveal how they’re shaping the future. These conversations go beyond strategy to expose the bold decisions, innovative thinking, and real world leadership driving transformation across the industry. Experience the perspectives of executives who aren’t just reacting to change — they’re creating it. This series spotlights the leaders who deliver the clarity, conviction, and competitive insight leaders need to stay ahead of what’s next.

Prepare for an unflinching, data driven reveal of the emerging supply chain risks that ATRI’s latest research shows are reshaping safety performance, congestion hot spots, and workforce stability across the U.S. freight network. Drawing from ATRI’s deep analytics on bottlenecks, litigation pressure, rising operational costs, and workforce constraints, this session exposes the escalating challenges that LTL carriers and 3PLs must navigate as they balance service expectations with growing structural inefficiencies. Attendees will gain a powerful, forward looking understanding of the operational realities defining 2026 and the strategic actions needed to protect capacity, strengthen resilience, and stay ahead in an increasingly complex freight environment.

Step into a high impact arena where the most influential minds in logistics and supply chain reveal how they’re shaping the future. These conversations go beyond strategy to expose the bold decisions, innovative thinking, and real world leadership driving transformation across the industry. Experience the perspectives of executives who aren’t just reacting to change — they’re creating it. This series spotlights the leaders who deliver the clarity, conviction, and competitive insight leaders need to stay ahead of what’s next. Step into a high impact arena where the most influential minds in logistics and supply chain reveal how they’re shaping the future. These conversations go beyond strategy to expose the bold decisions, innovative thinking, and real world leadership driving transformation across the industry. Experience the perspectives of executives who aren’t just reacting to change — they’re creating it. This series spotlights the leaders who deliver the clarity, conviction, and competitive insight leaders need to stay ahead of what’s next.

Freight fraud has entered a new era—one defined by synthetic identities, AI-driven impersonation, and organized cargo theft networks that exploit blind spots between digital systems and physical reality. Drawing on intelligence-grade methods and a nationwide sensor network that captures real-world fleet behavior, GenLogs’ latest research exposes how deepfakes, chameleon carriers, and coordinated theft rings are evolving faster than traditional vetting, load board workflows, and legacy compliance tools can keep up. This session delivers the ground truth strategies LTL and 3PL leaders need now—real-time identity validation, lane-level anomaly detection, and visibility models built to stop fraud before it starts—arming the industry for the next phase of digital deception.

Step into a high impact arena where the most influential minds in logistics and supply chain reveal how they’re shaping the future. These conversations go beyond strategy to expose the bold decisions, innovative thinking, and real world leadership driving transformation across the industry. Experience the perspectives of executives who aren’t just reacting to change — they’re creating it. This series spotlights the leaders who deliver the clarity, conviction, and competitive insight leaders need to stay ahead of what’s next. Step into a high impact arena where the most influential minds in logistics and supply chain reveal how they’re shaping the future. These conversations go beyond strategy to expose the bold decisions, innovative thinking, and real world leadership driving transformation across the industry. Experience the perspectives of executives who aren’t just reacting to change — they’re creating it. This series spotlights the leaders who deliver the clarity, conviction, and competitive insight leaders need to stay ahead of what’s next.

This panel brings together two sides of the same shipper decision: Kevin Huntsman of Mastio on how LTL service performance drives loyalty and retention, and Robert Lowery discusses how parcel-style dynamic pricing is reshaping cost expectations and buying behavior. Together, they explore the real trade-offs shippers make between price and service — and where pricing discipline can amplify, or undermine, the value carriers and 3PLs work so hard to deliver. For leading LTL carriers and 3PLs, this conversation connects commercial strategy to the shipper experience in a market where both service credibility and pricing intelligence now determine who wins the freight.

AI systems are only as good as the data that feeds them—and as experts warn, hidden biases, opaque decision paths, and “black box” failures can quietly erode trust and drive bad decisions long before anyone notices. In this explosive session, we pull back the curtain on how corrupted, incomplete, or biased data can silently mislead even the most advanced AI systems, creating risks that ripple across operations, strategy, and the wider economy. Drawing on real-world evidence and cutting-edge research, this session discusses why leaders must understand what’s happening inside the model, as risks in critical decisions can arise from foundations they can’t see and shouldn’t trust.

The final session of Connections 2026 brings some of the industry’s most influential logistics and supply chain media voices together for an unfiltered look at the biggest revelations, hidden trends, and hard truths that emerged over the three days at Connections. This is where the noise gets stripped away, the real story gets told, and the insights you need for 2027 and beyond come into sharp focus. This one conversation will reshape how you think about customers, your competitors, and the future of your network.