Description:

WEDNESDAY | MAY 7, 2025
2:00 PM - 4:45 PM CT
Location TBD

Five leading AI-driven companies — Augment, Fleetworks, HappyRobot, Qued and Vooma —are coming together with the Northwestern University Transportation Center at the Spring 2025 Industry Technical Workshop to showcase how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing logistics and freight operations. 
 
The Workshop will explore the increasing role of AI in automating communication, streamlining workflows, and improving overall efficiency in logistics management. Attendees will learn firsthand how AI-powered automation is reshaping the industry, improving task efficiency, reducing operational costs, and enhancing service reliability.
 
·       Augment is building AI assistants for the logistics industry to automate tedious tasks for operators.
·       Fleetworks helps automate brokerage operations. Its AI broker handles inbound and outbound communication channels.
·       HappyRobot automates communication across logistics channels using AI workers that integrate with existing systems, manage conversations, and log data.
·       Qued is an AI-enabled smart workflow automation platform that automates the entire scheduling process, securing time slots for all types of loads for brokers, 3PLs and carriers.  
·       Vooma automates logistics operations using AI agents to help brokers and carriers secure contracts and move freight.
 
EVENT CO-CHAIRS
Hani S. Mahmassani - Patterson Transportation Chair / Director, NUTC
Bret Johnson - Senior Associate Director, NUTC
 
ABOUT NUTC
The Northwestern University Transportation Center (NUTC) is one of the world’s leading interdisciplinary education and research institutions, serving industry, government and the public sectors. Founded in 1954 to generate substantive and enduring contributions for the better movement of materials, people, energy, and information, NUTC stands at the forefront of transportation research and education. NUTC brings together academic researchers, students and business affiliates in a joint open exploration of transportation and supply chain operations. NUTC aims to influence national and international transportation policy, management and technological developments with the goal of making transportation and supply chain operations more productive, efficient, safe, secure, environmentally friendly and socially beneficial.
 
WORKSHOP AGENDA
WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 2025
 
2:00 PM      Welcome / Opening Remarks
                   Hani Mahmassani | Director | NUTC
Bret Johnson | Sr. Associate Director | NUTC 
 
2:10 PM      Presentations
Harish Abbott| Founder | Augment LLC
Jesse Buckingham | Co-Founder | Vooma
Prasad Gollapalli | CEO and Chairman | Qued
Pablo Palafox| Co-founder & CEO | HappyRobot Inc.
Paul Singer | Co-founder & CEO | FleetWorks
 
3:15 PM      Networking Break
 
3:45 PM      Panel Discussion
                   Moderator | John Larkin | Strategic Advisor & Chair of Advisory Board| Clarendon
                   Capital LLC
 
4:45 PM      End of Program