Past Appearances

Professor Yossi Sheffi is scheduled as a speaker at the 6th annual Global Electrification Forum (GEF). The aim of the conference is to highlight the actualities of Transitioning to a Sustainable World through a closer look at the bridges, opportunities, barriers, and risks. 

Through key conversations, panel sessions, fireside chats, and CEO-to-CEO dialogues, this year's GEF will cover a variety of topics including the cross-sectoral transition, geopolitics, supply chains, investment, demographics, innovation, resilience, the psychology of change, and more.

Private Event 

The CEO of the Massachusetts Port Authority will be participating in a fireside chat with MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi. 

Professor Yossi Sheffi speaks at the Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship annual conference on the future outlook for supply chain and how to manage the current volatile conditions. 

The conference will explore how entrepreneurship thrives in traditional corporate environments, share groundbreaking insights from the MIT community, and build connections with top innovators joining us from the world’s leading organizations. 

Professor Yossi Sheffi, Director, MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, Professor, MIT Institute of Data Science and Society, MIT, will be a headliner at the conference and interviewed on-stage, followed by a book signing on his latest book, ‘A Shot in the Arm: How science, engineering and supply chain converged to vaccinate the world’. Yossi will take us on the vaccine’s world-changing journey from scientific breakthrough, to coronavirus antidote, to mass vaccination, the mistakes that were made and how the mission could transform the way the worl

Private Event 

In this session we welcome esteemed academic and thought leader Yossi Sheffi where he will share his views around the complexity of balancing long term objectives with today's business realities. Yossi will explore the complex interdependent nature of supply chains around the world and how the Russian invasion derails many long term plans.

Private Event

Professor Yossi Sheffi will be speaking at the MIT SCALE Conference. This is a hybrid event and Professor Sheffi will be attending in-person. The goal of the SCALE network and conference is to drive cutting-edge research, education, and outreach that embrace socioeconomic, logistics, and supply chain challenges in the context of LAC, by developing and disseminating innovative strategies to address and to solve those challenges within the region. 

Programmed by Economist Impact and sponsored by Icertis, this webinar will feature Professor Yossi Sheffi speaking with a host of business representatives, consultants and thought leaders to examine how companies can strengthen trust in business-to-business relationships to improve profits, performance and resilience. 

The questions to be addressed include: 

● Is there a trust deficit in business-to-business relationships? How did covid-19 impact trust in business relationships?