Upcoming Appearances

Attend CSCMP to hear Professor Yossi Sheffi as a closing speaker. The conversation will cover the promise of AI to increase supply chain efficiency while meeting societal goals. It will also cover the challenge of integrating people and algorithms as well the future of jobs. Which jobs will disappear? Which will change? And how companies and people should prepare for the AI-infused future.

Private Event

Whether you want to learn about the role of AI in the future of shipping, the latest in reefer technology, or the best strategies to avoid border delays, there is something for everyone at the conference. Professor Yossi Sheffi will be a keynote speaker at Intermodal Europe this year and he also will be doing a live book signing for his latest book The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chain, A.I., and the Future of Work. 

Prior to the book signing event, Prof. Yossi Sheffi will give a presentation on the likely impacts of future technology in business in general and supply chains in particular. The recent advances in generative AI have raised anxiety among supply chain workers, such as: is ChatGPT going to replace me? Will I be able to participate in the future AI-infused economy? Which tasks involved with container shipping are going to be taken over by AI? How will jobs change? Join Prof. Sheffi at 14:00 on Tuesday 10 October in the Technology Theatre to hear his answers. 

The societal and economic spasms of the early 2020s highlighted the crucial role of world-spanning supply chains in the modern global economy, as well as the growing role of digital technology, including AI and automation, in the future economy. Directly followed by live Q&A!

Private Event

Public Lecture at the University of Luxembourg by Professor Yossi Sheffi. 

The societal and economic spasms of the early 2020s highlighted the crucial role of world-spanning supply chains in the modern global economy, as well as the growing role of digital technology, including A.I. and automation, in the future economy. In The Magic Conveyor Belt, MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi explains what supply chains are, how they operate, and how the integration of advanced technology with people and processes will be the hallmark of future supply chain management.