Tuesday, 2 June 2020
7:30 AM — 6:00 PM
Registration
Location: Ballroom Foyer
8:00 — 8:45 AM
Networking Breakfast
Location: Ballroom Foyer
8:45 — 9:00 AM
Welcome Remarks
Location: Ballroom
Introduction
Mark Szakonyi
Executive Editor,
JOC.com and
The Journal of Commerce, Maritime & Trade,
IHS Markit
9:00 — 9:45 AM
Keynote Address
Location: Ballroom
A dozen years after Prince Rupert received its first container service call, the port in northern British Columbia has become North America’s 18th largest container gateway, according to JOC rankings. And, while getting on the map for Canadian and US importers was a feat itself, the port’s next phase in becoming an even larger gateway for inbound and increasingly outbound trade has only begun. Through the leadership of Shaun Stevenson, president and CEO of the Prince Rupert Port Authority, the port must balance bold expansion with delivering to its customers the consistent service that spurred them to route goods through the once-sleepy resource community. The greater potential lies in how Stevenson and the port’s stakeholders can extend Prince Rupert’s strategy beyond the terminal to the broader supply chain system stretching from adjacent transloading facilities to final destination points. Stevenson’s message of creating a winning formula of collaboration, vision, and innovation that injects value into supply chains resonates far beyond British Columbia. The so-called Prince Rupert model demonstrates that Canada’s container shipping industry can collaborate, hold partners accountable, and build something new, bold, and far more than the sum of its parts.
Keynote Chair
Mark Szakonyi
Executive Editor,
JOC.com and
The Journal of Commerce, Maritime & Trade,
IHS Markit
Featured Speaker
Shaun Stevenson
President and CEO,
Prince Rupert Port Authority
9:45 — 10:20 AM
Canada Trade Outlook:
It All Comes Back to Exports
Location: Ballroom
Session Chair
Mark Szakonyi
Executive Editor,
JOC.com and
The Journal of Commerce, Maritime & Trade,
IHS Markit
Featured Speaker
Peter Hall
Chief Economist
and Vice President,
Export Development Canada
Recent years have increased economic uncertainty on multiple fronts. An alarming rise in populism is increasing the appeal of leaders who aren’t afraid to challenge orthodox approaches and disrupt postwar institutions. Trade flows are at the mercy of ad hoc tariff, border tax, and other interruptions. Investors are rattled, and unwilling to part with their cash. Prominent analysts say the models are now broken. With the mud being this stirred up, is it possible to see the future path of the economy? Against this backdrop, Peter Hall, chief economist and vice president of the Export Development Council, will share his outlook for Canadian exports and imports and the national and global economies.
10:20 — 10:50 AM
Networking Break
Location: Ballroom Foyer
10:50 — 11:30 AM
Canadian Freight Network:
How’s it Flowing?
Location: Ballroom
Session Chair
Mark Szakonyi
Executive Editor,
JOC.com and
The Journal of Commerce, Maritime & Trade,
IHS Markit
Featured Speaker
Christian Dea
Chief Economist,
Transport Canada
From his rare vantage point, Christian Dea sees how trade is flowing through Canada’s containerized freight network from point of origin to destination, how those flows are changing, and where disruption threatens to flare up. Since 2008, Transport Canada and the country’s top five ports have been sharing data on key metrics, from truck turn times to ocean transit times, to create a barometer of Canadian container flow. The Canadian government is looking to make use of port performance metrics as part of its productivity and bottleneck assessment of its freight transportation system. Beyond that, the fluidity and port indicators give marine terminals and ports a way to measure their performance against their peers and competitors. Dea will share the major findings from such research and outline how Canada's container network can be further calibrated for greater competitiveness.
11:30 AM — 12:00 PM
Canadian Container Shipping Outlook:
Global Forces, Domestic Pressures
Location: Ballroom
Session Chair
Mark Szakonyi
Executive Editor,
JOC.com and
The Journal of Commerce, Maritime & Trade,
IHS Markit
Featured Speaker
Wolfgang Schoch
Managing Director,
Canada,
Hapag-Lloyd
Before the coronavirus reared its head, the container shipping industry had plenty to be confident about, ranging from the vessel orderbook coming more in line with demand to strengthening trans-Pacfic contracts rates. Now, the outlook for global demand is more uncertain than at any time in recent memory, adding to carrier pressures that include fully recouping the higher costs tied to the new global low-sulfur rule, rising protectionism in the form of tariffs, and already-slowing global economic growth. Putting all the myriad forces, both headwinds and tailwinds, into perspective in a presentation informed by deep experience and data, Wolfgang Schloch, managing director of Hapag-Lloyd’s Canada division, will share his outlook for the global and Canadian container shipping industry. Following his opening remarks, Wolfgang and JOC Executive Editor Mark Szakonyi will drill down on what the global trends mean for Canadian supply chains in a fireside-style chat.
12:00 — 1:15 PM
Networking Lunch
Location: Ontario and Niagra
1:15 — 2:00 PM
Importers Speak Out
Location: Ballroom
Session Chair
Mark Szakonyi
Executive Editor,
JOC.com and
The Journal of Commerce, Maritime & Trade,
IHS Markit
Panelist
Magali Amiel
Ph.D,
MCILT,
Transport Leader,
Decathlon Canada
Panelist
Michael Grier
Senior Vice President, Operations,
Dorel Home
From blank sailings to rail blockades, Canadian importers have had plenty of disruption to manage this year. And the impact of the coronavirus on importers’ ability to source from Asia and secure ocean shipping space is unmeasurable as of March. Yet, supply chain managers unable to look at the larger picture and create a longer-term strategy risk losing a competitive edge. Canadian importers — big, small and midsize — will discuss how they’re meeting supply chains challenges, holding transportation providers accountable and making technology work for them.
2:00 — 2:45 PM
Exporters Sound Off
Location: Ballroom
Session Chair
Mark Szakonyi
Executive Editor,
JOC.com and
The Journal of Commerce, Maritime & Trade,
IHS Markit
Panelist
Rav Kapoor
CEO and Founder,
ETG Commodities
Panelist
Lonny Kubas
Assistant Vice President,
Supply Chain,
CN
Panelist
Charles Raymond
President and CEO,
Raymont Logistics
The growth of Canadian containerized exports is slowing, as economic growth ebbs and relations with China, a major buyer of bulk and boxed agriculture exports, grow tense. The cutting of ocean capacity, due to a coronavirus-fueled slump in Asia volumes, is testing exports further. Containerized export volume rose just 1.3 percent year over year in 2019, compared to a more than 4 percent expansion clip in each of the prior three years, according to data from the top four Canadian ports. The prospects for 2020 don’t look any rosier, forcing exporters to tap new markets more aggressively and often find new ways of shipping with the help of the transportation service providers. This panel discussion will focus on the challenges Canadian container exporters face and, equally important, how and where they’re finding relief.
2:45 — 3:15 PM
Networking Break
Location: Ballroom Foyer
3:15 — 3:45 PM
LogTech 2.0:
The JOC View of Innovation
Location: Ballroom
Featured Speaker
Eric Johnson
Senior Editor,
Technology,
JOC, Maritime & Trade,
IHS Markit
Technology has become indelibly intertwined with the movement of containerized goods, but most shippers, logistics service providers, and carriers are still struggling to understand just what concepts like “digital transformation” and “industry disruption” mean to them in practical terms. Most stakeholders in containerized supply chains also struggle under the weight of budget constraints and disconnected investment capacity, meaning the “do more with less” philosophy is particularly applicable. In this session, JOC Senior Technology Editor will explain the categories of technology that are gaining traction in the container shipping industry, the value of partnerships among software providers and between technology companies and logistics providers, and why logistics professionals should focus on the output, not the inner machinery of technology.
3:45 — 4:30 PM
Demanding Visibility:
Are Shippers Getting a Better View?
Location: Ballroom
Session Chair
Eric Johnson
Senior Editor,
Technology,
JOC, Maritime & Trade,
IHS Markit
Panelist
Fabrizio Brasca
Group Vice President,
Global Solutions & Presales,
JDA Software
Panelist
Patrick Lo
President and CEO,
Canaan Group
Panelist
Audrey Ross
Logistics and Customs Specialist, Orchard Custom Beauty
The need to justify basic cargo visibility has long since vanished into the night, replaced by a need for actionable and quality visibility data. Instead of informing a shipper where cargo is, shippers now need to be able to translate predictive information about delays, cargo holds, and transshipments into downstream decisions. Those decisions impact how a shipper satisfies its customers, whether the goods are delivered directly to the consumer, or in business-to-business scenarios that result in empty store shelves or hampered production facilities. If the order of the day is good visibility data, three critical questions remain:
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How truly multimodal is the data?
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Through what system does the shipper want the data to be provided?
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Will visibility be paid for as a separate line item, or as part of a larger bundle of services?
None of these can be generalized across a diverse universe of shippers. This session will dissect these critical questions through the lens of Canada’s import and export containerized supply chains via a mix of software provider, 3PL, and BCO perspectives.
4:30 — 5:15 PM
Change Management:
Resetting Expectations in the Age of Disruption
Location: Ballroom
Session Chair
Sarah Barnes-Humphrey
Host of Let’s Talk Supply Chain and CEO of Shipz
Panelist
Lori Benson
Inclusive & Sustainable Procurement Lead,
EY Canada
Panelist
Peter Hawkins
Co-Owner,
and Managing Director, MELLOHAWK Logistics
Panelist
Sapna Malhotra
CEO,
Digiruptor
Panelist
Holly Qualman
Vice President,
Marketing and Client Services, Americas,
Apex Logistics International
Creating a collaborative work environment that’s able to attract new talent and energize older workers takes more than checking off diversity boxes. It requires an openness to listen to diverse viewpoints and engage in different types of conversation. In a discussion led by Sarah Barnes-Humphrey, founder and host of the "Let's Talk Supply Chain'' podcast, speakers will share best practices in listening to and engaging with employees and colleagues, and how to move beyond just conversations to action. Hear from those driving diversity and collaboration among their teams and come away with new ideas to make your teams more dynamic and attractive to collaborative talent.
5:15 — 6:45 PM
Networking Reception
Location: Ballroom Foyer
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