Training Tracks • 1:30-4:40PM

The General Program includes eight training sessions for all attendees to participate in for project44 certifications.

Please refer to the general program for full details.

Main Stage • 9:15-9:35AM

The new rule of supply chain: Autonomous Execution

Supply chain complexity now exceeds human capacity to respond in real time. project44 CEO, Jett McCandless, explores why 2026 marks the end of static planning and the rise of autonomous execution. Drawing on insights from over 1.5 billion shipments tracked annually, Jett reveals how leading companies are using AI agents, multi-agent orchestration, and the world’s largest supply chain data graph to move from seeing problems to solving them automatically. It’s not about more dashboards. It’s about building systems that decide and act while you sleep.

Jett McCandless, Founder & CEO, project44

Main Stage • 9:35-10:35AM

Product Innovation : Building Systems That Decide and Act for your supply chain advantage

The companies that win in 2026 aren’t the ones with the best static plan. They’re the ones that sense what’s breaking, predict downstream impact, and act automatically. In this innovation showcase, project44 reveals the Decision Intelligence Platform turning tariff chaos, port congestion, and extreme weather from disruptions into manageable events. Discover how AI agents resolve exceptions with speed, leading retailers see inbound receipts months out to plan in a tariff-heavy world, and companies scale exception management without adding headcount. This isn’t a future roadmap. These capabilities are live, proven, and solving problems while legacy systems are still generating alerts.

Jonathan Scherr, CSO & COO, project44 • Mark Strassman, CPO, project44

Main Stage • 10:45-11:15AM

From strategy to execution: How today’s leaders are rewriting the playbook

What does it really take to lead a global supply chain in an era of permanent disruption? Supply chain leadership shares how their team is navigating volatility, transforming operations, and driving business value through real-time intelligence and smarter execution. From strategy to outcomes, they share how they’re building resilience, accelerating decision-making, and creating a supply chain that’s not just responsive—but a competitive asset.

project44 customer • Rick Turco, CRO, project44

Main Stage • 11:15-11:45AM

Securing supply chains in the era of disruption: A national strategy for resilience, innovation, and trade agility

In today’s era of permanent volatility, supply chains are more than economic infrastructure they’re a matter of national competitiveness and security. Supply chain leadership will outline how the U.S. government is partnering with industry to strengthen supply chain resilience, accelerate digital modernization, and secure critical infrastructure across sectors.

As global trade becomes increasingly complex and politicized, tariff policy has emerged not just as a lever of economic protection, but as a strategic tool to manage risk and reinforce domestic capabilities. This session will address how the administration is balancing tariff enforcement with flexibility ensuring businesses have the foresight, data, and tools needed to adapt sourcing strategies, control landed costs, and protect downstream supply chain continuity.

From reshoring critical production to expanding multimodal infrastructure and investing in real-time visibility technologies, this keynote will highlight how public-private collaboration is reshaping the future of trade—and what businesses can do now to build more resilient, agile, and secure supply networks.

Government Speaker – To be announced

Gallery • 11:45-12:45PM

Networking Lunch

Main Stage • 12:45-1:30PM

No excuses, just execution: A fireside chat with Kevin O’Leary

What happens when business gets messy, margins shrink, and time runs out? In this candid conversation, Kevin O’Leary shares his unfiltered perspective on making smart decisions under pressure and staying disciplined when it matters most.

Kevin has spent his career building and investing in companies, and one thing has become clear: how well you execute on logistics can make or break growth. Hear how “Mr. Wonderful” evaluates risk in an era where AI is predicting disruptions before they happen, why the businesses that outperform aren’t doing anything flashy but simply see problems early and act on them, and how leaders are building resilience into transportation networks that are only getting more complex.

Kevin O’Leary, Investor, Author, C-Suite, Shark Tank Host

Executive Leadership Forum

Executive Leadership Forum • 1:40-2:00PM

Straight Talk with Kevin O’Leary on Risk, Rigor, and Results

Kevin O’Leary doesn’t do platitudes—he does math. And most supply chain “transformations” don’t add up. Bringing an investor’s lens, O’Leary cuts through the noise to focus on what actually drives enterprise value—and when technology becomes an expensive distraction.

Drawing on decades of evaluating companies on Shark Tank and in his portfolio, he challenges leaders on ROI that never hits the P&L, speed that burns cash, and AI projects that look great in slides but fail in reality. This isn’t a pep talk. It’s a reality check—and it sets the tone for a half-day focused on results, not buzzwords.

Kevin O’Leary, Investor, Author, C-Suite, Shark Tank Host

Executive Leadership Forum • 2:00-2:45PM

The Unified Supply Chain: Architecting Strategic Execution

For the modern CSCO, the primary barrier to decision-making isn’t a lack of data, but a fragmented tech stack that creates decision latency. This session moves beyond individual tools to examine the evolution from the traditional “Control Tower” to a Unified Data Fabric—a strategy that connects ERP and TMS layers with real-time visibility. The conversation will focus on:

• Integrating Legacy Systems: Executive philosophies on bridging the gap between aging infrastructure and real-time visibility data.
• Driving Tangible Outcomes: How a unified architecture enables significant inventory reduction and optimized freight spend.
• Achieving Synchronization: The specific operating model required to dismantle functional silos and achieve true end-to-end execution.

The Takeaway: A strategic blueprint for architecting a data environment that eliminates latency and supports high-fidelity execution.

Jett McCandless, Founder & CEO, project44

Executive Leadership Forum • 3:00-3:45PM

The Trust Gap: From AI Insights to AI Autonomy

For the modern CSCO, the primary barrier to decision-making isn’t a lack of data, but a fragmented tech stack thEvery company has AI pilots. Few have a strategy for what happens when agents start making decisions at scale. As organizations move past experimentation, the leadership challenge shifts from managing human teams to overseeing autonomous digital workflows. This candid fireside chat explores the critical “Trust Gap”—the threshold where a machine transitions from providing insights to executing business actions. The discussion will focus on:

• The “No-Go” Zones: Which enterprise functions are ready for autonomous execution today, and which require permanent human oversight?
• Evolving Decision Rights: How leadership must change when machines move from passive advisors to active operators.
• The New Workforce Reality: Rethinking organizational structures when AI handles the execution of routine workflows instead of just the analysis.

The Takeaway: A frank conversation about where executives are drawing their lines today, how those lines are shifting, and how to maintain accountability in an autonomous environment.

Executive Leadership Forum • 3:45-4:30PM

The 2026 Supply Chain Playbook

What would you do differently if you were building your supply chain strategy from scratch today? It is April 2026. The “new year” optimism has met the reality of the first 100 days. Some of your bets are paying off; others are stalled or burning budget. This peer-led panel brings together CSCOs to share the unfiltered truth about what is actually scaling in the current market and what is being killed before the Q2 board meeting.

This isn’t a best-practices showcase—it’s a candid look at:

• The Boardroom Gap: The one investment each leader is making that their board doesn’t fully understand yet (but will thank them for later).
• The Sunk Cost Audit: What looked smart in December 2025 that is clearly failing to deliver by April 2026.
• The Friction Points: Identifying the internal politics, budget constraints, or talent gaps that are proving to be bigger barriers than the technology itself.
• Pattern Recognition: Hard-won lessons from watching peers either succeed or fail at the same initiatives you are considering.

The Takeaway: You won’t leave with a standard to-do list, but with pattern recognition—the ability to separate supply chain strategies that deliver from those that only look good on a PowerPoint.