Keynote: "Transportation Security:
Asking the Right Questions"

Colonel Randall Larsen, USAF (Ret.), Executive Director of the Commission on the Prevention of
Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation & Terrorism.

Securing our borders and trade channels while facilitating legitimate travel and trade requires a strategic combination of technology, personnel and infrastructure. While government and business leaders grapple with the issues, it’s important to ask the right questions. During this insightful and entertaining keynote, you will learn the following:

• What are the right questions? How do we help Congress and the Obama Administration ask the right questions?
• What does the transportation community need to do prior to an attack on the transportation system?
• What does the industry need to do immediately after an attack on the transportation system to make sure that Congress and the Administration do not respond with a typical government strategy for reaction: “Ready! Shoot! Aim!”?

Motor Carrier CEO Panel
"Trucking Issues in 2010"

Executive panelists include: Michael Smid,
President-YRC Inc. and Chief Operations Officer
YRC Worldwide Inc., Bill Logue, President & CEO,
FedEx Freight, and Wesley Kemp, President and
CEO, ABF Freight System.Moderator: Chris Norek,
Ph.D., Chain Connectors and NASSTRAC Education Chair.

Significant challenges are placing significant pressure on our nation’s carriers, including a sluggish economic recovery, labor issues, rising operational costs, and volatile fuel prices. In addition, federal and state authorities are considering a long list of pending initiatives that could have a direct, long-lasting impact on the cost, efficiency, and dependability of supply chains.

This panel discussion will feature high-ranking executive leaders with the nation’s leading truckload and LTL carriers who will provide:

• High-level discussion on the current condition of the transportation marketplace and the impact a weak economy has on it.
• Discussion on the biggest challenges facing the trucking industry and potential solutions to them.

Wall Street Analysts:
“Freight Transportation and the New Reality”

Presenters: John Larkin, Managing Director and Head of Transportation Capital Markets Research, Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. and John Langenfeld, Associate Director of Research, Robert W. Baird & Co. Moderated by John Langley, Ph.D., Georgia Tech, and NASSTRAC Education Advisor.

This session will provide valuable perspectives and interesting insights as the volatile economy continues to challenge and bewilder the entire supply chain community. During this provocative discussion, leading analysts in the transportation industry will provide perspectives on the following:

• The prognosis for the transportation sector in the economy in 2010 and beyond.
• How the economic crisis has reshaped the transportation industry.
• Factors that are having an impact on transportation and the economy, including the various government-initiated stimulus and bailout programs and their effect on economic growth, job creation, and freight volumes.
• Discussion on how successful companies are surviving the freight recession and planning for the turnaround.

“The Uneven Outlook for Recovery from the Recession”

Presenter: Paul Bingham, Managing Director of World Trade and Transportation Markets, IHS Global Insight’s Global Commerce & Transport Group.

While world trade is down significantly, there is growing evidence that the worst may be over. But while the recession has significantly eroded the global marketplace and, consequently, supply chains throughout the world, experts suggest there is hope for a slow but definitive recovery. This session will give you valuable insights into the economic recovery currently underway and how the U.S. economy is picking up steam. You’ll also learn:

• Forecasts on inventory cycles and the anticipated boost to U.S. exports and imports.
• How the recession has made an impact on the domestic freight transportation system.
• Potential changes both shippers and providers can expect to their operating environments.
• What shippers can expect in terms of transportation supply, modal shifts, and changes to shipment and delivery practices that need to comply with evolving regulations and available resources.