Day 1️⃣ Highlights from International Warehouse Logistics Association Convention and Expo in San Antonio The day opened with a powerful keynote from Clint Bruce, setting the tone for leadership and… | Nathan Chaney

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Day 1️⃣ Highlights from International Warehouse Logistics Association Convention and Expo in San Antonio The day opened with a powerful keynote from Clint Bruce, setting the tone for leadership and performance, followed by a timely general session with Scott Cornell of LogistIQ Insurance Solutions on the growing impact of cargo theft and ways to stop it. The day concluded with the Groovy Spy Rendezvous Networking Reception by the pool sponsored by Made4net. Yeah baby! Between the opening presentation and the pool party I walked the floor to learn a bit from some of the folks there - - Andrew Aldrich from Impact Logistics, Inc. - Errol Gonzales from Made4net - Tania Will Jeppesen from The Prepared Leader - Evan K Shelley 🚛🅿️♣️ from Truck Parking Club - Chris Anton from SnapFulfil by Synergy - Stephen Cummings from Desert Premium Logistics - Joshua Gordon from Spotwork - Nilay Parikh from Arvist - Denise Mears from Project Protect Our Children - Conrad Lilleness from Conduit - Jacob Rosenfeld from BroadRange Logistics Shout-out to LeadCoverage for partnering to bring the sight and sounds of industry events like this in 2026. Kara Smith Brown opens up the day tomorrow! Stay tuned for highlights from day 2 coming up

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Coming to you live from beautiful San Antonio, TX for the 2026 Ida Relay Convention and Expo, providing coverage here in partnership with Lead Coverage, the premier supply chain Go to Market Consulting Group and sharing the energy, the excitement and the voices, the experts that are here in the room. Let's go take a look. Bruce, I was the one of the guys that got to open up the event this morning with the keynote just talking about this concept called pursuing elite. And well, cargo theft is at record highs, all time high, right? So trying to get everybody to work together, right? The bad guys, they kind of look for those gaps. And right now the point of pickup warehousing distribution centers is the number one location where cargo theft occurred. Hey, I'm Andrew with impact logistics. We do warehouse labor on a cost per unit basis. So we'll do your case picking unloading with half the staff. So Ariel Gonzalez, I'm with May Fernet, we do warehouse management. Like 10 execution software. Hi Nathan, my name is Tanya Will Jefferson. I do frontline leadership development and training. I'm Evan Shelley, cofounder, CEO of Truck Parking Club where a truck parking marketplace in the US. I'm Chris Anton with Snap Fulfill. We're providers of cloud based warehouse management solution. Steve Cummings and I work in three PL. I run a 3 PL. warehouse in Albuquerque, NM Hey, I'm Joshua with Spot Work and we are an Uber for staffing. We're labor marketplace and Nathan, I'm Nilay Parikh, founder and CEO of Harvest. We are automating quality control and compliance in warehousing and logistics. Hi, Denise Meyers. I'm the Executive Director and founder of Project Protect Our Children. Hey everyone. My name is Conrad. I'm the founder of Conduit. So Conduit is a software platform for shipping and receiving. My name is Jacob Rosenfeld. It's a pleasure to be here and thank you for having me. I focus on growing the business development team and growth partnerships for broad range logistics.