Speaker Bios

Alex Coburn

Director of Marketing Optimization

Shipt

Bret Johnson

Senior Associate Director, Transportation Center

Northwestern University

Sandeep Dhaliwal

Managing Director, Operation Planning And Engineering

FedEx Express

Cristina Hall

VP Customer Success

Bringg

Hani S. Mahmassani

William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation Director, Transportation Center

Northwestern University

Zach Noren

Enterprise Partner Manager, Restaurants

Uber Direct

ALEX COBURN Director of Market Optimization

Shipt and an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

BRET JOHNSON

Sr. Associate Director, Northwestern University Transportation Center

Director, Center For The Commercialization Of Innovative Transportation Technology

Bret Johnson is the senior associate director of the Northwestern University Transportation Center (NUTC), and the director of the Center for the Commercialization of Innovative Transportation Technology at Northwest-from Stanford University, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

SANDEEP DHALIWAL

Managing Director, Operation Planning and Engineering

Fedex Express

Sandeep Dhaliwal is the Managing Director of Planning and Engineering atdigitally transform operations, and optimize Last Mile Delivery. Sandeep’s team provides engineering support to hubs, ramps, and stations that cover -

Transformation in Operations from Northwestern University - Kellogg School cuisines, and keeping up-to-date with emerging technologies.

CRISTINA HALL VP Customer Success Bringg

delivery management resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. Previously companies across a variety of industries to quantify the value of their learn- ing & development investments. Today, she keeps her team focused on helping Bringg’s customers optimize their delivery management processes - time member of Chicago’s tech startup community, Cristina was featured in TechChicago’s “Faces of Chicago Tech” campaign in 2022. She holds an MBA in Finance from Lindenwood University.

William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation Director, Northwestern University Transportation Centerliam A. Patterson Distinguished Professor in Transportation at Northwesternments in the McCormick School of Engineering and the Kellogg School the transportation and logistics area.

Mahmassani is recognized nationally and internationally for a broad array of transportation research achievements; his applications span both passenger and freight, and he has been especially effective at connecting novel data sources and real-time data streams in transportation modeling and decision-making, including sensor data from intelligent transportation current research is focused on autonomous vehicle deployment, including to API integration scoping, launching with the platform, and growing the Enterprise restaurant partnerships with global and regional brands such as McDonald’s, Shake Shack, Sweetgreen,YUM Brands, among many others. he discusses and shares his knowledge on all things delivery.

Zach Noren is an Enterprise Partner Manager for Restaurants at UberDirect. Uber Direct is the white label (1P) solution that restaurants and retailers of all shapes and sizes can leverage in an ever-changing delivery ecosystem.

New England territory, helping restaurants grow their marketplace presence prior to Covid-19. When Covid-19 hit, Zach was the lifeline for many restaurants during the pandemic, helping them keep their lights on through 3rd party delivery and personally oversaw the implementation of an eater donation pilot for restaurants COVID-19 relief funds. - wood as a production assistant for shows such as Jimmy Kimmel Live and Echo