📺 Highlights from Dimerco Express Group's new San Francisco office grand opening and 45-year celebration

The Dimerco team brought together clients, partners, and colleagues from around the world to celebrate the opening of their new 40k square foot facility just steps from San Francisco International Airport. It was clear in talking with attendees that their focus on supporting the semiconductor, AI, and high-tech manufacturing industries has helped propel their growth as a top logistics provider to, from, and within the Asia-Pacific region. Here's a peak at some of the global logistics pros who took a minute to have a quick chat:
- Jeffrey Shih, Dimerco CEO
- Karen Kenney, K2 Trade Solutions, Dimerco Advisor
- Daniel Lee, Global Trade Compliance / Legal
- Evan De Wolfe, SFO Assistant Branch Manager
- Roger Tam, SFO Air Export Manager
- AirZeta Team, formerly Air Incheon + Asiana Cargo
- Graham Simpson, United Airlines

Congrats and thanks to the Dimerco team and attendees for hosting me in sunny San Francisco for the big day! Kenneth Leung, Angela Chang, Marie Burdoin, Jim Bierfeldt, Pesti, China Airlines, Qatar Airways, Turkish Cargo, Air France, KLM Cargo, Singapore Airlines, Korean Air

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Highlights from yesterday's Element Logic® Automation Innovation Tradeshow in NJ 🤖 📦

Last year I mentioned ABCO's annual event on the weekly calendar of events update, this year I got to be there in person, albeit, post-acquisition, so they have a new name on the door! In true "MTV Cribs" fashion, Head of Marketing, Gina Rotermund, met me at the door to get the reel kicked off. I was finally able to meet Seth Weisberg in real life after a number of interactions at the Supply Chain Social Club and even got some time with Group CEO, Ankush Malhotra, before taking the tour around the show floor.

The companies in the building represented a wide variety of warehouse solutions, here's who I got to meet (YES, I interviewed 99% of the vendors!):
- Richard Sobel - Railex Conveyor
- Steve Simmerman - Locus Robotics
- Michael Santora - Logic Robotics
- Brock Hardwick - Panther / ProMach
- Brian Kirst - SnapFulfil
- Sriram Sridhar - Addverb
- Dave Bodenheimer - tending the AutoStore
- Annie Bowlby - RightHand Robotics
- Nick Silicato - Centric Packaging
- C. Thompson Brockmann - Tompkins Robotics
- Bill Keane - Ryson International
- Cory Woolston - BestPack Packaging Systems
- Rick Driscoll - Rams Manufacturing
- Morgan Wilson - SVT Robotics
- Bruce Kuipers - MHS Conveyor
- Maxwell Penfield - Cognex
- Brian Spacey - Grip Systems
- Jonathan Bate - FastFetch
- Charlie Betau - OPEX
- Steve Johnson - Nashville Wire
- Bruce Marks - WPSS
- Tomas David Ye - Perseuss
- Marcus Flannery - Packsize
- Jeff Belcher - CMC America
- John Oliveira - Amigo
- Charles Ickes - CloudX Systems
- Matt Ruggiero - Robert Karp Container
- Somehow missed Maanav Iyengar from Retina Robotics and Michael Chen - yondu! And somehow didn't get Kevin Lawton, CLTD on the mic...

A big thanks to Maíra Mendonça, Kathy Faber, Garrett Hedrick, Tony Matukonis, and the team for inviting me to join.

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Highlights from my first experience at @womenintruckingassociation945 #Accelerate! in Dallas 🚚 🤠

As Ellen Voie, Founder of #WIT, said in the first interview soundbite - an event with 85% women in attendance in the industry is a unique sight to behold! The beautiful environment at the Dallas Hilton Anatole certainly lends to the appeal of the event now in its 11th year, as Sean Horton mentioned during our chat in the last clip, the event has always been in Dallas, but has moved venues as it has grown and needed more space.

I was thrilled to make some great new connections and finally get several online and long-time connections on the mic! The cast members for today's highlights:
- Ellen Voie - Founded Women In Trucking in 2007 🚚
- Erin Mitchell - COO at YMX Logistics
- Attendees from Louisville and Albuquerque
- Sandy Cahill at the Blended Pledge booth
- Thomas Werdine from ThinkFreight
- Stori Conrad with NATIONAL DRAYAGE SERVICE
- Reed Loustalot with Truck Parking Club
- Jennifer Karpus-Romain - TMSA - Transportation Marketing & Sales Association
- Rebecca Noel at the Walmart booth
- Tori Geer - Premier Trailer Leasing (Happy 20th! Premier!)
- Danielle Jordan at the WM booth
- Jamie Sheffield talking LTL at the XPO booth
- Mitzi Wright from CDLLife
- Kelly Stone working the WIT swag shop
- Sean Horton with Swish Advertising LLC

Shout out to Brian Everett and Carleen Herndon from MindShare Strategies, Inc. who allowed me to check things out, and most importantly, reminded me to wear RED on Monday! ❤️

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