Truck Day Agenda – June 1

8:00 a.m.–8:30 a.m. — Breakfast

8:30 a.m.–8:45 a.m. — Welcome: Connected Strategies in Mobility

John Paul MacDuffie
Director, PVMI
Professor of Management, The Wharton School

Nicolaj Siggelkow
Co-director, Mack Institute for Innovation Management
David M. Knott Professor of Management, The Wharton School


8:45 a.m.–10:00 a.m. — Panel 1: Will Trucking be a Lead Sector in Connected Vehicles?

Brad Bartkowski
President & Founder, Orion Fleet Intelligence

Jon DeGaynor
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director, Stoneridge

David Schaller
Industry Engagement Director, NACFE

Facilitator: John Paul MacDuffie


10:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. — Break


10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. — Panel 2: Platooning

Josh Switkes
Founder and CEO, Peloton

Susan Alt
Senior Vice President, Public Affairs, Volvo Group North America

Bill Brentar
Sr. Director of Maintenance and Engineering Class 8 Transportation Fleet, UPS

Facilitator: Jamie Winebrake
Dean, College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology


12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m — Lunch and Table Discussions:

Energy Efficiency Initiatives in Trucking
Facilitated by David Schaller and Jamie Winebrake

Hours of Service Regulations and ELDs (Electronic Logging Devices)
Facilitated by Steve Viscelli (PVMI & Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, University of Pennsylvania School of Design) and Jon DeGaynor

Work and Employment Consequences of Trucking Innovations
Facilitated by Jerry Jacobs (Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania) and Claudine Gartenberg (Management, The Wharton School)

Connected Strategies in Mobility
Facilitated by Nicolaj Siggelkow and Christian Terwiesch (Co-director, Mack Institute)


1:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m. — Keynote: “Uberization” of Freight

Bill Driegert
Director, Uber Freight


2:00 p.m.–2:45 p.m. — Discussion of “Uberization” of Freight

       Facilitator: Steve Viscelli


2:45 p.m.–3:00 p.m. — Break


3:00 p.m.–4:45 p.m. — Panel 4: Discussion of Autonomous Trucks

Richard Bishop
Bishop Consulting, Task Force on Automated Driving and Platooning with the American Trucking Association

Scott Perry
Chief Technology Officer, Ryder Systems Inc.

Facilitator: Christian Terwiesch


4:45 p.m.–5:00 p.m. — Prospects for Connected Strategies in Trucking

John Paul MacDuffie

Christian Terwiesch