Eric Johnson is Senior Editor, Technology at the Journal of Commerce. He joins us in the wake of the TPM conference to unpack his biggest takeaways from the show.0:00 Cold open4:25 Tariffs at TPM9:05 Tech (AI Agents, really) at TPM27:20 AI adoption and labor dynamics40:00 Shifts in the RTTVP space50:35 Wrapup

Alex and Noah – two of the founding team at Takt – make the long trek from the suite directly above the Crossdock to talk about all things warehouse operations.

Takt is the warehouse intelligence platform aimed at helping retailers, 3PLs and e-commerce companies better manage their warehouse workforces. You can find them at takt.io.

CEO and Co-Founder of freight intelligence platform GenLogs stops in to the Crossdock to share his journey and background in freight tech and intelligence.

Ryan shared with us his announcement of a new service that GenLogs will be offering for free to help anyone locate stolen or missing assets that might be out on the roads. (Skip to 42:00 if you want to catch that.)

7:10 - Starting up GenLogs

19:42 - GenLogs' data gathering approach

24:39 - GenLogs' asset locator

34:10 - Deploying a roadside network

42:07 - Announcing free service to locate missing assets

54:26 - Combatting fraud with this data

1:05:53 - Raising money and developing the business

1:22:25 - Wrap-up and upcoming conferences

Our interns from this summer wrapped up their time with us this week, and stopped into the studio to reflect on their experience before heading back to UVA.

In preparation for launching our new partnership with TranPak, we recorded this conversation with their founder, Christian Ueland. CargoSense's QR Sensor technology will be embedded on TranPak's reusable plastic pallets beginning this year.

Recorded in Dec 2023, so please excuse our belated season's greetings.

These days, prefab construction is so much more than stamping out the same module over and over. Amy Marks – the "Queen of Prefab" – joins us this week to cannonball into the deep end of where industralized construction is headed. We get into a vision of construction at every layer – architecture, planning, procurement, transport, and assembly – that is informed and driven by digital twins, simulation, and artificial intelligence.

Sam stops by the Crossdock to dive in on cybersecurity in vehicles – system architectures, attack vectors, and why it matters. He's a Cybersecurity Hardware Engineer on a team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory working in this space to keep shipments of radioactive material and nuclear fuel safe.

We had Mike Jones from Pallet Alliance in at CargoSense HQ for some meetings this week, and luckily we had some time to squeeze in a quick recording before he left.

Colleagues from our Engineering team stop by the Crossdock during our "Summer Summit" to share perspectives on the LiveView frontend module from the Phoenix framework, which we use extensively at CargoSense.

Appearing on this episode:

Ben Wilson, CTO

Billy Lanchantin, Principal Engineer

Sara Flemming, Lead UX Developer

Mike Crumm, Principal Engineer