APRIL 20, 2021 We’ll see you at the kick-off reception! Catch up with colleagues, meet our speakers, and grab a drink and bite to eat at our socially distanced reception from 4:30pm - 6:30pm on April 19th SC Aeronautical Training Center Trident Technical College - Thornley Campus - Building 1000 7000 Rivers Avenue | North Charleston, SC 29406 Safety is important to us, and we will be following COVID prevention protocols including: masks will be mandatory unless you are eating/drinking, tables will be distanced, and hand sanitizer stations will be set up. APRIL 20, 2021 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Trident Technical Aeronautical Center 7000 Rivers Ave. AGENDA North Charleston, SC Sustainability & Digitization About SC Logistics 8:00 Registration Opens and Breakfast SC Logistics is a collaborative effort to strengthen South Carolina’s economy, 8:30 Welcome and Introduction of Sponsors create jobs attract investment and Taylor Jackson, Director of Logistics Initiatives, become a global leader in transportation, SC Council on Competitiveness distribution and logistics. Stephen Astemborski, Director of Aerospace Initiatives, SC Council on Competitiveness 8:40 Remarks from Sponsor - PINNACLE 8:45 Remarks from Dr. Mary Thornley President, Trident Technical College 9:00 Session 1: “Innovation Driving Supply Chain & Logistics” About the Council SC Fraunhofer USA Alliance Panel The South Carolina Council on Suzanne Dickerson, SCFUSA Director, Competitiveness - The Council - is a SC Council on Competitiveness nonpartisan, business-led, nonprofit Marcel Schäfer, Senior Program Coordinator organization that drives South & Senior Research Scientist, SCFUSA Carolina’s long-term economic growth Csilla Farkas, Professor, University of South Carolina through managing select industry Yash Bhatia, CEO, Datos Technologies clusters and providing the research, network, and resources that clusters 9:45 Session 2 - ACL Airshop require to thrive. Steve Townes, Chairman of ACL Airshop CEO & Founder, Ranger Aerospace Visit our website at SCCompetes.org to learn more about the Council’s 10:30 BREAK clusters and initiatives, including SC Aerospace, SC Logistics, SC Tech, 10:40 Introduction to SC Council on Competitiveness CyberSec, and TransformSC. Susie Shannon, President & CEO Thank you to our sponsors! 10:50 Session 3 - Gnosis Freight Austin McCombs, Founder and CEO, Gnosis Freight 11:35 LUNCH BREAK 12:00 Session 4 - New Forge Javier R Ortiz, CEO and Co-Founder, New Forge Angela Ortiz, CBDMO and Co-Founder, New Forge 12:45 Session 5 - Daimler Trucks Michael O’Hearn, District Sales Manager, NE Region - Daimler Trucks North America Safety is important to us, and we will be following COVID prevention protocols including: masks will be mandatory unless you are eating/drinking, tables will be distanced, and hand sanitizer stations will be set up. ECONOMIC2020 IMPACT STUDY The SC Council on Competitiveness is excited to release the 2020 SC Logistics Economic Impact Study, highlighting the logistics sector’s impact on South Carolina’s economy and its growth over the past decade. The study, completed by research economist Dr. Joseph C. Von Nessen, updates the overall economic impact, employee wage averages, and employment growth rates found in the 2017 study as well as showing the increased reliance on technology within the logistics industry. “Logistics has always been a critical part of our economy. 2020 has highlighted how vital it is to our daily lives that we manage the start-to- finish process of how we make, move, and deliver the products we want. From home building supplies and automobiles, to medicines and groceries, logistics touches every product, in every business, every day. Our success as one of the nation’s top advanced manufacturing states would be impossible without a strong logistics sector.” Susie Shannon, President & CEO, SC Council on Competitiveness "After reviewing the results of our study, we are very encouraged by the direction and future of the logistics cluster in South Carolina. The results are not only a clear indication of the hard work and leadership of our logistics firms, but they also highlight the importance of developing the next generation of our technically skilled logistics workforce.” Taylor Jackson, Director of SC Logistics, SC Council on Competitiveness SCLogisticsIndustry.com 2020 ECONOMIC IMPACT STUDY SOME QUICK DEFINITIONS PROVIDER Either internal or external logistics functions existing primarily to transport raw materials and/or final products from one firm to another or from a firm to a final consumer EMBEDDED Internal logistics functions existing within a firm in service of that firm’s operations SC LOGISTICS’ INCREASING RELIANCE ON SC TECH SC Logistics companies have tripled their spending with SC technology suppliers over the last decade. ANNUAL GROWTH IN EMBEDDED FUNCTIONS EMPLOYMENT SC Logistics continues to thrive in 2020, with +2.4% employment growth. July 2020 vs. July 2019 SCCompetes.org SPEAKERS & BIOS Taylor Jackson Director of SC Logistics, SC Council on Competitiveness Taylor joins the Council after serving as an Account Manager for Kuehne + Nagel. Taylor began her maritime career in 2014 working at John S. James Company as a Rates Analyst. She then went on to serve as an Export Administrator for John S. James. In 2016, Taylor joined Kuehne + Nagel as an Account Manager where she was responsible for managing global accounts in the Southeast territory. In her spare time, Taylor serves as Secretary & Awards Chair for Charleston Women in International Trade. She also serves on the NTW Board and Charleston Motor Carriers Board of Directors and is Co-Chair of the Waterfront Collective in Charleston, SC. She also won 2019 Young Leader of the Year for NTW. Taylor has a Bachelor of Science in Political Science with a Biology Minor from Clemson University and currently lives in Charleston, SC. Stephen Astemborski Director of Aerospace Initiatives, SC Council on Competitiveness Stephen joins the Council after working as a Manufacturing Projects & Initiatives Specialist for GE Aviation’s Operational Excellence Team. Stephen was one of the original members of the team, working with aviation suppliers to improve delivery of parts to GE Aviation shops. In addition to that role, Stephen spent time working as a Team Coach, Product Quality Engineer, and Operations Leader for GE Aviation and GE Power in both Greenville, South Carolina and Schenectady, New York. Prior to starting a civilian career, Stephen was an officer in the United States Army. After completing Armor officer training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, he was assigned to the 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment in Fort Carson, Colorado. He served as a scout platoon leader, human resources officer and assistant operations officer, and was deployed to both Afghanistan and Kuwait. Stephen has been awarded the Order of St. George-Black Medallion, Order of the Spur, Combat Action Badge, and Bronze Star Medal. He left active duty in 2014 with the rank of Captain. Stephen graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering w/ honors. He currently serves as president of the West Point Society of Upstate South Carolina and was Co-chair of the Class of 2009’s 10-year reunion gift campaign. Stephen is a member of the Greenville Transit Authority Board, is a former mentee in the Greenville Chamber’s Pacesetters program and is an active member of Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church. Stephen lives in Greenville with his wife Caroline. Industry research needs solved with university researchers and Fraunhofer USA expertise Powered by state matching funds SPEAKERS & BIOS Csilla Farkas Professor, University of South Carolina Csilla Farkas is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. She is the founder and Director of the Center for Information Assurance Engineering (CIAE) at the University of South Carolina (UofSC). Dr. Farkas’ research interests include information security, data inference problems, financial and legal analysis of cybercrime, security and privacy on the Semantic Web, and transportation systems cybersecurity. Her early work pioneered developing semanticsbased security models for web data and metadata. She has published over 75 peer-reviewed conference and journal papers. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Security Agency, Space and Naval Warfare, IBM, Federal Railroad Administration, and the South Carolina Department of Commerce. During the last 20 years Dr. Farkas worked to develop information security infrastructure at UofSC. In addition to her personal research agenda, she has developed educational resources, and has worked to gain national and regional recognition for UofSC. She led the effort for UofSC to become the first university in South Carolina to be accredited as a National Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) in Information Assurance Education and Cyber Defense in 2010. The accreditation is jointly given by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). She also pursued recognition for UofSC for the quality of cybersecurity research. As the result, UofSC was the first SC university to be designated by NSA and DHS as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research in 2015. Yash Bhatia CEO, Datos Technologies Yash founded Datos Technologies bringing years of expertise in data analytics and optimization technologies having designed, implemented, and managed