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B O O K R EVIEW

Africa Truck Arriving

Hijackings Today

Conference

30 – 31 August 2022 The Wall Street Journal technology columnist

Christopher Mims reveals the fascinating
Southern Sun, Rosebank, Johannesburg story behind the misleadingly simple phrase
shoppers take for granted – Arriving Today –
in this eye-opening investigation into the new

rules of online commerce, transportation and

Objectives: Who should attend: supply chain management.
• To discuss the impact of truck hijackings • Government Transport related departments
• To explore prevention strategies • Transport agencies e are at a tipping point in retail
• To encourage a platform for networking • Fleet management organizations history. While consumers are
• Logistics companies W profiting from the convenience
Our previous events related to trucks: • Safety software tech companies of instant gratification, rapidly advancing

• Electric Vehicle Technologies conference • Insurance companies technologies are transforming the way goods
are transported and displacing workers in
• Telematics Technologies conference • Telematics and tracking companies ways never before seen.
• Fuel Management conference • Security Service Providers
• Trucks and Buses conference In Arriving Today, Christopher Mims goes
deep, far and wide to uncover how a single
product, from creation to delivery, weaves
Some of the expert speakers of the conference: its way from a factory on the other side of
the world to our doorstep. He analyses the evolving
Richard Brussow Stanley Bezuidenhout Ivana Ries technologies and management strategies necessary The scope of such large-scale innovation
Director, National Hijack Forensic Specialist, CEO, Storm Combat to keep the product moving to fulfil consumers’ and expended energy is equal parts inspiring,
Prevention Academy IBF Investigations International demand for ‘arriving today’ gratification. enlightening and horrifying. As he offers a
glimpse of our future, Mims asks us to consider the
Mary Phadi Johann Raubenheimer Justin Manson system’s vulnerability and its resilience, and who
President, Truckers Director, Landmark Director: Sales, Webfleet Mims reveals a world where the only thing
Association South Africa Tracking Solutions International moving faster than goods in an Amazon warehouse shoulders the burden as we hurtle toward a fully
is the rate at which an entire industry is being automated system – and what it will mean when we
gutted and rebuilt by innovation and mass shifts in are there. •
human labour practices. He goes behind the scenes
to uncover the paradoxes in this shift – into the Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door
Media Partner: Endorser: Exhibitor: world’s busiest port, the cabin of an 18-wheeler – Why Everything Has Changed About How
and Amazon’s automated warehouses – to explore and What We Buy by Christopher Mims was L O GI S T I CS NEWS
how the promise of ‘arriving today’ is fulfilled shortlisted for the 2021 Porchlight Business
through a balletic dance between humans and Book Awards, Current Events & Public Affairs.
Exhibition opportunities and machines.
sponsorships available
To register call Simon on: 067 107 6133 For Pricing & Registration forms visit www .l o g ist i csn e w s .c o .z a JULY/A U GU S T 2022 19
or email simon@mogorosicomms.co.za www.mogorosicomms.co.za