Artificial Intelligence and Supply Chain Management: Disrupting the Status Quo
Thursday, November 20, 2025
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Florida Atlantic Boca Raton Campus (Executive Education Schmidt Family Complex) and Live Virtual
 
Join Florida Atlantic Executive Education, the Master of Science in Supply Chain Management program, and Tropical Shipping for an exclusive discussion featuring:
  • Benjamin Gordon – Founder and Managing Partner of Cambridge Capital
  • Tim Martin – President and CEO of Tropical Shipping
  • Christopher Sawchuk – Principal and Global Procurement Advisory Practice Leader of The Hackett Group
  • Moderator: Steven Carnovale, PhD – FAU Professor & Program Director
Artificial intelligence has made waves across all fields of business, with the promise to massively disrupt supply chain management. Advances have been made everywhere from optimizing procurement spend, mitigating contract risk, managing and predicting risks before they turn into disruptions, to optimizing and rerouting freight to avoid costs and delays.
 
This seminar will gather together key thought leaders in the field to cover:
  • What are the key areas of opportunity for AI implementation in Supply Chain Management?
  • What are the state of the art technological advancements of AI for supply chains?
  • Where are the areas of greatest risk, and greatest opportunity?
  • How can supply chain leaders navigate these headwinds?
 
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Meet the Industry Expert Panel

 

Benjamin Gordon

Benjamin Gordon

Founder and Managing Partner
Cambridge Capital

Benjamin Gordon is the founder and Managing Partner of Cambridge Capital. He draws on a career in building, advising, and investing in supply chain companies. Benjamin has led investments in outstanding firms, including XPO, Grand Junction, Bringg, Liftit, and others. Prior to Cambridge Capital, Benjamin built BGSA Holdings into a global leader in M&A for the supply chain sector. As CEO of BGSA, Benjamin led the firm’s efforts, advising on over $2 billion worth of supply chain transactions.

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Tim Martin

Tim Martin

President and CEO
Tropical Shipping

Tim Martin is the President and CEO of Tropical Shipping. He has responsibility for Tropical Shipping and subsidiaries (i.e., Caribtrans, VI Cargo, Deluxe Freight, and Seven Seas Insurance Co.). Tropical Shipping is the international transportation unit of Saltchuk Resources, a Washington-based family of transportation companies. Mr. Martin has been in the transportation industry for more than 30 years.

Tim lives in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, with his wife Kim.


Christopher Sawchuk

Christopher Sawchuk

Principal and Global Procurement Advisory Practice Leader
The Hackett Group

Mr. Sawchuk is a Principal, Global Practice Leader and leadership team member with The Hackett Group, an intellectual property-based strategic consultancy to global companies.

He has over 20 years of experience successfully advising hundreds of Fortune 500 as well as midsized companies across all industries globally. Mr. Sawchuk has provided operational and transformational guidance in strategy and organizational change as well as process design and digital technology enablement to significantly improve the supply management capabilities of these companies.

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Meet the Moderator and Host
 
Steven Carnovale

Steven Carnovale, PhD

Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management
Director of the Masters in Supply Chain Management program
College of Business, Florida Atlantic University

Dr. Carnovale is a supply chain strategist specializing in interfirm networks, risk management and global sourcing/production networks with a specific focus on equity-based partnerships. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, and an Associate Editor at the Journal of Supply Chain Management. His research has appeared in the Journal of Supply Chain Management, the Journal of Business Logistics, the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, the Journal of International Business Studies, the International Journal of Production Economics, the European Journal of Operational Research and Annals of Operations Research among others.

 


EVENT DETAILS

Date: Thursday, November 20, 2025
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM (Live Virtual attendance begins at 6:30 PM)
Location: Florida Atlantic Boca Raton Campus (Executive Education Schmidt Family Complex) and Live Virtual

Arrival: 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Panel Discussion: 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Networking & Refreshments: 7:30 PM onward
Location: Executive Education Grand Concourse

Speaker Panel with Q&A: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: Executive Education Schmidt Family Complex - Room SF 107

 

Featured Graduate Degree Program

 

MSSCM

Professional Master's in Supply Chain Management

Available On Campus, Live Virtual, or Fully Online

The Professional Master of Science in Supply Chain Management (MSSCM) is a 30-credit program catered to working professional students. Supply Chains are essential for the trade, retail, manufacturing, and service industries and are expanding geographically and in scope. Continued globalization, advancements in digital technologies, and the more recent emphasis on Blockchain have resulted in an increased focus on supply chain and its risks.


Contact Us

 

Manana Argvliani
Program Manager
 
address: 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431
email: margvliani2021@fau.edu
phone: (561) 297-2360
map: Bldg. 103, SF 129
 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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