Intermodal Insights

Looking to keep up to date on need-to-know industry topics? IANA offers monthly webinars to its members and provides special registration specifically for UNT students, faculty, and researchers. New events are added as they are scheduled.

The Center for Logistics & Supply Chain Management would like to give special thanks to IANA for providing these virtual educational opportunities.

Upcoming Events

To receive the webinar registration link, students must email Chris.Peavy@unt.edu and provide their student ID, the course number, and the professor’s name for the class they want to receive attendance credit. Registration will remain open until 12:00 noon the day before the IANA webinar. No registration links will be sent after this time. Students who use the provided link to register for a webinar will be included in the attendance report generated by IANA, which will include the student’s arrival and departure times at the webinar.

Tuesday, January 27, 2026, 12:30 pm Central Time

As artificial intelligence becomes more embedded in intermodal operations, analytics are evolving from static dashboards into a critical driver of action, prediction, and decision support. In this next session of IANA’s Four Pillars of AI for Intermodal webinar series, we take a practical and candid look at AI for Analytics and how it is reshaping the way operators move from insight to impact.

This conversation will explore how AI powered analytics can help forecast demand, identify operational risk, and surface insights that go beyond reporting what happened to informing what should happen next. Rather than treating analytics as the final destination, the discussion will focus on how analytics fit into a broader closed loop system that connects data, prediction, and action across intermodal operations.

Through real world perspectives, the session will examine where analytics succeed, where they fall short, and why trust, verification, and governance matter as AI takes on a larger role in decision making. Attendees will also be invited to participate in interactive polls and discussion that highlight how the industry is thinking about AI driven analytics today and where confidence and skepticism still exist.

Speakers:
Chris Machut
Mark McKendry

Tuesday, February 3, 2026, 12:30 pm Central Time

Join Larry Gross, “The Intermodalist,” and IANA’s Director of Economics, Andrew Sibold, as they explore the latest macro-trends and industry statistics impacting you and your business.

Utilizing multiple sources, including IANA’s Intermodal Volume Analyzer and Equipment Type, Size and Ownership (ETSO) database, as well as Gross Transportation Consulting and IANA’s joint publication, Intermodal In-Depth, our presenters will provide a detailed examination of year-end outcomes, as well as offer a look at major emerging themes.

Speakers:
Larry Gross
Andrew Sibold

Previous Events

Dec 9, 2025 01:00 PM in Central Time (US and Canada)

Join Larry Gross — “The Intermodalist” — as he explores the latest industry statistics and how they impact you and your business. Utilizing multiple sources, including IANA’s Intermodal Volume Analyzer and Equipment Type, Size and Ownership (ETSO) database, as well as his own publication, Intermodal In-Depth, Larry will provide a detailed examination of the outcomes so far in 2025, as well as offer a look at major emerging themes. This session is available only to IANA members.

Nov 20, 2025 01:00 PM in Central Time (US and Canada)

Ready to cut through the hype and understand what AI really means for intermodal? Join us for Beyond the Buzz: Demystifying AI’s Role for Intermodal. Discover key concepts shaping AI’s impact on the intermodal industry, including use cases, ethical considerations, and regulatory unknowns. Don’t just watch the change—be part of shaping it! Your questions and insights will help inform our educational offerings on how we adopt and adapt AI practices as an industry.

Tuesday, October 28, 2025, 1:00 pm Central Time