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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.
Intermodal Analyzed - June 2026
Tuesday, June 2, 2026, 12:30 PM (Central Time)
Join IANA’s Director of Economics, Andrew Sibold, with guest Larry Gross, “The Intermodalist,”
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 IANA’s recently
redesigned Intermodal In Depth publication and its new Intermodal Volume Index (IVI),
our presenters will provide a detailed examination of the current state of the intermodal
market, identify emerging trends, and show how operational, trade, and macroeconomic
factors interact and affect your strategic decision-making across the intermodal ecosystem.
Speakers:
Larry Gross
Andrew Sibold
Previous Events
Breaking Down the Four Pillars of AI for Intermodal: AI for Analytics
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
Intermodal Analyzed - Feb 2026
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