Elevate Freight Summit 2026
The market won’t wait. Neither can your freight sourcing strategy.
Freight sourcing is being rewritten in real time. Tariff pressure, shifting trade routes, and unpredictable capacity mean annual tender cycles and price-only decisions are no longer enough.
Archlet Elevate Freight Summit brings together procurement and logistics leaders, freight forwarders, carriers, and technology partners to discuss what actually works in modern freight sourcing across air, ocean, and ground.
What to expect: deep dives into how to...
- Respond to geopolitical disruption without overreacting
- Benchmark bids against live market data
- Balance cost, service, capacity, and sustainability at lane level
- Move from reactive firefighting to structured, data-backed sourcing
You'll leave with:
- Clearer negotiation levers and stronger award logic
- Practical takeaways from customer stories and hands-on sessions
- A more resilient freight sourcing playbook
- A stronger network of freight sourcing peers and industry leaders
This is not a stage for vague transformation talk, it's a working session for teams that need better outcomes from their next RFP, RFQ, and carrier review. Sign up now to request your seat.
Meet our speakers
Our speakers

Krzysztof Zak
Global Category Director - Logistics, Indirect Procurement, External Manufacturing, Mohawk Industries

Sergio Caluori
EUKEM & Global Travel Retail Procurement, Supply Chain & Logistics Director, Estée Lauder

Aleksandra Modrak
Head of Indirect Procurement & Procurement Excellence, Versuni

Abdelkader Djebablia
Senior Global Category Manager, Logistics & Warehousing, Givaudan

Urszula Szpak
Former Head of Logistics Procurement at ON and University Lecturer

Richard Allison
Director, International Logistics Procurement, Haleon

Bjorn Vang Jensen
Executive Industry Advisor, Xeneta

Graham Parker
Founder & CEO, Ship Angel

Michal Silhacek
Former Head of Global Land Transportation, IKEA

Armin Scharlach
Managing Director, TWS Partners

Michael Blumentsev
Former Senior Director, Sourcing Logistics at Mondelēz

Maxim Przystaw
Partner,
Roland Berger

Alina Heimgartner
Chief Customer Officer,
Archlet

Marco Krebs
Logistics Sourcing Expert, Archlet

Lukas Wawrla
Co-Founder, Archlet
Agenda
Welcome and registration
Morning sessions with Archlet
Customer Spotlight with Mohawk
Fireside chat with Versuni
Coffee break
Panel: Scaling freight sourcing
Networking lunch
Keynote with Roland Berger
Xeneta keynote: The $4M Problem
Coffee break
Hands-on workshops
Panel: Managing volatility & AI in freight sourcing
Closing thoughts
Networking apéro
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