Freightonomics at F3: Ayeh Bandeh-Ahmadi and Daniel Nixon

This session recap is from Day 1 of FreightWaves’ F3: Future of Freight Festival live event in Chattanooga, Tennessee. For more information on the event, click here.

DETAILS: On this special episode of Freightonomics recorded live from FreightWaves’ F3: Future of Freight festival in Chattanooga, Smith and Strickland break down supply side inflation, key recessionary indicators, dynamic pricing and the Fed’s role in all of it with Ayeh Bandeh-Ahmadi of Transfix. Then, your hosts are joined by Onshore Outsourcing’s Daniel Nixon to talk strategies for attracting and retaining drivers with better customer service. Finally, the discussion turns to the problem of last-mile economics — and how to solve it.

SPEAKERS: Ayeh Bandeh-Ahmadi, principal economist, Transfix, and Daniel Nixon, chief operating officer, Onshore Outsourcing.

BIOS: Bandeh-Ahmadi is an economist with expertise in innovation and the organization of data, ideas, people, firms and industries. Her work combines economic modeling with network theory, statistics, natural language processing and machine learning methods to design effective pricing mechanisms, contracts, and markets. Prior to joining Transfix, Bandeh-Ahmadi spent more than seven years with the U.S. Treasury Department as a debt manager and senior economist.

Nixon discovered Onshore in 2011 and, wanting to explore his programming hobby professionally, attended and graduated from the Onshore program. In his current role, he oversees operations at Onshore including services, workforce development and engagement management. His passion is the sustainability and the impact of the system and the team that drives Onshore’s vision for revitalizing rural America. The company provides outsourced IT services for drivers using a 100% U.S.-based network of call centers.