FreightWaves F3: Future of Freight Festival
1,000+ freight brokers, carriers, shippers and freight tech founders; adjacent Brokerage Compliance Symposium and awards dinner.
- Dates
- Oct 27 to Oct 28, 2026
- Where
- Chattanooga, TN
- Cost
- Ticket $895 to $3,185. Fall bundles: F3+Compliance $1,895, F3+Dinner $1,995, All-Access $2,195 (list $3,185); group packs $895-$1,095 each. No standalone festival price shown.
- Type
- Conference · Paid ticket
- Organizer
- FreightWaves
- Last checked
- October 23, 2026 against the event’s own site
Official site and registration
Cheaper ways in: Shippers can apply for an invite-only guest program with a complimentary pass and up to $1,000 travel reimbursement (events@freightwaves.com).
Speaking opportunities
Speakers are invited
Speakers appear invited; companies can apply for 7-minute Rapid-Fire Demos.
Who goes
Roles and segments the organizer or our research tag this event for.
Segments: Freight, trucking and brokerage, Supply chain planning and visibility
Roles: freight broker, logistics sales, logistics technologist
The field it serves: Transportation & Logistics
- Verified open jobs
- about 8,559
- Typical posted salary
- $105,000 a year (middle half $83,000 to $136,000)
- Entry or early-career level
- 33% of openings
- Employment, year over year
- −0.1% in transportation and warehousing, the closest BLS sector
Source: NextChapter job data, jobs verified live in the last 7 days.
Source: NextChapter job data: salary ranges employers posted, midpoint of each range, 1,082 of the newest 5,000 verified open jobs.
Source: NextChapter job data: level read from the full posting, newest 5,000 verified open jobs.
Source: BLS Current Employment Statistics, seasonally adjusted payroll employment, September 2026.
Full Transportation & Logistics snapshot: jobs, pay, layoffs and conferences
Employers at this conference
Exhibitors, sponsors and speakers we have found on the event’s own lists.
- 123Loadboard Sponsoring 2026
- Amazon Supply Chain Services Sponsoring 2026
- AtoB Sponsoring 2026
- Blue Book Services Sponsoring 2026
- Carrier1 Sponsoring 2026
- Covenant Sponsoring 2026
- Datatruck Sponsoring 2026
- E3 Group Sponsoring 2026
- Echo Sponsoring 2026
- Envoy AI Sponsoring 2026
- Eranova Sponsoring 2026
- Evos Sponsoring 2026
- Flowx Sponsoring 2026
- FreightWise Sponsoring 2026
- KCH Sponsoring 2026
- Kleinschmidt Sponsoring 2026
- Lean Solutions Group Sponsoring 2026
- LSP44 Sponsoring 2026
- OTR Solutions Sponsoring 2026
- Pallet Sponsoring 2026
- Qargo Sponsoring 2026
- REPOWR Sponsoring 2026
- Salesforce Sponsoring 2026
- Sevos Sponsoring 2026
- SONAR Sponsoring 2026
- Sope Creek Sponsoring 2026
- Sparq Sponsoring 2026
- Truckstop Sponsoring 2026
- Vantage Sponsoring 2026
- Venture 53 Sponsoring 2026
Read from the event’s own pages: live.freightwaves.com.
Speakers and sessions
Named on the event’s own program. Titles and organizations are as the event lists them.
Keynotes
Brad Jacobs
Chairman/CEO, XPO, Inc.
Jesse Elison
Deputy Administrator, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
John Eitel
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology, U.S. Department of Transportation
Mark Hazelwood
Founder and CEO, People Data and Analytics
Mark Vale
CEO and board member, Transportation Insight and Nolan Transportation Group
Speakers
Adam Wingfield
Editorial Director, FreightWaves
Aqil Naeem
Founder & CEO, E3 Group
Brett Suma
President & COO, Bot Auto
Carmelo Messina
VP of Sales, 123Loadboard
Chris Cochran
CEO, FreightWise & Kuebix AI
Chris Hines
CEO, REPOWR
Craig Fuller
Founder and CEO, FreightWaves and SONAR
David Bell
Founder & CEO, CloneOps.ai
Doug Waggoner
Earl Adams
VP of Policy & Regulatory Affairs, Plus
Jennifer Lance
Chief Operations Officer, Apex Capital Corp
Jett McCandless
Founder & CEO, project44 & LSP44
Patrick De Haan
Head of Petroleum Analysis, GasBuddy
Prasad Gollapalli
CEO & Founder, Qued
Robert Nathan
Founder & CEO, Envoy AI
Sherri Garner Brumbaugh
President/CEO, Garner Trucking
Travis Rhyan
Founder & CEO, Carrier1
Urav Shah
CEO, Evos
Will Hopping
Chief Product and Technology Officer, SONAR
Zach Strickland
Director of Freight Market Intelligence, SONAR
Read from the event’s own pages: live.freightwaves.com
Industries and functions
Where it is and who it is for
Held in Chattanooga, TN. Local jobs, employers, layoffs and other conferences nearby are on the place pages.
Past and planned editions
- 2026: October 27, 2026 to October 28, 2026, Chattanooga, TN
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