FreightWaves F3: Future of Freight Festival

1,000+ freight brokers, carriers, shippers and freight tech founders; adjacent Brokerage Compliance Symposium and awards dinner.

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Dates
Usually October (next dates not announced)
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 5,381

Source: NextChapter job data, jobs verified live in the last 7 days.

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Typical posted salary
$106,000 a year (middle half $78,000 to $145,000)

Source: NextChapter job data: salary ranges employers posted, midpoint of each range, 955 of the newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

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Entry or early-career level
40% of openings

Source: NextChapter job data: level read from the full posting, newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

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Employment, year over year
+0.3% in transportation and warehousing, the closest BLS sector

Source: BLS Current Employment Statistics, seasonally adjusted payroll employment, October 2026.

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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

    CEO, Echo Global Logistics

  • 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

  • 2027: dates not announced
  • 2026: October 27, 2026 to October 28, 2026, Chattanooga, TN
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