The Inland Distribution Conference (Inland25) is a three-day event focused on North American transportation and logistics in the region’s cargo capital of Chicago. Inland focuses specifically on the intermodal rail, trucking and air cargo legs of both wholly domestic supply chains as well as those connected to international supply chains that start or terminate at North American seaports, airports and border crossings.

At its core, Inland is a programming-centric conference, with three days of sessions built around mode-, geography-, or category-specific topics determined by the Journal of Commerce editorial team. Tracks are focused on truckload, less-than-truckload, intermodal, drayage, cross-border, cargo theft, and technology dynamics.

The popular Inland Academy programming, with an expanded set of foundational-level sessions built around key overarching themes impacting North American surface transportation, returns in '25, as do regional think tanks focused on important markets such as Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, and Memphis.

Inland25 serves shippers, transportation and logistics providers, 3PLs, equipment providers, and ports — the entities that move goods from ports to inland destinations and throughout North America using an increasingly complex network of transportation and logistics services.