What the Descartes Innovation Forum Said About the Next Phase of Logistics Execution

After several days at the 2026 Descartes Innovation Forum, the clearest takeaway was not simply that artificial intelligence is coming to logistics. That part is already obvious. What stood out more was where the technology is moving and why it matters now.Across the keynote, a transportation leadership panel, a Walmart Marketplace session, and a detailed discussion of carrier fraud, the same operating problem kept surfacing in different forms. Logistics organizations have more data, more applic