CRRA2019

Account Manager

Shane Magennis is new to the recycling industry and comes from the manufacturing and retail industry and has been with Zanker Recycling since October 2017.  Shane is the Business Development & Marketing Manager for Florin Perkins Public Disposal Site and GreenWaste of Sacramento Debris Box Service. Shane’s previous roll was working for a concrete manufacture for almost ten years overseeing sales, merchandising, new product development & roll outs, customer product knowledge trainings, customer service training, and working with the local communities on various community projects. 

Starlight is an all in one software designed by a roll-off company in Denver, Colorado. In under 6 years the company went from 6 roll-off trucks to 34 roll-off trucks and is now the largest roll-off company in Colorado.  GreenWaste of Sacramento is the first Zanker Recycling company to implement the software into their daily operations.  The software allows real time tracking of all trucks, dumpster inventory, and recycling reporting.  Drivers no longer use paper workorders and all routing is done through their smartphones on the fly.  This allows GreenWaste drivers to be the most efficient as possible, reducing drivetime, reducing fuel consumption, as well as full asset tracking of dumpsters. When a driver delivers a dumpster or removes a dumpster the dumpster is assigned an inventory number and using the GPS of the phone the location is automatically tracked.  The software also has full capabilities to allow customers to use their smart phones to order a dumpster via a secure application.  Starlight also has the capabilities so that customer can also run their own recycling reports at any time to keep track of their diversion rates.  GreenWaste drivers can upload pictures of all weight tickets, pictures of the loads, and all are automatically assigned to the customers job site location via Starlight. This eliminates the many hours of tracking down weight tickets, pictures, that are required for recycling reporting. 

Founder & CEO

Bibhrajit Halder, Ph.D., is an industry expert for self-driving vehicle, autonomous robotics, AI and Deep Learning. He worked at Caterpillar, Ford and Apple on autonomous technologies that span over 14 years before founding SafeAI.   

At SafeAI we are building an autonomous platform for the heavy equipment industry. We believe the heavy equipment industry is on the cusp of fundamental change due to recent progress in autonomous vehicle and artificial intelligence technologies. The SafeAI platform enables transformational change in the industry by, improving safety, increasing productivity, and reducing operational cost. We will present our current progress and future vision.

VP of National Accounts

Ryan Fogelman, JD/MBA, is VP of Strategic Partnerships for Fire Rover. Ryan's career has been focused on introducing innovative safety solutions currently used in a number of industries.  He has been compiling and publishing the “The Reported Waste & Recycling Facility Fires in the US/CAN” since 2016, the “Waste & Recycling Facility Fire Annual Report” and speaks regularly on the topic of scope of the fire issues facing the waste and recycling industry including risk mitigation through fire planning, education and proactive fire detection and suppression technologies.

There is an inherent risk of fires in our waste and recycling facilities due to traditional hazards and the increasing threat of lithium-ion batteries in our waste and recycling stream.  During this session we will discuss the fire trends we are facing in the industry as well as the combinational approach to planning and fighting fire incidents with a focus on the first moments before a fire occurs and before the fire professional arrivals.  Additionally, we will be highlighting the Fire Rover, the only firefighting solution on the market today that combats incipient fires and explosions within seconds from ignition. The Fire Rover solution combines: 1) Automated Thermal Detection; 2) Remote Human Verification, and; 3) Remotely Operated On-Site Suppressant/Elimination, essentially allowing fires/hotspots to be cooled and eliminated before they can escalate to a major fire incident.

Marketing Specialist

Jerame graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, with a BLA in Landscape Architecture in 2011. Jerame is a seasoned member of the marketing team with over 6 years of experience focusing on recycled commodities markets and branding for outbound inert/organic products such as Class II Base Rock and Soil Amendment. As the resident LEED Green Associate, Jerame is in charge of providing diversion rates and LEED letters to customers attempting to achieve desired diversion rates for various projects throughout the Bay Area. 

Innovations at Zanker Recycling’s operation in San Jose are proving that technology can increase diversion rates and provide cleaner recyclable commodities.  The presentation will provide a virtual tour of Zanker operations including its new Advanced C&D Processing System.

Director of Sustainability

Mr. Gross has been in the waste and recycling industry since 1979 when he started his own garbage collection company while still in high school. In 2011, Mr. Gross was named the Director of Sustainability for GreenWaste and the Zanker family of companies. This position allows him to coordinate and institutionalize sustainability efforts across divisions and among business relationships. Since 2000, Mr. Gross has been a board member of the Construction and Demolition Recycling Association and many local non-profit charities.