Speakers

More that 150 Speakers participating!

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Below are key note and  invited speaker and ssession chairs who will be participating in the conference. Please note that we will be adding to the listing as speakers are identified and confirmed.

 

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Angelos Amditis
Research Director
Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS)

Dr. Angelos Amditis is Research Director in the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, and member of ITS Board of Directors.  He is the founder of the I-SENSE Research Group of ICCS being active in the scientific and research fields of Intelligent Transportation Systems, Telecommunications, Al and Automation, Crisis and Disaster Management, Smart Integrated Systems such as Sensors, Communications and Vehicle Platforms, Smart Cities, Environmental and Industrial applications.

He is the Chairman of the ERTICO Board of Directors, the Vice President and one of the founding member of the Hellenic Association for the deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS Hellas), and the Vice-Chairman and one of the founding members of the EuroVR Association. He is also the National Representative of Greece at EU on Co-operative Connected and Automated Transport and Mobility (C-ITS and CCAM) and the Deputy Chairman of the Athens Urban Transport Organisation (OASA). He has been the Scientific Responsible in more than 120 European and National research projects. Currently he is the coordinator of the following EU projects: HYPERION(newly accepted), Scent, COREALIS, ICT4CART , RESIST, ELVITEN, IN-PREP, SAFERtec, PLUGGY, NeMo and SENSKIN. He is the author of many articles in scientific journals, book chapters and over 180 conference articles.

Pietro D’Arpa
Vice President - Product Supply, Supply Network Operations and E2E Planning, Europe
Procter & Gamble

Pietro is currently responsible for Logistics Operations and Strategic Planning in Europe and across all the P&G Categories of Products. He has worked for P&G for 30 years in numerous global businesses including laundry detergents, paper, pet care, and beauty products in a variety of manufacturing and supply chain roles. He possesses significant expertise in strategic sourcing, production planning, logistics, manufacturing and Supply Chain M&A. He has broad international experience including living and working in Italy, Belgium, the UK, Ireland, Switzerland and the United States. He is known for transforming the entire supply chain, leveraging disruptive and innovative solutions while accelerating business value creation. He has recently led the renewal of P&G’s Integrated Work Systems (IWS) approach to build and sustain world class manufacturing results; integrating TPM, Lean and High Performance methodologies in an End to End supply chain environment.

 

François-Régis Le Tourneau

Chair
Vice President Corporate Responsibility - L’Oréal For the Future
ALICE / L'Oréal

François-Régis Le Tourneau is of French and German nationality. He has a strong track record in executive positions in Controlling & Finance as well as Supply Chain Management. During the last 29 years at L’Oréal, François-Régis has managed organizational and transformational projects on selective and consumer channels with impacts on large teams. His leadership role is always to anticipate, innovate and obtain results in complex organizations.
He is now in charge of the international coordination of the Sustainability Program “L’Oréal For The Future”. François-Régis manages a world-wide Sustainability Leaders community in order to ensure, with the General Managers of each country, that sustainability is at the heart of the business transformation. L’Oréal For The Future aims at transforming L’Oréal’s activities to respect planetary boundaries (climate, water, resources), at empowering the company’s ecosystems and at contributing to solving the challenges of the world.
Francois Regis is the Chairman of ALICE, Alliance for Logistics Innovation through Collaboration in Europe, member of the board of France Supply Chain, and advisory at the BunderVereinigungLogistik (the German Logistic Association).

Henri Mehto
COO
OGOship

OGOship started as a traditional 3PL turned into a network of existing 3PLs linked to small and growing e-commerce shops. We started as a centralized warehouse from Tallinn and are now operating warehouses in Finland, Estonia, Sweden and the Netherlands to fulfill our customers orders from closest possible location with best possible logistics. Benefits are many and the network enables services to smaller e-shops which were not available earlier, whether it’s a local DHL with half of the price or automated mega-warehouse with 1/4th of the collecting costs normally sold only to Blue Chips. OGOship is a true frontrunner and trailblazer in the 3PL industry with potential to build a global reach to optimize and truly enable the Physical Internet. Henri Mehto is an shareholder and COO in OGOship with a 10 year track-record in startups as well as a 5 year career in logistics from the very core of it, driving a truck in his father’s company.

 

Prashant Yadav
Professor and Senior Fellow
INSEAD and Center for Global Development

Prashant Yadav is a globally recognized scholar in the area of healthcare supply chains. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development, Affiliate Professor at INSEAD and Lecturer at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of many peer-reviewed scientific publications and his work has been featured in prominent print and broadcast media. In addition to his roles in academia and think tank, Prashant serves on the boards of many companies and a venture fund. In his previous roles Prashant has worked as Strategy Leader-Supply Chain at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Vice President of Healthcare at the William Davidson Institute and Faculty at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan; Professor of Supply Chain Management at the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program. He has also provided expert testimony on medical supply chains on multiple occasions in prominent legislative bodies around the world, including the US Congress. Prashant trained as a Chemical Engineer and obtained his PhD in Management Science & Operations Research. He lives in Bethesda, MD in the USA.

 

 

 

Plenary Panellists

Thomas Bagge
CEO and Statutory Director
Digital Container Shipping Association

As the CEO of the Digital Container Shipping Association, DCSA, Thomas is responsible for building strong relationships with stakeholders in shipping and beyond, as well as leading the team to achieve DCSA’s mission of enabling systematic collaboration in container shipping through technology standardisation.
Prior to joining DCSA, Thomas was instrumental in a number of transformational activities involving technology, process and people at Maersk. Most recently, he held the position of Adviser to the CIO on Strategy and Digital Transformation.
With two decades of experience in transportation and logistics, Thomas has an in-depth understanding of customers and industry drivers, as well as the challenges of digitising the container shipping industry.
Thomas has an Executive MBA and an Applied Finance degree from Copenhagen Business School.

Eric Ballot
Professor of Supply Chain and Logistics and Scientific Director of the Physical Internet Chair
Director Centre de Gestion Scientifique
Mines Paris Tech

Eric Ballot is full professor of supply chain management and industrial engineering at Mines ParisTech – PSL Research University. He is the head professor of the industrial management and supply chain program. He is the past Director of the Centre de Gestion Scientifique and the Physical Internet Chair at Mines ParisTech. He was a visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan School of management in 2007 and a visiting Professor at Hong Kong University since 2015. He graduated from Ecole Nomale Supérieure de Cachan (PhD in 1995). He chairs “Progarmme National Marchandises en Ville” (French transportation ministry), is a committee member of several institutions and is an accredited expert by Appeal Court of Paris since 2002. Eric Ballot has been leading many research projects both with the industry Airbus, Renault, Danone, P&G… and with international academic partners such as EPFL, Université Laval… He is also the author of many research papers and books chapters. His research has been recognized at several occasions in conferences and with research prizes (IESM, ILS, PREDIT, EMERALD). He is also a scientific leader of the Physical Internet Initiative in Europe with several projects funded in France and at the European level.

Frank Kho
CEO
TIC4.0

Frank Kho is an independent advisor active in the container logistic and terminal industry since 2018.
He has more than 30 years’ experience in this industry across the globe. His career includes 20+ year in several senior management positions in Asia and Europe with PSA and HPH, 2 of the leading global terminal operators. And prior to become an advisor, Frank also has been a member of the global leadership team of Kalmar (equipment and automation solutions for the terminal industry). In 2019 he has been appointed as the CEO of the TIC 4.0 Association (Terminal Industry Committee 4.0), supported by FEPORT and PEMA, developing standards for the terminal industry.
Frank has an excellent track record in managing and leading several container terminals across the globe, including HIT in Hongkong and PSA Antwerp.
Within Kalmar, Frank has led the discussion regarding strategy and vision on automation in the container industry and was also responsible for offering development and account management.
Frank has a Master degree in Control Engineering/Avionics and is also an ICF-trained Professional Coach (certification is pending).

Mikael Lind
(Adjunct) Professor in Maritime Informatics
Senior Strategic Research Advisor
Chalmers University of Technology / Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE)

Dr Mikael Lind is (Adjunct) Professor in Maritime Informatics at Chalmers University of Technology and Senior Strategic Research Advisor at Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE). He has initiated and headed a substantial part of several open innovation initiatives related to ICT for sustainable transports of people and goods. In his capacity of the world's first professor in Maritime Informatics he also part time at the Chalmers University of technology (M2), Sweden, exploring the opportunity of maritime informatics as an applied research field. Lind serves as an expert for World Economic Forum, Europe’s Digital Transport Logistic Forum (DTLF), and UN/CEFACT.

Dr. Benoit Montreuil
Coca-Cola Material Handling & Distribution Chair
Professor
Georgia Tech

Dr. Montreuil is leading the International Physical Internet Initiative, engaging academic, government leaders worldwide into research and innovation projects on smart, hyperconnected and sustainable logistics, supply chains, transportation, businesses and regions. His main research interests generically lie in developing concepts, methodologies and technologies for creating, optimizing, transforming and enabling businesses, supply chains and value creation networks to thrive in a fast evolving hyperconnected world. From 2000 to 2014, Dr. Montreuil has held the Canada Research Chair in Business Engineering.

He is a founding member of the CIRRELT Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation. He is also past president of the College-Industry Council on Material Handling Education and its Liaison to the Board of Governors of MHI, the North American industry association of material handling, logistics and supply chain solutions and technology providers. Dr. Montreuil graduated in 1978 from the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR). He earned a master’s and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1980 and 1982 respectively. After serving on the industrial engineering faculty of UQTR and Purdue University, from 1988 to 2014, he was a Professor of operations and decisions systems in the faculty of Business Administration at Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada.

Richard Morton
Secretary General
International Port Community Systems Association, IPCSA

Richard spent his early career working in European road, sea and air freight operations.  In 2011 Richard was appointed as Secretary General of the European Port Community Systems Association EPCSA which in 2014 became International, IPCSA.  

The Association provides a voice for electronic data interchange operators within the complete logistics sphere and all modes of air, sea and land.   IPCSA, who’s global membership now operates in over 500 sea and air ports, handling the electronic exchange of information for in excess of 500 million TEUs and 10 billion tonnes of cargo.  IPCSA also supports the industry on development on new innovative solutions to share and exchange data, as well as publishing “How to” practical papers on Community System development and impacts of current events such as COVID-19 on the industry.

In his role as Secretary General Richard works to support international organisations on Trade Facilitation and digitalisation including the UN, WCO, WHO, WTO, the European Commission, and the IMO.  He is also an expert for UNCEFACT and APEC eCommerce Business Alliance Expert Council .
Richard also supports organisations around the world in how to develop community systems and single windows, drawing on the global experience and knowledge of IPCSA

 

Henk Mulder
Head, Digital Cargo
International Air Transport Association (IATA)

Henk Mulder is the Head of Digital Cargo at the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in Geneva, Switzerland. His focus has been on the development of next generation digital standards for the airlines and their partners. He has led the development of the data sharing standard ONE Record, that forms the backbone of the digital data exchange future of the airline industry. That future hinges around the data visibility that we can expect from an Internet of Logistics and later, Mobility Data Spaces.
Henk is also responsible for all IATA’s digital cargo standards, including the legacy Cargo XML and its predecessor, Cargo IMP. The portfolio includes eAWB, CCS connectivity standards and lately, new standards for connected devices that are increasingly attached to freight and ULDs.
Beyond air transport, Henk is active in multimodal interoperability. He is Chair of the FEDeRATED Semantic Modelling Group and a Team Lead at the Digital Transport & Logistics Forum. He is founding member of a group that is now developing the Internet of Logistics.
Henk has degrees in Information Technology and Mathematics. He also attended an International Executive Programme at the INSEAD business school. He started his career at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) where we specialized in the operations and design of particle accelerators. He worked with the team that produced the first antimatter on earth. But what inspired him most at CERN was when Tim Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web there. This led him to work on web technologies in many industries, including banking and passenger and cargo air transport.

 

Elvina NOWAK
International project manager
IPIC 2021 Gold Sponsor!
EURALOGISTIC, CCI Artois Hauts-de-France

Born in Bordeaux, I am passionate about literature and therefore obtained a research master in comparative literature. Then I taught French and philosophy in a high school. After this transition and time of reflection, I decided to apply for the Master of Science in International Business at BEM (Kedge BS) in Bordeaux. It was the opportunity to discover all aspects of business with a real interest for supply chain and logistics courses. This year was also the year I met my future husband coming from the Northern France, a real Chti.
After this year in Kedge BS, I did my first internship at Primagaz in Paris, a gas supplier, as an assistant product manager. Therefore, my final thesis addressed and assessed the risk of greenwashing throughout RSE communication in energy companies.
As a second internships, I integrated La Poste (the public French post) subsidiary, Mobigreen, as a marketing and communication project manager which was the first organization to promote and to disseminate eco-driving practices throughout companies. I had the opportunity to work with great automotive accounts for supporting them in the implementation of these new practices. These both internships allowed me to understand the importance of sustainable development and a more responsible behaviour for society
After my both internships, I was responsible for partnerships in an advertising company and in a company dedicated to innovation consulting in the northern region. These both experiences brought me relationships and dissemination skills with a penchant for innovation.
Now, since 2016, when I joined Euralogistic, I have been learning everyday about logistics, transport and supply chain fields for which I am passionate. I am fully aware of the need to change the paradigm towards a more sustainable system.

 

Session Chairs

Dr. Angelos Amditis
Research Director
Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS)

Dr. Angelos Amditis is Research Director in the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, and member of ITS Board of Directors.  He is the founder of the I-SENSE Research Group of ICCS being active in the scientific and research fields of Intelligent Transportation Systems, Telecommunications, Al and Automation, Crisis and Disaster Management, Smart Integrated Systems such as Sensors, Communications and Vehicle Platforms, Smart Cities, Environmental and Industrial applications.

He is the Chairman of the ERTICO Board of Directors, the Vice President and one of the founding member of the Hellenic Association for the deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS Hellas), and the Vice-Chairman and one of the founding members of the EuroVR Association. He is also the National Representative of Greece at EU on Co-operative Connected and Automated Transport and Mobility (C-ITS and CCAM) and the Deputy Chairman of the Athens Urban Transport Organisation (OASA). He has been the Scientific Responsible in more than 120 European and National research projects. Currently he is the coordinator of the following EU projects: HYPERION(newly accepted), Scent, COREALIS, ICT4CART , RESIST, ELVITEN, IN-PREP, SAFERtec, PLUGGY, NeMo and SENSKIN. He is the author of many articles in scientific journals, book chapters and over 180 conference articles.

Eric Ballot
Professor of Supply Chain and Logistics and Scientific Director of the Physical Internet Chair
Director Centre de Gestion Scientifique
Mines Paris Tech

Eric Ballot is full professor of supply chain management and industrial engineering at Mines ParisTech – PSL Research University. He is the head professor of the industrial management and supply chain program. He is the past Director of the Centre de Gestion Scientifique and the Physical Internet Chair at Mines ParisTech. He was a visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan School of management in 2007 and a visiting Professor at Hong Kong University since 2015. He graduated from Ecole Nomale Supérieure de Cachan (PhD in 1995). He chairs “Progarmme National Marchandises en Ville” (French transportation ministry), is a committee member of several institutions and is an accredited expert by Appeal Court of Paris since 2002. Eric Ballot has been leading many research projects both with the industry Airbus, Renault, Danone, P&G… and with international academic partners such as EPFL, Université Laval… He is also the author of many research papers and books chapters. His research has been recognized at several occasions in conferences and with research prizes (IESM, ILS, PREDIT, EMERALD). He is also a scientific leader of the Physical Internet Initiative in Europe with several projects funded in France and at the European level.

Sergio Barbarino

Research Fellow of Procter & Gamble Research & Development organization
Chairman of ALICE

Sergio Barbarino is a Research Fellow of Procter & Gamble Research & Development organization and Chairman of ALICE, the EU Innovation Platform for Logistic aimed at realizing the Physical Internet. Born in Naples, Italy, Sergio has a master degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Napoli Federico II and an MBA from the Solvay Business School in Brussels and is a Fellow Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

In 2007, Sergio created the first group of Logistic R&D within Procter & Gamble, called Supply Network Innovation Center, of which he is the Scientific coordinator. He has been leading the logistic chapter in the informal Industrial Advisory Board of the European Green Car Initiative and EIRAC, the Intermodal Advisory Council, now folded into ALICE (see above) of which Sergio is today the Chairman and for which he has been leading the Collaboration and Coordination Workgroup since the inception.

Sergio has been the scientific leader of 2 EU FP7 projects: the C03 consortium aiming at increasing shipper collaboration on Logistics in Europe and Modulushca, aimed at the development of new shareable and reusable logistic standard modules for the last mile delivery. Sergio has developed the manufacturing Processes of many well known P&G Brands (e.g. Mr. Clean, Antikal,) and has been the chief designer for P&G of Innovative Liquid Manufacturing systems for developing markets. He is responsible for the P&G Academic network in Supply Chain and Logistics and has been Visiting professor - among others at the Ecole des Mines de Paris, the City University of London, Laval University Quebec, Solvay Brussels School, ZLC Zaragoza. Sergio is an active rower and has been Social Director at the Royal Sport Nautique de Bruxelles in 2011-2015. Sergio has also a long history of LBGT rights activism: he has been a founding member of DIGAYPROJECT in Rome in 2000, of the BBA in Belgium in 2003 and the GABLE Group at Procter & Gamble in Brussels in 2014.  

Paola Cossu
CEO
FIT Consulting

CEO and shareholder of FIT Consulting srl. Statistician. I successfully wrote and coordinate a number of EU R&I projects on transport & logistics, with a proven record and 25 years of experience in all areas of mobility of people and goods innovation, including urban logistics vision and new solutions, impact assessment, policies/regulation, dynamic land use and parking management, Physical Internet, logistics, shared mobility and MaaS.

I am the Project Manager of the EU Service Contract “New mobility patterns for European cities”, and former coordinator of: SOCIALCAR “An urban, smart, social and green mobility approach to carpooling” (H2020), C-LIEGE (STEER-2011) “Clean Last mile transport and logistics management for smart and Efficient local Governments in Europe”, CONCERTOUR (7FP) “Concerted innovative Approaches, Strategies, Solutions and services improving mobility and European tourism” and MOSCA (5FP) “Decision Support System For Integrated Door-To-Door Delivery: Planning and Control in Logistic Chains. Project director for: GECKO (H2020) Regulatory schemes to implement disruptive technologies and business models in transport, SENSE (H2020) Accelerate the path towards the Physical Internet, I-MOVE (H2020) "Unlocking large scale access to Combined Mobility through a European MaaS Network", CITYMOVE "City multi-Role Optimized Vehicle"(FP7); CIVITAS RENAISSANCE (FP7), CDISPATCH (LIFE+) "Clean-DIstribution of goods in SPecimen Areas at the last mile of the intermodal Transport CHain", PLATFORM (4FP) "Computer Controlled Freight Platform for a time-table rail transport system". Since 2004, I carried out several studies on urban logistics, e.g. Ferrara, Padova, Prato, Frosinone, Turin. Consultant for Taranto Port Authority in MEDNET (Interreg). Consultant for FINEST in EASYCONNECTING (Interreg). Vice-chair of the Urban Logistics TG in "ALICE" Alliance for Logistics Innovation through collaboration in Europe". Invited professor for LUISS Business School (Master in Eco-Mobility Management) and Link University (Master in Sustainable Transport and Mobility).

 

Dirk 't Hooft
Member Executive Group ALICE
ETP-ALICE

Dirk ‘t Hooft is currently working as an independent Senior Advisor.  At European level he is active involved in research and innovation projects and member of the Secretariat and Member of the Executive Group of “ALICE”, (Alliance for Logistics Innovation through Collaboration in Europe), the European Technology Platform on Logistics. He was project leader of the European FP7 research project CO3 on Horizontal Collaboration in the Supply Chain.

Dirk ‘t Hooft works in the Netherlands also as Senior Advisor Logistics Collaboration for Argusi b.v. and is involved with Argusi in the H2020 project CLUSTERS 2.0.  After his graduation in economics at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, he worked in several senior executive positions in Publishing and Agricultural Machinery and was thereafter 6 years CEO of EBS/ HES Beheer, a Bulk Stevedoring Company in the Port of Rotterdam, 6 years CEO of the Flower Auction of Aalsmeer and the last 11 years as CEO of HIDC (Holland International Distribution Council).  Dirk ‘t Hooft is experienced in the management of innovation projects, is able to match people and organizations, and has a broad international experience.

 

John Kanellopoulos
Senior Researcher / Project Manager
Institute of Communications & Computer Systems (ICCS)

Giannis Kanellopoulos holds a BSc in Computer Information Systems from the American College of Greece, an MSc in Software Engineering from the University of Nottingham, UK and an MBA from Durham University, UK. He has more than 20 years of experience in systems analysis, software engineering and data networking. He was the data network architect and project manager for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games and has participated in systems design for several banks and telecommunication organizations. John was also a member of the IT team of the Piraeus Container Terminal for 10 years, participating in all major projects of the company. In the past, he has also been a part-time member of the Faculty of the American College of Greece (Deree College) for six years.

 

Ben Kraaijenhagen
Independent Business Owner BeCat

Grown up with trucks and transport of freight and in business since mid-1982.
More than 35 years of expertise in many countries worldwide.

Before founfing his company he led the MAN BUS & TRUCK Foresight team, having an in-depth expertise in trend analysis, the creation of scenarios, product stewardship, mobility and logistics and public funding programs. Derived from this expertise he and his team identify the research and innovation roadmaps including project ideas to develop new concepts and new technologies meeting the challenges of the coming decades.

He held many workshops and interviews with focus groups to discuss and mirror future challenges, needs, and requirements.

He is engaged in many platforms and associations, e.g. ALICE, ERTRAC, IFRTT, Metropolregion Munich, EUCAR, and ACEA, to shape the future of a sustainable and competitive Europe. 

Since October 2017, he is leading the project AEROFLEX, AEROdynamic and FLEXible trucks for the next generation of long-haul freight trucks in Europe. 23 partners out of 7 European countries and Turkey. A project funded by Horizon 2020 and supported by a Sounding Board counting 45 members from industry, logistics, research institutes, associations, and policymakers.

Since December 2018, he is appointed as the Director Innovation of the EIT Urban Mobility, a consortium of 48 partners from 15 countries. EIT UM is dedicated to accelerating solutions that improve our collective use of urban spaces, while ensuring accessible, convenient, safe, efficient, sustainable and affordable multimodal mobility. The objective is to rethink urban spaces, over-coming fragmentation by integrating all urban mobility players – including cities and citizens – and increasing social inclusion and equality.  His vision is sustainable mobility for freight and people, being efficient and affordable with a minimal negative impact on the environment, health, safety, and society.  To achieve this, he is convinced that we need a paradigm shift in our thinking and ways of doing business.  He is more than happy to support the industry and communities to face these challenges and turn them into real projects.

 

Kris Neyens
Manager Internationalisation
Flanders Spearhead Cluster for Logistics

Accomplished and versatile supply chain expert with a proven track record leading change and innovation projects in challenging and highly competitive environments.  More than 30 years of experience in the fields of supply chain innovation, rail, air and maritime transport, city logistics and the design and implementation of innovative logistics concepts.   He is involved in both regional and international projects with a focus on new alternative transport routes and modes (autonomous, hyperloop).  City logistics as a specific expertise in which he has established a pioneering role with the ALEES project that realized the first demonstration of an autonomous vehicle in the public domain in Belgium that furthermore focused on city logistics.  He is also strongly committed to connecting Flanders to the European Hyperloop initiatives and instrumental in initiating a governmental study in Flanders.  As from June 2021 he will be responsible as theme manager to this extent.  Other fields of interest and expertise are supply chain resilience and near- or reshoring concepts.
On an international level Kris is a member on various advisory boards of European projects.

In the role of “Manager Internationalization” he also is a member of the thematic group Hubs, Corridors and Synchromodality of ETP-Alice, actively propagating and aiming to realize the Physical Internet ® concept and over time also emission free logistics.  

 

 

Dr Andrew Palmer
Director
Preston Solutions Ltd

Andrew is a specialist in sustainable logistics network design and quantitative modelling techniques and is the original author of the CAST network design software, now owned by Llamasoft. For over 30 years he has undertaken projects for many companies from different sectors and countries, plus governmental departments, the European Commission and the OECD. His work focuses on the sustainability of freight transport and the methods required to improve vehicle capacity utilisation and reduce empty running. Currently, he is one of the 16 consortium partners in a three year, €5 million project, sponsored by the EC, which is developing a real time collaborative freight transport decision support system, and he is also involved in projects for the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight which is a five year joint venture between Heriot Watt and Cambridge Universities. He has published many articles and is a regular speaker at logistics planning and sustainability conferences. His work in home deliveries and sustainable logistics received media coverage with television interviews and articles in national newspapers.

 

 

Invited Speakers

Sergio Barbarino

Research Fellow of Procter & Gamble Research & Development organization
Chairman of ALICE

Sergio Barbarino is a Research Fellow of Procter & Gamble Research & Development organization and Chairman of ALICE, the EU Innovation Platform for Logistic aimed at realizing the Physical Internet. Born in Naples, Italy, Sergio has a master degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Napoli Federico II and an MBA from the Solvay Business School in Brussels and is a Fellow Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

In 2007, Sergio created the first group of Logistic R&D within Procter & Gamble, called Supply Network Innovation Center, of which he is the Scientific coordinator. He has been leading the logistic chapter in the informal Industrial Advisory Board of the European Green Car Initiative and EIRAC, the Intermodal Advisory Council, now folded into ALICE (see above) of which Sergio is today the Chairman and for which he has been leading the Collaboration and Coordination Workgroup since the inception.

Sergio has been the scientific leader of 2 EU FP7 projects: the C03 consortium aiming at increasing shipper collaboration on Logistics in Europe and Modulushca, aimed at the development of new shareable and reusable logistic standard modules for the last mile delivery. Sergio has developed the manufacturing Processes of many well known P&G Brands (e.g. Mr. Clean, Antikal,) and has been the chief designer for P&G of Innovative Liquid Manufacturing systems for developing markets. He is responsible for the P&G Academic network in Supply Chain and Logistics and has been Visiting professor - among others at the Ecole des Mines de Paris, the City University of London, Laval University Quebec, Solvay Brussels School, ZLC Zaragoza. Sergio is an active rower and has been Social Director at the Royal Sport Nautique de Bruxelles in 2011-2015. Sergio has also a long history of LBGT rights activism: he has been a founding member of DIGAYPROJECT in Rome in 2000, of the BBA in Belgium in 2003 and the GABLE Group at Procter & Gamble in Brussels in 2014.  

Carlo M Borghini
Executive Director
SHIFT2RAIL Joint Undertaking

Mr Carlo Borghini is responsible for the overall management of the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking activities since he took up the position of Executive Director in February 2016. His mandate has been  renewed for a period of 5 years as from May 2021.
Prior to this posting, Mr Borghini held senior management positions in different domains in private and international organisations, at corporate level. He was the Deputy Executive Director for the SESAR Joint Undertaking (SJU) in Brussels from 2008 to 2014, and prior to this was Director and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialised Agency of the United Nations based in Rome.
Mr Borghini holds a Master’s Degree equivalent in Business Economics and speaks Italian, French and English. He is married with three children.

 

 

 

Phill Davies
Co-Founder/Commercial Director
Magway

Phill is the Co-Founder and Commercial Director of Magway.  He is responsible for bringing Magway to market, developing the commercial strategy and engaging with various parties including online retailers, airports, partners, investors, local, and central government.  He is committed to establishing Magway as a new delivery utility.

Prior to Magway he has spent his career in the retail and technology sectors focusing on business development and reverse logistics.  He has worked with numerous leading retailers to improve efficiency and value on their returns and clearance goods and processes.  Phill spent a number of years with Deloitte Consulting and Lehman equity Research providing thought leadership and some of the first written research reports on Software as a Service business models.  He is active in the start-up space and has worked on commercial operations and strategy with a number of these including dynamic storage company LOVESPACE (crowd funded company of the year 2016), and scheduling company RotaGeek (Small Company of the Year 2016).  

 

Luo Hao
Associate Professor
Associate Head
Department of Transportation Economics and Logistics Management / College of Economics / Shenzhen University

LUO Hao is Associate Professor and Associate Head of Department of Transportation Economics and Logistics Management, College of Economics at Shenzhen University, PR China. He obtained his PhD in Industrial Engineering from The University of Hong Kong in 2012. He is recognized as “Overseas high-caliber personal” by Human Recourses administration of Shenzhen Municipality. His current research interests are in operation research in production, synchronized production and logistics, IoT technology application in production, logistics and ecommerce. He has published more than 30 papers in academic journals, including International Journal of Production Economics, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, International Journal of Production Research, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Computers & Education and Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing His paper was the “Winning paper in the prestigious Emerald Citations of Excellence for 2016” He has rich experience in industry and he is senior consultant of several enterprises in manufacturing and logistics industry. He has several patents and software copyrights about IoT technology and industrial wearable technology. These technologies has been successfully implemented in many enterprises.

 

Marcel Huschebeck
Chief Logistics Research
PTV Group

Marcel Huschebeck is a Chief Logistics Research at the PTV Group Karlsruhe where he is an expert and leads the PTV logistics research projects. Marcel is visiting lecturer at the University of applied science in Kehl teaching master students on cluster management and city logistics. Born in Offenburg, Germany, Marcel has a master degree in Economics from the University of Freiburg. Marcel became head of department of logistics research since 2008 and formed the department called Concepts&Solutions being responsible for the R&D and prototypical implementation of software solutions in the logistics domain in PTV customer projects leading a group of up to 10 researchers. He has been core group member of the logistic chapter in the informal Industrial Advisory Board of the European Green Car Initiative, Digital Transport Logistics Forum and in the Advisory Council of ALICE. Marcel has been the co-ordinator and scientific leader of 9 EU projects on developing topics on intermodal optimisation and synchromodality, optimising city logistics and last mile deliveries as well as on Physical Internet. Marcel is presently co-ordinator of the CLUSTER2.0 project.

Malgorzata Kirchner
Acting Deputy Director for Sales and Commercialization
Lukasiewicz - Institute of Logistics and Warehousing

Acting Deputy Director for Sales and Commercialization at Lukasiewicz Research Network - Institute of Logistics and Warehousing. In charge of affiliate sales, commercialization, coordination of consultancy for logistics market and management of international projects for public and private sector (in the field of logistics and IoT).

Responsible for implementation of research developments enabling the effective and efficient roll-out of research solutions throughout logistics sector. Specialized in project development, from proposal preparation, to its full implementation, coordination and exploitation, within several programmes of the European Commission.

Co-chair of Corridors, Hubs and Synchromodality Working Group of European Technology Platform ALICE.
Experienced project manager involved in a number of EU projects.
Graduated from A.Mickiewicz University, management and marketing (Master's degree).

 

Dr. Xiang T.R. Kong
CEO
Comma Technology Ltd.

Dr Kong is recognized as “Overseas high-caliber personal” by Human Recourses administration of Shenzhen Municipality. He gained a lot of insights in applying the research approaches for solving real-life industrial problems. His research interests are in the field of Physical Internet (Internet of Things) for Perishable Products Auction with operation research modelling and CPS-enabled Cellular Warehousing for Ecommerce Logistics. He has published over 40 research publications which have reported critical achievements from research results, including Transportation Research Part B, International Journal of Production Research, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, IEEE Transaction on Automation Science and Engineering and Computers & Education. He is also a senior consultant of several enterprises in manufacturing and logistics industry. He has several patents and software copyrights about IoT technology and industrial wearable technology. These technologies have been successfully implemented in many enterprises.

 

Charlotte Migne
Group Sustainable Development Director
FM Logistic

Charlotte started her career in Sustainable Development within the Accor Group between 2004 and 2006. She then joined the consulting firm Capgemini Consulting where she carried out several organizational and strategic missions for major transport and energy companies.
 
In 2010, she joined the Edenred Group (formerly Accor Services), a global leader in prepaid service vouchers, as Corporate Social Responsibility Director and then, as from 2014, Corporate Social Responsibility and HR Development Director. Since 2017, she was appointed Group Sustainable Development Director at FM Logistic, where her mission is to define and implement sustainable development programme and support development of sustainable offers in all business lines of the company. Charlotte Migne is Vice-Chair of the working group on urban logistics at Alice since the end of 2018.

 

 

Davide Scatorchia
Project Coordinator Digitisation
Air Cargo Belgium

Davide Scatorchia is project coordinator at Air Cargo Belgium. In this role he is responsible for all projects related to digitisation. Davide holds a master degree in Applied Economic Sciences from the University of Hasselt, Belgium. 

Before joining Air Cargo Belgium Davide worked for 5 years at the Estee Lauder Companies as a Global Supply Chain Planner. 

Joining Air Cargo Belgium in 2018, Davide is working on EU projects on the development, validation and deployment of the digital information systems along the EU transport Core Network. Besides The EU projects he is also involved in several projects involving digital platforms and physical internet.

 

Hans Schurmans
Director Logisitics Operations
Proximus

Hans Schurmans is the logistics operations Director at Proximus Group, the major telecom and digital service provider in Belgium. He has extensive experience in operational execution in a multisite retail environment and led major innovation and transformation programs within the group. Transforming classic logistic operations into a logistic customer experience added value service provider. Previously, Hans held management positions in multiple domains such as IT, purchase, commercial and project management. His focus besides operations is digital transformation, change management and people development.

 

Alex Van Breedam
CEO
TRI-VIZOR

As a professional, but also as an academic, Alex’s key experience is in Supply Chain Management and Logistics. He was former partner and practice leader SCM of KPMG, a worldwide leading consultancy company. Within SCM, he has gained exceptional experience in the setup of supply chain strategies and the conception and implementation of decision support systems. Subsequently in his job as independent advisor, he was hired by major companies to supervise and to provide expert guidance for their Supply Chain strategy and logistic optimization projects, most often at the board room level. He has been responsible for the startup of the Vlaams Instituut voor de Logistiek (Flanders Institute for Logistics). Between 2003 and 2008 he was the managing director of that institute. Alex is also the inventor of the Extended Gateway® concept. It’s a innovative and powerful concept for regions with natural advantages for European distribution. The idea and the challenge behind the concept is the creation of additional logistics prime locations (i.e. minimal total cost locations) for added value logistics along the vertices of the integrated multimodal hinterland network. All provinces in Flanders are currently applying this concept for the identification of their logistics hotspots. 

As entrepreneur, Alex has founded and is currently leading the disruptive innovation TRI-VIZOR, the World’s First Cross Supply Chain Orchestrator. In 2014, he was awarded the price of Logistics and Supply Chain Professional of the year by the European Logistics Association (www.elalog.eu). 
 

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Angel Batalla
Founder & CEO
Last Mile Team

Angel Batalla is a serial intra/entrepreneur with over thirty years of successful professional practice as a senior executive in various B2C & B2B multinational firms, in all areas of the Value Chain, in the sectors of Retail, Branded Goods & Services, Consumer, Pharmaceutical & OTC, Medical & Professional.
He has designed, lead and executed over a dozen major Value Chain initiatives across the globe, most of which still persist, for Consumer, Pharma and Professional Products.

He is very concerned with the negative consequences brought by the increase in Urban Goods Distribution. He has spent the last three years working in Last Mile Team®, in the design, development and implementation of the Last Mile Digital Platform©, the convergence point of the Physical, Sci&Tech & Blockchain universes applied to the Last Mile.

Angel holds Marine Engineer (Hons.) & Executive MBA degrees. He regularly teaches, delivers workshops and talks on Global Value Chain, Change Management & Innovation at different Business Schools and other institutions, on-site or on-line.

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