International VDI Conference - Smart Last Mile Delivery

Registration & welcome coffee

Chair’s welcome and opening address
Conference chair: Horst Manner-Romberg, Managing Director, MRU GmbH, Germany

I. New Business Models – Gain Value Tomorrow          

Setting the Scene of Future Logistics

Optimisation of the last Mile with a click & collect Locker

Gunnar Anger, Managing Director, Parcellock GmbH, Germany

New Mobility Services: Multi-tasking Trips to reduce Congestion and maximize Efficiency
Timothy Durant, Senior International Project Officer, Vectos, UK

How the AI can improve my Field Operations
Xavier Ruiz Royo, Route Success Officer, Smartmonkey, Spain

Transforming Parkings into multimodal intelligent Mobility Hubs
Marek Stawinski, CEO, Co-author: Iwona Skowronek, CXO, both: NaviParking Sp. z o.o., Poland

RULS - Realtime urban logistic System
Mathias Thomas, CEO, Dr. Thomas + Partner GmbH, Germany

Networking & coffee break

Tackling the urban Logistics Challenges – An evolutionary Approach
Markus Ziegler, Division Manager, pakadoo, LGI Logistics Group, Germany

Digitalisation and the Supply Chain of the Future
Sebastian Steinhauser, Managing Director & Founder, Parcelly, UK

Lunch

II. Solution concepts – How to tackle Gridlocks

How Location based Services enable new Delivery Experiences
Christoph Herzig, Director Product Management, HERE Technologies, Germany

Creating sustainable Mobility through electric free float Car Sharing
Anders Wall, CIO,Green Mobility, Denmark

Using delivery Robots on the last Mile
Hendrik Albers, Regional Business Manager, Starship Technologies GmbH, Germany

Networking & Coffee Break

How to achieve true Customer Convenience based on sustainable Deliveries

• Who is really doing the last mile today?
• Sustainability is more than electric fleets
• Taking the collaborative approach: what we learned.
• Will ecommerce kill brick-and-mortar retailers?

Doreen Brodersen, COO, Angel Last Mile GmbH, Germany

Why Retailers are interested in solving the Last Mile Challenge

• Parcel delivery as a Service
• Results of a current survey
• What is customer focuses parcel delivery for you?

Stephan Seeck, University for Technology & Economics Berlin, Germany

Networking & Beer

Get-together

At the end of the first conference day we kindly invite for dinner to use the relaxed and informal atmosphere for in-depth conversations with other participants and speakers
 

Chair’s welcome and opening address
Conference chair: Dr. Gerhard Nowak, Managing Director, PwC Strategy & Partner, Germany

III. Policy, Planning, Interests and Roles - International Cases and Best Practices

The Efficiency Pitfall – Can we afford green Logistics?
Martin Posset, Innovation & Policy, thinkport Vienna, Austria

Planning for Urban Logistics – Practical Solutions and long-term Policy
Ian Wainwright, Director and Independent Consultant, Future City Logistics, UK

Smart last Mile Deliveries in Gothenburg
Michelle Coldrey, Project Manager, The Urban Transport Administration, The City

Networking & coffee break

Urban Logistics Plan in Brussels Capital Region
Marianne Thys, Head of Freight Cell, Bruxelles Mobilité, Brussels

Sustainable urban Logistics Plan in functional urban Areas: Lessons from the SUPLiTER Project
Giuseppe Luppino, Senior Project Manager, Elenora Tu, Institute for Transport and Logistics, Italy

Smart Santander: Innovating in the urban Ecosystem
Luis Muñoz, Professor, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain

Lunch

Who will be the mayor Players?                                                           

What Interests do these Players have? Who will set the Rules?
What are the next Steps?

Moderator: Nomo Braun, Principal Public Management, agiplan, Germany

Edwin Mermans, Senior advisor international affairs, Province of Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands

Markus Schmermund, Vice President Intralogistics Solutions LMH EMEA, Linde Material Handling GmbH, Germany

Martin Posset, Innovation & Policy, thinkport VIENNA, smart urban logistics lab, Austria

Gerd Seber, Group Manager Sustainability & Innovation, DPD Deutschland GmbH, Germany

Frank Weber, National Director, Jones Lang LaSalle SE, Germany

Solution concepts from different industries

Smart intralogistics Solutions for last Mile Challenges
Thomas Kaiser, Sales Management Market Sector Food Retail, SSI Schäfer, Germany

Smart last Mile Solutions from a CEP Provider’s Point of View
Gerd Seber, Group Manager Sustainability & Innovation, DPD Deutschland GmbH, Germany

Autonomous Machines in Logistics
Pedro Faria, Business Manager of AKKA Research Benelux, AKKA Technologies, Belgium

Conference chair’s closing remarks

End of conference