International VDI Conference - Smart Last Mile Delivery

Registration & welcome coffee

Chair’s welcome and opening address

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 maximise 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

• Market potential and last mile situation in Germany
• The initial concept and the challenges
• The evolutionary approach – how does it work?
• The journey (permanent adjustments, digitalization, e-commerce and local shopping platform, infrastructure for other services and products)
• Vision for the future

Markus Ziegler, Division Manager, pakadoo, LGI Logistics Group, Germany

Digitalisation and the Supply Chain of the Future

• Digitalisation and consumers changing expectations
• The evolving supply chain and its impact on future distribution (– with key examples of industry influences and delivery models)
• Amplifiying the digital opportunity as a tool to reimagine the supply chain
• Delivery options consumers desire with an example of UK’s most demanded: Click & collect

Sebastian Steinhauser, Managing Director & Founder, Parcelly, UK

Lunch

II. Solution concepts – How to tackle Gridlocks

E-Mobility for the last Mile

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How Location based Services enable new Delivery Experiences

• From the last mile to the final meter
• Connected AR and Machine Learning
• HERE open location platform
• Outlook: Enabling the future of autonomous fleets

Christoph Herzig, Director Product Maagement, HERE Technologies, Germany

Zity: The greenest last Mile

• The carsharing sector and the journey for delivering Zity
• Description of the operational model
• Key elements that provide a competitive edge
• Highlighting insights and pointing to further developments and additional actions in the mobility arena

David del Rio Vilas, Ferrovial, Alejandro Astibia Bruno, Innovation Manager, Ferrovial Services, Marino Caballero Izquierdo, Business Development Manager, Zity, Spain

Using delivery Robots on the last Mile

• Today’s autonomous robot capabilities
• Deployment experience after two years
• The legal situation in Germany
• Our global footprint
• Sneak preview of the future

Hendrik Albers, Regional Business Manager von der Starship Technologies GmbH, Germany

Tour

Get-together

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

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

Chair’s welcome and opening address

Dr. Gerhard Nowak, Managing Director, PwC Strategy & Partner, Germany

The Efficiency Pitfall – Can we afford green Logistics?

• Rethinking the role of the municipal administration
• Target area oriented urban logistics
• Quality as valued added services in urban logistics
• Cooperation and collaboration – both need communication

Martin Posset, Innovation & Policy, thinkport Vienna, Austria

Planning for Urban Logistics – Practical Solutions and long-term Policy

• Defining city and logistics priorities
• Understanding the issues
• Key policy trends
• Examples from London and other cities
• Success factors

Ian Wainwright, Director and Independent Consultant, Future City Logistics, UK

Smart last Mile Deliveries in Gothenburg

• Importance of collaborations between the city, the business and academy
• Regulations and incentives
• Creating a liveable, green and close knit city

Michelle Coldrey, Project Manager, The Urban Transport Administration, The City of Gothenburg, Sweden

Networking & coffee break

Urban Logistics Plan in Brussels Capital Region

• Involvement of stakeholders is not optional
• Benefits of European projects
• Road charging for HGV’s and on board units
• Delivery servicing plan’s

Marianne Thys, Head of Freight Cell, Bruxelles Mobilité, Brussels

Sustainable urban Logistics Plan in functional urban Areas: Lessons from the SUPLiTER Project

• Understanding trends and scenarios of freight transport in FUAs
• Building governance processes in urban freight
• Developing SULPs as part of SUMPs
• Case study from the SUPLiTER project: Metropolitan City of Bologna

Giuseppe Luppino, Senior Project Manager, Elenora Tu, Institute for Transport and Logistics, Italy

Smart Santander: Innovating in the urban Ecosystem

• Internet of Things and its paramount role in today’s and future cities
• Technology, services and the citizens in the urban ecosystem
• Co-creating the cities of the future
• Data market place

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 Merman, 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

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

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

IV. Solution concepts from different industries

Smart intralogistics Solutions for last Mile Challenges

• E-commerce trends
• Same day delivery
• Modern technologies
• E-commerce and omni-channel distribution centers

Thomas Kaiser, Sales Management Market Sector Food Retail, SSI Schäfer, Germany

Smart last Mile Solutions from a CEP Provider’s Point of View

• Last mile’s challenges of a CEP provider in inner cities
• Digital last mile: Optimised operations and enhanced service offers
• Alternative vehicles and micro depots in the cities
• Future perspectives: Pickup points, autonomous driving, crowd delivery and more

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

Autonomous Machines in Logistics

• Artificial intelligence: Computer vision, language processing, decision-making
• Autonomous machines: Drones, cars and other robots
• Logistics and smart delivery business cases for autonomous machines
• Natural Human-Machine Interaction
• Horizontal technologies and skillset for autonomous machines. Why drones first?

Pedro Faria, Business Manager of AKKA Research Benelux, AKKA Technologies, Belgium

Conference chair’s closing remarks

End of conference