ALICE Logistics Innovation Summit 2024 took place on 6-7 November 2024 at the Tangla Hotel (Brussels).
With logistics playing a vital role in the global economy, the Summit focused on the twin transitions of green and digital transformation, addressing the challenges and opportunities that will drive the sector over the next decade. With a focus on collaboration, innovation and sustainability, this event also served as a platform for sharing insights, promoting collaborative innovation and fostering connections between different innovation ecosystems at regional, national and European levels.
Summit highlights:
- Holistic and inclusive: ALICE engages diverse stakeholders from across the logistics sector, including shippers, ports, terminals, technology companies, research organisations and governments, ensuring a comprehensive approach to innovation.
- Independent and neutral: As an independent platform, ALICE fosters effective innovation leading to new products and services that support the affordable decarbonisation of logistics.
- Collaboration at its core: The Summit provides opportunities for companies and organisations to collaborate effectively and scale innovation for a sustainable future.
- Focusing on benefits and overcoming barriers to innovation: The Summit focuses on unlocking the benefits of digital and green technologies and addressing the challenges that slow their widespread adoption.
- Driving decarbonisation: In partnership with the European Commission, ALICE is committed to identifying and accelerating the innovation needed to meet the decarbonisation targets for logistics.
ALICE Logistics Innovation Summit it’s also:
- Influential discussions: Engage with high-level representatives and thought leaders on the latest developments in logistics, including sustainability, digitalisation, and competitiveness.
- Networking opportunities: Meet and collaborate with stakeholders from across the logistics community, including ALICE members, industry executives, European policy makers, and research leaders.
- Exhibition: Explore innovative solutions and cutting-edge technologies showcased by projects and companies leading the future of logistics.
DELPHI was represented during the event by its partner ALICE!
- Ms. Marion Cottet, Project Manager – Urban Logistics in ALICE, delivered an elevator pitch for DELPHI, where she highlighted the DELPHI Use Cases. Marion had the opportunity to pitch DELPHI in front of the +150 attendees of the Wednesday afternoon session! Pitch slide is available here.
- DELPHI dissemination material was showcased in the exhibition area of the event, where participants and attendees had the chance to interact with top executives and decision makers from leading companies and EU institutions. The stand was shared with DELPHI’s sister projects ACUMEN & SYNCHROMODE as well as with the Multimodal Traffic Management Cluster.
- Mr. Evangelos Mitsakis from the Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), represented the Multimodal Traffic Management Cluster (DELPHI is a member of this cluster), towards presenting the recently launched roadmap, on the panel, “Digital transition: leveraging technologies for efficient and zero-emission logistics.” The roadmap is available here.
- In the exhibition area, an interactive mapping activity showcased the work conducted in DELPHI’s WP2 on Governance, Regulatory and Stakeholder Analysis. ALICE has worked with Geodis and Mines Paris Tech’s expert group on Physical Internet to map as exhaustively as possible the landscape of initiatives linked to secure, safe and efficient data sharing/storage/usage at European level.
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