Eric Ballot is Industrial Management and Supply Chain professor at MINES Paris – PSL and former director of the Scientific Management Lab. He is a former MIT visiting scholar and a Hong-Kong visiting Professor. He is also a court accredited expert at Cour d’Appel de Paris. He graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and received his habilitation in industrial engineering. He leads many research projects in France and with international partners. He is the recipient of several research awards and serves as a board member for several institutions. His research is dedicated to sustainable logistics, co-funded the Physical Internet paradigm a decade ago and he is the director of the Physical Internet Chair at MINES Paris – PSL.

Professor Michael Bourlakis is the Director of Research for the Cranfield Faculty of Business & Management and the Head of the Logistics, Procurement and Supply Chain Management Group. Michael is an internationally renowned and established authority in logistics and supply chain management. He has been very successful in winning substantial external funding including more than 40 research and consulting projects totalling more than £45 million (total allocated project funding) from various bodies and private companies. Professor Michael Bourlakis has generated more than 90 journal papers and 5 edited books. Professor Bourlakis has been a Chair and Keynote Speaker for leading logistics academic and industry conferences worldwide and his multidisciplinary research work and impactful thought leadership has received considerable attention by the media (BBC News, ITV News, BBC Radio 4 Today, The Guardian, Wall Street Journal etc.). His work has also involved numerous multinational companies including, inter alia, Carrefour, DHL, Knight Frank, Leonardo, Metro and Tesco. Michael joined the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF2021) Panel for “Business and Management Studies” representing the logistics, supply chain and operations management disciplines where he was involved with the evaluation of UK Business Schools. In 2024, he became Vice President (International) and a Trustee for the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (International) which is a leading Institute in Logistics worldwide.

Anastasia Founta is a Transport engineer with expertise on sustainable urban mobility planning, transport systems development and implementation and on multimodal data exchange standards. As scientific assistant, she contributed to research projects on intelligent transport systems in Switzerland and France. As consultant, she worked with Local and Regional Transport Authorities in the framework of European and national projects on sustainable urban mobility planning and implementation. Since September 2020, she is part of ITxPT team, managing ITxPT Requirements Committee activities, and implementation projects such as DATA4PT and NAPCORE, with the aim to advance the adoption of EU multimodal data exchange standards across EU, support EU stakeholders to reply to EC requirements regarding open data and eventually enable interoperability for seamless sustainable mobility for all.

Lennart is the Global Modal & Technology Director for International Trade Operations. In this capacity, Lennart is responsible for the work processes, tools and strategies for Dow globally as they relate to Marine Packed Cargo, Air and Trade Compliance. He has held this position for the past 5 years. Prior to that, Lennart held various roles in Dow in Operations, EH&S, IT and Supply Chain. He has been with Dow for 23 years. Lennart graduated from Ghent University with a master’s degree in chemical engineering and lived in his hometown, Ghent, for almost his entire life. Lennart is passionate about ID&E and supports all of Dow’s 10 employee resource groups. He also serves on the board of Supply Chain Masters in Belgium and often represents Dow at Cefic, the European association of the chemical industry. In his spare time, Lennart enjoys the occasional game of bridge and loves good cuisine.

Iain is a UK national and holds a Bachelor of Science in Transport Planning & Operation and Urban Policy & Management, awarded by Aston University, Birmingham.

His experience includes electric vehicles and charging infrastructure, hydrogen mobility, Advanced Air Mobility, eVTOL and drones, autonomous vehicles, cycle infrastructure, road safety, public transport, evaluation of proposals, projects and deployments, and project communication.

Before joining ERTICO, Iain was Director of Future Mobility at Red Sea Global, a Saudi Public Infrastructure Fund giga project, where he was responsible for the roll-out of the largest network of EV chargers powered by renewable in the Kingdom and the development of a hydrogen Centre of Excellence. Prior to his tenure in Saudi Arabia, he was Director of Electric Vehicle Strategy for Enterprise Rent-A-Car’s European operations and was responsible for the largest fleet of hydrogen vehicles in the UK.

Iain previously participated in several EU projects through his role as Head of Transport Innovation at Transport for London, during which time he established the London Automotive Forum, and was a member of the UK Automotive Council’s autonomous vehicle steering group. He was also advisor to the Deputy Mayor of London on urban air mobility and drones, and represented TfL at international organizations including the European Commission (Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe, SUMP), the OECD (drones, urban air mobility), ERTICO, POLIS, the FIA (Smart Cities programme and Formula E), World Bank, MIT and EASA.

Raffaele holds a master’s degree in Geography and Spatial Planning from the University of Bologna. He is the coordinator of the POLIS Urban Freight Working Group and he oversees thematically related projects and activities in the urban freight cluster. His current portfolio includes URBANE, UNCHAIN, MOVE21, GREEN-LOG, and DISCO projects. Raffaele has co-written and contributed to more than ten research studies commissioned by the European Commission and the European Parliament, and has taken part in international working groups focused on transport and tourism, such as the Alpine Convention.

Jaco Voorspuij is a well-seasoned Supply Chain professional with some 35 years of experience covering both Manufacturing and Logistics. His first professional experience was in city development in Utrecht. Starting 1990 he helped implement ERP software as well as design and develop add-ons in leading enterprises across Europe. From 1997 until May 2015 Jaco Voorspuij worked with DHL (and predecessors) on warehousing systems, transportation management, Business & Systems integration, Solutions Design & Architecture and IT Business Development for a number of the largest Clients of DHL and on some of the most challenging projects and Programmes that DHL has run and is running for those Clients.

Supply Chain innovation is a key theme in Jaco’s career so he joined GS1 in 2015, where he took responsibility for developing the Transport & Logistics sector. The most powerful innovations only really thrive when they interoperate well with the existing environment using common global data standards. Jaco helped develop several of those innovations and standards over his career across all modes of transport and all distances including urban logistics. In addition, Jaco managed the product development of location-based services as part of the GS1 Registry Platform (GRP) further facilitating the use of global data standards by supply chain stakeholders.

Jaco is currently Chief Consultant at FixLog Consulting and member of the Smart Logistics Platform Alliance (SLP Alliance).