Because if businesses do not adapt to the future right now, they will not survive and a postal provider is a very traditional company having to adapt as well...
Businessmen around the world know that the best business plans are built on future certainties. But, the world is changing fast. In his speech, Amaury will focus on the evolution of customers´ needs and how these will influence the evolution of the supply chain. Our cities are becoming bigger and denser places, so Amaury will consider the inevitability of the trend towards vertical logistics.
Amaury leads and manages the CBRE Europe, Middle East and Africa Industrial and Logistics business comprising more than 300 people in 26 countries. In 2014, the Industrial and Logistics teams advised occupiers and landlords in 3.8m sq.m. of leasing transaction, and drove €5.7bn of capital market trade between investors.
Satisfying client need is the main focus for Amaury and his team; by presenting multi-market, multi-services integrated offers, CBRE EMEA Industrial & Logistics provides a consistent and unrivalled service. Through a truly global platform, the best people, strong planning and the highest of business standards, the team is able to provide significant competitive advantage, centered on best outcomes for the client.
In his previous position as Head of Department for CBRE in Paris, Amaury developed his team into a market leading position. During this time, he also represented France on the EMEA Industrial and Logistics Executive Committee. Amaury graduated from Essec International Business School (Paris), where he studied International Operational Management. He won the 2014 CBRE GCS Global Recognition Award for Lease Management and Administration, Broker Collaboration Award.
Having spent nearly 25 years working in a variety of industries, including construction, aerospace, defence, automotive, oil and gas, Martin is currently the European Maximo Industry and Process consultant “industrial sector” within the IBM Internet of Things organisation. Martins’ core competencies are in enterprise asset management, business process management (development, improvement, management, integration and automation) and business analysis as well as a general, excellent working knowledge of most other aspects of information systems and technology. Martin is responsible for the development, delivery and maintenance of the IBM Maximo enterprise asset management business process templates. He is professionally certified by IBM as an Executive Business Transformation consultant, is a Chartered IT Professional, Member of the Institute of Engineering & Technology, is qualified as a Lean Six Sigma practitioner and holds UK as well as NATO security clearances. Martin is frequently called upon as a trusted advisor to executive management within client organisations to provide thought leadership and technical direction in the resolution of key business challenges, he provides subject matter expertise in industrial processes covering the end to end product lifecycle and the technologies which support it. Martin is the co-author of an IBM Redbook on BPM and a number of IBM Redpapers, in addition he is responsible for IBMs development of industry specific Process Classification Frameworks (PCF) with the APQC organisation.
Self-motivated, pragmatic and passionate for the business, Martin delivers excellent results in every project and client engagement, this drive has led to his current position within the company and recognition among peers and customers. Martin has excellent relationships within IBM as well as client organisations with many of those relationships spanning his whole career at IBM.
Prior to what3words, Tom was part of the founding team for the UK operations of Gett. Over 4 years he led growth initiatives across all functions – specialising in b2b and PMI. Before this he helped Sidecar Technologies with growth strategy and ran his own high performance marine engineering firm. The use of technology to advance and improve people’s lives is what motivates Tom. He has an undergraduate degree in Philosophy, plays squash, and often sails around the Solent where he grew up.
The world is poorly addressed. 4bn live without a formal street address and where they do exist, a street address is not often accurate enough. what3words is a global addressing system. Every 3x3m square on the planet has been given a unique combination of 3 words - a 3 word address. The system is used in over 170 countries and is enabling more efficient delivery and navigation.
Neil´s presentation will focus on the strategic pillars in detail that drive e-Commerce growth and how these specifically apply to your brands and business. In this session, Neil will talk about his experience at Amazon, including sharing the secrets of how to ship small-inexpensive items for a profit, and focus on the importance of the customer experience now and in the future. The goal is for attendees to be able to utilize these pillars as soon as they go back to work to use as guidepost in their e-Commerce execution and planning.
Neil Ackerman is the Global e-Commerce Director for Mondelēz International, one of the world's largest snacks companies with power brands such as Oreo, Milka, Cadbury's, Nabisco and Trident. He is focused on the combination of supply chain, data analytics and technology infrastructure
Prior to this role, Neil was the General Manager of Fulfillment By Amazon Small and Light focused on product management and strategic invention at Amazon.com. He holds numerous US patents and is the inventor and business leader behind the 2014 global launch of the Amazon Small and Light Supply Chain Program. He has been quoted and written about in WSJ, Bloomberg, CNBC and numerous highly selective international publications. Neil is a winner of numerous leadership awards including the prestigious Amazon.com "Just Do It" Award. A graduate of University of Richmond, UVA and MIT, he holds a PMP, MBA and MS.
Neil and his wife live in Seattle with their 3 children.
Sean Culey (SCOR-P, FCILT) is a member of the European Leadership Team of the APICS Supply Chain Council and a recognised business transformation expert from the UK
He spent six years as CEO of business consultancy ‘SEVEN’, delivering improvement programmes for BAE Systems, Warburtons and Kubota, and has also been a Principal at global consultancy Solving Efeso, delivering Value Chain transformations for Saint Gobain, BAE Systems and Greene King. Sean also spent a decade working for Cadbury Schweppes, including 7 years as the Global Design Authority on what was the world’s largest SAP implementation. Prior for this he worked for Sony, Redland Bricks, Dunlop Oil & Marine and Smith & Nephew. He is also a Certified SCOR trainer. He is also an expert at developing and delivering compelling Customer Value Propositions.
Sean is a frequent keynote speaker around the world, as well as the author of articles published in magazines such as The World Financial Review, The European Business Review and The Chief Executive Officer. He currently has two books in development; ‘Transition Point. Revolution, Evolution or Endgame’ due late 2016, and his next book ‘Becoming Great (and staying there): Developing the Aligned, Innovative and Engaged Organisation’ is due 2017.
Sylvain Laval has worked in the commercial real estate industry for more than 20 years. He has experience in strategic and financial planning, site negotiation and acquisition, project development and management, leasing and construction, as well as facility, property and asset management. He received his Masters Degree in International Business in his native France from Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 in 1995, and worked for Castorama and Lendlease before becoming Director of Real Estate for IKEA Italy in 2000. He then worked as Managing Director for IKEA Retail Management in the USA, and as Property & Expansion Manager at IKEA Ibérica for Spain and Portugal.
Mr. Laval has been based in Malmö, Sweden as the Group Real Estate and Development Manager for IKEA for over 4 years. He is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Italian.
Sylvain Laval has worked in the commercial real estate industry for more than 20 years. He has experience in strategic and financial planning, site negotiation and acquisition, project development and management, leasing and construction, as well as facility, property and asset management. He received his Masters Degree in International Business in his native France from Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 in 1995, and worked for Castorama and Lendlease before becoming Director of Real Estate for IKEA Italy in 2000. He then worked as Managing Director for IKEA Retail Management in the USA, and as Property & Expansion Manager at IKEA Ibérica for Spain and Portugal.
Mr. Laval has been based in Malmö, Sweden as the Group Real Estate and Development Manager for IKEA for over 4 years. He is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Italian.
Tomas has completed his general medicine studies at the First Faculty of Medicine of Charles University and started working as a general surgeon at the district hospital NH Hospital, where he also assumed the role of a press officer during the years of 2009 - 2011. In 2004, he founded a company and as entrepreneur he operates a unique medical website www.proLekare.cz (for HCPs) and telemedicine project www.uLekare.cz (for PTs) – the number one Czech website in the health category and further virtual hospital. In 2010, he joined the international organization Doctors Without Borders and went on his first mission in Haiti. In 2011 and 2012, he worked for the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in Dublin as an orthopedic surgeon in the National Spinal Unit and also did his second mission in Haiti. In 2013, he started working in the surgical intensive care unit of the Hospital of St. Francis in Prague and went on his third Doctors Without Borders mission in Northern Afghanistan as a consultant of traumatology. In the spring of 2014, he was elected the secretary of the Austrian MSF Board as well as a permanent member of the Geneva Congress of Doctors Without Borders. You could listen to his regular program “U Lékaře" on the Czech Broadcast of BBC on Radio ZET during 2014 - 2016. He did his fourth mission in Afghanistan in the spring of 2015. Tomáš is consultant of general surgery with almost 15 years of surgical experience. He is also an ATLS consultant under the American College of Surgeons. He currently specializes in laparoscopic procedures of the abdominal cavity and, as a war surgeon of Doctors Without Borders missions, treats abdominal, thorax and limb trauma. He published two famous books about his missions with MSF. His hobbies include all individual sports. He is a barefoot marathon runner, pilot and challenging himself for triathlon. He is married and has two children.
Filip graduated from Marketing and HR Management (MBA) at Escuela Superior de Marketing y Administración, Barcelona. He participated in a various range of international internships and trainings focused on the use of online assessment and WorkForce Management systems in HRM (Germany, Israel). He is one of the most valued professionals focused on the online psychometry implementation in the Czech Republic and abroad. His career started in the Hudson Global Resources and CDS Consulting. From the marketing point of view he was involved in product launch trainings for leading car manufacturers such as GM, Hyundai, KIA and NISSAN. In 2007 he became the co-founder of a cut-e company in the CEE region; among his internal competencies is marketing and technological implementation of cut-e diagnostic systems (Workflow Diagnostics). He participates in the preparation and realization of AC/DC projects, 360°feedback processes and HR audits for our major clients. As reference projects over the past 5 years we can mention for example: a comprehensive restructuring of HR processes in RPG RE, setup of online diagnostics for Electroworld, SKANSKA, MOL (Slovnaft), Coca Cola and KPMG, 360°process for STILL (KION) and AC/DC realization for companies TPCA and Zentiva/Sanofi-Aventis. He already managed online diagnostic projects for over 150.000 people worldwide.
Sometimes the easiest way does not need to be wrong. Filip would like to show the audience how an intelligent -though easy- way of looking on the right human data can save a lot of time, money and energy to companies. The key is to use the maximum of both added value from computer data and human knowledge.
As Executive Development Director for Logistics and Supply Chain Management and Senior Lecturer, Mike Bernon works with leading global companies to design and develop Senior Management Development programmes, as well as directly supporting the development of individual senior company personnel. As a supply chain specialist, Mike engages in consultancy projects with organisations across a broad spectrum of industries. He also advises SME's on supply chain management. He speaks regularly at conferences and lectures at a number of academic institutions across Europe and Asia. Mike's special areas of interest include sustainability, reverse logistics, third party logistics, supply chain collaboration and integration, inventory management, time compression; lean and waste elimination and supply chain costing techniques.
Since 2007 Pablo Gomez is the Managing Director of FM Logistic, Iberia. Since 2012 he has been a member of the Global Executive Comitee Since 2015, Innovation Group. In his prior roles he spent 15 years as a consultant in A.T. Kearney and as the Vicepresident in Madrid Office. His experience also include 4 years in DHL operations responsible for Iberia. Pablo has studied environmental engineering at Politechnic university in Madrid and he also holds MBA from IESE in Barcelona.
John was appointed the Innovation Editor on February 2016. Prior to that John has been the deputy editor at the Financial Times since September 2012. He was appointed Financial Times’ news editor, based in London on the main news desk, in January 2009. Prior to this he spent four years in Paris as the editor of the European edition of the Financial Times. Joining the FT in 1988 as a graduate trainee, Thornhill has been the Paris bureau chief, world news editor, Asia editor, Moscow bureau chief and a Lex columnist.
John founded and runs the FT's 125 executive forum, which holds monthly meetings for senior executives from a range of industries. Previous speakers have included Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey, Ana Botin, and Mark Carney.
In his spare time, John is a keen cyclist and plays chess. He also takes his long-suffering son to support Sunderland football club.
In his presentation, Gustav will introduce the attendees to the world of interaction between humans and artificial intelligence in a popular scientific form is not easy. The greatest breakthroughs have always concerned the interaction between humans and technology, be it interaction through a graphic screen by Steve Jobs or Windows by Bill Gates. What is emerging now is the most natural interface that you can imagine – understanding of human speech. And here, at this level, the meaning of the word robot, invented by Czech writer Karel Čapek, is completely changing! What can we expect? Either you will change the world, or the world will change you! As a dialogue is a social, rather than a psychological phenomenon, the current METILA® robotic brain can already communicate and understand with people in human speech. During a dialogue, METILA® understands humans very well. This artificial intelligence has been the brain of humanoid robots for several years and is able to manage teams and push them towards higher performance in the training and education process.
During postgraduate research study Gustav Mistrík studied the use of artificial intelligence with a special focus on human-robot cooperation. He created REBECCA, the first on-line automatic banking system, which has been implemented in three Czech and foreign banks and in companies providing consumer loans throughout Europe, Asia and Indonesia. With the arrival of the new millennium, after selling the joint stock company to a German multinational, he started his own technology incubator, acting as the investor. One of his activities was developing the METILA® neural network, an artificial robotic brain. METILA® is used by customers from the financial, healthcare and automotive industries. To meet the new requirements concerning the use of artificial intelligence with respect to humans and to hold a dialogue between humans and machines, he graduated from the HR Management programme at Cornell University (USA) in 2014. To support his global activities, he started the investment company People Global, Ltd. in the UK. In 2015, he connected the METILA® artificial brain and innovative technologies of the NAO and ALPHA humanoid robots. In 2016, he has been working on connecting other technological avatars under the project entitled “The Internet of Things with the METILA® Robot”.
Roland Werner is responsible for public policy of Uber in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Central and Eastern European region. Prior to joining Uber he was a State Secretary of the Ministry of Transport in Saxony.
Vasanth 'Vasi' Philomin has spent most of his career creating new high-tech businesses inside Philips as part of the corporate venturing strategy of the company aimed at organic growth. He has held various management positions across all functions including General Management, Business Development, Marketing and R&D over the last 17 years and was the Public Segment Leader at Philips Lighting responsible for a global connected lighting systems business focused on public sector customers till May 31st 2017. He has recently taken on a new role as the General Manager of Machine Learning & AI at Amazon. He is an entrepreneur at heart and has a very deep understanding of the software and services industry. This coupled with his ability to innovate on business models has helped him make valuable contributions to diverse businesses covering areas such as Robotics and 3D content creation for cinema. He is also an inspirational speaker and often speaks at various events and conferences around the world on hot new technology and business trends. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and two Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA as well as 72 US patents.
Technology will advance more in the next decade than the last three put together and most of this advance will happen as a result of AI. Traditionally, Machine Learning and AI have been out of reach for the vast majority of businesses as it required training complex, sophisticated algorithms on massive amounts of data and infrastructure. Cloud computing is making it possible for companies like Amazon to make AI accessible to every developer today. As a result, any business has the possibility to apply AI to increase its productivity, make smarter decisions, innovate in new areas and better serve its customers. The “Future is now”.
Future Trends in Logistics: Impact on People, Technology, Society
The major trends impacting people, technology and society will be presented including demographics, technology, social media and urbanisation amongst others. Their critical role and relevance to specific supply chains (e.g. retail, FMCG etc.) will be explored. These trends have been the outcome of two leading projects funded by the European Union and Knight Frank.
Workplace trends of the present and future
In today’s digital world, every aspect of work is online. Thanks to the Internet of Things, even the equipment and the meeting spaces in offices are producing valuable data. You can analyze that data to do a decision making more accurate. Technology is transforming our lives at work. In the workplace, smart technologies are evolving into an intelligent assistant to help us work more efficiently, collaborative and safe. What to expect in a future? What current trends will not be trending in the future?
Aneta gained her degree in Innovations and Economics at Czech Technical University in Prague and National Taipei University of Technology. At Spaceti, she leads marketing and is always enthusiastic about finding creative and original solutions with her team to help clients find new smart building solutions. Prior to Spaceti, Aneta worked in IBM Development team as a marketing and business development specialist. In her free time, she loves energetic sports such as downhill skiing and wakeboarding.