Programme:

13:00 - 13:30 Welcome coffee & registration

13:30 - 13:45 Video & e-business presentation (on screen)

13:45 - 14:00 Opening remarks - Antti Ilmari PELTOMÄKI, Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry, European Commission

14:00 - 14:20 The future of logistics - expected development and key trends - Robert Keen, British International Freight Association (BIFA)

14:20 - 15:25 Panel debate 1: A common logistics IT framework for interoperability - What are business requirements?

Chair: Johannes Fritzen, Freight & Logistics Leaders Forum

• Business drivers for shippers:Godfried Smit, Dutch Shippers Council EVO
• Business drivers for forwarders: Marco Sorgetti, FIATA
• Business drivers for ports: John Kerkhof, Antwerp Port Community System (APCS)
• Business drivers for logistics service providers: Dirk De Vylder, Flemish Institute of Logistics (VIL)

Summary of business requirements & how the Common Framework can address these

15:55 - 17:00 Panel debate 2: Making co-modality work for SMEs - How can the Common Framework be deployed? What are benefits for industry?

Chair: Astrid Schlewing,European Commission / DG MOVE

• The Common framework concept: Jan Tore Pedersen, Marlo
• Consolidation in a co-modal setting: Mateusz Boruta, ECR Poland  & Marcin Hajdul, Institute of Logistics and Warehousing
• Single service point for co-modality: Frank Knoors, Logit Systems
• Lowering entry barriers to a logistics network: Bernard van Hoorde, Descartes

Summary of results & benefits and what are opportunities & threats for take-up

Plenary/conclusion

17:00 - 17:20 Concluding Keynote: Xavier HUA, Managing Director ECR Europe

17:20 - 17:40  Stating the commitment to the undersigning of the Discwise Memorandum of Understanding

17:40 - 18:00 Conclusions, Dana Eleftheriadou, European Commission / DG Enterprise

18:00 - 18:30 Cocktail and networking