Opening 

• Prof. H.-Chr. Pfohl, Head of ELA Research Committee, Technische Universität Darmstadt (D)

Since 2011 he is responsible for “Supply Chain and Network Management” at the Department Law and Economics and Deputy Spokesman of the interdepartmental working group for aviation at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. Since 2000 he is also a professor with responsibility for “Management and Logistics” at the Chinese-German School for Postgraduate Studies (CDHK) in Shanghai, China. In 1996 he received an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Pannonia in Veszprém, Hungary. There he lectures as a Guest Professor in the Field of International Management. He also lectures as a Guest Professor in the field of Logistics at the Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland, and at the Vietnamese German University (VGU) in Ho Chi Minh City.  In 2011 he received the Order of Merit of the State of Hesse (grade: ribbon).  Besides General Management, Logistics and Supply Chain Management is Professor Pfohl’s main research interest. Prof. Pfohl contributes very actively through his research activities to new development in General Management and to the development of logistics concepts. He cooperates intensively with companies of all sectors in applied research and consulting projects. Furthermore, Prof. Pfohl is head of the interdepartmental committee of “Air Traffic” at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. He is the head of the Research & Development Committee of the European Logistics Association (ELA) and member of the ELA Board. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the scientific journals “Logistics Research” and “The International Journal of Logistics Management“. His two books “Systemy logistyczne” (“Logistics Systems”) and “Zarządzanie logistyką” (“Logistics Management”) have been published in Poland by the Institute of Logistics and Warehousing.

   Moderation & Sequence Introduction Session 1: “Big Data” – Digital Revolution in Logistics Systems

•  Prof. Michael Browne, University of Gothenburg (S)

   Big Data in Logistics: more sophistication but also less standardisation?

•  Prof. Rommer Dekker, Erasmus Universits Rotterdam (NL)
  

   Big data from a freight company perspective

•  Dr. Per Olof Arnäs, Chalmers University (S)

Dr. Per Olof Arnäs from Chalmers University works on issues regarding the digitalisation of freight transport. He has a past career in the haulage industry and he is in love with the 21st century.

   The Industrial Data Space: Reference Architecture for Data Supply Chains

• Prof. Boris Otto, Technische Universität Dortmund/Fraunhofer Institut (D)

Professor Dr.-Ing. Boris Otto holding the Audi-endowed chair of Supply Net Order Management at TU Dortmund University (Dortmund, Germany) and he leads the Fraunhofer Innovation Centre for Logistics and IT, a collaboration between 2 Fraunhofer Institutes in Dortmund. Boris Otto is the Fraunhofer lead for the Industrial Data Space initiative. The initiative aims at establishing a virtual space in which companies can share and use data while never losing control and sovereignty of their data assets. The Industrial Data Space is supported by the German government and leading companies from various sectors. Adoption on European Union level is highly envisaged and encouraged. Prior to his current positions, he worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers, SAP and the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO) in Stuttgart (Germany). In 2012, he completed his post-doctoral qualification (habilitation) at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) in the field of Enterprise Data Quality Management. He received a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart (Germany) and holds a Dipl.-Ing. oec. degree from the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg (Germany). In 2011 he spent a year abroad as a research fellow at the Tuck School of Business at Darmouth College in the US. Boris Otto is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of eCl@ss, one of the leading product classification standards. Since 2013 he is partner at Business Engineering Institute St. Gallen AG (Switzerland).

   Dyskusja panelowa: prelegenci oraz Krzysztof Kurowski (Poznańskie Centrum Superkomputerowo-Sieciowe)

Moderation & Sequence Introduction Session 2: “Building the Supply Chain Management Organization of the Future: Critical Competencies for Delivering Breakthrough Value”       

•  Prof. Danuta Kisperska-Moron, University of Economics, Katowice (PL)   

Danuta Kisperska-Moron is a professor at University of Economics in Katowice. She is the head of the Chair of Economic Logistics at the Department of Management. Her main areas of interest include supply chain management, customer service, logistics in services, social responsibility in supply chain and logistics. For many years she has been the president and deputy president of the Polish Logistics Association and is a member of the Research Committee of the European Logistics Association. For many years, she has also been a member of the board of the International Society for Inventory Research. Professor Kisperska-Moroń has run many national and international scientific-research as well as didactic programmes in the area of logistic process management and supply chain management. Since the year 1989, she has participated actively in research projects completed within the framework of the Global Manufacturing Research Group. As the visiting professor, she has given didactic classes and run research projects at Cranfield University and University of Glasgow in the UK and at Lund University in Sweden. In the years 1994-95 she was awarded the Fulbright Foundation scholarship at Pennsylvania State University (USA). She is the author of many scientific articles in Polish and foreign journals and published many books regarding logistics.

Forthcoming opportunities and research challenges for the interconnection of logistics servicesForthcoming opportunities and research challenges for the interconnection of logistics services

• Prof. Eric Ballot, Mines Paris Tech (F)

Eric Ballot is full professor of supply chain management and industrial engineering at Mines ParisTech. He is the head professor of the industrial management and supply chain program. He was a visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan School of management in 2007 and visiting professor at the Hong Kong University. He serves a board member of several institution such as Déméter, PREDIT research program and is an accredited expert by Appeal Court of Paris since 2002. Eric Ballot has been leading many research projects both with the industry Airbus, Renault, Danone… and with international academic partners such as EPFL, Université Laval… He is also the author of many research papers and books chapters. His research has been awarded and recognized at several occasions in conferences and research prizes (IESM, ILS, PREDIT). He is also leading the Physical Internet Initiative in Europe with several projects funded in France and one at the European level.

   Engineering Innovative 21st Century Supply Chains

•  Prof. Ed Sweeney, Aston University (UK)

Edward Sweeney is Professor of Logistics at Aston University, Birmingham, UK, where he is also Head of the Engineering Systems & Management (ESM) Group and Director of the recently established Aston Logistics & Systems Institute. He was previously Director of the National Institute for Transport and Logistics (NITL) based at the Dublin Institute of Technology in Ireland. Edward has held full-time academic posts at the University of Warwick (UK) and the University of Technology, Malaysia, as well as visiting positions in several Asian universities and institutes. He has worked and lectured in over 50 countries in Europe, North America and Asia. Edward’s research has been widely disseminated with over 100 publications including papers in international peer-reviewed academic journals, books and book chapters, practitioner journal articles and conference papers. He was recently elected Chair of the CILT’s Logistics Research Network (LRN). Edward has worked with many of the world’s leading companies in the electronics, life sciences, automotive and logistics sectors. The focus of his current work is on resilience and sustainability in global supply chains.

   Triple-loop Learning of Resilient Supply Chains: The Next Generation of Theoretical Developments and Empirical Insights

• Prof. Artur Świerczek, University of Economics, Katowice (PL)

Dr. Artur Swierczek is Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Economics in Katowice, Poland. In the spring semester of 2015, he also held a position of Visiting Professor in the Department of Supply Chain Management at Arizona State University. Artur received his Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management (2006) and MS in Management and Business Logistics (2001), both from the University of Economics in Katowice. Additionally, he holds a B.A. degree in Computer Science (2003) from the Silesian University. His scientific activity covers the following major research streams: competitive advantage of supply chains, strategic role of supply chain collaboration, supply chain risk management and managing the resilient supply chains. Artur has presented research papers on more than 50 conferences, symposiums and scientific meetings in the USA, UK, Canada, France, Indonesia and Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Turkey, Sweden, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania. He has also conducted courses in a number of universities in Europe and Asia, including Universiteit van Tilburg in the Netherlands (2007, 2008, 2010), Okan University in Istanbul, Turkey (2008, 2009), University of Ljubljana in Slovenia (2009), Eylul University in Izmir, Turkey (2011), Maltepe University, in Istanbul, Turkey (2012), W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, USA (2015).