Agenda

Day 1/May 29 | Day 2/May 30 | Day 3/May 31

Please note that this is a Tentative Agenda and subject to change.

Welcome Reception (Tuesday, May 28, 2024)

We will be holding a reception the evening of May 28 at our venue hotel. More details to come.

Day 1 (Wednesday, May 29, 2024)

8:30-9:10am

Welcome and Inaugural Speeches

9:10-10:45am

Plenary Session: International Physical Internet Roadmaps, Progress, and Initiatives

Eric Ballot, Professor and Physical Internet Chair, Mines Paris - PSL (Moderator)

Keynote: European Physical Internet Roadmap, Progress, and Initiatives

Fernando Liesa, Secretary General, Alliance for Logistics Innovation Through Collaboration in Europe (ALICE)

Keynote: Japan Physical Internet Roadmap, Progress, and Initiatives

Takayuki Mori, Chairman, Japan Physical Internet Center (JPIC)

10:45-11:05am

Break

11:05-11:55am

Panel on International Physical Internet Progress

• Eric Ballot, Professor and Physical Internet Chair, Mines Paris - PSL
• Shelton Chan, Asia Pacific | Managing Director of Development, Georgia Tech
• Fernando Liesa, Secretary General, Alliance for Logistics Innovation Through Collaboration in Europe (ALICE)
• Kevin Liu, General Secretary, Shanghai Hongqiao Physical Internet Alliance, China
• Takayuki Mori, Chairman, Japan Physical Internet Center (JPIC)
• Uday Venkatadri, Department Head and Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering Dalhousie University

12-1pm

Lunch

1-4:30pm

Plenary Session: Physical Internet Enabled Intermodal Regional Freight System

Introduction: Where We Are Now vs. Next Steps to the Physical Internet

Bill Loftis, Founder and Principal, Supply Chain Ecology

Physically, What Might the System Look Like?

Southeast US Freight System: Hyperconnected 2030+ Map

Sahrish Shaikh, Ph.D. Candidate, Georgia Tech Physical Internet Center

Role of a Regional Gateway, Savannah Port

Tim Marrs, General Manager of Intermodal Operations, Georgia Ports Authority

Introducing Autonomous, Electrified Technology to Enable Low Density Short Haul Rail Transportation

Marty Schlenker, Head of Strategy Parallel Systems

A Shipper’s Perspective on Intermodal

Michelle Livingstone, Former Vice President – Transportation for The Home Depot, Livingstone Consulting

The Great Rail Sustainability Advantage

Josh Raglin, Chief Sustainability Officer, Norfolk Southern Corporation

Short Lines and the Rail Ecosystem – More Advanced Than You May Think

Michael O. Miller, CEO – North America, Genesee & Wyoming

Intermodal Marketing Companies Perspective

Phil Trifiletti, Vice President, Consumer Product Solutions, Hub Group

Panel: How Do We Put It All Together? A Stakeholder Discussion.

Bill Loftis, Founder and Principal, Supply Chain Ecology (Facilitator)
Michelle Livingstone, Tim Marrs, Michael Miller, Josh Raglin, Marty Schlenker, Sahrish Shaikh, Phil Trifiletti (Panelists)

4:35-5:45pm

Parallel Focused PI Sessions

Session: Intermodal Transportation Ecosystems

Alan Erera, Associate Chair for Research and Manhattan Associates/Dabbiere Chair Professor, Georgia Tech Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (Moderator)

Optimizing Service Networks of Eurasian Rail Freight Transport

Jing Shan, Henning Preis, Nikola Besinovic and Jörn Schönberger

Hyperconnected Transportation Planning: Advancing a Multimodal Relay Ecosystem

Jingze Li, Sahrish Shaikh and Benoit Montreuil

TBD

Authors to be added

Open Discussion

Session: Embracing Electric Truck Charging in Hyperconnected Logistics Networks

TBD (Moderator)

Efficient Implementation of Truck Battery Charging and Swapping Stations in Hyperconnected Logistic Networks

Priyali Bandla, Guanlin Chen, Benoit Montreuil, Valerie Thomas and Yujia Xu

Battery Swapping and Charging Station System Design in Logistic Hubs for Electric Trucks

Guanlin Chen, Yujia Xu, Benoit Montreuil and Valerie Thomas

Network Deployment of Battery Swapping and Charging Stations within Hyperconnected Logistic Hub Networks

Yujia Xu, Xiaoyue Liu, Guanlin Chen, Walid Klibi, Valerie Thomas and Benoit Montreuil

Open Discussion

Session: Artificial Intelligence Enabled Physical Internet Capabilities

Yao Xie, Coca-Cola Foundation Chair and Professor, Georgia Tech Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (Moderator)

Artificial Intelligence in the Physical Internet

Simranjeet Singh Chadha and Uday Venkatadri

Reinforcement Learning-Based Optimization of Logistical Hubs and Routing in the Context of the Physical Internet - A Case Study from Japan

Enna Hirata and Hisatoshi Naganawa

Predictive Demand Disruption Signals for Supply Chain Networks

Yinzhu Quan, Ashwin Pothen, Yao Xie and Benoit Montreuil

Open Discussion

Day 2 (Thursday, May 30, 2024)

8:30-10:30am

Plenary Session: Physical Internet Enabing Disruptive Transformation of the Construction Industry

Leon McGinnis, Professor Emeritus, Georgia Tech Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (Moderator)

Keynote: Towards Cyber Physical Internet for Smart Modular Integrated Construction

George Q. Huang, Chair Professor and Director of PolyU Research Institute of Advanced Manufacturing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Keynote: Reimagining Construction Powered by the Physical Internet

Todd Ullom, Vice-President of Distributed Construction, MiTek Inc.

Open Discussion

George Q. Huang and Todd Ullom

10:50-11:50am

Plenary Session: Optimizing Transportation Capacity for a Physical Internet E-commerce Package Network

Alan Erera, Associate Chair for Research and Manhattan Associates/Dabbiere Chair Professor, Georgia Tech Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Russell Thompson, Professor in Transport Engineering, Department of Infrastructure Engineering University of Melbourne (Moderator)

Open Discussion

Alan Erera and Russell Thompson

12-1pm

Lunch

1-2pm

Guest Session: World Class Supply Chain Cost and Profit Performance Strategies Fueled By AI/ML

Introduction

Chris Gaffney, Managing Director, Georgia Tech Supply Chain and Logistics Institute

Pilot Study

Brian Greene, Chief Supply Chain Officer, HMTX Industries and Richard Sharpe, CEO, Competitive Insights, LLC

Open Discussion

Chris Gaffney, Brian Greene, Richard Sharpe

1-2pm

Guest Panel: Resilient, Informed Communities and Supply Chain Logistics

Institute for People and Technologies (IPaT), Georgia Tech (Organizer)

Russell Clark, Senior Research Scientist and Director of GT-RNOC, Georgia Tech (Moderator)

Panelists:

• Eric Howell, CEO, PortCity
• Allen Hyde, Associate Professor, School of History and Sociology, Georgia Tech
• Ofun Maja Egunjobi, CEAR Hub and Harambee House, Georgia Tech

2:05-3:15pm

Parallel Focused PI Sessions

Session: Digital, Collaboration, and Business Models

Eric Ballot, Professor and Physical Internet Chair, Mines Paris - PSL (Moderator)

The business model for federated data spaces to facilitate synchromodal logistics

Ashish Vadhe, Juan Manuel Pulido, Robert Boute and Valentin Carlan

Navigating the Landscape of Logistics Industrial Radical Innovation with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Sabil Nararya and Muharman Lubis

Gaia-X as an Enabler to Shape Interconnected Logistics in Europe

Jonah Windolph, Michael Pahl and Steffen Kaup

Open Discussion

Session: Hyperconnected Supply Chain Planning and Management

Leon McGinnis, Professor Emeritus, Georgia Tech Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (Moderator)

Cyber-Physical Internet Based Intelligent Operation Platform for Off-Site Construction Supply Chain Management

Li Yin, Ray Y. Zhong and Ming Li

Strategic Network Design for Hyperconnected Mobile Supply Chains

Julien Maurice, Soonhong Kwon and Benoit Montreuil

Dynamic Containerized Modular Capacity Planning and Resource Allocation in Hyperconnected Supply Chain Ecosystems

Xiaoyue Liu, Yujia Xu and Benoit Montreuil

Open Discussion

Session: Dynamic Routing Protocols in Hyperconnected Logistics Networks

Alan Erera, Associate Chair for Research and Manhattan Associates/Dabbiere Chair Professor, Georgia Tech Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (Moderator)

A protocol for node-to-node transshipment in the PI analogizing from Internet principles: A simulation assessment

Gero Niemann and Rod Franklin

Cyber-physical Internet (CPI) driven capacity sharing in B2B e-commerce logistics

Xinye Qu, Ming Li and George Q. Huang

Dynamic Directional Routing for the Physical Internet: A Sector-Based Approach with Dynamic Adjustment

Sahrish Jaleel Shaikh and Benoit Montreuil

Open Discussion

3:35-4:45pm

Parallel Focused PI Sessions

Session: Hyperconnected Transportation and Logistic Network Design

Alan Erera, Associate Chair for Research and Manhattan Associates/Dabbiere Chair Professor, Georgia Tech Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (Moderator)

Exploring the Effect of Network Configuration Topologies on the Dynamics of Freight Delivery: A Comparative Analysis of Physical Internet and Traditional Supply Chain Methods

Ruohao Chen and Uday Venkatadri

Comparative Study for Bi-Objective Un-Capacitated Hub Covering Problem (BUHCP)

Abbas Mirakhorli

PI-Service network design for fluvial cargo transportation

Oscar Ariztegui-Beltran, David L Cortes-Murcia, William Gerrero Rueda and Olivier Péton

Open Discussion

Session: Hyperconnected Supply Chain Operations and Nodes

Leon McGinnis, Professor Emeritus, Georgia Tech Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (Moderator)

A Modular and Flexible Design of Hyperconnected Assembly Factory

Wencang Bao, Leon McGinnis, Benoit Montreuil, Miguel Roberto Campos Murcia, Zhihan Liu, Julien Maurice and Sevda Babalou

Exploring IoT's Potential for Risk Management in Prefabricated Construction: A Preliminary Study Towards the Physical Internet

Chenglin Yu, Ray Zhong and Ming Li

Simulation-based Assessment of the Impact of the Learning Curve and Robust Worker Scheduling on a PI Inspired Assembly Factory

Miguel Campos, Wencang Bao, Julien Maurice, Zhihan Liu, Benoit Montreuil and Leon McGinnis

Open Discussion

Session: Adaptive Hyperconnected Network Planning

Matthieu Lauras, Professor and Deputy-Head of the Industrial Engineering Center, IMT Mines Albi (Moderator)

Optimization Model-Driven Adaptation in Interconnected Manufacturing Networks

Selma Ferhat, Eric Ballot, Raphael Oger and Matthieu Lauras

Physical Internet Inspired Election Systems: Dynamic, Fair, and Secure Election Resource Allocations

Tiankuo Zhang, Benoit Montreuil, Ali Barenji and Praveen Muthukrishnan

Assortment Planning under Uncertainty in Physical Internet Enabled Supply Chains

Jisoo Park, Walid Klibi and Benoit Montreuil

Open Discussion

5-5:15pm

Board Bus to Gala Dinner Boat

Day 3 (Friday, May 31, 2024)

8-9am

Parallel Focused PI Sessions

Session: Digital, Collaboration, and Business Models

Benoit Montreuil, Physical Internet Center Director, SCL Executive Director, Coca-Cola Chair Professor, Georgia Tech (Moderator)

Towards Cyber-Physical Internet

Hang Wu, Ming Li and George Q. Huang

Requirement analysis and technology assessment to ensure reliable end-to-end transportation of goods in the PI

Malte Spanuth and Rod Franklin

Open Discussion

Session: Optimized and Virtual Reality Enabled Modular Container Loading

Frederick Benaben, SIReN Lab Co-Director, Professor IMT Albi, Adjunct Professor, Georgia Tech (Moderator)

A Four-Dimensional Spatiotemporal Bin-packing Problem in the Cyber-Physical Internet: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

Yi You and Ming Li

A Physical Internet-Enabled Container Loading Solution Leveraging Virtual Reality and Building Information Modeling

Jorge Garcia Zamalloa, Julien Maurice, Miguel Campos, Ali Barenji and Benoit Montreuil

Open Discussion

Session: Innovations Towards Hyperconnected Urban Logistics

Bill Ferrell, Fluor International Supply Chain Professor & Associate Dean of the Graduate School, Clemson University (Moderator)

TBD

Authors to be added

Unlocking the Future of Last Mile Delivery: Automated, Smart, Secure & Sustainable Solutions Right to Your Doorstep

David Ruth

Open Discussion

9:10-10:40am

Plenary Session: Toward Hyperconnected City Logistics

Louis Faugere, Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon (Moderator)

Toward Hyperconnected City Logistics - On-Demand Synchromodal Urban Delivery Service Project in Bordeaux, France

Olivier Labarthe, Associate Professor in the Management of Operations and Information Systems (MOSI) Department, Kedge Business School

Toward Hyperconnected City Logistics - Transforming urban freight and logistic systems in Melbourne, Australia

Russell Thompson, Professor in Transport Engineering, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne

Toward Hyperconnected City Logistics - Public Freight Transit System Project in Istanbul, Turkey

Baris Yildiz, Associate Professor, Koc University

Panel Discussion

11-12:15pm

Parallel Focused PI Sessions

Session: Hyperconnected Urban Logistics Ecosystem Design, Planning, and Pricing

Alan Erera, Associate Chair for Research and Manhattan Associates/Dabbiere Chair Professor, Georgia Tech Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (Moderator)

Hyperconnected Urban Delivery with synergized public transportation options and containerization

Cecile Dupouy, François Clautiaux, Walid Klibi and Olivier Labarthe

Dynamic Data-Driven Price Estimation Mechanism in Physical Internet Last-Mile Delivery

Andrii Galkin and Joris Beckers

Using combinatorial auctions to allocate parcel logistic services in Hyperconnected City Logistics

Simon Kwon, Walid Klibi, Mathieu Dahan and Benoit Montreuil

Open Discussion

Session: Hyperconnected Resilience and Readiness to Risks and Disruptions

Uday Venkatadri, Department Head and Professor of Industrial Engineering, Dalhousie University (Moderator)

Sustainability and resilience research challenges and opportunities in freight transport systems through the Physical Internet

Simon Anthony Lorenzo, Russell Thompson and Greg Foliente

A quantitative risk assessment of ammonia storage and fueling in port area

Wenhua Qu

Assessing and Enhancing Readiness in Hyperconnected Supply Chains

Mahmut Metin Inan, Matthieu Lauras, Mathieu Dahan and Benoit Montreuil

Open Discussion

Session: Technological Innovation and Hyperconnected Logistics

Bill Ferrell, Fluor International Supply Chain Professor & Associate Dean of the Graduate School, Clemson University (Moderator)

The Influence of Robotics in Optimizing Logistic Processes at Hyperconnected Fulfillment Centers

Muhammad Naufal Wirawan and Muharman Lubis

Disruptive Innovation in Warehouse Systems Toward the Physical Internet

Sayyid Taufiq Abdulhafizh and Muharman Lubis

Strategic Incremental Innovation in Logistics Technology Toward Physical Internet: Case Analysis of SCM Improvements

Asha Sembiring and Muharman Lubis

Open Discussion

12:15-1:15pm

Lunch

1:15-2:15pm

Guest Plenary Session: Integrating the Physical Internet into Supply Chain Digital Information Standards

Eric Ballot, Professor and Physical Internet Chair, Mines Paris - PSL (Moderator)

Goods Movement Process Using Transport Unit Identifier: Standardization Towards the Physical Internet

Michael Darden, Digital Information in the Supply Chain: ASTM F49.01 Subcommittee Chair, DFM Data Corp

2:15-3:15pm

Parallel Focused PI Sessions

Session: Toward Sustainable and Resilient Hyperconnected Regional Logistics

Rod Franklin, Full Professor of Logistics and Academic Director of Executive Education, Kühne Logistics University (Moderator)

Demand estimation adapted to hyperconnected transport systems in regional areas

Liz Araceli Cristaldo, Eva Petitdemange, Matthieu Lauras and Benoit Montreuil

Resilient Logistics Flow Routing in Hyperconnected Networks

Praveen Muthukrishnan, Onkar Kulkarni and Benoit Montreuil

Open Discussion

Session: Value of Interconnectivity, Sharing, Trust and Collaboration

Uday Venkatadri, Department Head and Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Dalhousie University (Moderator)

Unlocking the Potential of the Physical Internet: a Trust-enabling Decentralized Process Sharing Connector

Shiqi Sun, Philippe Michiels, Cathy Macharis, An Cant, Dries Van Bever and Koen Mommens

Value of Physical Internet-driven Collaborative Management in Multi-Actor Supply and Distribution Networks

Ashwin Pothen, Sahrish Jaleel Shaikh and Benoit Montreuil

Open Discussion

Session: Digital Twin Enhanced Hyperconnected Logistics

George Q. Huang, Chair Professor and Director of PolyU Research Institute of Advanced Manufacturing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Moderator)

Unleashing the Potential of Digital Twin-Enhanced Hyper Hubs

Ali Barenji, Benoit Montreuil Montreuil and Leon McGinnis

DT-PosFormer: A Digital Twin-enabled Transformer Network for Precise Pose Estimation and Trajectory Prediction of MiC Modules

Yujie Han and Zhiheng Zhao

Open Discussion

3:20-4pm

Next IPIC Location Announcement and Closing Ceremony