Ladies and Gentlemen,

LOGISTICS 2010 Polish Logistics Congress will be held in Poznan from 12–14 May 2010. This year’s event will be the tenth edition of the biannual event attracting large numbers of logisticians. The number of participants has consistently increased with the last Congress in 2008 attended by more than 720 people, many of whom were foreign participants.

This year’s jubilee event will have an even more international dimension. This is because it will be organized along with EUROLOG 2010 – the Logistics Congress of the European Logistics Association (ELA). This year’s event will be entitled: The Logistics Challenge – flexibility, sustainability, innovation. Its aim is to draw attention of the importance of logistics for the European economy and its competitiveness in global markets: logistics is understood as harmonized, able to respond quickly to changeable environments and customers’ needs, innovative, quickly absorbing the results of developmental work, and at the same time being reasonably environmentally friendly.

Keynote speakers: Grzegorz Szyszka (ILiM), Hans-Christian Pfohl (ELA, TU Darmstadt), Miguel A. Lopera (president of GS1), Paweł Stelmaszczyk (European Comission), Bernard Piette (Logistics in Wallonia), Gerd Wolfram (METRO Group). The framework of the Congress will be similar to that of previous events with two days of presentations and discussions in lenary and special topic sessions accompanied by a logistics exhibition (Wednesday 12–Thursday 13 May ) and workshops on specific issues (Friday 14 May ). Additionally, on Friday 14 May, ELA Research Day session will take place as an accompanying event to the Logistics & EUROLOG Conference. This session presents the achievements of European scientific centres (both academic and R&D) and was previously known as the Educators Day. As usual on Thursday 13 May, once the discussions are finished, it will be possible to join one of several technical visits to leading modern logistics and production companies in Poznań.

See you in Poznan!