IPIC2023: 9th International Physical Internet Conference - IPIC 2023 Serafio Center Εχελιδών &, Pireos 144, Athina 118 54, Grecia Athens, Greece, June 13-15, 2023

The Physical Internet concept aims to get freight flows and logistics services as accessible and connected as information and services are over internet in both global and last mile. The Physical Internet (PI, π) has opened a paradigm-breaking field encompassing the interconnectivity and interoperability of smart logistics networks, transportation systems, manufacturing systems and supply chains, enabling seamless open asset sharing and flow consolidation on a massive scale.

It aims to ease the way physical objects are moved, deployed, realized, supplied, designed and used all around the world to improve by an order-of magnitude the overall performance in terms of economic, environmental and societal efficiency and sustainability.

The 9^th Annual International Physical Internet Conference (IPIC) under the theme ‘Physical Internet: Expanding the Logistics Scope’ aims to provide an open forum for industry, innovators, researchers, government officials and citizens to introduce leading edge concepts, technology applications and methodologies for future interconnected logistics; to review the state-of-the-art technologies and latest projects, and to identify critical issues and challenges for future Physical Internet induced research, innovation, and implementation. Specifically, the conference focuses on insights for implementation steps of the Physical Internet in the different generations and time frames from next year to 2030.

IPIC 2023 will be taking place on 13-15 June, 2023 in Athens, Greece. This year’s conference will be open to all physical internet topics and focusing on Physical Internet as a suitable approach to overcome the latest breakthroughs. Physical Internet principles and developments contribute to:

• Support freight transport and logistics decarbonization in an affordable way by bringing further efficiency to logistics and enabling collaboration and sharing at marginal set up costs.
• Provide further resilience to global and regional supply chains through the implementation of synchromodal strategies and interconnected logistics multimodal networks.
• Support the development of the circular economy by better addressing reverse logistics and close loop circular networks.
• Address urban logistics challenges, e-commerce and retail distribution in cities thanks to open an interconnected logistics and distribution networks

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to ipic@etp-alice.eu