The ALICE Logistics Innovation Summit 2025 will feature two days of high-level discussions, expert-led thematic sessions, and interactive networking opportunities, all focusing on the green and digital transitions in freight transport and logistics. The programme highlights the role of logistics in ensuring Europe’s competitiveness, emphasising integrated solutions and collaboration across sectors.
Participants will gain insights into EU policy directions, explore the latest innovation trends, and engage directly with experts shaping the future of logistics in Europe and globally.
Thursday, 23 October 2025
Logistics is key for the European economy, well-being and competitiveness in the global context. Europe plays a key role in the global logistics landscape and being transport and logistics a key asset to drive competitiveness. Only those economies that are mastering the transition of their transport operations to use renewable energy, making of digitalization, AI and automation the corner stone for competitiveness will succeed. Ensuring the economical dimension of sustainability in this transition for shippers and transportation companies is a must for innovation adoption at scale. Physical Internet is an integrative concept with growing global push. In this opening session, key stakeholders will share their views and approaches to competitiveness, reflecting on current situation and projecting the challenges and opportunities to be addressed by the end of this decade and beyond.
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Physical Internet is gaining momentum globally, particularly in Asia, with China, Japan and Korea racing in the development and implementation of this concept. Physical Internet is seen in those economies as an overarching concept to address specific problems, such as Capacity constraints – Japan, and the need to increase efficiency in processes in China. In this session, Global PI leaders will share the latest Physical Internet developments in their regions and will connect them to ISO technical committees and initiatives.
Moderated by Eric Ballot, Prof. MINES Paris
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The electrification of long-haul heavy-duty logistics is happening. Front runners are paving the way by integrating electric trucks into their operation. R&I projects such as ZEFES, EMPOWER and ESCALATE will demonstrate the feasibility of challenging long-haul electrified missions and projects FLEXMCS and MACBETH the feasibility of Multipoint Megawatt charging. In this session, we bring logistic operators, OEM representatives and policy makers together to discuss how barriers and knock-on effects of electrification can be overcome, so decarbonisation plans can be brought into practice today.
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Europe is laying the digital rails for freight. The eFTI Regulation sets the legal backbone, Data Spaces turn compliance data into B2B value, and EDIC/BoostEDIC bring the cross-border governance and funding to scale what works. This session makes it crystal-clear what eFTI requires, what Data Spaces actually are, and how they speed up real-world implementation. If you move goods, build logistics tech, run a port or terminal, or work in a public authority, this is where you’ll learn what changes now and how to plug in. Come for practical answers, leave with next steps and contacts.
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Moderator: Wiebke Müller, Innovation Lifecycle Officer, EIT Urban Mobility
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Corridor-based charging is emerging as the backbone of Europe’s zero-emission freight transition. The Clean Transport Corridor Initiative, together with EU-funded projects like FLEXMCS, MACBETH and the upcoming Horizon Large-Scale Demonstration, are paving the way to deliver power where it matters most and test HD-BEVs in long-distance logistics operations. This session will bring together policymakers, operators and technology front-runners to discuss how to accelerate deployments, streamline grid connections and permits, and make cross-border charging predictable, turning AFIR’s minimum requirements into a truly operational European network.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Twins are becoming pivotal in the transformation of logistics, enabling predictive, connected and resilient supply chains. Yet, fragmented data, governance issues, and adoption barriers remain. Building on the ALICE White Paper on AI and the outcomes of the AI & Digital Twins webinar series, this session will bring together leading voices from industry, ports, academia and innovation projects to discuss how to turn data into actionable decisions and advance towards the Physical Internet.
Moderator: Giuseppe Luppino, ALICE
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Europe’s supply chains face increasing challenges from global disruptions, global demand, and rapid digital transformation. To remain competitive and secure, they must become more resilient while maintaining efficiency. This session will showcase insights from leading EU research initiatives and multi-stakeholder perspective which are developing innovative approaches to strengthen multimodal freight and logistics networks. The session will also highlight collaborative strategies to enhance resilience, reduce emissions, and ensure sustainable logistics. Through presentations and discussion, the session will explore interfaces, digital solutions, and cross-sector collaboration as key drivers of Europe’s future-proof supply chains.
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Invitation or ticket required.
Dress code: Business Casual
Friday, 24 October 2025
Rivers of opportunity are flowing through Europe’s cities and regions: from hinterland to urban nodes. As the EU pushes for a major modal shift, inland waterways stand out as a clean, efficient, and underused alternative for both urban and long-distance freight. By better connecting rivers and canals with city logistics and TEN-T corridors, we can cut congestion, lower emissions, and boost resilience. This session brings together policymakers, innovators, and practitioners to explore real use cases, breakthrough solutions, and future policy directions – unlocking the full potential of Europe’s waterways for sustainable logistics.
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Europe is on the brink of launching Large-Scale Demonstrations (LSDs) in automated logistics, the step that will move automation from pilots into real operations. Cooperative, Connected, and Automated Mobility (CCAM) projects such as MODI and CCAMbassador are building the evidence and alignment needed to make this leap, while SEAMLESS, AUTOSUP and AutoMoTIF extend automation into ports, terminals and logistics hubs. This session will bring together industry leaders, infrastructure operators and policymakers to discuss how these initiatives prepare the ground for LSDs, and what is still needed, business models, regulation and societal readiness, to make automated logistics scalable across Europe.
Moderator: Angjelo Andoni, Project Manager, ALICE
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Europe’s ambition for a greener, more resilient logistics system faces real barriers: cost competitiveness, capacity constraints, data silos, and the need for new assets and infrastructure. No single player can solve these challenges alone. This session brings together policy makers, shippers, logistics service providers, and digital platforms to discuss how the ALICE EXPRESS initiative can act as a framework for shared solutions. Through dialogue on policy, investment, and innovation, the panel will explore how collaboration across the logistics ecosystem is the only way to unlock effective multimodal services and deliver the modal shift Europe needs by 2026 and beyond.
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Europe’s ports are at the heart of trade, energy and logistics. They are also becoming testbeds for innovation, digitalisation and clean energy solutions. This session will discuss how the EU Port Strategy can accelerate this transformation, ensuring that ports evolve into smart, green and connected hubs. With perspectives from the European Commission, leading ports and industry platforms, we will explore how to turn policy into practice and scale innovation across Europe.
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This interactive session will focus on shaping the future of intralogistics within the ALICE network! As automation, digitalisation, and AI-driven solutions transform internal material flows, storage, and handling, intralogistics is emerging as a vital area for innovation and collaboration. Additionally, warehouses and other facilities are becoming energy hubs pretty much interconnected to transportation and other logistics functions. This workshop will explore the latest trends and challenges in intralogistics and actively engage participants in co-creating the new ALICE Intralogistics Community.
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Underused urban spaces, from parking facilities to idle assets, are becoming prime opportunities for sustainable logistics. This session reveals how innovative reuse, and smart collaboration can transform these spaces into multifunctional hubs driving the future of urban mobility and delivery.
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Explore how global megatrends, evolving policies, and breakthrough technologies are transforming the logistics playground—where sustainability and resilience demand a deep reimagining of transport and supply chains. How do these forces interconnect? This session unpacks the impact of climate action, digitalization, automation, and global disruptions, revealing how collaboration, smart regulation, and AI-powered solutions are shaping competitive, sustainable, and future-ready logistics. Join us to unlock actionable insights and connect with the pulse of tomorrow’s logistics landscape!
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