What will the world of logistics look like in 2025? On 26 May, one day before CeMAT opens its gates, leading thinkers from the international business, government and R&D sectors will be exploring the future of logistics up to 2025. The very first FUTURE OF LOGISTICS, an international conference to be held in the Convention
Center on the Hannover Exhibition Grounds, will field around 300 participants.
It is the big highlight of this year’s CeMAT, the leading fair for intralogistics.

Keynote speakers
Prof. Anil K. Gupta of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) will be profiling innovative methods of providing development aid and illustrating how innovative logistics can help change tomorrow’s
world.
Ms. Fundafunda, who is in charge of the Zambian Ministry of Health’s Drug Supply Budget Line, will be joined by Prof. Prashant Yadav from the MIT-Zaragoza Logistics Center and Paul S. Lalvani, Advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in a presentation on health care and medicine supply chains in developing
nations. Prof. Klaus Mangold, Chairman of the German Committee on Eastern European
Economic Relations (Ostausschuss) and Dr. Christian Ketels of the Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness will examine the future significance of clusters for global competitiveness.
You can help shape conference topics The conference centers around a Delphi study on the future of logistics up to 2025 conducted by the Supply Management Institute (SMI) of the European Business School (EBS) in association with Future-Management Group AG and published by Deutscher Verkehrs-Verlag.
Up until 30 April 2008, all registered FUTURE OF LOGISTICS conference participants can help shape the central topics for the conference by taking part in an online, real-time Delphi study. The results of the study will be discussed at the conference. Further information: www.cemat.de/homepage_e