The future of the postal workforce will be the topic for IPC Annual Conference of 2020. In an era of digitalisation, artificial intelligence and increasing competition from low-cost delivery providers, the conference will explore the vision for technology in collection and sortation, along with the implications for the future postal workforce in delivery.
Programme
28 May
Dinner hosted by Österreichische Post AG
29 May
08:30 Welcome coffee
09:00 Introduction by Holger Winklbauer, CEO, IPC — Future perspectives identified through 2019 GPIR member survey
09:15 Session 1 — The vision for technology in collection, sortation and delivery
Keynote Speaker, Pierre Igou, Chairman and CEO, Solystic
09:45 CEO panel discussion with IPC member CEOs
10:45 Group picture and coffee break
11:00 Session 2 — The vision for the future postal workforce in delivery
Keynote Speaker, Professor Joeri Hofmans, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
11:30 CEO panel discussion with IPC member CEOs
12:30 Q&A
12:45 Conclusion by Dag Mejdell, Chairman of the IPC Board and Holger Winklbauer, CEO, IPC
13:00 Conference lunch