Keynote Speakers

• Jacques CHARLIER (UCLouvain)

Jacques Charlier is Professor Emeritus at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). He focuses his research activities on issues of maritime and air transport geography. 

• Claude COMTOIS (CIRRELT, Univ Montréal)

Claude Comtois is professor of geography at the University of Montreal. He has a degree in political science, a M.Sc. in geography from Laval University and a Ph.D. from the University of Hong Kong for his research in the field of transportation. He is affiliated with the Centre de recherche sur les Réseaux d'Entreprise, la Logistique et le Transport of the University of Montreal (CIRRELT).

• Khaled GHEDIRA (Académie Tunisienne des Sciences, ESPRIT)

Khaled Ghedira is a member of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts and founding honorary president of the Tunisian Association for Artificial Intelligence. He is currently the scientific director of the ESPRIT engineering school and founding director of the DAIR Tunisia technology hub, which is a member of IDAIR (International Digital health and Artificial Intelligence Research collaborative, Geneva). He was also director of an Artificial Intelligence research laboratory, director of the National School of Computer Sciences, director general of the Tunis Science City, director general of the National Agency for the Promotion of Research and rector of the Central University of Tunis. Author/co-author of about 500 publications between conferences, reviews, chapters and books; he has supervised about a hundred theses on the applications of Artificial Intelligence, especially in the field of logistics.

• Laurent LIVOLSI (CRET-LOG, Chaire SNCF-Logistics)

Laurent Livolsi is a lecturer in management sciences at the University of Aix-Marseille in the "Logistics and Transport Management" department of the IUT. He is also director of the Centre for Research on Transport and Logistics (CRET-LOG) and head of the Supply Chain Management and Logistics Services Chair.

• Francesco PAROLA (Univ Genoa)

Francesco Parola currently works at the Department of Economics and Business, Università degli Studi di Genova. Francesco does research in Business Administration, Business Economics and Port Management.

• Jakob PUCHINGER (IRT SystemX, CentraleSupélec)

Jakob Puchinger is Senior Scientist at IRT SystemX, responsible for the scientific axis on scientific computing and optimization. He is also Professor at the Industrial Engineering Laboratory of CentraleSupélec - Université Paris Saclay, heading the Operations Managment Research Group, Head of the Anthropolis chair, focussing on human centered mobility, and Co-director of the future cities lab at Centrale Pékin.

• Wouter VERHEYEN (Univ Antwerp)

Wouter Verheyen is Research Professor (BOFZAP) at University of Antwerp. He lectures in the fields of methods of legal research, commercial law, transport law and marine insurance.