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