About LMD

This cutting-edge summit brings together academia, industry, e-commerce, retailers, transit and fleet operators, insurers, and legislatures to discuss the progress to date of parcel delivery technologies, their plans for last-mile delivery, and to address the challenges related to required support structure, warehouse locations, and effects of these disruptive technologies on delivery, warehousing and customer service.

Presentations and Panel Discussions Include

• Algorithms and Analytics
• Autonomous Cars
• Autonomous Pods
• Delivery Drones
• Delivery Robots
• Autonomous Delivery Vehicles (ADV)
• Autonomous Ground Vehicles (AGV)
• Robotics
• Same-Day Delivery
• On-Demand Delivery
• Drones, Remote Locations
• Self-Driving Cars, Remote Locations
• Robots, Gated Communities and Closed Campuses
• Storing Packages for Buyers to Pick Up
• Maximizing Delivery
• Not-At-Home & Failed Deliveries

Why?

In addition to attending news-making LMD Conference sessions, you will be able to meet with decision makers and successful companies who can help structure benefits for your own organization.

• Discuss short-term and long-term capabilities development with important industry and government speakers who can give you an accurate industry report
• Identify and monitor the capabilities and required technologies, including identifying those in progress, those planned, and those for which no current plans exist
• Learn about new US and European programs, learn about what has been done and what is being planned
• Connect and share knowledge with your peers. Meet and build relationships with officials, policy makers and regulators from federal, state and local governments
• Find out what you need to know to successfully compete for hundreds of millions of dollars available in business opportunities to help your research and development
• Participate in forums with high-level industry participants and make your voice heard in an interactive dynamic environment

Summit Audience

The summit is aimed at a high profile audience from industry including e-Commerce, Retailers, Fleet Managers, as well as courier, express, parcel companies and fleet operators, logistics service providers, insurers, academia, and government.

• Senior executives responsible for, and who influence, logistics and delivery
• Scientists and Researchers who are working on near-term solutions to immediate operational needs
• Program Managers who are working on long term required key capabilities
• Engineers who will update you on the progress and solutions in progress to resolve long-standing challenges
• Legislatures from federal, state and local governments
• Senior executives from industry who are looking for solutions and partners
• Technological Disrupters and Innovators in Last-Mile delivery
• Journalists and press from trade and industry publications