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Luc Partoune has been CEO of Liege Airport since 1994. What started as a small regional airport grew out into an important Belgian and European airport. Today, Liege Airport is in fact ranked 7th European Cargo Airport and operates companies such as TNT-FEDEX, Ethiopian Airlines, Qatar Airways, Air Bridge Cargo, CAL and El Al Cargo. Luc Partoune is also the CEO of the airport’s real estate branch, called Liege Airport Business Park. In addition to multiple years of experience at the airport, he also is Board member of AF-ACI, an equivalent of ACI Europe but for the French-speaking airports and Board Member of several Belgian companies such as SOWAER (the regional, Walloon, airport company). Luc Partoune has a Master in Law, Tax & Accountancy and Business Economics.

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A reputed personality with significant experience in the air cargo industry, Mr. Guillaume Halleux is the Chief Officer Cargo of Qatar Airways Cargo. Born in France, Mr. Halleux started his career with Air France in 1997, holding various positions in the Logistics and Business Development department. He later joined SkyTeam Cargo USJV (a joint venture between Air France Cargo, Delta Cargo and Korean Air Cargo) in 2006 as Sales Director for Northeastern United States, before being promoted to Regional Director for Hong Kong and South China at Air France KLM. In 2012, Mr. Halleux worked with Bolloré Logistics as General Manager, Sales and Business Development for Vietnam, and later for Singapore.

His tenure with Bolloré Logistics has made him thoroughly conversant with the freight-forwarding industry and adept in both commercial and operational know-how appertaining to international air freight business. Bringing with him 20 years of experience and vast knowledge in the air cargo business, Mr. Halleux joined Qatar Airways Cargo as Vice President Asia Pacific in June 2016. Based in Singapore, he was responsible for driving cargo sales and operations in more than 15 countries in the region before joining the senior leadership team at Qatar Airways Cargo’s Doha head office in October 2017. He aspires to lead his highly engaged teams at Qatar Airways Cargo to build a global brand that focuses on delivering the best air cargo products and services in the industry. Mr. Guillaume Halleux studied Economics in France and holds a Master in Business Administration from ICN Business School in Nancy, France.

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With the growing volume of small parcels resulting from the e-commerce industry, handlers have to adapt themselves by building adapted warehouses where they can answer the market needs. But what is an optimized Warehouse and how should it be build to support the incoming flux?

• David Bellon (DHL)
• Brendan Sullivan (IATA)
• Walid Khoury (ALS)
• Herbert ten Have (Fyzir)
• Coen de Lange (Cargospots)

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Manel Galindo is the CEO of WebCargo and an enthusiastic entrepreneur who created WebCargoNet in college and built it up organically to over 1,000 customers, including some of the world’s largest providers. He continues to lead WebCargo, as well as strategic air cargo projects.

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You have always wondered what the future could look like? We are giving 3 minutes to innovative ventures to present what they are busy with their company in front of you and a jury of experts.

By putting them under the spotlights, we expect to discover together the new leaders of tomorrow in this race to digitalise our businesses.

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We talk a lot about drones in the supply chain, but how concrete is this utopia and how could it help us to improve the current way of doing? What are the legal and structural changes that will have to be made to give a chance to this project to be one day implemented ?

• Svilen Rangelov (Dronamics)
• Mark Vanlook (Droneport)
• Geoffrey Ngaya (Astral)
• Christian Berlanger (Skeyes)

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Dual degree in Industrial & Systems Engineer from “Universidad de la Republica” of Uruguay” & “Knoxville University of Tennessee”.
Senior Systems Architect at Zector Pro for the last 5 years.
Former CIO at Praxair Intl. for South America’s Cone.
More than 35 years of professional experience in IT.
Consulting Services in the area of IT, Software development, Track & Trace in real-time solutions. Traceability logistic systems. Mobile Customized applications and solutions for Win, Linux, IOS & Android platforms.
Deep knowledge in innovative technics, applied to the philosophy of the “Continuous Improvement System”, to reach the highest level of the “User Experience”.

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Jintong Zhu, Director of Data Intelligence Product in Alibaba Cloud Intelligence BU. Responsible for the Alibaba Cloud industrial AI innovation，incubation and product research, which includes Alibaba City Brain, Industrial Brain, Financial Brain, Medical Brain, Agricultural Brain, etc. At present, Alibaba Cloud’s City Brain Solution has been successfully deployed to different cities such as Hangzhou, Suzhou, Quzhou, Shanghai, Chongqing, Macau and Kuala Lumpur. Alibaba Cloud Industrial Brain has covered different industries including steel, cement, chemicals, electricity, photovoltaics, etc. By applying Alibaba ‘s AI capabilities to different industries and different scenarios, Alibaba Cloud Industrial Brain creates tens of millions to hundreds of millions of extra revenues each year for different customers. At present, Alibaba Cloud’s brain solutions have served 100+ customers in different fields, which comes from countries or regions like Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Europe, Middle East, India, America.

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You have always wondered what the future could look like? We are giving 3 minutes to innovative ventures to present what they are busy with their company in front of you and a jury of experts.

By putting them under the spotlights, we expect to discover together the new leaders of tomorrow in this race to digitalise our businesses.

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Moritz Claussen has lived and worked across the globe in Canada, China, Germany, Gibraltar and Spain. He is co-founder and Managing Director of cargo.one. With cargo.one forwarders can search, compare and book air cargo capacities across different airlines with immediate booking confirmation. Airlines benefit from a digital and data-driven distribution channel that attracts new business at lower cost and higher operational efficiency.

Mr. Claussen previously co-founded and managed the fast-growing financial technology company, OptioPay, as its Chief Business Officer, in charge of operations and business development.

Prior to co-founding OptioPay, Mr. Claussen worked as Business Incubator and Entrepreneur-In-Residence for a Gibraltar-based technology incubator, as a Summer Associate for A.T. Kearney management consulting, as well as for Deutsche Bank and Beiersdorf.

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In collaborative environments where different stakeholders have to collaborate to achieve their final objective, compartmentalised data is a true break to improvement. Indeed, in such circumstances having access to its own data is not enough anymore. What role is open data is playing in this interconnected world? How can put a value on the data we are sitting on?

• Sarah Van Gelder (BRU)
• Michel Cui (Alibaba Cloud)
• Jean Verheyen (Adrian)
• Adrian Kosowski (Navalgo)

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Eric takes the responsibility of the company’s global expansion and business development on logistics infrastructure. With over 18 years in related areas, he has rich experience in logistics network planning for cross border eCommerce and smart warehouse management with digitalization technology.

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DATA ! DATA and DATA again. Iot and connected devices are becoming more and more relevant to the air cargo industry as the need for precise information relative to shipment is continuously increasing. This panel will be dedicated to the important place that Iot will take at every stage of the supply chain and on the existing solutions that can already solved some of stakeholders’pains.

• Peter Raeymaekers (orange)
• Garcia Sanz (undagrid)
• Jos Jacobsen (ACL Airshop)

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Working in the B2B telecommunication industry for more than 20 years, he has participated in the transformation of the industry. B2B marketing and product management specialist.

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Steven Verhasselt joined Liege Airport as Cargo Development Manager Asia in 2006. Now he is the commercial director of Liege Airport, Belgium’s leading cargo airport. He is responsible for the global cargo development as core business, but is also in charge of passenger, real estate and Liege Airport Consulting. Steven is based in Asia, works for a leading European Cargo Airport in a global role.

Steven Verhasselt entered the aviation world in 2001 running a project to start up a cargo airline based in Brussels. The project led him to the Middle East and Asia. In 2003, when working on a project in Hong Kong, Mr. Verhasselt decided to stay there and start his own company, consulting airports, airlines and aviation related companies willing to develop business in Asia.

Steven Verhasselt graduated in Brussels, from Ehsal Business School with a Master Degree in Business Administration. He started working for the Regional Development Agency, focused on assisting startup companies with business plans, seed and venture capital. One of the projects he was assigned to lead him into cargo aviation.

Today, Verhasselt works for Liege Airport as Commercial Director responsible for global business development both cargo and passengers.