Francois De Chiara - Logistics meets APIs - Open Standards for logistics as a platform
Channel: Ouishare TV
Date: 06/09/2017

Cities are the next platforms. Following 20th-century urbanisation movement, now up to 50% on planet inhabitants live in a city. The high density of population creates new habits, new paradigm, and a new culture. We are evolving into homo urbanus.

In an era of fast digitalization, where mobile and soon IoT will produce a data-apocalypse, where a concentration of workers will create always more congestion, where pollution needs to be controlled and fought,  cities need to adapt their infrastructure and prepare to be the 21st-century platforms people expect them to be. Despite a “technical debt” which is the fact of history and architecture, they can prepare their digital infrastructure to be ready. Ready to help entrepreneurs, ready to help logisticians and transporters to accomplish the promise of the last mile economy. An efficient and resilient production and distribution network, to help people living in cities to be local, buy local, stay local. In this session, we will receive actors working on out-of-the-box models to think the last mile differently, with technology and smart networks.