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Meeting date & location. To be confirmed. A mix of leaders’ round-table discussion & visits to important industrial sites.
Why attend? F&L supply chain & logistics leaders gain a new perspective, make better decisions and develop valuable relationships by leveraging the meeting’s independent environment, trusted community, commercial leadership, and cross-sector insights. The Sorbonne carries out internationally well-regarded research.
What to expect. Constructive practitioner-led debate, panels, workshops & site visits; a discussion rather than a powerpoint agenda. F&L competition law & antitrust compliance policy. Confidential. All participants will meet everyone present. You will only be able to enter with an advance ticket.
Interested? Get in touch.
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F&L meetings are for senior leaders & their teams who are actively leading industry today (Members).
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As a multidisciplinary research university in the heart of Paris, Sorbonne University is resolutely international. In cooperation with its partners, it creatively and innovatively implements its missions of education, research, innovation, mediation and technology transfer for the common good.
Sorbonne University is breaking new ground in knowledge and tackling major contemporary challenges, such as climate change and sustainability, digital transformation and the data revolution, personalized medicine, and open science. Strengthened by its shared values—quality and integrity, freedom, transparency and collegiality, diversity, exchange—it ambitiously pursues its mission of public service, creation and development of knowledge, at the heart and intersection of disciplines
A different goal...
… F&L was created in 1994 by shippers & logistics providers who realised that they could not tackle logistics issues alone in their companies, or within a commercial structure. They created a neutral, independent not-for-profit platform for senior logistics leaders and their teams to utilise cross-industry peer exchange to – judge today’s trade-offs – identify new opportunities for resilience and growth – catch blind spots – de-risk decision making – and determine facts, helping everyone build on real world experience to develop more practical, durable solutions and choose their own paths forward, together and separately.
Mission – to drive improved standards, learnings & the success of Members by leveraging the multi-stakeholder international community to spark knowledge sharing & tackle obstacles from every possible vantage point.
How is this achieved? F&L is structured as a neutral (independent), not-for-profit, confidential, antitrust compliant Members’ forum and is registered in Belgium as an ASBL. Multi-stakeholder membership is deliberately balanced to ensure a variety of perspectives across a host of variables. F&L does not lobby but it does have strong relationships with policymakers and many other institutions and communities for its Members’ benefit.
Members are global / regional heads of logistics & supply chain, CEOs & senior management focused on freight logistics across the supply chain, asset owners, founders of critical solutions, all industry sectors and transport modes, based across Europe & globally (list). Unlimited licences are provided for leaders to share the membership with colleagues (no charge).
“The important thing is to avoid the ‘narrow’ trap & the echo chamber”
“Access to informed external views & sheer breadth which it is not possible to organise by yourself”
“Where else can you ask questions openly and listen to others doing the same?”
“Learn, benchmark & challenge”
“We make better, more informed, more robust decisions”
