This year’s two-day forum organised in the capital of Lithuania by the Ministry of Transport and Communications and the Transport Innovation Association will bring together the sector’s decision makers, politicians, business leaders and innovators from 22 world countries.
“The Transport Innovation Forum is an important event for the whole Lithuanian transport and logistics sector. It is a unique opportunity to meet all the interested parties, including policy makers and its implementers at practical level and businesses operating in this sector. Each year the forum discusses the challenges faced by the transport and logistics sector. We see that these challenges in different European countries are similar in principle, so at the forum we look for ways to turn the challenges into new opportunities,” claims Mr Skuodis, Minister of Transport and Communications.
At the Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre LITEXPO, the global trends and international policies shaping the future of transport and logistics will be analysed by these sectors’ experts from the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development, representatives of the European Commission, the International Energy Agency, the International Transport and Logistics Alliance, the Ministry of Transport and Communications, the company Microsoft, etc.
One of the highlights of this year’s forum is the international ministerial session “Three seas initiative: strengthening the transport innovation ecosystem”. Its participants, including politicians, investors and innovation developers, will share their insights on how this Initiative, which has already existed for eight years and united 13 countries between the Adriatic and Baltic Seas and two partners, Ukraine and Moldova, could be “employed” not only for traditional projects on the connectivity increase and modern energy development but also for creating higher value through the design, funding and development of an innovation ecosystem that involves all the countries of the Initiative.
This topic gains particular relevance after Lithuania has taken over the Presidency of the Initiative and is to hold a meeting of the leaders of the Initiative’s member states.
“We organised the first Transport Innovation Forum with co-thinkers five years ago for the purpose of education, innovation and modernisation of the transport sector. At present, however, as our transport and logistics business is influenced by numerous external factors such as the changing political situation, the market recession, the lack of manpower and new EU regulations on sustainability and digitalisation, the forum has become a site where everyone finds answers to their concerns or a business line and leaves with new targets,” says Jurgis Adomavičius, one of the forum’s organisers and Chairman of the Board of the Transport Innovation Association.
The fifth Transport Innovation Forum will focus on artificial intelligence that promotes the sectors’ transformation, autonomous transport and technological possibilities in transport decarbonisation and digitalisation of processes. The international event will devote attention to all modes of transport, ranging from road and railway to sea and air transport as well as urban mobility solutions.
The event will also see the traditional Green Mobility Awards organised by the Ministry of Transport and Communications and Lithuanian Railways, which are aimed at evaluating the “greenest” transport initiatives and sustainable initiatives in six different categories.
During the Forum, LITEXPO will hold the traditional transport innovation exhibition where the sector’s enterprises will present their most innovative and latest solutions and the state-of the-art technologies, including unmanned aerial vehicles operating in logistics, remote steering, etc.
The programme of the fifth international Transport Innovation Forum to take place on 23-24 November can be found here.
The opening ceremony of the fifth Transport Innovation Forum and the first part of the event will be broadcast live on 23 November from 9:00 a.m. on the news website delfi.lt.
