Here we are at the Logistics Research Network conference in Cardiff. This year’s presentations were of outstanding quality. Not surprisingly there was a big green logistics track, with anything from green SCM capabilities to CO2 emissions in cities to transportation emissions represented. Other interesting (or let’s say, unusual ones) were on food supply chains and logistics education. Humanitarian logistics figured again.
A novelty at this conference was a “best poster” award. What a great idea! People had been put down about not getting into the proceedings and “just” presenting a poster. Funny that poster sessions in say, health care, or engineering, are seen as really positive, while at logistics conferences they are less appreciated. But posters have their own place at a conference, for research in its early phase, as well as to find collaborators for new projects. So why don’t SCM academics want to present posters at a conference?
Gyöngyi
Well posters can help set the mood…or keep the mind active in cases of less than stellar presentations. Is there more information on the presentations and presenters online? I would love to see the differences in perspective between the US & UK
Hej Andrew, the conference programme is still online (http://www.cf.ac.uk/carbs/conferences/lrn09/Conference%20Programme%20Updated%20170809.pdf) but not the papers of course. Rgds, Gyöngyi