2012 Conference on Health and Humanitarian Logistics
The 2012 Conference on Health and Humanitarian Logistics was hosted this year by the Kühne Logistics
University in the Curio-Haus, Hamburg, from 21-23 March. The Conference was organized by The KLU INSEAD
Research Center on Humanitarian Logistics, Georgia Tech and the Humanitarian Logistics Association
(HLA). The topic of the Conference was “Creating Sustainable Health and Humanitarian Systems” and featured
next to the keynote, four panels, four workshops and two closing sessions on related sub-topics. The innovative
approach of this Conference in which interactivity was the goal and wherein the diversity of the participants gave
the opportunity to evolve in very interesting discussions, made this event a big success. We were very pleased
with the large number of compliments from people thanking us for “the best humanitarian conference they ever
attended”, “a fantastic mix of high level humanitarians, business people and academics and great discussions”,
and “a perfect logistics organization”.
Read here the full management report focusing on the topics discussed in the keynote, panels and workshops during the Conference.
In my role as Operations Manager of The KLU INSEAD Research Center on Humanitarian Logistics, I was responsible for the organization of this conference in cooperation with the other two organizing parties Georgia Tech and the HLA. I focused mainly on operations, pulling off a new format, where we encouraged participants from the different sectors (humanitarians, business, academics) to share ideas, find common ground and select opportunities and projects to cooperate on.