Speaker Type
Speaker
Full Name
Paola Cossu
Job Title
CEO FIT Consulting, Board of Directors ALICE
Company
FIT Consulting / ALICE
Speaker Bio
Chief Executive Officer and shareholder of Fit Consulting. Degree in Statistics with 30 years’ experience on International and national Research and Innovation on logistics and mobility of people and goods.
Member of Board of Director at ALICE "Alliance for Logistics Innovation through collaboration in Europe", the European Technology Platform on Logistics. In 2023, appointed as International Data Spaces Association Ambassador.
Awarded at the Transport Research Arena, TRA VISION 2024 in Dublin, as ‘Best Senior Researcher for CrossModality’ for ‘her contribution to the digitalisation of urban logistics and planning".
Her long-lasting dedication is to contribute to giving an impulse to the twin transition process in transport and logistics, unchaining collaboration, and adoption of Physical Internet-like solutions in a trustworthy and open ecosystem. This happened in discography industry evolution, facing massification ‘from vinyl to streaming’, with music supplied by digital platforms, with federated services and standard.
Project coordinator of many R&I and implementation projects on mobility of people and goods funded by the EU Commission, and director of other projects and studies funded by Horizon Europe Programme, EIT Urban Mobility, IEE-STEER, LIFE +, CIVITAS, JTI-FCH, HORIZON 2020 and former EU Framework programmes, from 4th to 7th.
Passionate specialist in Physical Internet, Data Spaces, Curbside Management, Sustainable Mobility Planning, Open Logistics and E-commerce.
Project Manager of the EU Commission Service Contract “New mobility patterns for European cities’.
Invited Professor on Master in Eco-mobility Management (Luiss Business School).
Member in the Scientific Committee of the European Parking Association Conference, and PDAYs (AIPARK initiative), as specialist on urban freight and curbside management.
Author of several R&I papers and specialistic publications in urban logistics and mobility innovations
Paola Cossu