Exciting Speaker Line-Up Announced for PostalVision 2020/6.0

January 6, 2016 (Arlington, Va.) – PostalVision 2020 today announced an exciting line-up of speakers and topics for its March 15-16, 2016 event, which will bring together global industry leaders, visionaries, regulators, innovators, inventers, entrepreneurs and supply chain experts to engage in the ongoing exploration of the needs of Americans in a future postal system to support the growth of business and ecommerce.

“PostalVision 2020 will continue its tradition of bringing together essential voices and expertise for these critical discussions,” said John Callan, managing director of Ursa Major Associates and Founder of the PostalVision 2020 Initiative. “The 2016 event will focus on how ‘B2Me’ is driving changes throughout the supply chain and postal ecosystem as more controls are placed in the hands of demanding consumers of ecommerce,” Callan said. “With the continued growth in ecommerce driving changes in the mail mix and fueling new distribution and delivery strategies, the entire industry ecosystem is being challenged,” he said, “This year’s ‘6.0’ conference will focus on those challenges, and the resulting opportunities, and will include unprecedented participation from the U.S. Postal Service as well as its regulators, stakeholders, suppliers, and those providing USPS oversight.”

The March 2016 event marks the sixth consecutive year of PostalVision 2020’s annual event, and with the critical discussion topics as well as the diverse speaker line-up ranging from prominent global postal leaders to cutting edge start-ups, the event is expected to sell out. For more information on PostalVision 2020, including information on previous events as well as the B2Me movement, please visithttp://www.postalvision2020.com.

A very limited number of press passes are available for this Washington, DC-area event. Contact PostalVision 2020 Director of Community & Brand Development Kathleen Siviter (ksiviter@ursamajorassociates.com) for more information on attending the event and special press briefing.

PostalVision 2020 6.0 “B2Me - Game Changers”

The Ritz Carlton, Pentagon City, March 15-16, 2016

Preliminary Program*

Scheduled Sessions	Speakers and Panelists
Introduction “B2Me – Game Changers”	John Callan - Founder and Chairman, PostalVision 2020
Vision: Game Changing Global Trends	Thom Blischok - Chief Retail Strategist, Strategy& / PwC Mattia Crespi – Foresight Practitioner, Inst. of the Future Jeff Jarvis - Buzzmachine.com; “What Would Google Do” David Williams – USPS Inspector General
Research and Data Underlying Trends	Brody Buhler – Global Postal Lead, Accenture Cooper Smith – Analyst, Business Insider Intelligence
“B2Me” Consumer Data - Applications and Analysis	Angelika Dimoka, PhD – Associate Professor, Temple Univ. Jonathan Margulies – Managing Director, Winterberry Group Lisa Rapp – Director of Products, Acxiom
Innovation and Invention in the Supply Chain	Jay Emmett – General Manager, OpenMarket/Amdocs Nagesh Kadaba, PhD – Senior Advisor, ipCapital Group Ramesh Ratan, PhD – CEO, Bell and Howell
B2Me - Retail Front-End – First Mile	Lori Rectanus – Dir. Physical Infrastructure Issues , U.S. GAO John Reis – General Manager Retail, Canada Post Kelly Sigmon – VP, Retail and Customer Service Ops, USPS Anthony Watson – Head of Business Dev., ShipBob
Innovation and Invention in Transport & Delivery	Steve Barnett – Product Manager, Open Market Steve Burns – CEO Workhorse Group Keith Cornell – Chief Commercial Officer, Starship Tech. Robbie Diamond – Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) Oliver Evans - Head of Global Business Dev., Matternet

B2Me - Retail Back-End – Last Mile

Idriss Al Rifai – Founder and CEO, Fetchr

Patrick Armstrong - Snaile

Greg Mackin – Co-founder and CEO, Parcelhome

Neel Murthy - CEO, SwapBox

Dan Treiman – VP New Markets, Doorman

Challenges and Opportunities in Cross Border

Wendy Eitan – Product Strat., Econ and Markets Coord., UPU

Tom Forbes – VP International, MetaPack

Giselle Valera – VP and Managing Dir., Global Business, USPS

Marcello Wesseler – CEO SingPost eCommerce

Vision and Innovation - 3 Leading Global Posts

Emil Dzuray – Director Strategic Planning, USPS

Markus Kuckelhaus – VP Innovation, DHL

Lily Loo – Head Customer Service, SingPost

Claudia Pletscher - Head of Innovation, Swiss Post

Special Sessions

Speakers and Moderators

Keynote Address - “Think Big – Act Bigger”

Jeff Hayzlett – Chairman, C-Suite Network

Full Conference Planning Workshop

Jody Berenblatt – Grayhair Advisors

Thom Blischok - Chief Retail Strategist, Strategy& / PwC

Session Moderators

Bernhard Bukovc – Chmn, Postal Innovation Platform (PIP)

John Callan – Founder and Chairman, PostalVision 2020

Mike Comstock – Cofounder, Ursa Major Associates

Emil Dzuray – Dir Strategic Planning, USPS

Amine Khechfe – Co-founder and General Manager, Endicia

Robert Reisner – Director and Senior Strategic Advisor, PwC

Elmar Toime – Chairman, Postea

Marshall Van Alstyne – Professor , MIT and BU

*Actual session times to be announced. Additional speakers may be added and some speaker slots/times subject to change.

About PostalVision 2020

PostalVision 2020 is the creation of Ursa Major Associates, LLC , a leading strategy consultancy, providing thought leadership and strategic business development services to the global postal-parcel-logistics industry. Since 2001, the firm has served leading private sector corporations and entrepreneurial start-ups as well as public institutions engaged at all levels of service along the postal and parcel delivery value chain. Ursa Major Associates, LLC is headquartered in Essex, CT. For more information visithttp://www.postalvision2020.com.