“Automation and AI: how are they reshaping roles and skills in logistics?”
Sergio Barbarino is currently Collaborative Research & Innovation Consultant at FIT Consulting, Specialising in European Collaborative R&I programs.
Previously Senior Director and R&D Research Fellow at the Procter & Gamble Brussels Innovation Center. He led the practice of open innovation, especially on large collaborative research projects. He was also the most Senior Process expert for the Home Care business.
He is Senior Expert for the Solar Impulse Foundation. Sergio has won several awards for his contribution to logistic innovation and specifically the promotion of the Physical internet concept. Sergio has been the Chair of ALICE in 2016-2019, the EU Innovation Platform for Logistic aimed at realizing the Physical Internet and has served till recently on the ALICE board as Vice Chair.
Born in Naples, Italy, Sergio has a Master degree in chemical engineering from the University of Napoli Federico II and an MBA from the Solvay Business School in Brussels. Sergio has created in 2007 the first group of Supply Chain & Logistic R&D within Procter & Gamble, called Supply Network Innovation Center, of which he was the Scientific coordinator for 10 years.
Sergio has been the scientific leader of 2 EU FP7 Logistic projects: the C03 consortium aiming at increasing shipper collaboration on Logistics in Europe and Modulushca, aimed at the development of new shareable and reusable logistic standard modules for the last mile delivery. In the Chemical Engineering Domain, Sergio has represented P&G in the Large Collaborative projects Impulse and F3 on innovative micro processing leading some of the best demonstrators. Sergio has developed the manufacturing Processes of many well-known P&G Brands (e.g. Mr. Clean, Viakal,) and has been the chief designer for P&G of Innovative Liquid Manufacturing systems for developing markets.
He was also responsible for several P&G Academic Partnerships and has been Visiting professor – among others – at the Ecole des Mines de Paris, the City University of London, Laval University Quebec, Solvay Brussels School, Georgiatech and Purdue.
