Global Addressing Summit
The Universal Postal Union
Consultative Committee’s
GLOBAL ADDRESSING SUMMIT
April 23, 2010
09:30 to 18:00 CET (GMT-1)
International Bureau of the UPU
Weltpoststrasse
Berne, Switzerland
The best minds and the most serious companies in the private sector and postal world will discuss the subject of Addressing through four different lenses:
- Economic Perspectives
- Interoperability
- Customer Perspective
- Standards
All subjects relate to one of the steps in the direct mail address value chain shown below.
This is the first of three conferences being organized over the coming 2 years by the Universal Postal Union to promote An Address For Everyone. This is the only one that will focus on the needs of business and the latest technologies for address system development.
Confirmed and invited panelists include:
Daniel Rutenberg, Priority Pass and IAPA, one of the largest cross-border mailers in the world
Dirk Palder, CapGemini
Pierre Rossouw, South Africa Post
Leon Pintsov, Pitney Bowes
Joe Lambert, Allies Computing
Martin Dale, Royal Mail
Emanuele Gennai, ESRI
Jorg Schneider, Deutsche Post Adress Gmbh
Graham Rhind, GRC Database Information(participating by video)
Richard Pordes (formerly in charge of UNICEF direct mail world-wide)
Juan Ianni (participating by video)
Others invited:
RAF Technology
AddressDoctor
Experian
The Global Address Summit is being held during the annual Postal Operations Council session of the UPU to which around one thousand experts and leading officials from postal systems world-wide come to work to improve the international mail system. It will generate a record of the needs of the private sector for improvement in addressing systems and present the latest in private sector thinking about this subject. The networking opportunities will be unprecedented.
Simultaneous interpretation will be provided in English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Russian and Portugese languages.
The full program will be available soon on the UPU website www.upu.int
If you are interested in attending as a speaker, article contributor, sponsor or attendee send an email to ariane.proulx@upu.int . Include your name, title, company, address, email and phone number.
There will be no charge for attending, but pre-registration will be necessary and confirmation of your registration will be sent to you. Sponsorship opportunities are available for a post-conference reception and programs. Tabletop space for sponsors can be made available outside the meeting room in the large ante-room where coffee is served.
The Consultative Committee is also creating an on-line library of address-related materials for use by those with an interest in promoting address development. Contributions are much appreciated. Pending the creation of that Library, The Prescott Report will be home to contributed documents. Send contributions to Address@prescottreport.com
