Strengthening the voice of industry.

ALICE is a non-profit association for logistics innovation through collaboration in Europe and focuses on future trends and innovations in Logistics and Supply Chain Management and supporting leading experts and companies members in implementing supply chain and logistics innovation. ALICE is linked to the European commission and to many European initiatives. ALICE is goal is to bring together many different stakeholder from all logistics initiatives making sure that collaboration is established over all transport modes, logistics and supply chain domains.

COSS is a non-profit and commonbenefit association that promotes open source, open data, open standards and APIs. Internationally known as one of the oldest and most active centres for openness, COSS operates based on extensive cooperation, communication and networking. The aim of COSS is to strengthen the competitiveness of Finland’s software-intensive industries, promote the growth and internationalisation of open source businesses and enhance the development of the Finnish information society through the support of open technologies and communities.

The Open Source Business Alliance (OSBA) is the association of the open source industry in Germany. It represents over 200 member companies that generate more than EUR 126 billion annually. Together with scientific institutions and user organisa-tions, it is committed to anchoring the central importance of open source software and open standards for a successful digital transformation in the public consciousness. It also aims to drive innovation in the field of open source. The aim of the Open Source Business Alliance is to establish open source as the standard in public procurement and in research and business promotion. This is because open source and open standards are essential foundations for digital sovereignty, innovation and security in the digital transformation and therefore the answer to one of the greatest challenges of our time.

Smart Freight Centre (SFC), a globally active non-profit organisation for climate protection in the freight transport sector, aims to support the global logistics ecosystem in measuring and calculating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Key achievements in the field of emissions reporting include the development of the GLEC standard, the only globally recognised methodology for the harmonised calculation and reporting of the logistics GHG footprint across the multimodal supply chain, and the ISO 14083 standard for quantifying and reporting greenhouse gas emissions from transport.