It's been some years now since Logistics Management Magazine started an executive event called SCOPE for sharing new supply chain insights with executives mainly in the North American region. The event has had pretty much success recently and last year's event saw an increase of around 83% in the number of participants.

For those of you who are living in the East Coast, this year's SCOPE will be held in April 11-13 in Orlando with presentations from industry leaders such as VP supply chain at Sharp and director of supply chain at Pepsi Bottling Company.

The event's website can be viewed here if you are looking for more detail.

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For those of you who are working in Europe in the logistics area; there is this nice event coming up called: "Fleet and Asset Management Europe 2010".

There are a series of distinguished speakers from players in the area (such as truck companies, shipping service providers, etc.). So far the confirmed speakers include:

- Johan Berglund, Product Manager, Scania
- Andreas Janetzko, Business Development Director, UPS
- Bill Karnazes, Managing Director, Qualcomm Enterprise Services
- Giuliano Giovanni, Marketing Product Director, Iveco
- Mario Haneca, Head of Project Management, Transics
- Karim Jawad, Sales Leader Sensor Solutions, IBM

Some of the areas which are going to be discussed include: The Future of CVT (Commercial Vehicle Telematics), latest trends in fleet management area and the new strategies to penetrate into SME market.

In the case you want to register in the event, you can go here.