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This year we are in the last concluding

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conference of the conference series

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which we launched in 2020.

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I remember how six years ago we were

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making some thoughts and we were concerned

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if we find enough people, enough participants,

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we were really doing a lot

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of marketing campaigns and look at this

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year's success, where we had so many papers.

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I have to say that it was very nice to

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bring together in the frame of this conference,

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the IEEE conference on smart logistics,

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smart cities, the management issues,

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here together at the University of Leuven

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but here in our campus in Brugge.

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After these two days I could see the nice

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faces of many people meaning that they

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really enjoyed the conference, they talked

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to each other, they discussed about

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a number of issues and I hope that this

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atmosphere can continue even in further conferences.

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So for me personally it's always a big

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pleasure to be a part of the organizing team.

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In my opinion, I think such

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conferences give room to build new

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connections and professional collaborations.

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I really like the idea of meeting,

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collect People together, to meet

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all of our different partners from

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different countries and exchange the

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different ideas and knowledge perspectives.

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I was really impressed by the quality of

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the research results and also about

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the variety of topics, all close to

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smart cities and future challenges but

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the really profound research we got presented
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I think in the same way, so there was

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a lot of interesting and new findings of

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these researchers, so that was

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a really great session.