The Third Health and Humanitarian Logistics Conference will be hosted at Georgia Tech on March 3-4, 2011.  The conference features high level speakers from across the health and humanitarian sectors.  Some of the confirmed speakers are from NGOs (Ethical Cargo, Gifts in Kind International, The Task Force for Global Health, Oxfam GB, World Health Organization), Companies (Llamasoft, Kuehne & Nagel), and Academia (MIT, INSEAD). To view a list of the confirmed speakers, go to www.scl.gatech.edu/humlog2011/speakers/.

Participants from across the globe – countries such as Canada, Colombia, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, India, Kenya, the Netherlands, Senegal, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Uganda, and Zambia – are expected to attend the conference. Three workshops will be offered: Managing Performance in Humanitarian Logistics, Simulation and Modeling Program for Disaster Preparedness and Technology at Work in Humanitarian Relief: Aidmatrix and UPSTrackpad Case Studies.  Fore more information about the conference, visit http://www.scl.gatech.edu/humlog2011. Georgia Tech and The UPS Foundation, the charitable arm of United Parcel Service, are sponsors of this year's conference.