Awards
Transfer Festival meets IFOY Award
Premiere for the IFOY Award: The world's largest intralogistics award is cooperating with the Transfer Festival of the Digital.Hub Logistics and the Fraunhofer Institute for Logistics and Material Flow IML: Before the IFOY Award Night 2023 begins on June 22 at 6 pm at the Dortmunder U, finalists of the IFOY Award and festival participants will actively shape two sessions on the topics of automation and sustainability on the premises of the Fraunhofer IML - in line with the festival motto "make, transfer, network".
Festival participants can choose from a total of 14 sessions - including trend topics such as blockchain and open source in logistics. The third edition of the Transfer Festival will be enriched by lab tours offering exclusive insights behind the scenes at Fraunhofer IML. Developments such as drones, exoskeletons and autonomous mobile robots (AMR) will be demonstrated. More than 250 invited guests from seven countries are expected to attend the award ceremony in the historic former brewery tower of Dortmund's Union Brewery and on the roof terrace. The secret will then be revealed as to which of the 25 nominated devices and solutions in a total of seven categories will be awarded the "Oscar of intralogistics". All finalists will undergo the three-stage IFOY audit at the IFOY Test Days as part of the Test Camp Intralogistics on March 29 and 30 at Messe Dortmund. The international jury will then make its decision.
This article appeared in issue 3/23
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