The structure and scope of your presentation are specified. The twelve slides must consider the topics listed. However: The way you implement and present them is entirely up to you and your creativity!

1. Title/Idea
2. Problem/Opportunity
3. Product/Service
4. Value Proposition
5. Underlying Magic
6. How do you address sustainability in relation to product, people and planet?
7. Business Model
8. Proof of Concept/ Market Relevance
9. Competitive Analysis
10. Management Team
11. Current Status
12. Where do you already use standardized components in your solution and what need do you see for freely available open source components in the environment of your business idea?

Start-ups may participate up to four years after their foundation. The year 2020 is the only guideline here – irrespective of the month in which the respective company was founded. Start-ins / Corporate Innovation / Intrapreneur Teams should have freedom of choice, responsibility and their own budget.

Yes, finalists from previous years may participate as long as they can clearly show how their portfolio/ service/ offer/ idea has developed significantly.

We are looking for innovative digital logistics solutions for production, the retail trade, automotive, farm & food, mobility, the financial sector and other sectors. The presentation of the business idea and the unique selling point of the new product or service must convince the jurors. Above all, the focus is on the customer benefit: which challenge is solved with the innovation? Which use cases are there? For which industries does it make sense? What about the competitive environment and market opportunities? And how does the innovation relate to the issue of sustainability? The jury takes all these aspects into account when evaluating the contributions and selecting the pitch participants.

Of course, your application will be treated confidentially. The Digital Hub management team and the selected jurors will have access to the participant data and contents of the application. Your pitch deck will be made available to the jury for the selection process and the sponsors. We will show the application videos from the selected pitch participants when announcing the Future Congress Logistics, during the award ceremony and for the purpose of communicating about the award in social media. By submitting your documents you agree to this procedure.

A contribution is generally not included in the evaluation if you do not stick to the conditions of participation and the formalities. An application is excluded from participation in the award if:

• the year of foundation of a start-up company is before 2020
• no pitch deck or video is attached to the application
• the presentation exceeds twelve pages and/or the video is longer than one minute
• the application is not written in English

The length and scope of the application must also be taken into account: in the final, a three-minute pitch will decide on the winner. Hence, get to the heart of your idea briefly and understandably.

Please submit your application documents via this webform. Note: The webform will be activated with the application start on June 1, 2023. The attached documents should not exceed 5 MB. You are also welcome to send us larger files via an appropriate download link – please make sure that the file is accessible to us or that you send us the password if you plan to password-protect it.

Attendance on site  is compulsory for the pitch session. The finalists pitches will take place at the pitch session at the Future Congress Logistics 2023. The pitch should not exceed a length of 3 minutes. The form of the presentation is open. Whether power-point presentation, free presentation or film: The teams can decide for themselves how they want to arrange their three minutes. Please include your answer to the question „Where do you already use standardized components in your solution and what need do you see for freely available open source components in the environment of your business idea?“ in your pitch.

The pitch of the selected digital teams will take place at the Future Congress Logistics 2023 on 12 September as part of the »Digital Logistics Award« session. The order of participants will be determined by the jurors. Each team has three minutes to present its own idea and convince the audience of experts with their live pitch. Following the presentation of the pitches, the teams will face a live Q&A with the expert jury.

Please submit your application documents via this webform. Please note: The attached documents should not exceed 5 MB. You are also welcome to send us larger files via an appropriate download link.

The  jury, consisting of logistics and start-up experts from Europe, will meet at the beginning of September. They will select up to eight participants for the final general pitch session. 
Following the pitch session, there will be a vote by a jury of experts and the general audience of the Future Logistics Congress.
The jury will be reinforced by other experts from past award winners, industry experts, and researchers who have been involved in logistics and innovation for many years. This way, the winners will be determined 60% by the jury of experts and 40% by the wider audience of the award.

All pitch participants will have the opportunity to present their ideas to a large expert audience of decision-makers from the logistics industry.

Important: Just because your idea is not one of the winners does not mean that it will not survive on the market. Every participant benefits from the Digital Hub Logistics network and becomes part of the community.