The BUILDINX business platform for logistics and industrial real estate began at 10:00 a.m. on November 18 at the Dortmund trade fair. The event, which runs until November 20, brings together again this year providers of solution components and stakeholders from industry, trade, logistics and investment in Dortmund.
At the congress fair, visitors will find a collaboration opportunity with numerous interactive formats to further develop industry-relevant topics, to exchange ideas and to jointly develop new ideas. The fair also attracts trade visitors from European neighboring countries.
„In Dortmund, with numerous facilities, lies the heart of European logistics research; the Ruhr area has for many years been one of Germany's most important logistics hubs—and with the second edition of BUILDINX we have now anchored another important contact point for the industry in the region,“ said Sabine Loos, CEO of the Westfalenhallen Group.
In NRW, one third of all logistics revenue in Germany is
generated, a large part of it in the Westphalian metropolis Dortmund. With its central location, 760 companies and around 25,000 employees in the logistics segment as well as the good infrastructure, it counts among the top logistics regions in Germany.
Among the partners of the fair are, beside the Bundesvereinigung Logistik (BVL) as patron, the German Brownfield Association (DEBV), the Logistics.NRW Competence Network, the Logistics Cluster Schwaben (LCS), the Initiative Logistics Real Estate (Logix), LogReal World, the PRO Logistics Real Estate Initiative, the Spitzenverband für nachhaltigen Stahlbau in Deutschland bauforumstahl, and the Founders Fight Club.
Through the BUILDINX focus group of the BVL's Logistics Real Estate Theme Circle, the experts’ association orchestrates the conference program during the fair as the technical sponsor. The topic spectrum covers current questions from the world of industrial and logistics real estate: How do geopolitical factors reshape the logistics and investment landscape? What should be made of
the growing importance of the defense sector for logistics real estate? How can a resilient industrial or logistics property be realized in economically tight times? What role do AI and data intelligence play in this and beyond today and in the future? Answers to these and other questions will be provided by the speakers at BUILDINX, giving insights into numbers, data and facts.
In the Innovation Area of BUILDINX, current topics and projects from entrepreneurs find a stage: Day 1 demonstrates, using best practices, how municipalities can operationally reach climate targets: from serial renovation to energy management. Day 2 focuses on artificial intelligence in practice: live discussions with users and providers on the topics of predictive maintenance, digital twins and operational automation. And on Day 3 the focus is on city and logistics hubs, secure parking systems and robust energy building blocks.
In an Expert Talk on November 18, for example, Michael
Quaden, Program Director Defense Solutions at Fiege Logistics, and Michael Ulverich, Managing Director at Michael Ulverich Consulting, discuss how the logistics real estate industry can adapt to the defense sector. Quaden spent many years in the Middle East, including in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, in roles at EY, PwC and FTI Consulting on topics such as business continuity and crisis management. Currently Quaden advocates for more transparency in security requirements, qualifications and processes that would confront logisticians in this context. Only then could access to defense logistics be facilitated for small and medium-sized enterprises; for that, the armed forces and logisticians would have to work more closely together in the future.
At the “FOUNDERS FIGHT NIGHT,” startups again compete in the rhetorical pitch fight in a boxing ring against one another to persuade an expert jury in a short time of their product or service. The winner of a round is determined
