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Yesterday at startport in Duisburg\u2019s Inner Harbour was an exciting few hours. The so-called ELID was hosted live for the third time by startport and ZENIT GmbH<\/a> in cooperation with EEN NRW \/ NRW.Europa<\/a>. <\/p> Hosted by Rim H.M. Stroeks <\/a>, all participants and viewers were guided through the agenda in a humorous and relaxed manner. Starting with a brief welcome from startport Managing Director Johannes Franke<\/a> and Benno Weissner<\/a> of ZENIT GmbH<\/a>, the program continued with keynotes by Erik Wirsing<\/a> (DB Schenker<\/a>) and Philip Evans<\/a> (The European Freight and Logistics Leaders\u2019\u200b Forum<\/a>). The focus was, on the one hand, on the importance of startups\u2019 innovative ideas in the logistics industry and, on the other, on supply chain challenges. <\/p> After a Q&A session, during which questions from the community were answered, among others, the program continued with an exciting panel discussion. In this context, startport gave a shoutout to this year\u2019s sponsor Business Metropole Ruhr GmbH<\/a>, whose support made it possible for ELID to take place on this scale. Frank Speer<\/a> from BMR moderated the panel discussion on \u201cInternationalization\u201d and spoke with P\u00e9lagie Mepin-Koebel<\/a> (Everysens<\/a>), Bart Takkenkamp<\/a> (Wuunder<\/a>) and Theodor Preststulen<\/a> (Mavisoft<\/a>) about their expansion into international markets. <\/p> Overall, 12 startups filled the categories \u201cDrones & Robotics\u201d, \u201cSustainable Logistics\u201d and \u201cSupply Chain Resilience\u201d with innovative pitches and managed to present their idea digitally and live in 5 minutes. This meant the matchmaking part could begin at the end of the event without any delay. <\/p> A key agenda item and a new feature this year were the corporates Wahl GmbH & Co. Spedition Logistikunternehmen<\/a>, DIT Duisburg Intermodal Terminal GmbH Trinodales Umschlagsterminal<\/a> and Wirtschaftsbetriebe Duisburg \u2013 A\u00f6R<\/a>. Each of them formulated a call for proposals in advance, the so-called \u201cchallenge\u201d, thus giving founders the opportunity to apply to the challenge with their innovation. As Erik Wirsing would now say: \u201cBe always hungry for innovation.\u201d <\/p> The second day\u2014on which corporates and startups were able to get to know each other during the matchmaking part of the event and connect for future projects\u2014also ran smoothly. Now it remains to be seen which exciting collaborations will emerge from the matchmaking event. And, of course, we can already look forward to a happy reunion next year! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday at startport in Duisburg\u2019s Inner Harbour was an exciting few hours. The so-called ELID was hosted live for the third time by startport and ZENIT GmbH in cooperation with EEN NRW \/ NRW.Europa. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1919,"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions\/1919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}