Cooperation: IFOY AWARD works together with TRANSFER.FESTIVAL again

• Day event at the Fraunhofer IML in Dortmund takes place before the IFOY AWARD Night on July 3.
• IFOY AWARD organizes workshop on automation at the festival.

• 250 guests are expected to attend the IFOY AWARD Night at the Phoenix des Lumières.

Ismaning near Munich/Dortmund, March 18, 2025. Renewed collaboration: Following its successful premiere in 2023, the IFOY AWARD intralogistics competition is collaborating with the TRANSFER.FESTIVAL of the Digital.Hub Logistics and the Fraunhofer Institute for Logistics and Material Flow IML for the second time in 2025. Before the IFOY AWARD Night 2025 takes place on July 3 at 6 pm at the Phoenix des Lumières, some finalists from the current competition will hold a workshop on “Automation - the biggest success factors. Learnings from the IFOY AWARD competition”. 

At the fourth edition of the festival, participants can choose up to three sessions from a dozen workshops. The range of topics is broad: from automation to agile work, circular economy and network orchestration to a pen & paper hackathon - in line with the event motto “make, transfer, network.” The special feature: The organizers pack all topics into interactive formats - especially workshops.

“IFOY AWARD and science go hand in hand. The IFOY AWARD finalists work closely with researchers to ensure that their solutions are at the cutting edge of technology. In addition, the scientific IFOY Innovation Check plays an important role in the evaluation. This is why we want to inspire the transfer of knowledge from science to companies and vice versa,” explains Anita Wuermser, Executive Jury Chairwoman of the IFOY AWARD.

“With their wealth of experience and their customer examples, the IFOY AWARD finalists provide the festival with important impetus. At the same time, they can benefit from the current projects and networks of our program partners as well as the cooperation partners Logistik.NRW and Leistungszentrum Logistik und IT,” emphasizes Maria Beck, Managing Director of Digital Hub Management GmbH. The TRANSFER.FESTIVAL is complemented by lab tours that provide insights into projects and the current research work of the Fraunhofer IML - for example on topics such as mobile robotics, drones and exoskeletons. The event will conclude with a live band and the opportunity to network.

The festive IFOY AWARD Night starts at 7 pm with the finalists of the year 2025 as well as invited guests from business, research, politics and the media. Around 250 guests from six countries are expected to attend the award ceremony at the Phoenix des Lumières. The location in Dortmund is the first permanent art center of the French cultural operator Culturespaces in Germany and is located in a hall that was used as a gas blower hall for the Phoenix-West blast furnace plant at the beginning of the 20th century.

Only during the event will the well-kept secret be revealed which of the 21 nominated devices and solutions in a total of eight categories will be awarded a trophy. All finalists will have to undergo the three-stage IFOY audit at the IFOY TEST DAYS as part of the public TEST CAMP INTRALOGISTICS at Messe Dortmund on March 26 and 27. The international jury will make its decision in April.

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The International Intralogistics and Forklift Truck of the Year (IFOY AWARD) recognises the year's best intralogistics products and system solutions. The aim of the organisation is to document the performance capability and innovative drive of the intralogistics, helping to boost competitiveness and raise the profile of the entire sector in the public arena. The winners of the IFOY AWARD are selected once a year by an independent jury of international trade journalists. The sponsors of the IFOY AWARD are the VDMA Materials Handling and Intralogistics Sector Association and the VDMA Robotics + Automation Sector Association. IFOY partners are Messe Dortmund and the world´s leading forklift attachment manufacturer Cascade. The IFOY logistics partner is LTG. IFOY event partner is Phoenix des Lumières. The headquarter of the IFOY organisation is in Ismaning near Munich. The IFOY AWARD is under the patronage of the German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action. In 2024, coverage of the IFOY AWARD reached 2599 articles in 738 media outlets from 45 countries. The organic online media reach (gross) was 886.6 million readers.

Members of the Jury: : Snejina Badjeva, editor-in-chief Logistika magazine (Bulgaria), Winfried Bauer, editor-in-chief f+h Fördertechnik (Germany), Cecilia Biondi, editor-in-chief Logistica Management (Italy), Alejandra Cabornero, editor-in-chief Logistica Profesional (Spain), Rosa Maria Cherubini, editor Il Giornale della Logistica (Italy), Charleen Clarke, editor-in-chief Focus on Transport and Logistics (South Africa), Theo Egberts, IFOY tester and owner of Buro Andersom / Andersom Testing (Netherlands, without voting rights), Hilda Hultén, editor and publisher Dagens Logistik (Sweden), Klaus Koch, editor-in-chief LogisticsInnovation.org (Switzerland), Véronique Le Voas Barat, publisher and editor Solutions Manutention (France), Valeria Lima de Azevedo Nammur, editor-in-chief LogWeb Magazine (Brazil), Øyvind Ludt, editor-in-chief Moderne Transport (Norway), Peter MacLeod, news editor Logistics Business (Great Britain), Bernd Maienschein, specialist editor MM Logistik (Germany), David Maloney, editorial director DC Velocity and CSCMP's Supply Chain Quarterly  (USA), Marilena Matei, editorial director Tranzit / Tranzit Logistica (Romania), Matthias Pieringer, editor-in-chief Logistik Heute (Germany), Szilvia Rapi-Jaubert, publisher and editor-in-chief Supply Chain Monitor (Hungary), Sascha Schmel, managing director association materials handling and intralogistics in the VDMA (Germany, without voting rights), Christoph Scholze, editor-in-chief dhf Intralogistik (Germany), Sebastian Śliwieński, editor-in-chief Warehouse Monitor (Poland), Michal Štengl, editor-in-chief Transport a Logistika (Czech Republic), Jarlath Sweeney, editor-in-chief Fleet transport (Ireland), Ying (Crystal) Xu, representative Editor-in-chief, China Industrial News Network (China). The executive chairperson of the jury is Anita Würmser, logistics journalist and managing partner of impact media projects.

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