Innovation Challenges 2017: Winning ideas wanted
DHL is calling on students, start-ups and inventors worldwide to submit their ideas for two logistics-related challenges: Sharing Economy Logistics & Robotics. Throughout the Group and around the world, DPDHL employees everywhere are encouraged to help get the word out.
But the deadline is soon, so the time to act is now! Applications will be accepted until September 16: By sharing the latest videos in social media (see links below), you can help us spread the word about these challenges.
- Sharing Economy Challenge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rRDbn1iaaE
- Robotics:
Participants are requested to either develop a prototype of a mobile piece-picking robot or develop a solution to a logistics problem using a sharing economy business model, platform or concept. Deadline for submissions is September 16 through the competition's website at www.dhlinnovationchallenge.com
All entries will be reviewed by senior DHL executives in a pre-selection process. Three finalists of each challenge will be chosen, whose concepts meet the criteria of functionality, aesthetics, potential to solve the given problem and commercial feasibility. The nominees will present their solutions in front of 180 senior supply chain professionals and trend experts at the DHL Innovation Day in Germany on December 7. Group employees are not eligible to compete.
The winners will be selected in a live-voting process while the two top scorers receive the prize money and will have their concepts displayed at the DHL Innovation Centers in Germany and Singapore. They will also have the opportunity to develop proof-of-concepts with DHL.
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