ITS Future 2021
Three leading Singaporean start-ups pitched their forward-looking ideas on urban mobility and logistics during the “ITS Future 2021 – Hamburg meets Singapore” digital event. Organised by Hamburg Invest and Enterprise Singapore in co-operation with the Digital Hub Logistics Hamburg, ITS 2021 Hamburg GmbH and Digital Hub Mobility by UnternehmerTUM Munich, the fledgeling companies pitched for the top prize of an exhibition booth at the ITS World Congress 2021 in Hamburg. Automated and connected driving, mobility as a service, ports and logistics and intelligent infrastructure are likely to top the agenda of next year’s congress.
Spectronik’s hydrogen drive wins over jury
The ITS companies Spectronik, UNL and BeeX then pitched their business ideas to a jury including Suska Berger, Logistics Planner Volkswagen Group Logistics, Holger Schneebeck, Head of Innovation at DHL and Herrmann D. Grünfeld, Head of Traffic Management at Hamburg Port Authority. Jogjaman Jan, CEO of Spectronik, pitched the company’s sustainable hydrogen drives for the coveted booth at ITS 2021. Hamburg proved ideal for the pitch as host of next year’s Intelligent Transport Systems congress and given the new HY-5 initiative, which aims to transform northern Germany into Europe’s leading hydrogen region, he remarked.
Joint second for UNL and BeeX
Pascal Verloop, Chief Product Officer at UNL and Grace Chia, CEO of BeeX, then pitched their business models and shared the second prize. Around 75 per cent of postal addresses worldwide are flawed due to a lack of contextualisation, said Verloop. UNL aims to rasterise places across the globe in a bid to standardise addresses and set up universal addressing. Chia then presented BeeX’s autonomous maritime system with underwater vehicles designed to simplify processes. The vehicles are likely to interest companies in the offshore and port sectors and offer an alternative to expensive, complex and dangerous large-scale underwater inspections, she noted.