Tilo Hergarten

Head of Corporate Strategy | Emons Logistics

Tilo Hergarten is Managing Director of Emons | DIGITAL GmbH and Head of Corporate Strategy & Marketing at Emons Spedition, a family-run logistics company based in Cologne that has been in business since 1928. Since 2021, he has been responsible for the digital and cultural transformation at Emons—which was honored in 2022 with the DIGITAL-X Award for “Digital Transformation in Medium-Sized Businesses.”

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15 Minuten oder 3 Sekunden – Wie Emons 100 Jahre Wissen in Echtzeit freigesetzt hat

15:00-15:45

Eßer Office – Raum Emden | Etage 0

German

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What happens when a logistics company with a 100-year history realizes that its most valuable asset—the knowledge of its people—is buried in countless manuals and endless intranet searches? Sushel Bijganath (octonomy) and Tilo Hergarten (Emons) offer a candid look at a use case that went live in three weeks: how “start small, think big” turned into genuine acceptance, how employees went from being users to co-creators—and how AI became a concrete productivity lever rather than just a buzzword across the entire network.