Goldenstein wins Face-Up 2024

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Friday, 15 March 2024

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has named Erik Goldenstein the winner of its 2024 Face-Up award for recent university graduates who have developed innovation and transformation solutions in air transport logistics.

Goldenstein created the NE:ONE Play app built on the ONE Record Data Standard. 

The app provides a visualisation of ONE Record data, giving a simplified overview of complex air cargo data to allow organisations to 'browse' through their shipment data as easily as browsing the web, facilitating optimisation of their operational processes. 

Goldenstein currently is a research assistant, data scientist and software engineer in the Aviation Logistics department of Fraunhofer IML at Frankfurt Airport.

A panel of judges selected three finalists of the Face-Up competition based on their demonstrating innovation and the potential to transform air cargo. 

The other two finalists were Arjan Bhogal (an innovation to reduce the air cargo industry’s single-use plastics problem) and Niclas Scheiber (a tool to manage complex ONE Record shipment data using advanced query technologies).

The biennial IATA Face-Up competition is part of IATA’s Future Air Cargo Executives (FACE) Program that aims to attract, retain and develop a bright and diverse pool of young talent, preparing them to become the next generation of leaders in the cargo industry.