The smartPORT initiative started at the Hamburg Port Authority in 2013. Already in its beginning, Uli has played an important role in being responsible for the IT architecture and sharpening the vision of the port of the future. He is always looking for new use cases and new technologies which will lead HPA into the future.

As a graduated computer scientist he started back in the 90s as an IT consultant and came via the field of transport logistics to the Hamburg Port Authority in 2009. Since that he is reporting to members of the board and the CDO.