WORLDCHANGERS IN TECH

Dr. Inken Braunschmidt ist Chief Innovation und Digital Officer und Mitglied des Vorstands bei Halma - eine Holding gelistet auf der Financial Times Stock Exchange (FTSE 100 Index) mit 45 Unternehmen weltweit im Bereich Sicherheit, Gesundheit und Umwelttechnologie. Vorher war sie Chief Innovation Officer bei RWE (später innogy SE), Geschäftsführerin der innogy Consulting und Head of innogy Innovation Hub. 2019 wurde sie als eine der einflussreichsten Frauen im Ingenieurwesen Großbritanniens ernannt und 2020 als "Top 100 Data Visionär" ausgezeichnet. Mit ihrer jahrelangen Erfahrung im Corporate Innovation Bereich ist sie prädestiniert dazu in dieser Folge darüber zu reden. Wie findet man die richtige Strategie für das eigene Unternehmen, welche Fragen sollte man sich generell im Sinne der Corporate Innovation stellen und wo muss sich Deutschland stärker aufstellen um unternehmerische Innovation voranzutreiben - all dies in dieser Episode.

Noch vor einigen Wochen traf Prof. Dr. Katharina Hölzle die Bundeskanzlerin und die Bundesregierung online, um ihr Jahresgutachten zu präsentieren. Denn Katharina ist unter anderem stellvertretende Vorsitzende der Expertenkommission für Forschung und Innovation, aber auch Leiterin des Fachgebietes IT-Enterpreneurship am Hasso-Plattner-Institut und an der Universität Potsdam Teil der Digital Engineering Fakultät. Katharina ist die perfekte Ansprechpartnerin um über Innovation zureden - in dieser Folge namens "Innovation in Deutschland" spricht GERMANTECH's Anna Yukiko Bickenbach mit Prof. Dr. Katharina Hölzle über den Innovationstand in Deutschland, wie innovativ Deutschland aktuell ist, welche Fehler es noch gibt, und wie diese behoben werden können.

Sure thing! It’s not just about what lies on the surface, but what comes from within - our latest episode with startup EMERALD BERLIN discusses the power of Influencers and how NGO’s can harness them. Barbara Zeiss, the Founder & Managing Director of EMERALD BERLIN talks in-depth about why new marketing is key to the future and how one of their clients, the German Cancer Foundation, gained a heap more (Influence)hair.

What do we really know about Invisible Foods? Did you know that insurmountable quantities of foods are lost before it even hits the shelves?

Tune in to this exciting podcast to learn about where food is lost, how Jonas and his startup are going to tackle this issue with the UN, and what new digital methods will help solve our food waste issue!

Ableton is a household / “studio” staple for musicians around the globe. CEO Gerhard Behles and his team have been making unique software and hardware for music creation and performance since 1999. At what point do you define yourself as a market shaker and when do you start giving back and how? This talk will showcase how Ableton made it this far and the “vibrato” they want to create for future musicians by giving back and doing good!

The gaming industry lives from the touch of our fingertips, but what if we could live better or differently from a touch of a game?

In this episode with Carsten Klippstein from FEELBELT he will showcases their product and talk about how his startup realised that their haptic feedback technology anticipates doing more than just upleveling games, movies and VR,. but can really shine in the digital health field!

Tune in to learn more about how this exciting tech and startup is creating value to “healing through sound“ and „accessibility“!

Festivals canceled, music clubs closed, artists struggling and everyone attempting to survive financial ruin, so what’s the ad-hoc pandemic plan? Do we only see bleak or new opportunities arising? And how can technology play a part?

In this heads-on panel, we discussed with the experts how the various industries, Festivals (WACKEN), Classical Music (WILDKAT PR), and the Club Scenes (UNITED WE STREAM) have experienced the shutdown, what the current mood is and where technology and collaboration could futureproof the industry. Plus, do they all see eye to eye?

Dirk Fehse, the CEO & Founder of PaulCamper is giving insights into his entrepreneurial journey with all his learnings. Overcoming fear, just doing it, the best way to invest in learnings, how to create value in a team, and how to find the right investors - you'll find all this in the podcast. Thank you Dirk for your great input!

The relationship between climate change and music has finally caught the attention of the media and made headlines in recent years. Notably with big names, such as Massive Attack, for example, committing to a project to map out the CO2 of the industry or Coldplay announcing a touring stop until 100% Co2 neutrality can be met. Everything might be put on hold due to CoVID-19, but we’re still curious about how “clean” can music really become? What is realistic now and where can we go? On our discovery to better understand sustainability within music and tech, we get to sit down with Jacob Sylvester Bilabel, founder of the pan-European Green Music Initiative (GMI), who in his own right is THE sustainability expert in the industry - strutting nearly 20 years of industry experience and actively shaping a green and smart music ecosystem - we are proud to have him join us to ask these big questions and run through some real and interesting hands-on projects pertaining to impact sustainability and the music industry.

This first session, was part of the "Music & Tech" event series, hosted by GERMANTECH. Matthias Strobel, the President of MusicTech Germany guided the first episode through some of the most significant tech moments of music history.

With Björn Wind, founder and CEO of voiio.

How is childcare organized today, how can digital solutions help and how far can digital childcare go in the future? And what about immediate help in times of COVID-19?

In this live episode we talk to Björn Wind, the founder and CEO of voiio, about technology in childcare and in which way digital childcare can benefit parents and children alike.  If we take a look at the past decades, fortunately, there has been some development when it comes to the compatibility of children and career plans, mostly thanks to professional childcare. Services in childcare have been growing and developing ever since and, as for GERMANTECH, it always gets exciting when technology comes into play.

Voiio is on its mission to make companies more family-friendly through digitized and individualized childcare services. Due to recent events and the need for childcare on a much larger scale Voiio additionally is offering emergency services for childcare and virtual events for children. We look forward to talking to Björn to better understand the current needs, how technology in childcare can work, and where digital childcare can or can not go in the future.

Where does the “MADE IN GERMANY” brand stand now and where can it and should it go in the future? What about in times of a crisis? In this live episode we talk to Prof. Dr. Achim Kempker, Chair of Production Engineering of E-Mobility Components (PEM) at RWTH Aachen Uni, about the importance of engineering in today’s world and how “Engineers Saving the World / Ingenieure Retten die Welt” is on a mission to revive makers for a better world.

Historically MADE IN GERMANY was first introduced as a label of origin & warning, which, opposed to its purpose, quickly turned into the best-known trademark for quality, precision and specialization. Germany quickly became known for its prime engineering and having created the highest density of global market leaders. However, keeping and upholding a known tradition has created barriers, such as a slow speed of digital adoption and keeping up with foreign competitors that are embracing modern and agile methods.  We look forward to talking to Achim to better understand where MADE IN GERMANY is, where it can go and how his network “Engineers Saving the World / Ingenieure Retten die Welt” can revamp the engineering industry.

SDG 9: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure

SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

SDG 13: Climate Action

Most people will tell you that communication is the key to success in any relationship and in fact, that’s not far from the truth if not the truth, for businesses also. Public relations and outward communication is key in acquiring customers and prospects, sustains your stakeholders with up-to-date news and can let your inner story shine. So we wonder, what can WORLDCHANGERS IN TECH DO and NOT DO in their PR strategies and, particularly, how should you behave during an unprecedented global crisis?

We welcome one of  GERMANTECH’s great mentors Tilo Bonow to take the stage and guide us through why PR is Queen, especially in tech companies and times when it’s most needed.  Tilo leads one of Europes’s finest PR agencies, PIABO (customers include N26, Stripe, GitHub, Silicon Valley Bank, Shopify), and since 2009, the agency has been committed to companies that have a positive societal impact through new technologies and business models. PIABO has recently also launched a focused portfolio - its Greentech & Sustainability Practice. 

SDG  8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

GERMANTECH & New Work-Life - Parents, Employers and Remote Work  In times of COVID-19 we’re being tested on how digital/modern/agile/ & fast we really can be. GERMANTECH’s own Managing Director Maria Gross and Anna Yukiko Bickenbach, Mom & Event & Program Manager, converse about the drastic measures and advantages they’ve encountered in the last week. Plus, how GERMANTECH is moving forward positively by its own principles of: Inspire, Build and Grow to facilitate and support new working/life situations in these times of CORONA.

As the COVID-19 virus began taking a grip on Europe, Germany’s federal government decided to enact a hackathon that would define oncoming challenges, enable a platform for bright minds to come together and create a collective bottom-up approach in fighting the virus before it could take anchor. This came together in the form of the We vs. Virus Hackathon. One weekend that broke the world record in digital hackathons: bringing together 42968 participants, 1924 Innovators, and 2922 mentors. We get to speak to one of the organizers from this marvelous initiative, Anna Hupperth from Tech4Germany. She will tell us how they managed to successfully build and set up the hack, what happened after and which initiatives are making real-life impact and waves in the fight against COVID-19. Be part of this inspiring talk on how one nation and its collaborators discovered digital opportunities to win against the virus. 

Guest: Anna Hupperth from Work4Germany & Tech4Germany

SDG 3: Health and Wellbeing SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals

COVID-19 might be invisible to the eye, but we surely can visualize those who are actively fighting this pandemic with digital grit! Vincent Zimmer, Managing Director of ICME Invest & Shareholder, and his team are actively aiming to flatten the curve and lessen the burden on medical systems by digitizing the patient journey. We look forward to deep diving into how Vincent and his team are managing this difficult time and what impacts health digitalization is making on flattening the curve!  Vincent is experienced in building successful start-ups across different industries such as digital education and digital health with a passion for solving complex problems. He co-founded Kiron, a highly successful higher education platform for refugees, and supported several digital health ventures in business development including ADA Health. He has also received several awards and mentions for his accomplishments including Young Global Leader from the Westerwelle Foundation in 2015, Responsible Leader from the BMW Stiftung in 2015 and appeared on the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2015.

GERMANTECH & New Work-Life - Parents, Employers and Remote Work  In times of COVID-19 we’re being tested on how digital/modern/agile/ & fast we really can be. GERMANTECH’s own Managing Director Maria Gross and Anna Yukiko Bickenbach, Mom & Event & Program Manager, converse about the drastic measures and advantages they’ve encountered in the last week. Plus, how GERMANTECH is moving forward positively by its own principles of: Inspire, Build and Grow to facilitate and support new working/life situations in these times of CORONA.

We are all waiting for a, if not “the”, CoVid-19 cure. Hopefully a long-standing one in the form of a vaccine, but what sounds like the obvious solution in developed countries is far from the truth in third world countries where getting basic medical care is even a challenge. Julia, CEO of COOLAR, and her team from Berlin want to change just that with their electricity-independent medical refrigerators.

Around 1.2 billion people worldwide lack access to electricity, another 1 billion receive as little as 2 hours a day. Kerosene, battery, and fossil fuel-powered technologies are outdated, costly and energy inefficient. Consistency and reliability of the cold chain, refrigeration, are essential to safely store vaccines and medicines anywhere in the world!

Listen to this exciting Episode with HelloBetter's CEO Hannes Klöpper - and how we can psychologically stay strong in times of stress and social anxieties. Hannes and his team are currently looking at creating a CORONA specific offer addressing the different aspects of stress, fear, anxiety and depression related to all of the changes we are experiencing right now.  The SDG 3 - Health and Wellbeing have never been more important and we will be able to address how Hannes has taken upon that challenge. 

We deep dive to find out how HelloBetter is supporting souls and minds with their scientifically proven psychological online training and online psychotherapy classes.  Hannes Klöpper is not only a global leader in the digital mental health care space, but also an internationally recognized expert in the field of online learning. To that extend, Hannes will be able to tell us how he also transitioned from a university online class provider to switching into health care.

GERMANTECH & New Work-Life - Parents, Employers and Remote Work  In times of COVID-19 we’re being tested on how digital/modern/agile/ & fast we really can be. GERMANTECH’s own Managing Director Maria Gross and Anna Yukiko Bickenbach, Mom & Event & Program Manager, converse about the drastic measures and advantages they’ve encountered in the last week. Plus, how GERMANTECH is moving forward positively by its own principles of: Inspire, Build and Grow to facilitate and support new working/life situations in these times of CORONA.

GERMANTECH & New Work-Life - Parents, Employers and Remote Work  In times of COVID-19 we’re being tested on how digital/modern/agile/ & fast we really can be. GERMANTECH’s own Managing Director Maria Gross and Anna Yukiko Bickenbach, Mom & Event & Program Manager, converse about the drastic measures and advantages they’ve encountered in the last week. Plus, how GERMANTECH is moving forward positively by its own principles of: Inspire, Build and Grow to facilitate and support new working/life situations in these times of CORONA.

Healthy Hydration for everyone! In this episode of the WORLDCHANGERS IN TECH Podcast we have the CEO of Mitte, Moritz Waldstein-Wartenberg share his insights about water purification technology. With its special focus on health, Mitte does not only purify water, but also enriches it with minerals, freeing the world of plastic bottles.

Norway is well-positioned to facilitate and support Europe's transition to a sustainable energy future with Norway's special situation due to its abundant energy resources in hydropower and petroleum, and its excellent conditions for wind energy.

For this Episode of the WORLDCHANGERS IN TECH Podcast we have the pleasure to host Audun Abelsnes, Managing Director at Techstars Energy.  Himself being a serial entrepreneur having sold two companies, Audun is a Lecturer at the BI Norwegian Business School.

GERMANTECH has established itself over the last few years as an important player in the digital entrepreneurship space, creating a strong foundation here in Berlin, and supporting digital innovation in the German and european landscape.

This time we are having the immense pleasure to talk with the founder and Chair of the Board Benjamin Rohé and talk about his life and accomplishments and the journey of GERMANTECH working together with startups, corporates and governments to enable and change the world.

Revolving around the UN SDGs GERMANTECH is collaborating and co-creating hand in hand with the ecosystem to build digital solutions.

New Decade, New Beginnings! We're excited to announce our WORLDCHANGERS IN TECH PODCAST hosted by Anna Yukiko Bickenbach, geared to present the stories of inspiring digital players and entrepreneurs and how they’re impacting the world with their digital solution and/or presence.

What is Europe's leading real estate firm doing to meet their own sustainability goals? Find out and tune in now to GERMANTECH's WORLDCHANGERS IN TECH Podcast with Anna Bickenbach! Special guest for this Podcast is Jan von Mallinckrodt, Head of Sustainability at Union Investment Real Estate GmbH.

Intro Episode to the WORLDCHANGERS IN TECH Podcast

This Podcast is inspired through our WORLDCHANGERS IN TECH (WCIT) event series, which is our public & educational outreach platform at GERMANTECH.
Our aim is to inspire society about the positive effects technology and entrepreneurship have towards a sustainable future.

Get to know and listen to the stories of inspiring digital players and entrepreneurs and how they’re impacting the world with their digital solution and/or presence.

You will be guided through the podcast by our wonderful host Anna Yukiko Bickenbach, herself an entrepreneur and in charge of programs and events at GERMANTECH.