Innovation World Cup® at StartupCon
October 29 - 30, 2019
Cologne, Germany
The TECH START-UP 2019 and the LOGISTICS & MOBILITY START-UP 2019 powered by Innovation World Cup®, StartupCon, Würth Elektronik and LOXXESS has received over 290 submissions across the globe. The international jury had a tough- yet great experience to select the top finalists, who will take part in the Pitch and Award Ceremony at StartupCon / DIGITAL X on October 30! Join us and our international tech corporations Würth Elektronik, EBV Elektronik, Microtronics, LOXXESS, and VARTA Microbattery to celebrate the cutting-edge innovation. Let’s find out who will go home with the trophy!
Do not miss the 2-exciting days of the StartupCon / DIGITAL X on October 29-30 with insightful keynotes of great speakers like Sir Richard Branson, Tim Berners-Lee, Jimmy Wales and extraordinary pitches of tech founders. Get connected with the top finalists on the Innovation Stage on October 30 in Cologne and network with leading tech-heads, representatives of international tech corporations, potential investors and business partners!
The program flow is as follows:
| 11:30 – 13:00 PM | TECH START-UP 2019 AWARD CEREMONY |
| 11:30 | Welcome and Introduction Moderator: Christian Stammel, Navispace |
| 11:35 – 12:25 | Pitch of the top finalists with live evaluation by the jury |
| AFS AGRO FLOW SYSTEM Viktoriia Gnap, CMO, AFS Agro Flow System, Germany |
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| Agricolus: data validates farmers’ emotions Andrea Cruciani, CEO, Agricolus s.r.l, Italy |
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| Scrap metal trading meets digitization Florian Kriependorf, CEO & Co-Founder, EIE Services GmbH / Remetal, Germany |
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| Curing the incurable Prateek Singh, CEO & Co-Founder, Finnadvance, Finland |
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| Why boring trips a thing of the past Markus Bohl, CEO & Co-Founder, Fineway, Germany |
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| Infrared emitters for smart material analysis Benjamin Buchbach, Managing Director, Infrasolid GmbH, Germany |
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| Using AI to improve productivity in construction Alex Beton, Business Development Executive, Kreo Software Ltd, United Kingdom |
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| LAQA – Effortless Hydration Management Bernd Hoffmann, CEO & Co-Founder, LAQA GmbH, Germany |
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| The Future of Autonomous Retail and Supply Chain Management Alexander Eissing, CEO & Co-Founder, Livello GmbH, Germany |
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| Discrete signals enable a world of possibilities Stijn Bogaerts, CEO & Co-Founder, MoNoA, Belgium |
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| SCARLETRED: transforming the global dermatology market Alexander Habinski, SaaS Specialist & Advisory Board Member, Scarletred Holding GmbH, Austria |
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| Looking into the future: The office building of tomorrow Daniyar Tanatov, Partner Account Manager, Spaceti, Czech Republic |
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| 12:25 – 12:45 | Panel Discussion: Scale Up Successfully – Growth Strategies for Early-Stage Start-Ups Christian Arndt, Investment Manager, HTGF Elizaveta Shcherbakova, Investment Team, Coparion Alexander Gerfer, CEO, Würth Elektronik Johannes Durschang, Key Account Manager, VARTA Microbattery Markus Vogt, IoT Director, EBV Elektronik Peter Dollfuss, Partner Manager, Microtronics |
| 12:45 – 13:00 | Official Award Ceremony & Photoshooting |
| 13:00 – 13:30 | Get-Together at Innovation World Cup® Booth (T19) |
| 14:00 – 15:30 PM | LOGISTICS & MOBILITY STARTUP 2019 AWARD |
| 14:00 – 14:05 | Welcome & Introduction Moderator: Christian Stammel, Navispace |
| 14:05 – 14:55 | Pitch of the 9 finalists with live evaluation by the jury |
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| 14:55 – 15:15 | Panel Discussion: The Future of Logistics – Entrepreneurship and Disruption Thomas Waldmann, Start-up & Venture Manager, Würth Elektronik Karina Slowinski, Head of QM and Lean Development, LOXXESS Patrick Mense, Member of the Board, LOXXESS Daniela Bach, Investment Manager, HTGF Christian Stammel, CEO, Navispace & WT | Wearable Technologies |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Official Award Ceremony & Photoshooting |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Get-Together at Innovation World Cup® Booth (T19) |
Our partners Würth Elektronik, LOXXESS and we will be available for two days (October 29 and 30) at the booth T19 between Hall 8 and Congress Center. Do not hesitate to come by and network with us! You can also meet our partners from EBV Elektronik, Microtronics & VARTA Microbattery there.
More info: www.startupcon.de | www.digital19.de/koeln-en/
Date: October 30, 2019
Location: Kölnmesse Congress-Centrum Nord, Messeplatz 1, 50679 Köln/Cologne (meeting point: Booth T19)