From health services, over chemical processes and digital publishing to programmatic advertising – digital technologies change our personal and professional life.
This change is enabled by entrepreneurs who take the opportunities of a newly arising startup ecosystem. In this event, we connect postdocs and young academics from across Europe with corporates and decision makers from the startup ecosystem in an intimate environment.
The event was part of the Postdocs-to-Innovators Network.
Opening of the Enterprise Fair Berlin
by Prof. Dr. Hannes Rothe (FU Berlin) Prof. Michael Mielke (DB Training)
Keynote on Digital Ecosystems
by Professor Rahul Basole (Georgia Tech)
Panel Discussion and Meet-the-Speaker
by Mirco Dragowski (CEO, German Startup Association) Florian Reichle (CEO, Trinckle 3D) Professor Rahul Basole (Georgia Tech) Karina Prasad (Cambridge University) Andreas Helbig (Project A) Sebastian Dalles (DB Digital Ventures)
Dinner & Learn-from-Failure Night
by Hans Stier (Founder, Bonaverde) Luka Ivicevic (Co-Founder, Penta)
Entrepreneurial Breakfast
by Andrew Harrison (Learning Studio)
Case from Digital Innovation: DB Innovation
by Florian Messner-Schmitt (DB, Beyond1435)
Speeddating for co-founders and team members
Workshop: Proposing a value proposition to prepare your business model from scratch
by Anja Rießland (DB Training)
Workshop: Business Model Innovation – from Start-up to Industry
by Tobias Friedrich (Acceleration & Incubation Deutsche Bahn Systel)
Nov 8th, 12:45 PMWorkshop: Minimum Viable Products
by Professor Hannes Rothe (FU Berlin)
Wrapping up
by Andrew Harrison (Learning Studio)

Image by Dirk Enters

I was very surprised to learn how much companies value the experience of postdoctoral researchers. Up until now I felt that doing a postdoc would rather minimise my chances of transferring into the industry sector.
It opened my eyes to a whole new field of opportunities I hadn’t considered before.
Postdoc in Immunology and Virology
Interesting inspiring challenging, great networking, big ideas.
PhD Student in Mathematics
These smaller events are extremely inspiring, giving the opportunity to participate to learn from each other.
Postdoc in Molecular Biology