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Dear Start-up BW Summit participants,
we want to offer you more than just another start-up fair because Baden-Württemberg is not just another German state!
Do you want to discover the start-up environment in Baden-Württemberg? Then join our Start-up BW Discovery Tours!
We offer our international participants the unique chance to discover different start-up hubs in Baden-Württemberg:
Day 1, Monday, 4th of February 2019:
- Tour 1: Mannheim and Heidelberg with focus on Life Science und Organic Electronics
o Start at CUBEX 41: Introduction to the start-up-ecosystem Mannheim-Heidelberg-Walldorf
o Visit Technologypark Heidelberg
o Visit a company related to the focus of the tour
- Tour 2: Karlsruhe with focus on Software, CyberSecurity, Smart Production
o Start at CyberForum Karlsruhe: Introduction to the start-up-ecosystem Karlsruhe
o Visit FZI Research Center for Information Technology - House of living labs
o Lunch at Hoepfner Burghof
o Transfer to Baden-Baden with Baden-Baden City Tour and Get-together at Elan incubator center
- Tour 3: Stuttgart with focus on Automotive, Engineering, New Mobility
o Start at M.Tech Accelerator: Introduction to the start-up-ecosystem Stuttgart
o Visit Arena 2036 and presentation from Startup Autobahn/ NAiSE/ ThingOS
o Visit an automotive company
- Tour 4: Freiburg with focus on Green Economy and Microsystemtechnology
o Start at Kreativpark Lokhalle with <SMART> GREEN Accelerator: Introduction to the start-up-ecosystem Freiburg
o Visit badenCampus-Accelerator
o Visit a company of microTEC Cluster
Day 2, Tuesday 5th of February 2019:
- Tour 1: Walldorf and Heilbronn with focus on IoT, Big Data and Industry 4.0
o Start at innoWerft Walldorf with Up2B-Accelerator: Introduction to the start-up-ecosystem Mannheim-Heidelberg-Walldorf
o Visit SAP
o Visit a company in the area of Heilbronn related to Industry 4.0 and introduction to the start-up-ecosystem Heilbronn
- Tour 2: Reutlingen and Tübingen with focus on Life Science
o Start at IHK-Academy Reutlingen: Introduction to the start-up-ecosystem Neckar-Alb
o Visit Natural and Medical Sciences Institute (NMI) and Techologyparks Tübingen-Reutlingen (TTR)
o Visit a company with focus on Life Science
- Tour 3: Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg with focus on Creative Industries
o Start at Sandbox: Introduction to the start-up-ecosystem Stuttgart
o Visit Filmacademy Ludwigsburg
o Visit a company from the Film and Media Center Ludwigsburg
- Tour 4: Ostwürttemberg and Ulm with focus on Photonics
o Start at IHK Ostwürttemberg: Introduction to the Start-up-region Ostwürttemberg
o Visit Zeiss
o Visit TFU - Start-up and innovation center: Introduction to the Start-up-region Ulm
o Visit Philips GmbH U-L-M Photonics
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Contact:
Nina Lehfer
Regional Manager China & Start-ups
Department International Economic Cooperation and Location Marketing
BADEN-WÃœRTTEMBERG INTERNATIONAL
Agency for International Economic and Scientific Cooperation
Haus der Wirtschaft – Willi-Bleicher-Str. 19 – 70174 Stuttgart – Germany
Phone: +49(0)711.22787 -61 – Fax: +49(0)711.22787 -22
E-Mail: nina.lehfer@bw-i.de – Internet: www.bw-i.de
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Registered at: Stuttgart – Reg. No.: Stuttgart, HRB 11771 – Ust.-ID. Nr. (VAT ID): DE 147814501
CEO: Dr. Kai Schmidt-Eisenlohr
Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board: Dr. Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut, Minister of Economic Affairs, Labour and Housing
