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IFA NEXT Innovation Engine Program
Sharing Innovative Ideas.
What does the future look like? IFA NEXT always provides fascinating answers to this question on its stage, presented by research institutes, start-ups, associations and other experts from industry and science.
Digital technologies for health, fitness and wellness, the smart lifestyle and robots that are becoming increasingly suitable for everyday use through the use of artificial intelligence - these are just a few examples of the content of the exciting stage program.
Expert presentations with background information and panel discussions bring the future within reach.
Program IFA 2022
02 September, Hall 20
| Start | End | Slot Title | Who? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:30 a.m. | 10:45 a.m. | Increase your reach and sales – How consumer electronic brands grow strategically on Amazon | Henry Krause Vertriebsleiter bei MOVESELL GmbH |
| 10:45 a.m. | 11:00 a.m. | Global Market Access – a challenge for manufacturers and importers | Michael Wenzel Global Category Manager bei VDE Institute |
| 11:00 a.m. | 11:15 a.m. | Status quo mobile and fiber optic expansion in Germany | Sven Butler Stellv. Leiter bei Gigabitbüro des Bundes |
| 11:15 a.m. | 11:30 a.m. | The future of payments | Mara Vendramin CEO bei My-Money |
| 11:30 a.m. | 11:45 a.m. | How to be fast in a sluggish industry? | Moritz Schüller CEO bei BEEZER Technologies GmbH |
| 11:45 a.m. | 12:00 p.m. | Consumer Hardware: our learnings on the way from idea to mass production | Wachtang Budagaschwili CEO at Heatle (Brandbrandnew UG) |
| 12:00 p.m. | 12:45 p.m. | The evolution of video games through new immersive technologies | Max Sacker Creative Director at Anotherworld VR Sven Häberlein CEO at Trotzkind Benjamin Heese CEO at Feelbelt Adrien Vives Commercial Director at Actronika Thierry Baujard (Moderation) Co-Founder at SpielFabrique UG |
| 1:00 p.m. | 1:30 p.m. | Road to the Metaverse | Tino Krause Regional Director Central Europe at Meta |
| 1:30 p.m. | 1:45 p.m. | Shifting the Consumer Electronics Industry with clean endless energy for everyday products | Giovanni Fili Gründer & CEO bei Exeger |
| 1:45 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. | Communicating machines are our future! | Dr. Corinna Sinzig Director Venture Development bei Next Big Thing AG |
| 2:35 p.m. | 3:05 p.m. | Startup crisis? What is the situation in the (German) ecosystem? | Jannis Gilde Project Manager Research at Bundesverband Deutsche Startups e.V. Tayla Sheldrake Head of Startup Success at MotionLab ML Anja Rath Managing Partner at PropTech1 |
| 3:05 p.m. | 3:25 p.m. | Startup Stories: Qonto Hypergrowth: How to keep innovating while scaling | Torben Rabe Country Director of Qonto Germany at Qonto |
| 3:25 p.m. | 3:45 p.m. | Nature-Backed Crypto Currencies: The Future of a Regenerative Economy | Niklas Terrahe Co-Founder bei Ivy |
| 3:45 p.m. | 4:45 p.m. | Startup Pitches: Explosiv Trends | Björn-Christian Ningel Referent Ehrenamt bei Startup-Verband Jannis Gilde Projektleiter Research bei Bundesverband Deutsche Startups e.V. Nadine Obermeier Head of Marketing bei MotionLab Berlin Tayla Sheldrake Head of Startup Success bei MotionLab ML |
| 4:45 p.m. | 5:10 p.m. | How NFTs are used to finance real-world assets | Romina Bungert CFO bei Centrifuge Network Foundation |
| 5:10 p.m. | 5:25 p.m. | Startup Pitches: Explosiv Trends | Björn-Christian Ningel Referent Ehrenamt bei Startup-Verband Jannis Gilde Projektleiter Research bei Bundesverband Deutsche Startups e.V. Nadine Obermeier Head of Marketing bei MotionLab Berlin Tayla Sheldrake Head of Startup Success bei MotionLab ML |
03 September, Hall 20
04 September, Hall 20
| Start | End | Slot Title | Who? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:30 a.m. | 10:45 a.m. | WINIA’s Nano ElectroSpray Air Sterilizer | Yeheon Lee IP Assistant Manager at WINIA CO., Ltd. |
| 10:45 a.m. | 11:00 a.m. | The Astonishing Possibilities of Integrated Electrostatic Technology | Thomas Nguyen Mechnical Design Engineer at Creative Technology Europe GmbH |
| 11:00 a.m. | 11:15 a.m. | Let us introduce you to the Home of Th Future: Smart. Efficient, Sustainable | Sitao Ma Vice President of Connected Systems & CTO Home and Distribution at Schneider Electric |
| 11:15 a.m. | 11:30 a.m. | Changing the way we eat | Amit Jaura Co-Founder & CEO at Steambox: The Self-Heating Lunchbox |
| 11:30 a.m. | 11:45 a.m. | BeHome – Smart Senior Living: Digital Solutions and All-Incl-Service for a better life at home! | Prof. Dr. Arno Elmer Founder & Manager at Better@Home Service GmbH |
| 11:45 a.m. | 12:00 p.m. | A Study on IoT and Smart Home Market | Dong Uook Lee General Director of Technology at i-factory Co., Ltd. |
| 12:00 p.m. | 12:45 p.m. | Consumer Technology Trends 2022 – Keep Safety and Security in Mind | Christian Groß Regional Director EMEA at IEEE Consumer Technology Society Prof. Dr. Wahab Almuhtadi President at IEEE Consumer Technology Society Sven Öhrke Managing Director at VDE Global Services GmbH |
| 1:00 p.m. | 1:15 p.m. | How Green Can a Smartphone Be? What Life Cycle Assessments Tell About Modular Devices | David Sánchez Researcher at Fraunhofer IZM Thea Kleinmagd Circular Material Chains Innovator at Fairphone Karsten Schischke Group leader Product Ecodesign and Circular Materials at Fraunhofer IZM |
| 1:15 p.m. | 1:30 p.m. | The six pillars of Enterprise Metaverse | Federico Guidi CEO at Realmore |
| 1:30 p.m. | 1:45 p.m. | No one knows what the boa snake swallowed | Daeyong Kim CEO at the Little Cat |
| 2:30 p.m. | 2:35 p.m. | Startup-Days: What’s coming next? – Forming the Future | Teresa Heidemann Startup-Verband |
| 2:35 p.m. | 3:05 p.m. | Gesundheit meets Innovation - Chancen und Herausforderungen im Gesundheitswesen | Christoph Stresing Geschäftsführer at Startup-Verband Valerie Kirchberger Chief Medical Officer & Managing Director at heartbeat medical Dr. med. Johanna Ludwig Orthopaedic Surgeon at Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin |
| 3:05 p.m. | 3:25 p.m. | Startup Stories Visiblr | Dr. med. Su-Zeong Fröhlich Founder at Visiblr |
| 3:45 p.m. | 4:45 p.m. | Startup Pitches: Health | |
| 4:45 p.m. | 5:10 p.m. | Founder Stories | Santhosh Jayaprakash Founder & CEO at Ankercloud |
| 5:10 p.m. | 5:25 p.m. | Announcement winner of the day | Vanusch Walk Referent Research at Startup-Verband Jannis Gilde Project Manager Research at Bundesverband Deutsche Startups e.V. |
05 September, Hall 20
| Start | End | Slot Title | Who? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 a.m. | 11:15 a.m. | Save lives and protect the planet – impact innovation in action | Christoph Burkhardt CEO & Advisor at OneLife |
| 11:15 a.m. | 11:30 a.m. | Ready for the age of circular services? Trends, strategies & fields of action for brands | Sebastian Daus Co-Founder & CEO at FixFirst |
| 11:30 a.m. | 11:45 a.m. | Uniting businesses and individuals to fight the plastic problem | Christian Rühlmann CEO at precycle |
| 11:45 a.m. | 12:00 p.m. | Microplastics: small size, big consequences | Adam Root Founder & CEO at Matter. |
| 12:00 p.m. | 12:45 p.m. | New eco-design regulations and energy efficiency labelling for smartphones and tablets | Thea Kleinmagd Circular Material Chains Innovator at Fairphone Steffen Wasmus Senior Lifecycle Manager at Deutsche Telekom Susie Siouti Chief Commercial Officer at SmartViser Andreas Halatsch Energy Efficiency at UBA (Federal Environment Agency) Maarten Depypere Policy Engineer at iFixit Karsten Schischke Group leader Product Ecodesign and Circular Materials at Fraunhofer IZM |
| 1:00 p.m. | 1:15 p.m. | How to make consumer electronics more sustainable AND (still) profitable? | Robin Angelé Head of the German Office at Kooperative Commown |
| 1:15 p.m. | 1:30 p.m. | Data use, but sustainably! | Jessica Dittmar CMO at polypoly |
| 1:30 p.m. | 1:45 p.m. | CONSUMER TECH GOES GREEN: WHY NOW | Nehir Boyacioglu Co-Founder at Vahaa Smart Garden |
| 1:45 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. | The LED of acoustics – How MEMS microspeakers will revolutionize the wearables industry | Ferruccio Bottoni CEO at USound |
| 2:30 p.m. | 2:35 p.m. | Startup Days: Why are we doing this? – The Impact Factor | Flynn Jacobs Werkstudent at Kultur Büro Elisabeth GgmbH |
| 2:35 p.m. | 2:55 p.m. | Startup Stories: Enpal. | Wolfgang Gründinger Chief Evangelist at Enpal |
| 2:55 p.m. | 3:45 p.m. | Nachhaltigkeit und Innovation – wie Startups die Transformation der Wirtschaft vorantreiben können | Wolfgang Gründinger Chief Evangelist at Enpal Thomas Heilmann MdB & Vorsitzender der KlimaUnion at CDU Franziska Teubert Managing Director at Startup-Verband |
| 3:45 p.m. | 4:45 p.m. | Startup Pitches: Impact | Flynn Jacobs Werkstudent at Kultur Büro Elisabeth GgmbH Alexandra Ortloff Teamleitung Politik at Startup-Verband Franziska Teubert Managing Director at Startup-Verband Rayk Reitenbach Investment Director at IBB Ventures |
| 4:45 p.m. | 5:10 p.m. | Impact in India | Julian Zix Project Lead at GINSEP (German Indian Startup Exchange Program) Amrita Gandikota India Representative GINSEP at PrimedinFabrik, GINSEP |
| 5:10 p.m. | 5:25 p.m. | Announcement winner of the day | Flynn Jacobs Werkstudent at Kultur Büro Elisabeth GgmbH Alexandra Ortloff Teamleitung Politik at Startup-Verband Franziska Teubert Managing Director at Startup-Verband Rayk Reitenbach Investment Director at IBB |
06 September, Hall 20
| Start | End | Slot Title | Who? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:30 a.m. | 10:45 a.m. | Perception as Design Element in Building Immersive Experiences – A Powerful Tool or Unethical Intrus | Kaja Elena Brile CTO at Testavimo Tcechnologijos / Olie |
| 10:45 a.m. | 11:00 a.m. | A world without language barriers - is AI the answer? | Bernd Korz CEO at alugha GmbH |
| 11:00 a.m. | 11:15 a.m. | Life-Ready AI | Mahesh Makhijani VP Business Development at GrAI Matter Labs |
| 11:15 a.m. | 11:30 a.m. | How Augmented Robotics Contributes to the Future of the Metaverse | Tony Nitschke Managing Director at Augmented Robotics GmbH |
| 11:30 a.m. | 11:45 a.m. | Hearing Wellbeing Breakthrough: Best Sound Personalization & Safe Listening for Consumer Electronics | Philipp Skribanowitz Founder & CEO at Mimi Hearing Technologies |
| 12:00 p.m. | 12:15 p.m. | Providing Protection Where Prevention Fails – Wearable Airbag Solutions | Jenny Messikommer International Operations Manager at Safeware Inc. |
| 12:15 p.m. | 12:30 p.m. | The Potential of Motion: Electrode-less Acquisition of ECG Signals by Applying the Guardio Technology | Dr.-Ing. Marian Haescher Senior Researcher (future CEO Guardio-Startup) at Fraunhofer IGD Rostock / zukünftig Guardio-Startup |
| 12:30 p.m. | 12:45 p.m. | Designing medical technology with clinical research to deliver a 5X improvement in Genito- Pelvic Pain | Dr. Soumyadip Rakshit Co-Founder & CEO at MysteryVibe |
| 12:45 p.m. | 1:00 p.m. | Pact, the world's first smart muscle recovery system | Steve Muttram CRO at Impact Biosystems, Inc. |
| 1:00 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. | Italy&France get together for future innovation | Mirko Bretto COO at Domethics srl Mara Vendramin CEO at My-Money Manuel Crotti Business Developer at Security Pattern Andrea Pepini Project Engineer at Beexlab srl |
| 2:30 p.m. | 2:35 p.m. | Startup Days: What makes us complete? – Diversity in the Ecosystem | Lisa Meissner Co-Founder & CEO at MERSOR |
| 2:35 p.m. | 3:00 p.m. | Migrant Founders in Deutschland – Chancen & Herausforderungen | Benjamin Wilkening Vision Lab Partner at Earlybird Vanusch Walk Referent Research at Startup-Verband Kurosch Daniel Habibi Founder & Co-CEO at CARL Franziska Teubert Managing Director at Startup-Verband |
| 3:00 p.m. | 3:30 p.m. | How can we create a more level playing field for women entrepreneurs? | Carla Schell Head of Platform at Auxxo Female Catalyst Fund Karla Schönicke Venture Scout at Ananda Impact Ventures Leonie Moos Partnerin at Grace Accelerator / ignore gravity Birte Gall Co-Founder at Heritas GmbH |
| 3:30 p.m. | 3:45 p.m. | Startup Stories: Netzwerk Chancen | Natalya Nepomnyashcha Founder & CEO at Netzwerk Chencen NC gUG (haftungsbeschränkt) |
| 3:45 p.m. | 4:45 p.m. | Startup Pitches: Dimensions | Lisa Meissner Co-Founder & CEO at MERSOR Vanusch Walk Referent Research at Startup-Verband Niclas Vogt Pressesprecher & Leiter Kommunikation at Startup-Verband Franziska Teubert Managing Director at Startup-Verband |
| 4:45 p.m. | 5:10 p.m. | New Work – New Leadership | Lisa Meissner Co-Founder & CEO at MERSOR |
| 5:10 p.m. | 5:25 p.m. | Announcement winner of the day | Lisa Meissner Co-Founder & CEO at MERSOR Vanusch Walk Referent Research at Startup-Verband Niclas Vogt Pressesprecher & Leiter Kommunikation at Startup-Verband Franziska Teubert Managing Director at Startup-Verband |