Together we're celebrating 5 incredible years of open innovation at STARTUP AUTOBAHN. Throughout our Grand Opening stream, we will hear from top-industry level voices and highlight some of the most innovative, game-changing technologies that have graduated from our program.

Learn what this Open Innovation Platform is all about from our 29 Partners, Champions, and the Plug and Play Team. Plus, meet our Founding Team representatives speak with our Moderator DanRam about the WHY, and celebrate the past 5 years and 10 programs of STARTUP AUTOBAHN in this short video.

We give the stage to the most successful, innovative, and game-changing startups and business units of our current Program 10.

Without further ado, please meet the current batch: Atlatec, Beeplanet, Brighter AI, Cybellum, Delicious Data, DesignLED, Drishti, Dycotec Materials, Embold, Endel, Excelfore, German Autolabs, Gestoos, Kontrol, NODAR, NXRT, PeakBoard, PlanCo, Polymertal, PreAct Technologies, S1Seven, Sensel, Spread.ai, Terranet, Textia, Vencortex, Viezo, WheelMe, and Yuri Gravity.

On top of this, meet a small collection of the best of the past 5 years:

Current trends such as carbon-neutral manufacturing and zero-emissions vehicles demonstrate the growing significance of sustainability in the automotive industry. These trends are not just driven by the introduction of stricter emissions regulations, but also by greater awareness of environmental issues within our society and a growing interest among consumers in sustainable and innovative vehicles.

Today’s panel discusses the vehicle of the future across the whole value chain and how companies can achieve their sustainability goals by aiming towards a fully integrated transport ecosystem

We give the stage to STARTUP AUTOBAHN’s extensive network of industry-leading companies, disruptive startups, and world-class VCs.

Speakers are:

• Achim Loeffler, Head of Digitalization, Sustainability and PMO at BASF
• Inga Stoll, Projektmanager Material Efficiency at Bosch
• Andy Grau, Innovation Manager at Porsche
• Serge Gaudin, Director, Sustainability & Strategy at Novelis

We will discuss the following questions:

• What parts of the supply chain constitute the biggest pain points and should be addressed first for a circular economy?
• How can you improve those processes in a globalized world?

Especially relevant for OEMs and Tiers, Sustainability, Digital, Supply Chain, and Procurement.

In this session, we will present the concept of tokenization and a proposal for a digital Certificate of Analysis (CoA). The combination of the two will be an important enabler for sustainable products and a circular economy. Additional topics: Data privacy, Interoperability, Usage control, Traceability, and Quality CoA as an enabler for Circular Economy

What learnings or insights will the participants take away from the session?

In the last year, we have experienced an acceleration of the digitalization efforts across almost all industries - this is changing the expectations of customers.

As the number of digital innovation projects we are running increases, we propose it is time to share experiences and learn from others on what works and what does not.

In this session, we will share hard-learned management lessons on how to run digital innovation projects. With a panel of industry partners, we will get an overview of the challenges and tips on how to overcome them.

At our EXPOs we always try to answer some of the most challenging questions our corporate partners are currently facing. Even though the last months were strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, the topic of sustainability, in all its facets, is still very relevant for every company, no matter from which industry. As companies follow different strategies in order to reach their sustainability goals and to implement their zero net strategies, the panel seeks to answer the question of how companies can …