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

Especially relevant for Engineering Managers, Software Developers, Architects, Embedded Engineering teams, CIOs, CEOs (Start Ups, SMEs, enterprises), and CTOs.

This session will focus on the issues related to automotive software management today and how to resolve some of these issues through modern toolchains and how ML on source code and big code approaches can be leveraged to deliver powerful solutions to development teams.

Software development teams focus their time and effort on developing new features, correct problems, respond to defects, and change handling. When done proactively, the teams are able to create, design, and work on features and tests in a structured and productive way to create value for the projects and organization. On the other hand, a reactive approach would lead to unplanned work, interruptions, and errors forcing the teams to focus less thereby impairing their performances. Due to the project timelin…

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 VCs, Policy Makers, OEMs and Tier 1 Suppliers 

Join BOSCH, TÜV Rheinland and Kontrol while they discuss the next steps to introducing autonomous systems onto our roads and how far away we are from mass-produced and sold autonomous vehicles. This topic is relevant as the introduction of autonomous systems into society will have a huge impact on services as we know them, road safety and overall future operations. Join us in our discussion for the next steps to creating AMAAS.

Learnings will include current lighthouse projects, necessary next steps to autonomy from the perspectives of certification (TÜV), a supplier (Bosch), and a solution provider for autonomous systems with rule-based mathematics (Kontrol).

Especially relevant for Cyber Security experts, compliance experts, and anyone interested in cybersecurity and regulatory compliance in connected cars.

This session will address the growing frustration of automotive players with their complex and practically invisible software supply chain, how it impacts product security and how the industry can overcome those via Cyber Digital Twins technology. We're currently in a PoC with Cybellum, a specialized vendor in enabling automotive players to develop and maintain securely connected components on the Cyber Digital Twins Platform.