Tech Festival 2017
Tech Festival 2017
The Tech Festival
The Tech Festival showcases the top 3 global start-ups from the different categories of the Start Up Energy Transition Award. Next to the finalist pitches, the start-ups of successful accelerators from our network are being showcased in an exhibition area and have the chance to meet potential corporate customers and investors through new matchmaking platforms.
Workshops stimulate new business models by connecting the best of all interdisciplinary stakeholders. This, together with prominent keynotes and panels, brings the spirit of large tech events to the energy space.
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Speakers 2017
Dr. Ana S. Trbovich
Co-Founder of Grid Singularity
Mustafa Suleyman
Co-Founder & Head of Applied AI at Google Deep Mind
Thomas Birr
Senior Vice President Innovation & Business Transformation of Innogy
Dr. Matthias Dill
Managing Director at Statkraftventures
Lei Zhang
Chief Executive Officer of Envision Energy
Peter Terium
CEO Innogy
Christopher Burghardt
Head of Policy and Communications Uber Technologies
Dr. Jeremy Leggett
Founder Solarcentury & SolarAid
Jules Kortenhorst
CEO Rocky Mountain Institute
Dirk Ahlborn
CEO Hyperloop Technologies
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stephan Reimelt
President GE Germany & Austria
Philipp Schröder
Managing Director of Sonnen GmbH
Lisa Besserman
Founder of Startup Buenos Aires
Claus Wattendrup
CEO of Vattenfall Europe Innovation GmbH
The Challenges 2017
Challenge: Implement the IoT in Energy
Decentralized generation leads to a large-scale implementation of hardware in millions of households and businesses. The distribution, management and monitoring is a big challenge in itself. However, future benefit can be generated by software that makes metering smart and enables consumers to trade and capture values out of data. Read more here!
Challenge: Open Data Sharing in Smart Buildings
In buildings, a variety of devices and assets (like pumps, heating systems, lighting installations, elevators etc.) already collect data and feed central building management systems (BMS) with it.
In most cases, this data is only accessible for the particular facility management and building owner.
Read more here!
Challenge: Disrupt the Mobility Sector
innogy will work together with start-ups tackling today’s problems in people mobility, freight logistics and the many related fields. They invite three start-ups to present their solution to the workshop participants. The innogy team will assess and analyze the start-ups’ potential with an audience comprising of industry experts and ecosystem professionals.
Read more here!
Challenge: How can Blockchain Revolutionize the Energy World?
In a world of distributed energy production, blockchain could be the technology to play a key role in increasing the efficiency of the transactions. Why?
Find out here!
Award Ceremony
For one week of the year, Berlin is the international hotspot for the global energy transition: The Start Up Energy Transition Tech Festival takes place alongside the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue, an international conference, organized by the Federal Foreign Office and the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.
You will meet visitors from all over the world and might even meet ministers at our joint award ceremony!