Titans of Europe spotlights Europe's most innovative scale-ups. These fast-paced, TED-style sessions will showcase 4 Novel AI scale-ups.

Our goal is simple: to give Europe's most promising tech innovators a platform to demonstrate their breakthrough technologies to a curated audience of enterprise customers, investors, and ecosystem players.

Stick around for the last 15 minutes of this session for Give & Ask: an open mic where you can pitch your startup, share a bold idea, or ask for what you need. 90 seconds, first come, first served.

Titans of Europe spotlights Europe's most innovative scale-ups. These fast-paced, TED-style sessions will showcase 3 Bio Builders scale-ups.

Our goal is simple: to give Europe's most promising tech innovators a platform to demonstrate their breakthrough technologies to a curated audience of enterprise customers, investors, and ecosystem players.

Stick around for the last 15 minutes of this session for Give & Ask: an open mic where you can pitch your startup, share a bold idea, or ask for what you need. 90 seconds, first come, first served.

Titans of Europe spotlights Europe's most innovative scale-ups. These fast-paced, TED-style sessions will showcase 5 Clean Energy & Circular Economy scale-ups, alongside a keynote from a leading industry expert.

Our goal is simple: to give Europe's most promising tech innovators a platform to demonstrate their breakthrough technologies to a curated audience of enterprise customers, investors, and ecosystem players.

Invite-only workshop to kick off a collaboration with Continental.

If you are not part of this session but want to explore working with Continental, reach out to Jürgen Bilo and Chen Zhang via the platform to request a 1:1 meeting.

Titans of Europe spotlights Europe's most innovative scale-ups. These fast-paced, TED-style sessions will showcase 5 New Space scale-ups, alongside a keynote from a leading industry expert.

Our goal is simple: to give Europe's most promising tech innovators a platform to demonstrate their breakthrough technologies to a curated audience of enterprise customers, investors, and ecosystem players.

Titans of Europe spotlights Europe's most innovative scale-ups. These fast-paced, TED-style sessions will showcase 5 Future of Computing scale-ups, alongside a keynote from a leading industry expert.

Our goal is simple: to give Europe's most promising tech innovators a platform to demonstrate their breakthrough technologies to a curated audience of enterprise customers, investors, and ecosystem players.

Titans of Europe spotlights Europe's most innovative scale-ups. These fast-paced, TED-style sessions will showcase 5 Robotics & Industrial Tech scale-ups, alongside a keynote from a leading industry expert.

Our goal is simple: to give Europe's most promising tech innovators a platform to demonstrate their breakthrough technologies to a curated audience of enterprise customers, investors, and ecosystem players.

Stick around for the last 15 minutes of this session for Give & Ask: an open mic where you can pitch your startup, share a bold idea, or ask for what you need. 90 seconds, first come, first served.

In this session, founders and investors will learn how to engage with SAP through venture partnering, strategic investments, or M&A.

Deepa Gautam-Nigge is Vice President of Corporate Development & Investments at SAP. With extensive experience in corporate venture capital, she focuses on building strategic investment partnerships and strengthening the European deep tech ecosystem through collaborative funding approaches.

Titans of Europe spotlights Europe's most innovative scale-ups. These fast-paced, TED-style sessions will showcase 5 Resilience & Cybersecurity scale-ups.

Our goal is simple: to give Europe's most promising tech innovators a platform to demonstrate their breakthrough technologies to a curated audience of enterprise customers, investors, and ecosystem players.

Stick around for the last 15 minutes of this session for Give & Ask: an open mic where you can pitch your startup, share a bold idea, or ask for what you need. 90 seconds, first come, first served.

Titans of Europe spotlights Europe's most innovative scale-ups. These fast-paced, TED-style sessions will showcase 5 Smart Mobility & Electrification scale-ups, alongside a keynote from a leading industry expert.

Our goal is simple: to give Europe's most promising tech innovators a platform to demonstrate their breakthrough technologies to a curated audience of enterprise customers, investors, and ecosystem players.

René Obermann serves as Chairman of the Board at Airbus and as Chairman of Europe at Warburg Pincus. From 2006 to 2013 René was CEO of Deutsche Telekom.

Ready to decode the software architecture powering tomorrow's vehicles? Get hands-on with the unified superset stack that is revolutionising the automotive industry, where mechanical systems, electrical architectures, and high-performance computing converge. Through practical examples and guided exploration, you will map how traditional carmakers like Volvo Cars are transforming into software-defined vehicle (SDV) companies, and identify concrete entry points for startups in AI, clean energy, and connectivity to plug into this rapidly evolving ecosystem.

Michael Schön brings two decades of experience in space technology at the European Space Agency ESA/ESTEC in collaboration with NASA and eight years at Volvo Cars, leading the Core Computer development in partnership with NVIDIA and later as Technical Director at the Volvo Cars Technology Fund (corporate venture capital).

In this masterclass, Aemal Sayer demonstrates how to build Samantha, a Voice AI Agent that can read your emails and interact with Google Docs, all through a simple phone call. Built with no-code tools like n8n and Vapi, Samantha is a hands-free assistant designed for real-world use, inspired by the AI companion in Her (2013) movie. Aemal regularly calls Samantha using Siri while driving, a real-world example of how voice agents can be both practical and powerful.

The session also introduces Vibe Coding, Aemal’s intuitive, fast-paced approach to building with AI tools. It's a mindset that blends improvisation with automation, empowering creators to go from idea to working prototype in minutes.

For demo and rapid prototyping, Vapi and n8n are used, but the underlying architecture is fully portable. Aemal previously founded VoiceKitt, a self-hosted Voice AI Agent platform inspired by Knight Rider’s KITT, tailored for EU enterprises where privacy, GDPR, and EU AI Act compliance were foundational. This session bridges the journey from quick builds to production-ready, regulation-aligned deployment.

Got legal questions? Book a 1:1 session to chat with two experienced startup lawyers: Peter Möllmann and Maja Riedrich. Whether you’re raising your first round, setting up your company, or just want to make sure you’re on the right track — we're here to give you clear, practical advice tailored to your stage. No suits, no jargon — just real talk to help you move forward.
Book a free slot with Peter or Maja.

Understand how X, The Moonshot Factory, embraces smart risks and early failure. This class shows their approach to problem definition, rapid prototyping, and celebrating failure, providing actionable ways to foster practical innovation in your team. | Alex Zoellner is Project Lead at X, the moonshot factory (formerly Google X), where he has worked since February 2020. Based in Mountain View, California, he brings extensive experience in developing radical technology solutions aimed at solving some of the world's hardest problems.

A gathering of Europe's leading Deep Tech founders and corporate CXOs to launch new collaborations and elevate Europe's Deep Tech ecosystem.

Stew founded Amplify back in 2011, and to date has coached more than 22,000 people in 92 different countries to become confident communicators.

He has Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, Hitachi, AWS, Salesforce, Cambridge University, Arsenal FC and Entrepeneur First on his client list and has helped 400 startups to raise over $9 billion.

He published his first book The Storytelling Hero with Wiley in 2023 and is about to publish his second: “The Confident Communicator Toolkit”. Whoever is in front of him – Senior Executives to engineers, PHD game theorists or startup founders, he is deeply, deeply ambitious for his clients to unlock their voices and unleash a confidence they never knew they had.

He coaches Senior Executives one-to-one, global sales teams and in 2024 he trained 2,000 Microsoft early-in-careers in the Seattle Convention Centre on confidence, vocal skills and presence.

He loves to travel and embrace all that life throws at him – from bhangra dancing with Microsoft graduates in Hyderabad, India, to coaching ex-NASA rocket scientists in the US. He is a big fan of long blacks, an enthusiastic husband and father, a poet and musician.

Securing financing for climate hardware companies involves navigating a complex landscape that goes far beyond standard playbook advice. In this masterclass, we’ll move past the obvious and dive into unconventional, under-discussed strategies that have proven effective in unlocking capital for breakthrough climate technologies.

Jessica Burley is co-author of the Climate Hardware Playbook and Investment Manager at Planet A Ventures, a European venture capital firm that is pioneering a science-based approach to impact measurement. They invest in early stage companies that are highly scalable with potential for significant planetary impact.

This workshop explores solutions to intellectual property (IP) issues when you have a university on your cap table. We will focus on best practices, legal frameworks, and collaboration strategies. Attendees will learn to navigate licensing, patenting, and equity deals to foster innovation, bridge research with commercialization, and drive startup success.

Join us for a compelling Fireside Chat with Max Gulde, CEO of constellr, as he dives into the bold ideas behind his recent call to rethink how we build and scale deep tech ventures - starting with Earth Observation. In conversation with leading German Deep Tech VC Vsquared, Max will unpack why the traditional EO model is broken, how thermal data and sparse sensing can unlock scalable infrastructure from orbit, and what lessons this holds for the wider deep tech ecosystem. From the challenges of scaling hardware-intensive solutions to Europe’s role in shaping the future of deep tech, this session promises sharp insights, candid reflections, and a fresh blueprint for venture-scale innovation in complex technology domains.

AI is fundamentally reshaping how security is built, tested, and governed. Telekom Security is responsible for the Deutsche Telekom Group's global security operations — and also provides this expertise to external customers. As an independent company within the Group, Telekom Security offers highly qualified technology and service solutions, backed by over 1,700 specialists and more than 25 years of experience.

Together with hubraum, Deutsche Telekom’s tech incubator, Telekom Security is launching a joint program to collaborate with startups tackling the next generation of cybersecurity challenges — from AI-based attack simulation to automated privacy enhancement.

In this interactive workshop, you’ll gain insights into Telekom Security’s architecture, explore real-world enterprise security challenges, and learn how your startup can engage with their TelCo Security Program to turn your innovation into real-world impact.

In this session, you will learn how to identify and navigate the critical pitfalls that hinder effective venture clienting programmes. Christian Geiss will share practical strategies to overcome common barriers between corporates and startups, implement sustainable collaboration models, and create genuine competitive advantage through external innovation partnerships.

Christian Geiss is Managing Director at Hy, the strategic consultancy of Axel Springer. With extensive experience in digital transformation and venture clienting, he helps established organisations build effective bridges to the startup ecosystem and implement innovation strategies that deliver measurable business impact.

This session is for founders and senior executives of deep tech startups and scaleups looking to sharpen their leadership capabilities. You’ll explore a leadership framework tailored to deep tech, reflect on your personal style, and leave with a clear action plan.

Key Questions

• Which leadership style fosters both rapid innovation and operational discipline?
• How do I balance short-term execution with long-term vision?
• How can I lead effectively amid technological and market uncertainty?
• How do I scale company culture during periods of growth?
• How do I evolve from a hands-on founder to a strategic leader?

Stefan Gross-Selbeck is a former Senior Partner at BCG with a broad industry network. He has served as CEO of both public and private technology companies for over 20 years.

Register here to join the session: https://lu.ma/bp3vxzk0

​In this Masterclass, we explore the corporate venturing toolbox—focusing on Lean Venture Clienting as a key approach to unlock competitiveness for enterprises. What makes a company truly “startup ready”? What are the lessons from successful corporate–startup collaborations? You’ll learn simple yet powerful ways to measure and communicate the value of startup partnerships—creating transparency, internal alignment, and the foundation to scale what works.

​Hosted by Christian Hüttenhein and Tobias Gutmann, authors of Venture Clienting: How to Partner with Startups to Create Value.

​Christian founded and led Bosch Industry Consulting, co-founded Open Bosch—the Venture Client Unit of the Bosch Group—and Pexus Ventures to drive venture clienting excellence.

​Tobias is Associate Professor at EBS University and Co-Founder of Pexus Ventures. With a background at Siemens and in academic research, he helps corporates design and scale effective venture client strategies.

Are you developing breakthrough technologies and thinking of your next capital raise to fuel your growth? If yes and you feel that the fundraising challenges in the deep tech area are exacerbated, particularly in the current economic climate, you are definitely not alone. In this masterclass we’ll navigate together through these hurdles and address how the European innovation Council (EIC) and EIC Fund in particular, the largest European deep tech fund, could be an ideal partner to support your lifecycle funding needs from seed to growth. Drawing on past experience we’ll discuss some do's and don'ts when positioning and marketing your company to prospective growth investors, with a specific focus on EIC funding.

Jussi Hätönen is the Head of the EIC Fund investment team at the European Investment Bank.  Within the past few years the EIC Fund has invested well over 1 billion euros across close to 300 European deep tech companies. He holds a doctorate degree in Economics and Business Administration and has 15 years (give or take) of experience in financing technology start-ups and growth companies.

Deeptech startups face a unique challenge: securing critical funding early – before a product, customers or revenue. This session breaks down proven strategies to bridge that gap – securing industry pilots, tapping into grants and attracting early-stage investors – while de-risking technology and building a strong funding roadmap from day zero.

Instead of copying “best practices” from hot startups or making things up on the fly, founders that scale up need to build HR practices that are tightly aligned with their strategy and culture. The role of HR is not to make employees happy—it’s to foster the behaviors that create value for the customer. 
This masterclass is targeted at Seed+ startups and led by Sebastian Ross, Professor at IESE Business School and expert in organizational transformation and purpose-driven leadership. He brings decades of experience helping scaleups and corporates align people, purpose, and performance.

Building a Deep Tech company is hard. Building a global industry superpower is even harder. Learn how to develop a leading presence in the U.S. from Europe, form alliances with companies and investors that give you an unfair advantage, and build the defensive moats to be an industry heavyweight.

In this interactive masterclass, Egon Zehnder draws on decades of experience working with founders on their leadership skills.

First, we explore three core sources of motivation: Achievement, Affiliation, and Power. A growing organization needs to find balance between these sources of motivation in order to scale and achieve success.

We'll then introduce the concept of polarities — inherently contradicting positions in leadership that must be balanced, not solved. Motivation is one of them. The polarity between sales led and product led approaches or the polarity between founder mode and manager mode are others. In this session we will discuss some of the fundamental challenges and opportunities that emerge from holding these polarities.

 Participants can expect a mix of reflection, peer learning, and practical approaches. They’ll leave with tools to:

• Identify their dominant motivation and its impact
• Balancing sources of motivation within a leadership team
• Understanding both sides of a polarity and finding a good balance

This will be a highly interactive session. Participants should arrive prepared to share their experiences and listen deeply to others.

We explore the next arenas of competition based on a comprehensive analysis by the McKinsey Global Institute, argue why DeepTech could be Europe’s future number 1 “must win competing ground” and how we see early indicators of success for a thriving ecosystem generating societal and economic returns. We then discuss with investors and corporates on what is needed to fully capture the potential, and how each participant of the ecosystem can and should contribute.

What better way to wrap up day two of DTM25 than over a drink and bratwurst? 

Join us for the DTM BBQ Night at our iconic venue, Napoleon Komplex. It’s an opportunity to meet, mingle and share learnings with fellow Founders, Investors, Corporate Leaders and Ecosystem Players attending this year's event. 

Register here.

​It wouldn’t be a conference in Berlin without an epic afterparty. And this year for Deep Tech Momentum, we’ll be celebrating at one of the city's most iconic clubs: MS Hoppetosse. 

Whether you’re looking to spark new conversations or you’re ready to dance the night away, our curated floors ensure that you can have the experience you’re looking for. 

Register here.