This was Forum UnternehmerTUM 2024
Watch our highlight video and see impressions from last year's event
Forum UnternehmerTUM is our invite-only event, where we spark action for a liveable future. Once a year in springtime Forum UnternehmerTUM welcomes hand-picked changemakers and international visionaries.
The Munich Urban Colab, our atmospheric innovation center, with its flowing open-house setting, is its perfect location.
On April, 3 2025 we once again join forces to meet current challenges, to build strong competitiveness and co-create the most effective solutions for a thriving future in Germany and Europe.
Dr. Johanna Bronisch is responsible for topics at the intersection of e-mobility and energy. She heads corporate co-innovation projects, bringing together experts from the mobility, energy and tech sector to jointly built novel solutions and prototypes within a six month program. Her projects focus on electrifying the transport sector, integrating it into a more and more decentral grid and tracing and mitigating CO2-emissions associated e-mobility. Johanna is a trained psychologist and has a PhD in Neuroscience.
Zarah Bruhn is a German social entrepreneur, founder, and CEO of socialbee. Since April 2022, she has been the Commissioner for Social Innovation at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
Socialbee, founded in 2016, helps companies employ and train refugees. Zarah's accolades include the Bavarian State Medal for Social Merit and recognition as Social Entrepreneur of the Year by Handelsblatt. She holds degrees from the University of Mannheim an TU Munich and is an Ashoka Fellow.
Herbert Diess has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Infineon Technologies since 2023. In his previous positions as CEO of Volkswagen AG and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Škoda Auto, Seat, and Audi (2018-2022), he advocated for the further development of electromobility. One of his latest projects is the establishment of a solar factory in Germany.
Stefan Drüssler is passionate about driving innovation and scalable start-ups in Europe. He is responsible for the entrepreneurship education and start-up journeys at UnternehmerTUM. He supports the organization with about 400 employees to thrive for operational excellence, facilitate its international partnerships and organize its major events. Before joining UnternehmerTUM early in 2017, Stefan Drüssler worked as strategy consultant for the Boston Consulting Group.
After international assignments with TÜV Süddeutschland AG, Dr. Werner Götz held key executive roles at EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, including CEO of EnBW Erneuerbare Energien GmbH and Technical Executive at EnBW Erneuerbare und Konventionelle Erzeugung AG. In early 2015, Götz was appointed to the executive board of TransnetBW GmbH. Since 2017, he has been its chairman.
Sabine Nallinger is board member of the Stiftung KlimaWirtschaft, a climate policy initiative of CEOs, managing directors and family entrepreneurs. As a former Munich City Council member for Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (2008–2020), she focused on energy, urban development, and mobility. Today she serves on several committees, including the supervisory board of sustainable AG and Fraport AG.
As Co-CEO of DeepDrive, Felix Pörnbacher is responsible for all entrepreneurial and strategic aspects. He brings valuable expertise from his previous roles as an M&A investment banker at Rothschild & Co in London and Frankfurt and as a start-up advisor and consultant at Deloitte and Simon-Kucher.
Watch our highlight video and see impressions from last year's event