It’s the 14th edition of Forum UnternehmerTUM. Mastering future challenges has always been at the core of this networking conference. In 2022, we supplement visions with tangible impulses from forward thinkers and doers. This year’s Forum UnternehmerTUM turns the spotlight on the topics Future Start-up DNA, NextGen2042, and Leading AI.
International speakers, including start-up founders, scientists, and investors from well-known companies will discuss these topics extensively and give exciting impulses. In addition, partners and start-ups of the flourishing UnternehmerTUM innovation ecosystem will showcase their journeys, projects, and success stories.
Opening
Impulses: entrepreneurial, sustainable, human
What has to be done to ensure that Germany will still be a leading location for innovation in 20 years' time? Our host Jennifer Sarah Boone will guide you through three eclectic panels referring to this huge question, setting the focus on the topics “Future Start-up DNA”, “Leading AI” and “NextGen 2042”.
Main Stage
IMPULSE
03:00 pm
PANEL | The Perfect Ecosystem
3:05 pm
PANEL | Next Gen - Planning Ahead Sustainably and Putting Humans Back into Focus
3:15 pm
Deep Dive - Future Start-up DNA
It is the start-ups, innovative companies and creative people who take on the problems of our time and find solutions to climate change, pandemics, world hunger and much more. They can change our world for good. Therefore, we have to enable them - whether it is by infrastructure, financing or sustainability goals.
For 20 years, UnternehmerTUM has been successfully working towards these ambitions together with a strong ecosystem. UnternehmerTUM wants to inspire other universities in Germany to establish the field of entrepreneurship as a "third mission" alongside research and teaching at the universities and to produce more innovations through start-ups to sustainably foster the success of key technologies.
Entrepreneurship Stage
IMPULSE
4:00 pm
PANEL | Transforming Cities and Industries towards a Circular Economy
04:10 pm
PANEL | Too Early for ESG? – The Importance of Sustainable Investing
04:45 pm
PANEL | Enabling the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
05:30 pm
Deep Dive - Leading AI
As an entire paradigm shift, Artificial Intelligence changes the way machines are programmed and operated. As such, it is also changing our entire economic system and our understanding of it, offering at the same time numerous opportunities and economic chances.
But when it comes to Artificial Intelligence, Europe is still not catching up with China and the USA. The pandemic has once again ruthlessly revealed: We need better support for important key technologies so that we can respond to change. Nevertheless, artificial intelligence must be used responsibly and in a human-centered way. The sustainable and responsible use of AI is the focus of applied AI, the initiative to accelerate the application of AI by UnternehmerTUM, and puts the wishes and needs of people in the center
AI Stage
KEYNOTE | Global Trends in AI (followed by Q&A session)
04:00 pm
PANEL | State of European AI
04:30 pm
PANEL | Founding AI Start-ups in Germany
05:05 pm
PRESENTATION | Whitepaper: AI in Climate
05:45 pm
Deep Dive - NextGen 2042
Successful family businesses secure the economic prosperity of our country. They are key drivers of innovative strength and are characterized by special quality standards, a sense of responsibility and sustainability goals. They are the ones who can promise stability, even in times of crisis! SMEs and their family businesses are rightly regarded as the backbone of the German economy: 58% of all employees here generate 52% of the German gross domestic product (Stiftung Familienunternehmen).
Nevertheless, they are facing greater challenges than ever: digitization, family succession, structural change, accelerated markets and the development of new business models, to name just a few buzzwords. With the help of innovative working methods and the application of new technologies, the new initiative "FamilienUnternehmerTUM" would like to accompany established and medium-sized companies on their journey towards ecological-technological change.
NextGen Stage
INTRO | Why Familienunternehmertum?
04:00 pm
IMPULSE | The Importance of Ecosystems for Family Businesses
04:05 pm
IMPULSE | NextGen4Bavaria and the Role of Family Business for Digital Bavaria
04:15 pm
PANEL | Surprising, Unexpected Cooperations are Needed for the Next Generation of Hidden Champions and a Sustainable Future
04:25 pm
PANEL | New Concepts for Family Business Succession are Needed – How to Close the Gap?
05:05 pm
Corporate Stage
Beginning at 6 pm, you can experience successful stories of “How we turn vision into values”, in our Partner Stage. In a relaxed Fireside-Chat atmosphere, UnternehmerTUM and its partners will present three interesting use cases. Afterwards, you will have the opportunity to engage with our partners in follow-up conversations and to discuss how you can turn visions into values.