Learn what this Open Innovation Platform is all about from our 30 Partners, Champions, the Plug and Play Team, as well the Board Members of the Partners. Plus, meet our representation of the Founding Team, speaking with our Moderator DanRam about the WHY.

• Sascha Karimpour, Managing Director at Plug & Play Germany GmbH
• Philipp Gneiting, Head of Open Innovation at Mercedes-Benz AG

Saeed will share his view on the latest development of Innovation on a global scale, covering VC activities and global emerging trends in various industries. 

At our EXPOs we always try to answer some of the most challenging questions our corporate partners are currently facing. Even though the last months were strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, the topic of sustainability, in all its facets, is still very relevant for every company, no matter from which industry. As companies follow different strategies in order to reach their sustainability goals and to implement their zero net strategies (based on the European Green Deal), the panel seeks to answer the question of how collaboration between major industry firms and startups across industries can facilitate solutions for the companies to reach these goals. By looking at the topic from different perspectives along the value chain, the panelists will share their experiences of such partnerships and discuss the challenges and central learnings of the collaboration processes.

We give the stage to the most successful, innovative and game-changing startups and business units of our current Program 8. On September 24th you can watch all 27 Projects, today we will give you a sneak peek in 4 Projects.

Pilot Project Mobility: "Speech Recognition – Understood by Your Car"

• Hi Auto – Roy Baharav, CEO & Co-Founder
• Porsche – Marius Schach, Development Engineer; Hadar Pode, Director Porsche Digital Israel

Pilot Project Production: "Pioneering a Connected & Wireless Transmission Infrastructure for Meters inside Industrial Buildings"

• Nexmachina – Silvia Montoya, CTO
• Daimler – Juan Jose Vitoria, Engineer at facility management

Pilot Project Enterprise: "Everybody Can Speak Chinese"

• Synthesia – Nadia Eslami, VP Business Development & Patrnerships
• TüV – Phillip Meyers, Head of Innovation Academy & LifeCare

Pilot Project Sustainability: Surprise

Stay tuned, who will receive the Plug and Play Global Innovation Award for outstanding collaboration. With the Global Innovation Award the Silicon Valley investor and Innovation Platform Plug and Play Tech Center reward outstanding innovative projects of STARTUP AUTOBAHN partners, which have successfully combined their expertise with startups to meet the digital challenges of the future.

STARTUP AUTOBAHN is honored to welcome two new industry partners to the platform to work together on the Future of Mobility, Production, and Enterprise 2.0.

Guy possesses an extensive knowledge of innovation, entrepreneurship, social media, and marketing.

First and foremost, he is an evangelist. The term comes from a Greek word that means "bringing the good news."

That's what he does--whether it was the good news of Macintosh or currently the good news of Canva, an online graphics-design firm.

He aligns with companies and causes that empower people, foster democracy, and make the world a meritocracy.

In addition to his work at Canva, he is the creator of the Remarkable People podcast where he interviews people such as Jane Goodall, Woz, Stephen Wolfram, Arianna Huffington, and Kristi Yamaguchi.

Specialties: innovation, entrepreneurship, podcasting, marketing, podcasting, and social media.