hub.berlin
| hub.berlin | |
|---|---|
 A Bitkom event |
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| Branch | Information technology |
| Place of issue | Berlin station |
| Website | hub.berlin |
| Last exhibition | |
| date | Apr 10, 2019 to Apr 10, 2019 |
| Place of issue | STATION Berlin |
| Visitors | 8,000 |
| Next exhibition | |
| date | Apr 1, 2020 to Apr 2, 2020 |
| Place of issue | Berlin |
The hub.berlin is a congress of the digital association Bitkom , which describes itself as a business Festival, on the topics of digitization of the economy , disruptive business models , technologies and start-ups in Berlin. In 2019 there were around 8,000 participants at the event. The hub.berlin planned for April 1 and 2, 2020, had to be postponed due to restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany .
history
In 2012, Bitkom organized the conference for the first time under the name Bitkom Trend Congress in Kosmos Berlin . The themes of the 2012 event were Mobile Adventures, Social Innovation and Information 2020. A year later, the Trend Congress moved to Station Berlin and focused on the digital economy. The 2014 Trend Congress with 1400 participants took place in Berlin under the motto “Exploring Digital Horizons”. The Bitkom Trend Congress has been going on under the name hub.berlin since 2017 and has been aimed at an international audience ever since.
Speaker selection
At the event, both national and international representatives from large corporations, start-ups, medium-sized companies, venture capital funds as well as from politics and science will speak .
| year | Company, institution | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | SAP | Jim Hagemann Snabe |
| 2012 | Salesforce | JP Rangaswami |
| 2013 | Deutsche Telekom | Timotheus Höttges |
| 2013 | Liberty Global | Michael T. Fries |
| 2014 | OpenLeaks | Daniel Domscheit-Berg |
| 2014 | Federal Ministry of Education and Research | Prof. Dr. Johanna Wanka |
| 2015 | HP Inc. | Shane Wall |
| 2015 | Airbnb | Jeroen Merchiers |
| 2016 | TUI AG | Friedrich Joussen |
| 2017 | Deutsche Post DHL Group | Dr. Frank Appel |
| 2017 | GitHub | Scott Chacon |
| 2019 | Deutsche Telekom | Timotheus Höttges |
Start-up competition: Innovators' Pitch
The international start-up competition Innovators' Pitch has been taking place at hub.berlin since 2014. Young company founders present their business idea in front of the audience and an expert jury. Winners have been awarded in three categories since 2015. The 2017 winners were Blik ( Internet of Things category ), Boca Health (Digital Health category) and Twyla (Travel & Tourism category).
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Digitization requires speed in companies. In: Focus. December 10, 2015.
- ↑ hub conference 2016 with a new record number of participants. In: Bitkom. Retrieved November 24, 2016 .
- ↑ Bitkom Trend Congress: Berlin takes a look into the digital future , t3n - digital pioneers, November 12, 2012.
- ↑ Bitkom organizes trend congress , crn.de, October 22, 2012.
- ↑ Volker Briegleb: Bitkom Trend Congress: Innovation is no longer wearing a suit , Heise-Online, November 26, 2014.
- ↑ Maurice Shahd: The trend congress becomes the hub conference , Bitkom, March 16, 2015.
- ^ Innovators' pitch . In: Get Started: Start-ups in Bitkom . ( getstarted.de [accessed on October 7, 2016]).
- ↑ Start-up competition: Blik, Boca Health and Twyla win Innovators' Pitch 2017 . In: t3n News . ( t3n.de [accessed on January 23, 2018]).