new.New Festival – Main Stage

Dienstag, 20. Oktober 2016

Official welcome speech of the new.New Festival 2016 - Ulrich Dietz and Prof. Dr. Weibel welcome all visitors, startups and partners.

The world of smart connected devices is exploding around us. With a NFC chip implant, our interaction with the world of technology becomes a lot easier. And even greater things are waiting around the corner.

Dare to be audacious! Expansive thinking may get you anywhere

Innovation & Growth in the Ecosystem: Big Player Meets Start-up

It is in digital ecosystems that growth will take place in the future – for German key industries and global players alike. But how is this growth achieved in new value networks centered on customer needs? The key to success is the cooperation between large companies and innovative start-ups. This is what our Sprint Chat “Growth in the Ecosystem: Big Player meets Start-up” will focus on by discussing the importance

• of open innovation in today’s digital world
• potential that lies in the cooperation – for both established companies and start-ups
• new business models that emerge from the cooperation
• prerequisites for successful collaboration of these two inherently different types of companies
• potential pitfalls that occur when two fundamentally different cultures meet
• role of the individual in this scenario and how all of it changes the way companies work

Mittwoch, 21. Oktober 2016

Brain the Information. Deep understanding vs. deep learning.

Disruption is right around the corner – and everybody’s searching for the creative minds, new ideas and innovative products to come up with the next big thing. But in fact, the brain is still the one and only organization able to develop something truly new.

But how does the brain organize new ideas? Why are analogous ways of thinking much more powerful than digital informational processing? And what can companies and knowledge workers extract from neurobiology to improve their own creative prowess?

Henning Beck takes a look behind the scenes of the most flawed but also most innovative system in the world. Strictly hierarchical – without a CEO. Completely inefficient – but more powerful than any kind of supercomputer. An effective network thinker – more agile than any optimized company you know of.

A scientific prompt for thinking erroneously, inefficiently, and thereby most innovatively.

Back to the Future of Connected Mobility

Faraday Future, Anki, Bestmile – never heard of these startups? Well you better look them up!

The way we travel around will dramatically change and many startups are already laying the ground for disruptive and innovative developments in the field of connected mobility. We invited a special guest to get first hand insights about connected mobility in 2036. Come join us to this fun and entertaining experience of the future today.

Diversity & Competitiveness – The Female Factor of Digital Disruption

We still view digitization primarily in terms of how it relates to machines and business. However, people are also a part of this digital journey. Especially in the technology sector, it becomes ever clearer that there is an immense reservoir of talent out there, and women are all too frequently overlooked.

So why are our companies having trouble attracting the right talent? What potential are we missing out on here, and why does the "female factor" play such a crucial role in the age of digital disruption and transformation? How can, and should, companies respond to this challenge?

Top 10 Startup Pitches

Be there when our Top 10 CODE_n16 Finalists present their disruptive business models in front of the expert jury live on Main Stage.

The winner of this years CODE_n CONTEST will be announced in the evening during the CODE_n Award Show.

Who has the most ingenious way to unleash digital disruption? Find out at the CODE_n16 Award Show! Be part of this extraordinary night when the best startups will be announced. The cluster patrons and the jury will crown one startup as the best in each cluster, as well as one overall winner.

All you need to join the Award Show is a valid festival ticket for this day. Meet the digital pioneers and enjoy an exciting evening.

Donnerstag, 22. Oktober 2016

Startups | location development | ecosystems

One underestimated key to success for startups is the choice of location. The site of a startup determines whether it has access to needed resources. Additional, several cities and regions offer help for prospective entrepreneurs from which they can benefit. Influential startup hotspots have been established but smaller areas are following.

What can cities and regions do to become more attractive for founders?  What needs to be done to create supporting ecosystems and how can those provide help for young enterprise? Get to know how location development for startups is processing and what needs to be done to improve the attractiveness of a location.

Code of Light - Merging real and virtual Worlds

Germany enjoys success in the very competitive global market for advanced light technology. The name of this field, “photonics,” is a portmanteau blending the word “photons” (the particles that make up light) and “electronics.” Photonics spans optical processes in manufacturing, medicine, and communications, as well as electronic light generation by LEDs and OLEDs.

The German Photonics Research program founded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) promotes innovative technology solutions. In his role as the official speaker for the program’s committee, Dr. Ing. e.h. Peter Leibinger – Vice-Chairman of the Managing Board at TRUMPF GmbH + Co.KG – addresses topics ranging from the opportunities for digitalization that photonics presents to the challenges facing the industry as technologies and business models change.

“Photonics has what it takes to be disruptive,” states Leibinger. “That’s why it is a cluster theme here at CODE_n. Because this sector of industry relies on people who are open to new things, willing to take a chance, extremely well-educated, and show tenacity and persistence.”

Report from Silicon Valley

11:20 Uhr

Design Thinking: Pushing the Creative Power of Teams

While digital information and communication technologies continue to evolve rapidly and spread globally, we think and act mostly still in an old, analog, silo based linear sorting and dividing mode, the „Brockhaus-mode“. At the HPI School of Design Thinking, students and professionals learn to move out of their silos, to collaborate and create solutions in a multidisciplinary cooperative environment. The result: participants gain creative confidence, develop user centered solutions, start companies and change fundamentally their working modes.Prof. Ulrich Weinberg will share some of his insight throughout the past eight years which made him write his latest book „Network Thinking“.

Armin opens a window into the colourful world of 3D-visualisation and digital effects - surprises us about the “truth” of what we believe is “real” and shares with us what he believes will be our “digital reality” in future.