Are you ready for Digital Week Kiel 2023?

Digital Week Kiel and Silicon Valley are not only closely linked in terms of content: The city partnership between Kiel and San Francisco was signed and celebrated in 2017 during the first DiWo. Since then, the cooperation between the two Bay Areas has become visible in various formats during Kiel's Digital Festival.

This year, Digital Week coincides with the start of the High-flyer start-up competition 2023 which offers start-ups from SH a spectacular study visit to THE start-up hotspot San Francisco. So what could be more natural than to make start-ups and entrepreneurship the focus of this year's program?

During the day, together with cooperation partners such as the state capital of Kiel, StartUp SH e.V., Marketing-Club Schleswig-Holstein and the Northern Germany Innovation Office (NGIO), we therefore organized an event entitled "Silicon Valley x Startups: Accelerate your Success" has put together an exciting program for founders and those interested in founding a company to help you develop your start-up and expand your network in Kiel and the region.

Part 1+2

Meet the Experts: Networking Lunch for start-ups (11.30-13.30)

Come along and take the opportunity to network in a relaxed lunch format and discuss your business models and start-up ideas with experts. Among others, the following experts will be present, including Dr. Anke Rasmus, Chairwoman StartUp SH e.V., Prof. Dr. Carsten Schultz, Kiel University, Kiel Institute for Responsible Innovation (KIRI), Chair of Technology Management, Alexander Ohrt, Co-Founder Waterkant Festival, Philipp Özren, StickTo - Überflieger-Winner 2022, 

• • • • Investment Readiness Check - Waterkant Co-Founder Alexander Ohrt  
      • "Go-To-Market" - investor and entrepreneur Raitschin Raitschew
      • User Experience - UX Expert and Start-Up Coach Laura Müller
      • Internationalization - Foreign Trade Officer Johanna Steding
      • Law
        
        • Lawyer and notary Börrje Schneider
        • Lawyer Eckart Bröcker
      • Finances - Financial coach Ronald Reich
      • Taxes - Tax consultant Matthias Gierke
      • Start-up Service City of Kiel - Katharina Utecht  

As an additional highlight, between 12.00 and 15.00 you will have the opportunity to meet the founders and start-up coach Jonas Mielck exclusive coaching on your pitch skills.

And of course you can find out more about the start of the high-flyer competition 2023, which The Bay Areas e.V., StartUp SH e.V., Marketing-Club SH e.V. and the Ministry of Economic Affairs SH are organizing again this year. From 1.30 pm, you are cordially invited to attend the kick-off press conference with Minister of Economic Affairs Claus Ruhe Madsen and former high-flyer winners.

Registration: Silicon Valley x Start-Ups: Accelerate your Success (Part 1) (digitalewochekiel.de)

In keeping with the day's motto "Accelerate your Success", you can look forward to talks and interactive workshop sessions in the afternoon as part of the Silicon Valley Start-up School: 

• 15.15 "The Secrets of Success: What lessons do companies and previous high-flyers learn?                 Winners from San Francisco with? (with Raitschin Raitschew, Tim Ole Jöhnk, Director of the NGIO San Francisco, among others)
• 15:45 "UX to Boost your Start-up (with Laura MüllerUX Expert and Start-Up Coach) 
•  16.45 AI-based Start-up Toolbox: Building a Start-up with the help of AI (with StackOcean)

 Registration: Silicon Valley x Start-ups: Accelerate your Success (Part 2) (digitalewochekiel.de)

Networking event: Future of Entrepreneurship (18.00 - 20.00)

•  18:00 - 18:30 Get Together
• 18:30 - 18:35 Intro & Welcome
• 18:35 - 19:05 Keynote Florian Dahlhausen"Future of Entrepreneurship - Insights behind the scenes of Silicon Valley" incl. subsequent interview and questions from the audience
• 19:05 - 19:30 Expert talk about trends on the topic of the evening
• from 19:30 Networking

Registration: Future of Entrepreneurship (digitalewochekiel.de)

San Francisco and Silicon Valley are considered one of THE global start-up hotspots. Whether Facebook, Uber, Airbnb or Zoom - all of these success stories started here and have revolutionized the way we communicate, work, travel and access information over the last decade. Today, global challenges such as climate change and future technologies such as generative artificial intelligence are setting new trends in Silicon Valley.

Which ideas are currently popular with founders in Silicon Valley? How is Silicon Valley changing structurally? And what can we learn from the Silicon Valley ecosystem?

Florian DahlhausenStanford MBA student and venture capital investor, will give us an insight into Silicon Valley on Wednesday evening and share current trends in entrepreneurship in the innovation region and Kiel's twin city San Francisco. Florian is currently completing an MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and is chairman of the Stanford German Students Association. At the same time, he works as an Investment Fellow at Pear VC, a leading venture capital investor that invests in early-stage startups. Before his time at Stanford, Florian worked at McKinsey & Company, where he helped build McKinsey's German startup network. He is passionate about topics such as digital health and climate tech, which is also reflected in his podcast "Down to Zero", in which he talks to founders and investors in Silicon Valley about technologies and trends in the field of climate tech.

What do these trends mean for us? What developments are we seeing in Germany? Founders and experts will then discuss this, including

• Dr. Anke Rasmus, Chairwoman StartUp SH e.V.,
• Prof. Dr. Carsten Schultz, Kiel University, Kiel Institute for Responsible Innovation (KIRI), Chair of Technology Management,
• Alexander Ohrt, Co-Founder Waterkant Festival,
• Philipp Özren, StickTo - high-flyer winner 2022,
• Axel Schulz, Managing Partner EUROCON Consultants & Chairman of The Bay Areas e.V.

Incidentally, all events take place in the InnoPier at Kleiner Kiel (Martensdamm 6, 24103 Kiel, former HSH Nordbank building). Not quite downtown San Francisco, but one of Kiel's most beautiful views awaits you on the 9th floor ;).

Please note: For organizational reasons, you must register separately for each program item.

We look forward to seeing you!