Industry meets Makers started the 6th round

On April 15th 2021 at 3 pm it was that time again! Industry meets Makers entered its 6th round. Due to Covid the 2nd time with a virtual event.

ABB, Energie AG / Wertstatt 8, HP, Infineon, PALFINGER, Phoenix Contact, Salzburg Research, the Smart Textiles Austria Platform, TELE Haase, Microtronics, the VOSS Incubator and the Vienna Business Agency presented 11 exciting future tech challenges, which can be worked on together over the next 6 months.

The topics range from IoT, AI, VR, 3D printing, data, robotics, automation, app development and rapid prototyping to smart production, smart home, smart textiles, new work, electronic waste disposal and the design of interactive learning elements.

Welcome

It started with a welcome by the organisers, supporters and programme partners.

Present were Thom Kunz (moderator / 00:00), Eva Czernohorszky (Vienna Business Agency / 04:33), Sandra Stromberger (founder of Industry meets Makers / 06:20), Prof. Franz Fidler (UAS St. Pölten & Digital Makers Hub / 07:52), Federal Minister Dr. Margarete Schramböck (Federal Ministry for Digitalisation and Economy / 25:07), Claudia Kanonier (Urban Innovation Vienna & DigitalCity.Wien 23:04), Florian Reininger (GEMINI Startup Base / 11:44), Thomas Gruber (Umdasch Group Ventures / 12:25) and Clemens Mayer (Mayer Makes / 13:10) as well as the local network partners – Rosemarie Pichler (Zukunftsakademie Mostviertel / net for future / 15:32), Gabriel Gruber (Business Upper Austria / 16:08), Oliver Wagner (ITG Salzburg / 16:50), Tina Blaser (WISTO / 17:52), Michael Sedlak (Wirtschaftsagentur Burgenland / 18:22), Daniel Krautzer (SFG / 19:12), Paul Erian (BABEG / 19:51), Mario Weikenkas (Standortagentur Tirol & Enterprise Europe Network / 20:38) and Andreas Winkler (NOI Techpark / 21:06).

Industry pitch session

At around 3:30, the pitch session began, during which the industry partners presented their challenges for this year.

Infineon: #discruptCOVID

Günther Wellenzohn, Rafael Gattringer and Ronald Stärz (MCI)

Energie AG / Wertstatt 8: eWaste-Box - join the fight against electronic waste!

Margot Huber, Christian Stein and Karin Dietachmayr

ABB: Industrial use cases with Cobots and Robot Studio

Dario Stojicic and Thomas Makrandreou

HP: Shape the new world of work with VR

Michael Smetana und Martin Szesztanovich

Phoenix Contact: Predictive analytics for production facilities

Thomas Lutzky, Kurt Strasser und Arno Fast

PALFINGER: The top-stop challenge

Christine Spernbauer, Mario Roither und Gerolf Schlager

TELE Haase & Microtronics: The deep tech control cabinet

Christian Bodor, Peter Dollfuss, Sabrina Waldbauer und Stefan Winkler

Salzburg Research / smart textiles and infrastructure for safe cycling

Eva-Maria Hollauf, Severin Bernhart und Dr. Veronika Hornung-Prähauser

Breakout sessions

Afterwards, breakout sessions were held to brainstorm together and delve deeper into the subject matter.

Anyone who would like to get involved in the process from now on is welcome to contact us at any time!


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