#IMM2022 Future Tech Bootcamp

4 days intensive development session in hybrid format

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in St. Pölten, Salzburg, Linz, Amstetten, Klagenfurt, Vienna And online

From June 26th until June 30th, 2022 we held the 4th edition of our annual future tech bootcamp as part of our ongoing FFG-funded Digital Makers Hub programme and with the kind support of numerous network partners (see more details below).

Thanks to the hospitality of the UAS St. Pölten, our media and event centre could once again be set up directly at the university of applied sciences, from where all live streaming, live direction and also central moderation was organised. In parallel, the premises and infrastructure of various space partners in Austria were also available for our teams. These included the Gemini Startup Base in Hallwang/Salzburg, the Tabakfabrik and its GRAND GARAGE in Linz, the Makerspace Carinthia in Klagenfurt, the MakerSpace[A] in Amstetten and the Happylab in Vienna.

Our agenda this year was dominated by the future tech challenges of our partners Infineon * Tributech * Magenta, Philips Domestic Appliances Austria, Schwarzmüller and the TU Wien, which focused on smart, safe and sustainable IoT solutions, innovative loading applications using AI and sensor technology, new food management solutions for private households, kitchen appliance extensions as well as the search for new use cases for patented technologies in the field of green hydrogen, water desalination and liquid extraction.

In the course of developing new solutions, the teams were actively supported by both the challenge owners and experts from our technology partners. As technology partners on board this time were Trivion / Umdasch Group Ventures, Microtronics, Jabil and Twingz.

Which innovative results could be developed in the short time of the 4 days and which plans will be further pursued with them until our Best of #IMM2022 event on October 20, 2022 at the Digital Days in the Impact Hub Vienna can be seen in the videos below.

We are already very excited to see what else awaits us this year on our way to the finish line!

future tech bootcamp – kick-off (day 1)

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Welcome & Introduction

HOSTS & ORGANISERS

Thom Kunz (moderator), Sandra Stromberger (Industry meets Makers) and Prof. Franz Fidler (UAS St. Pölten & Digital Makers Hub) live from UAS St. Pölten – also on behalf of our numerous supporters and network partners, such as IV Niederösterreich, Smartup St. Pölten, AWS, net for future, Vienna Business Agency, DigitalCity.Wien, Business Upper Austria, ITG Salzburg, WISTO, Tyrol Business Location Agency, BABEG, SFG, Business Agency Burgenland, NOI Techpark Bozen, Enterprise Europe Network, EIT Manufacturing, EIT Health and Photonics Austria, among others.

LOCATION PARTNERS

Andreas Mader (Lisec), Günther Sterlike (Wirtschaftsraum Amstetten), Gerald Kastenhofer (Umdasch Group Ventures) live from MakerSpace[A] in Amstetten, Christoph Weiermair (Tabakfabrik Linz) and Patrick Lamplmair (Tributech) live from the Tabakfabrik Linz, Florian Reininger live from the Gemini Startup Base in Hallwang/Salzburg and Thomas Moser live from the Makerspace Carinthia in Klagenfurt. The team from the Happylab in Vienna and the GRAND GARAGE in Linz have also offered their support if needed.

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Challenge pitches

PHILIPS DOMESTIC APPLIANCES AUSTRIA – THE FOOD PREP CHALLENGE

Jürgen Holzbauer (Philips Domestic Applicances Austria) live from Makerspace Carinthia in Klagenfurt

SCHWARZMÜLLER – WITH SENSORS AND AI TO INNOVATIVE LOADING APPLICATIONS

Stefanie Hörburger and Christoph Schöndorfer (Schwarzmüller) live from the UAS St. Pölten

TU WIEN – THE WATER CHALLENGE

Prof. Michael Harasek (Head of Research Group, Institute of Chemical Engineering, TU Wien) by video conferencing – also on behalf of Kathleen Jimenez-Mühlbacher (Industry Relations Manager, TU Wien) and Daniel Rottenberg (Research and Transfer Support, TU Wien)

INFINEON * TRIBUTECH * MAGENTA – IOT³: SMART, SECURE, SUSTAINABLE

Markus Kleinfercher (Infineon Hub), Patrick Lamplmair (Tributech) and Lena Wostal (Magenta Business) by video conferencing – also on behalf of Martin Gschwandtner (Infineon Linz) and Julian Eder (Infineon Munich) as well as Julia Flath, Michael Bernhofer, Andreas Ascher, Raphael Kapsamer and further team members of Tributech at Tabakfabrik Linz.

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TECH PARTNER PITCHES

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

Thomas Gruber (Trivion / Umdasch Group Ventures) by video conferencing

ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING SERVICES

Julian Schneider by video conferencing on behalf of Martin Bropst (Jabil)

INTERNET OF THINGS

Werner Weihs-Sedivy (Twingz) by video conferencing

INTERNET OF THINGS

Martin Buber (Microtronics) by video conferencing

BLOCKCHAIN

Dr. Chris Baumann live from UAS St. Pölten

Future Tech Bootcamp – Results (Day 4)

WELCOME, INTRODUCTION & SHORT BOOTCAMP RESULTS REVIEW FROM 2019 TILL 2021

Thom Kunz (moderator), Prof. Franz Fidler (UAS St. Pölten & Digital Makers Hub) and Sandra Stromberger (Industry meets Makers) live from UAS St. Pölten, Raphael Kapsamer (Tributech) live from Tabakfabrik Linz, Simon Kranzer and Matthäus Horn (UAS Salzburg) live from Gemini Startup Base Hallwang/Salzburg as well as Jürgen Holzbauer (Philips Domestic Appliances Austria) and Kathleen Jimenez-Mühlbacher (TU Wien) by video conferencing.

PHILIPS DOMESTIC APPLIANCES AUSTRIA – THE FOOD PREP CHALLENGE / A NEW FOOD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM / PROJECT: THE ORANGE IS THE NEW GREEN APP

Jürgen Holzbauer (Philips Domestic Appliances Austria) with Adrian Pinter, Andreas Stettin and Tobias Krendlbacher (HTL Villach) as well as Gloria Bottaro (UAS Kärnten) by video conferencing.

PHILIPS DOMESTIC APPLIANCES AUSTRIA – THE FOOD PREP CHALLENGE / AIR FRYER EXTENSION / PROJECT: THE AIR FRYER BECOMES A STEAM COOKER

Jürgen Holzbauer (Philips Domestic Appliances Austria) by video conferencing with Christof Bauer and Stefan Suppan (UAS St. Pölten) live from the UAS St. Pölten.

INFINEON * TRIBUTECH * MAGENTA – IOT³: SMART, SECURE, SUSTAINABLE / PROJECT: SMART SHELF

Florian Reininger (Gemini Startup Base) with Simon Kranzer, Julian Nöbauer and Matthäus Horn (UAS Salzburg incl. Smart Factory Lab) live from Gemini Startup Base – also on behalf of Prof. Robert Zniva (Retailization 4.0), Daniela Führer, Roland Haidler and a school class of the HAK Liezen, Alexander Honigmann (Zebra Technologies), Reinhard Mayr (COPA-DATA), Gerald Lochner (SalzburgDev, UAS Salzburg and COPA-DATA) and further team members.

INFINEON * TRIBUTECH * MAGENTA – IOT³: SMART, SECURE, SUSTAINABLE / PROJECT: SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY

Florian Daniel and Gernot Panholzer (Carployee) with Markus-Johannes Kleinfercher (Infineon Hub), Martin Gschwandtner (Infineon Linz), Julian Eder (Infineon Munich) and Lena Wostal (Magenta) by video conferencing as well as Patrick Lamplmair and further members of the Tributech team live from the Tabakfabrik Linz and Christoph Schöndorfer (Schwarzmüller) live from the UAS St. Pölten.

INFINEON * TRIBUTECH * MAGENTA – IOT³: SMART, SECURE, SUSTAINABLE / PROJECT: COMPOST TWITTER

Thom Kunz on behalf of Dr. Chris Baumann, Roman Bruckberger-Koch and Leopold Zyka live from the UAS St. Pölten.

SCHWARZMÜLLER – WITH SENSORS AND AI TO INNOVATIVE LOADING APPLICATIONS / PROJECT: FULLY AUTOMATED LOADING & SECURING

Lorenz Schellerer, Lukas Landstätter, Florian Poller, Sait Fistikci, and Florian Krasser (UAS St. Pölten) with Stefanie Hörburger and Christoph Schöndorfer (Schwarzmüller) live from the UAS St. Pölten.

PHILIPS DOMESTIC APPLIANCES AUSTRIA – THE FOOD PREP CHALLENGE / FOOD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM / PROJECT: SMART FOOD STORAGE

Ramon Brullo, Eva Altenburger, Michelle Markl (UAS St. Pölten) live from UAS St. Pölten with Niyat Araya (Hochschule Darmstadt) and further team members by video conferencing.

THE WATER CHALLENGE / LIQUID-LIQUID-EXTRACTOR / PROJECT: CREATIVE NEW USE CASES

Gela Rachinger (UAS St. Pölten) and Prof. Michael Harasek (Head of Research Group, Institute of Chemical Engineering, TU Wien) live from a laboratory at the TU Wien – also on behalf of Kathleen Jimenez-Mühlbacher (Industry Relations Manager, TU Wien) and Daniel Rottenberg (Research and Transfer Support, TU Wien).

NEXT STEPS AND EVENTS

Thom Kunz (moderator) and Sandra Stromberger (Industry meets Makers) live from UAS St. Pölten with Daniel Pressl (Wild Electronics) by video conferencing – pronouncing the EIT Health iDays and the Carla Camp Hackathon from September 19th until September 29th 2022 in Graz as well as the Best of Industry meets Makers event at the Digital Days on October 20th, 2022 in the Impact Hub in Vienna.

A special thank you to Helene Sorger and Michael Bock for the professional live-direction support during the four days as well as to Petra Fischer, Katharina Beier and the whole team of the UAS St. Pölten for the strong organisational support and hospitality. It is a pleasure to be with you every time! :)