Get to know the Capital of Culture 2025 during an entertaining city tour

Adress: Hotel Chemnitzer Hof, Theaterplatz 4, 09111 Chemnitz

Sven Schulze, Mayor of the City of Chemnitz
Michael Kretschmer, Prime Minister of the Free State of Saxony
Hans-Joachim Wunderlich, Managing Director of the Chemnitz Chamber of Industry and Commerce
Hildegard Müller, President of the D-I-W
Carsten Ovens, Managing Director ELNET

Moderated by Frank Müller-Rosentritt, MdB

Israel and Germany - Potentials and Success Stories in Technology Exchange, Digitalisation and Research

Michael Kretschmer, Prime Minister of the Free State of Saxony
Grisha Alroi-Arloser, Federal Managing Director D-I-W
Angelika Handelsman, Konnect Volkswagen Innovation Hub
Prof. Thomas von Unwerth, Chairman of the Board HZwo & TU Chemnitz

Moderated by Christoph Neuberg, IHK Chemnitz

Conversation with Carsten Ovens, Executive Director ELNET

afterwards: Lunch & Networking

Daniela Kluckert, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Digital Affairs and Transport

Panel I: Start-up Ecosystems in Israel & Germany - Research Exchange Technology Transfer

Keynote speech from Technion, Haifa/Israel
Topic: How can research partners and users in companies be better networked? What opportunities do German-Israeli cooperations offer in the European funding landscape? Best Practice Examples on Horizon Europe, joint networks and promising future topics.

Panel II: Alternative Drives / Hydrogen

Keynote speech by Prof. von Unwerth, HZwo
Topic: Chemnitz as a research and innovation region in the field of alternative drives; hydrogen as a driver of innovation, alternative drives and impulses for digitalization and automation in the auto-motive sector.

Panel III (in English): Autonomous driving

Keynote speech Karsten Schulze, FDTech / CADA e.V.

Topic: Artificial Intelligence and autonomous driving - what role does AI play, what steps are necessary in safety and validation? Is auto-nomous driving conceivable and feasible without AI? The poten-tial of partnerships for next-level Autonomous Driving.

Panel IV: SME’s and mechanical engineering 

Keynote speech Prof. Martin Dix, Fraunhofer IWU

Topic: Automated production techniques, the potential of artifici-al intelligence (AI) in quality assurance and process process optimization, the linking of innovative techniques
with digitalization in manufacturing.

Panel V: Age Tech

Keynote Speech by Dr. Mario Geißler, CEO Q-Hub

Topic: Innovations and solutions in care, health and business management in old age - integration of off-boarding met-hods, e-health, robotics and digital reporting.

Dinner speech Rolf Schumann, Chief Digital Officer of the Schwarz Group

During the conference: „Made in Germany“ exhibition at the Carlowitz Congress Center on 50+ years of German-Israeli economic relations and success stories.

Impulse Lecture Intercultural Communication
Grisha Alroi-Arloser

followed by networking

Meeting place: Chemnitz Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Straße der Nationen 25, 09111 Chemnitz

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• Fraunhofer IWU
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• Starrag
• Q-Hub
• HZwo e.V.
• CADA e.V.
• Chemnitz Industrial Association

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