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Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona

Together with our colleagues from Bayern International, we were once again represented with our Bavarian stand at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona. More than 30 Bavarian exhibitors took the opportunity to present their innovative solutions to over 20,000 trade fair visitors. In addition to highlights such as the traditional Weißwurst breakfast, pitches and workshops, the programme included visits from delegations - including a visit of State Secretary Roland Weigert.

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OktoberINVESTfest 2022

After two years of virtual editions, on November 2nd the 10th edition of the annual OktoberINVESTfest was finally back as an in-person event in New York City! This year, it was all about health technology and it was very exciting to hear the pitches of five Bavarian and five American innovative start-ups in that field. Besides that, it was great to have Markus Blume, Bavarian Minister of Science and the Arts and Prof. Sami Haddadin, Director of the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence as speakers at the conference, as well as David T. Tswamuno, Managing Partner at Fairbridge Park from the investor’s side. During the get-together, valuable connections between the start-ups and the investor’s were being made.

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7th International Town Hall Meeting @it-sa - where true heroes meet!

It was a great pleasure for Invest in Bavaria and the Security Network Munich to host the international Town Hall Meeting @it-sa for the seventh time in a row and to once again welcome the international cybersecurity community to Nuremberg. There were impulse speeches by Stefan Sieber | Cloudflare and Prof. Dr. Igor Podebrad | Google Cloud. They were then joined by Christoph Kroack | Siemens Energy for an exciting panel discussion moderated by Julia Hermann | Giesecke+Devrient.

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French start-ups visit Bavaria for Bits & Pretzels 2022

Bits & Pretzels, Europe's leading founders festival, returned to Munich from 25-27 September 2022. This time with an innovation: France presented itself as the first guest country in its own area with innovative start-ups and scale-ups. For this occasion, Invest in Bavaria received a delegation of French companies that are preparing to expand their market and settle in Germany as part of Business France's Impact Germany programme. The start-ups learnt more about the vibrant local ecosystem and business opportunities in Bavaria and pitched their solutions.

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O’zapft is! - Pfiat di / Sayonara und Grüß Gott / Konnichiwa!

On July 21, 2022, after a break of almost two and a half years due to the Corona pandemic, a get-together for the representatives of the Japanese business community in Bavaria took place in the small "Ratstrinkstube" in the Munich City Hall at Marienplatz in cooperation with the Japanese Consulate General Munich, the City of Munich, JETRO Munich and the Japan Club Munich. On this occasion, the former representative of the Free State of Bavaria in Japan, Dr. Christian Geltinger, was bid farewell to the Japanese community and the new representative, Ms. Susanne Schierok, was introduced. Symbolically, the mallet was handed over from the former representative to the new representative and the beer keg was tapped, which was brewed by the Munich breweries for the 50th anniversary celebration of the city partnership Munich - Sapporo.

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Lower Bavaria | 16th working meeting of Invest in Bavaria with the Bavarian business development agencies

Efficient commercial development in times of scarce properties and regionally available competences were the core topics at Invest in Bavaria’s 16th working meeting with Bavarian economic development agencies. The event was held in Simbach am Inn in the district of Rottal Inn. The two-day meeting kicked off with Dr Ulrike Wolf, Ministerial Director at the Bavarian State Ministry, who informed the participants about the current topics at the StMWi (Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy). Among the examples of efficient commercial development, Managing Director Peter Keller impressively described how a cleantech innovation park is being created on the former Michelin - factory site in Hallstadt near Bamberg, and the mayors of the market towns of Perlesreuth and Röhrnbach demonstrated how completely new paths have been taken with the first inter-municipal commercial area in Prombach in Lower Bavaria. On the second day, participants had the chance to exchange information in different World Cafés about the regionally existing competences and strategic orientations of the Bavarian regions.

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Videos

Mobility collaborations in Bavaria: it takes more than one industry.

Panel discussion at the IAA Mobility 2021 on Marienplatz in Munich. How cross-industry innovation is shaping a unique ecosystem for reinventing mobility?

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Invest in Bavaria @ Bits & Pretzels 2020

As part of Bits & Pretzels 2020, Invest in Bavaria organized the Bavaria Panel "Bavarians Breaking Boundaries" in cooperation with BayStartUP and Gründerland Bayern. In addition to pitches by innovative start-ups, there were panel discussions. We asked the international start-ups why they chose Bavaria as their location in Germany / Europe.

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Opening ceremony of Sunstar Engineering Europe headquarter in Rain am Lech

The global Japanese Sunstar Group is now conducting its European business in the automotive and chemicals sectors from Northern Swabia, where the company has set up a production and development site. Invest in Bavaria supported the important settlement from the beginning – investment volume: 20 million euros.

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Maifest 2019 in San Francisco - Future of Manufacturing

This year’s edition of the Maifest of the Bavarian U.S. Offices in San Francisco took place on May 10 at the Quadrus Conference Center in Menlo Park, CA. It was focused on the “Future of Manufacturing” and was geared towards experts, companies, and strategic investors active in the Industry 4.0, and advanced manufacturing space. Its goal was to initiate collaborations between German and Bavarian multinational corporations and SMEs as well as US American growth- and early-stage start-ups.

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Bavarian Mobility Success Story: EmQopter

From its home in Würzburg, Bavaria, the start-up EmQopter developed the first approvable unmanned aircraft system (UAS) in Germany for fully autonomous flights beyond the visual line of sight (BVLOS). The technology opens up two great opportunities. Firstly, EmQopter drones are ideal for industrial use and could even replace cars as tomorrow's mobility solution of choice. And secondly, they can perform key functions for research and development at universities. The latter is particularly important to the company's founders. Without Bavaria's R&D infrastructure, they could never have established their business. The idea for EmQopter was born many years ago when Nils Gageik and Paul Benz wrote their doctorates in the only academic department for Aerial Computer Science in Germany – at the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg.

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Bavarian Robotics Success Story: Franka Emika

The robots built by Franka Emika, a fledgling company from Munich, typify cross-industry innovation. The start-up derived its initial technology from a project at the Institute of Air Transport and Airport Research in Bavaria. The initial research group soon asked themselves whether they could make the technology available to everyone. An idea was born. Franka Emika’s mission is to sell high-tech robots to a wide target group. Extremely easy to program, the robots can be used by everyone – from individuals and one-person companies through to medium-size businesses and large factories, helping in all those fields that entail repetitive, time-consuming and even dangerous tasks.

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