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Earth’s Next Frontiers: Visions from the Munich Ecosystem
In volatile times, visions are crucial. They enable us to build a better future, they’re a call to action and they drive us to set out to new frontiers. Exploring space is such a vision and Munich is a veritable European innovation ecosystem in this area. We heard from four players in this unique ecosystem – a start-up, an established business leader, a leading technology enabler and a top university – about what it takes to bring the vision of space exploration to a new level.
This session was moderated by DLD Founder Steffi Czerny.
Christian Lindener
Airbus
Christian Lindener is Head of Airbus BizLab, an aerospace accelerator. Previously, Lindener worked as Managing Director for Wayra Germany, a technology innovation hub. He has co-founded several companies, one of which – a virtual reality startup – was sold to booking.com in 2014.
Daniel Metzler
Isar Aerospace
As Co-Founder and CEO of Isar Aerospace, a Munich-based company developing orbital space launch vehicles, Daniel aims to lower the barriers for commercial space access. He previously led a team of 40 students at the rocketry group WARR developing sounding rockets.
Marie Langer
EOS
Helmut Schönenberger
UnternehmerTUM
Helmut Schönenberger is Co-Founder and CEO of UnternehmerTUM, the Center for Innovation and Business Creation at Technical University Munich (TUM). Scalable tech-startups are Helmut’s passion. He is especially interested in startups in the field of smart enterprises, additive manufacturing as well as smart city and mobility solutions.
Steffi Czerny
DLD Media
Steffi Czerny is Managing Director of DLD Media and co-founder of the DLD Conference as well as its global spin-offs. Steffi was identified as number 30 of The 2015 Wired 100 and has also been chosen as one of the 50 most inspiring women in European tech in 2015 by inspiring50.com for her success in bringing the international digital elite together at DLD.