PEOPLE: Female Bravery - Role models for a better future

It can't be done; until the first one does it! Bravery is a motor of inspiration for generations to follow. Sharing personal stories of female founders and leaders,  discussing what is needed to inspire more to follow.

PEACE: Tokyo-Berlin Entrepreneurship-friendly Policy Making

Berlin and Tokyo are two of the most dynamic startup ecosystems in the world. Both cities are home to countless startups that embody the spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation, attracted by the growing number of venture capitalists who have started investing in various businesses. In this panel, we will discuss the opportunities that both ecosystems offer and how they can collaborate to offer better opportunities to startup founders with Senior Staff Members of Strategic Projects Division from Office of the Governor for Policy Planning in Tokyo.

How can Web3 be utilized for impact in emerging markets?

After being coined almost a decade ago, the term Web3 and the underlying promise of a decentralized Internet finally gained interest in the broad technology ecosystem in 2021. Whether it was pandemic-fueled boredom or a long simmering digital revolution, everyone form large tech companies and venture capitalists to startup founders and cryptocurrency enthusiasts were talking about Web3. In emerging markets like Southeast Asia, the Play2Earn tsunami finally pushed the term to mainstream consciousness with everyone talking about scholars and the impact created for large underpaid populations. Just as fast as it arrived, the Web3 wave subsided with the advent of the crypto winter in 2022 and the rapid devaluation of many digital currencies including those facilitating P2E. Having passed the peak of inflated expectations, the true believers can finally start building the Web3 infrastructure in peace and gradually bring its promise to fruition. Our panel will discuss some of the most impactful Web3 projects and technology use cases both in Europe and Asia.

PEOPLE: Building the future with Music & Healthcare – the Indonesian way

The Metaverse has been a hot topic in the digital space as many industries are beginning to understand its potential and challenges. In this panel we will discuss with early adopters from Indonesia, representing the music and healthcare industry. They will share their perspective of the Indonesian way of building the future with Metaverse.

Claudia Siregar is leading this panel. As a German-Indonesian entrepreneur, who started her first company in Singapore over a decade ago, she says: “with soon 300 million inhabitants and an internet penetration rate at 73.7%, the democratic and multi-ethnic country, with the largest Muslim population globally, is still too often overseen, especially in Europe and Germany, as one of Asia´s digital giants.”

With Indonesia´s - gotong royong - way, which is deeply culturally rooted and far more than collaboration or working together, we hope our panel contributes to how to look at Creative and Digital Indonesia, and its global role, from now onwards.

Taking Noise To A Global Scale With NFTs - The Indonesian Way

Discover how music and NFTs are being used to send out a message to a global audience through Indonesia’s iconic all-ladies hijab-wearing heavy metal band: Voice of Baceprot (VOB).

The trio, who are all in their early 20s, from a sleepy village in Indonesia made themselves heard, loud and clear, and not just amongst heavy metal fans, in less than a year, drawing in 3.5 million views on YouTube with their single, "God, Allow Me (Please) To Play Music “.

Claudia will be sharing more about the band’s first NFT drop, and how their latest song, [NOT] PUBLIC PROPERTY, has initiated a global movement and is now a joint mission between her and the band to raise the bar for women globally against violence.

Joining her on this session will be the key individuals, Bryan Blanc and Farrel Darian, from Netra, Asia’s first royalty-sharing NFT platform. Netra has drawn in many Indonesian musicians, including Sandhy Sondoro, one of Indonesia’s prolific musician, filling up stadions in Indonesia. Well-established now globally, he started on the streets in Berlin/Germany, Sandhy will be joining Netra on their platform, and will be releasing his first German song on Netra - Berlin! Berlin! Ick lieb dir so sehr!

And for those who have yet to discover the perks and benefits of collecting music NFTs, Claudia, Bryan and Farrel will share with you the latest trends and opportunities from their perspective, and support you in setting up your first wallet!

Voice of Baceprot: https://www.voiceofbaceprot.com/
Sandhy Sondoro: https://www.sondoromusic.com/
NetraLive: https://netra.live/

PROSPERITY: Crusade for Discourse - Social Entrepreneurship shapes the business of the Future

The growing awareness of social entrepreneurship is increasingly shaping the corporate world. Future entrepreneurs want a strong community as the basis for all business activities. More and more founders see a healthy and strong society as part of their corporate responsibility. For this reason, sustainable business models are emerging in all sub-sectors of global business life. The aim is to replace greed and ruthlessness with a good conscience and a sense of responsibility.

Open Metaverse as an enabler for a better, new Internet

The Metaverse will change our lives. It will dissolve the boundaries between the virtual and the physical world. Contrary to the current internet, it uses advanced virtualization and technologies so that we can fully immerse ourselves in virtuality. A large part of the current content in Web 2.0 is already generated via the Creator Economy; Independent creatives building their own tech-enabled businesses. They currently primarily produce videos, texts and images. But in the Metaverse we need much more than that: digital architects, digital designers, digital carpenters and many more are needed.

We start with an impulse about the development possibilities of the Metaverse for a virtual ecosystem and then initiate the co-creative phase together: What can we do so that the new Internet does not repeat the mistakes of the current Internet and contribute to an increase in prosperity?

Silicon Allee tour - Berlin’s international startup Ecosystem

Silicon Allee has been building a network of the world's most exciting innovators for over a decade by boosting for more diversity, inclusiveness, sustainability, and moonshot ideas in Berlin's startup and tech ecosystem. This Walking Tour will guide you through Berlin’s international ecosystem and will highlight how the city has evolved to become the perfect setting for an effervescent Startup Ecosystem. During this tour, you will have the opportunity to get to know how Berlin’s startup community benefits from its diversity while at the same time being attractive for foreign startups from overseas. You will also get an understanding on Silicon Allee's role as a support organisation for the international startup community in Berlin and finally understanding how projects like Residency supports foreign startups expanding to Germany through collaboration with foreign governments such as Japan and Korea. At the end of the tour you will also have the opportunity to get to meet some of the Korean startups that are in the Residency program during our stop at our Interaction booth. There, you can speak to the entrepreneurs and ask them about their companies if you wish.

Unlocking the Power of European Asian Innovation - The uncomfortable session

A unique workshop designed to unlock the power of innovative ideas coming out of two geographically distinct regions of the world and to find synergies between the two.

PROSPERITY: Crusade for Discourse - Social Entrepreneurship shapes the business of the Future

The growing awareness of social entrepreneurship is increasingly shaping the corporate world. Future entrepreneurs want a strong community as the basis for all business activities. More and more founders see a healthy and strong society as part of their corporate responsibility. For this reason, sustainable business models are emerging in all sub-sectors of global business life. The aim is to replace greed and ruthlessness with a good conscience and a sense of responsibility.

Future Cities

Dystopic symbolism, colors, shapes and images to imagine the cities of tomorrow. International NFT artists guide the viewer into their own worlds to reflect on the use of technology, connectivity, landscape transformations.

WWF

#Oceandetox 

In recent years, Detox became a trend for many people around the world. The process is about treating the organism right by "cleaning and getting rid of trash". But who takes care of Detoxing our environment? We do. 

We are living in an age where people spend tons of money on apes, punks, apepunks, punkapes, cryptoapes. Let's go further, let's bring purpose to this. 

With educational NFT exhibitions inside the Metaverse WWF is using the earnings for projects that save our planet. WWF supports real cleanup projects with local communities and is raising awareness towards issues we all are dealing with. 

We can't collect nature, but we can collect the ownership of our all responsibility. 

Contemporary Abstractism

Abstractism is what is there but not seen or conceptualized yet. Digital is bringing an additional layer of invention and artistic expression that allow the artists to bring to reality new shapes.

PROSPERITY: Crusade for Discourse - Social Entrepreneurship shapes the business of the Future

The growing awareness of social entrepreneurship is increasingly shaping the corporate world. Future entrepreneurs want a strong community as the basis for all business activities. More and more founders see a healthy and strong society as part of their corporate responsibility. For this reason, sustainable business models are emerging in all sub-sectors of global business life. The aim is to replace greed and ruthlessness with a good conscience and a sense of responsibility.

Fireside Chat

PEACE: Digital peace-building - Hate Speech Mitigation and Circular Economy in Sri Lanka

When governments and international finance is failing, bright, young minds come together and find grass-root innovations to disrupt immediate problems on hand. DreamSpace Academy shows perfect examples how digital peace-building can work in a country like Sri Lanka. Three short keynotes highlight topics in Hate Speech Mitigation algorithms and Circular Economy.

Thought Leadership from Corporate to Startup - How to Maneuver Organizations in Turbulent Times?

Smart Cities and the Future of Urbanism

Contemporary cities reveal a plethora of challenges. After two centuries of urbanization and industrialization, the cities became main drivers of climate change and social inequality. Being the most dynamic invention of humankind and hotspots of creative, political and intellectual capital, cities also offer immense potential to be cradles of social, spatial and economic innovation. Therefore, if we want cities to become smart, sustainable and inclusive habitats, it requires data-driven, evidence-based cross-sectoral urban and economic models & policies. This session, co-organized by Drees&Sommer -  Integrated Urban Solutions, will offer insights from different disciplinary and regional voices. The aim is to reveal integrated techniques and methods to uncover the latent potential of human, financial and societal strata through showcasing project-based initiative in several contemporary cities in Europe and Asia.

Open Metaverse as an enabler for a better, new Internet

The Metaverse will change our lives. It will dissolve the boundaries between the virtual and the physical world. Contrary to the current internet, it uses advanced virtualization and technologies so that we can fully immerse ourselves in virtuality. A large part of the current content in Web 2.0 is already generated via the Creator Economy; Independent creatives building their own tech-enabled businesses. They currently primarily produce videos, texts and images. But in the Metaverse we need much more than that: digital architects, digital designers, digital carpenters and many more are needed.

We start with an impulse about the development possibilities of the Metaverse for a virtual ecosystem and then initiate the co-creative phase together: What can we do so that the new Internet does not repeat the mistakes of the current Internet and contribute to an increase in prosperity?

Future Cities

Dystopic symbolism, colors, shapes and images to imagine the cities of tomorrow. International NFT artists guide the viewer into their own worlds to reflect on the use of technology, connectivity, landscape transformations.

Open Metaverse as an enabler for a better, new Internet

The Metaverse will change our lives. It will dissolve the boundaries between the virtual and the physical world. Contrary to the current internet, it uses advanced virtualization and technologies so that we can fully immerse ourselves in virtuality. A large part of the current content in Web 2.0 is already generated via the Creator Economy; Independent creatives building their own tech-enabled businesses. They currently primarily produce videos, texts and images. But in the Metaverse we need much more than that: digital architects, digital designers, digital carpenters and many more are needed.

We start with an impulse about the development possibilities of the Metaverse for a virtual ecosystem and then initiate the co-creative phase together: What can we do so that the new Internet does not repeat the mistakes of the current Internet and contribute to an increase in prosperity?

PARTNERSHIPS: Corporate Innovation - The challenges and opportunities of collaborating with Startups

The question how to accelerate digital transformation is the elephant in the room. Two known German corporates SAP and Bosch have a track record of working together with startups at different development stages (from early to later stage). In theory it is easy, corporates have an innovation demand, startups are by definition innovation. But how easy is it in reality? The panelists will share insights and stories of failures and successes in corporate-startup collaboration.

Investing in the Future of Sustainability and Tech

11:05 - 11:10 (5 mins)

Opening

- Speaker: Toshiki Wani (Director General, JETRO Berlin)

- To discuss future business development, including investment, and the links between Germany and Japan

11:10 - 11:40 (30 mins)
Fireside Chat

- Moderator: Rina Obi (Investment Director, Global Brain Corporation)
- Speaker: Ikuo C. Hiraishi (Managing Director, Infarm Japan)

Infarm is a start-up from Berlin that has successfully entered the Japanese market. We will hear about the real backstory on how Mr. Hiraishi brought Infarm to the Japanese market, what were the key factors and motivations, what difficulties he faced. What it is like to bring a Berlin start-up to the Japanese market?

11:40 - 11:50 (10 mins)
Q&A and Summary

Official Opening - Résumé & Outlook