The future of work: When machines become colleagues
Tomorrow’s world of work is being shaped at the “Zukunftsorte” locations in Berlin:
The world is changing. Innovations like chatbots, virtual realities, and smart robots have arrived in the workplace and will bring about fundamental changes in the years ahead. At Berlin Science Week in November 2024,…
The cognitive Iron Man suit
Zixio, a start-up located in the CHIC, develops tailor-made software and digital products in the field of cognitive systems and AI:
Joanna Czarnecka’s father was an entrepreneur and artist in Poland. He taught her that self-employment is hard work. Nevertheless, in 2019, she co-founded the company Zixio with Andreas Salzmann, developing…
AI for trade and transport of commodities
The software company Calypso Commodities develops optimisation solutions for logistics:
The world is changing. Bit by bit, fossil fuels are being replaced. But this will not happen overnight. Until renewable hydrogen creates a green commodities industry and innovative storage concepts make sun and wind…
Lasers on the field
Escarda Technologies GmbH is developing an herbicide-free alternative for weed control at CleanTech Marzahn:
Weed control using herbicides has many disadvantages: It costs worldwide agriculture a good 15 billion euros every year. This trend is increasing sharply, threatening biodiversity, and contaminating foodstuffs and…
The alphabet of the universe
Manuel Dedio has developed an “app for non-enthusiastic mathematicians”:
Although most remember him as a philosopher, Plato was one of the most important promoters of mathematics in ancient Greece. Galileo Galilei, another famous philosopher and scientist, once waxed lyrically about…
Blossoming landscapes in IT
Is the digital transformation stalling in Germany? Not in Adlershof it isn’t.:
The campus is well-positioned, and its companies and research facilities are setting standards. Nonetheless, they have not been immune to the shortage of skilled workers. The corridors of GFal Society for the…
Digital twins
A new platform pools data from eleven different sites in Berlin generating future innovation:
Berlin’s Zukunftsorte, German for ‘places of the future’, are pivotal sites generating future innovation in technology across the German capital. They are made up of 2,200 companies and 42 scientific institutions,…