Programme 2025
Keynotes / Impulse groups / Workshops / Networks
Experts from a wide range of entrepreneurial fields will take you on their personal journey and provide you with valuable insights for your start-up(s).
But it's not just about listening, it's also about getting involved and participating. Workshops will help you quickly put what you've learned into practice. You can pitch your start-up ideas to experienced founders and receive valuable feedback. Over 100 speakers will share their knowledge with you: from founders for founders. The Entrepreneurship Summit is the starting signal for an exciting start-up adventure.
Take advantage of the networking opportunities, Q&A sessions and workshops. We look forward to seeing you there!
KI & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
AI – The good, the bad, the ugly...
Sunday, 12 October 2025 – 10:45–11:45 a.m. – Online
AI for entrepreneurs – between hype, potential and risk
Entrepreneurship AI – Your sparring partner for concept development instead of quick start-ups
Sunday, 12 October 2025 – 12:00–13:00 – Conference Room 2
Your sparring partner for concept development instead of quick start-ups
Sunday, 12 October 2025, 12:00–1:00 p.m. – Lecture Hall D
Founders report on how AI has shaped their ideas and business models.
SPECIAL PANELS
Gründen mit Purpose
Founding with purpose means developing an idea child that creates meaning - for you and for others. This workshop is about value-based entrepreneurship that combines impact and profitability.
Saturday, 11.10.25 - 12:00-13:00 - Audimax
Sustainable materials for the future
This panel is all about future-proof, sustainable materials - and how they are changing the way we think about products and business models. For anyone who wants to think about ecological innovation in a practical and entrepreneurial way.
Saturday, 11.10.25 - 17:30-18:30 - Lecture hall D
Starting a business with children - how it can succeed
Starting a business with children poses special challenges and opens up new perspectives. In this panel you will receive practical impulses on how family life and ideas can grow together.
Saturday, 11.10.125 - 12:00-13:00 - Lecture hall D
Femtech
The Femtech panel is all about innovations relating to female health, body knowledge and self-determination. Discover how new technologies are breaking taboos, closing gaps and creating space for effective ideas.
Sunday, 12.10.25 - 10:45-11:45 - Lecture hall B
Future Food - The future of the food industry
Future Food stands for new approaches to nutrition - sustainable, healthy and innovative. In this panel, we will take a look at the future of the food industry and how children of ideas can play an active role in shaping it.
Sunday, 12.10.25 - 10:45-11:45 - Audimax
From social entrepreneurship to system entrepreneurship
This panel sheds light on the change from social to system entrepreneurship - away from individual projects and towards structural change. For all those who want to rethink and redesign entire systems with their idea child.
Sunday, 12.10.25 - 14:30-15:30 - Audimax
WORKSHOPS
Entrepreneurship AI - Your sparring partner for concept work instead of quick start-ups
Sunday, 12.10.25 - 12:00-13:00 - Conference room 2
In this workshop, Simon Jochim and Prof Max Senges will introduce ‘Entrepreneurship AI’ - your digital sparring partner for smart concept work instead of hasty start-ups. Discover how AI can help you develop your idea child in a thoughtful and creative way.
Networking with impact
Saturday, 11.10.25 - 12:00-13:00 - Lecture theatre C
Learn in the workshop with Lukas Marzi how real networking succeeds - with attitude, clarity and impact. For anyone who wants to reach people with their brainchild and create connections with substance.
Mindful Moments: Goals with clarity and balance
Sunday, 12.10.25 - 14:30-15:30 - Lecture theatre C
Strategic alignment meets inner balance: In this workshop, Awai Cheung and Erno Marius Obogeanu-Hempel combine the OKR method with business qigong. For all those who want to strengthen clarity, focus and mindfulness in dynamic times - in a team, in a start-up or for personal reorientation.
GESAMTES PROGRAMM AUF EINEN BLICK
AROUND THE SUMMIT
Speakers 2025
At the Entrepreneurship Summit 2025, you can expect inspiring speakers from the worlds of business, science, art and social entrepreneurship. Among others, Bodo Janssen, Cesy Leonard, Prof. Dr. Harald Welzer, Prof. Günter Faltin, Mona Katzenberger, Lukas Marzi, Tim Chimoy, Isabel Gomez, Dr. Mona Mirtsch, Florian Komm and Minever Zevker will be there – as well as many other voices who will show how start-ups can be creative, effective and socially relevant.
Family-friendly and future-oriented: childcare at the Entrepreneurship Summit
The Entrepreneurship Summit stands for ‘More with Less’ – more innovation with fewer resources. This principle also applies to our youngest attendees. We want to give parents the opportunity to focus fully on the summit while their children enjoy an inspiring and enriching experience.
Pitch to experts
For anyone who wants to have their entrepreneurial design or start-up idea thoroughly reviewed, we offer the opportunity to pitch directly to experts.
Application period: 4 August – 29 September 2025 - Applications must be submitted in German only!
The Entrepreneurship Summit programme has piqued your curiosity and you want more?
Then join us live and experience two days full of inspiration, practical workshops, powerful keynotes and real start-up energy.
