Cem Ergün-Müller Room: stage 4 Support the start-ups at their pitches! 10:00 am – 12:30 pm: Pitches of 10 startups at the booth of Lange Nacht der Startups (in the main hall) 4:15 – 5:15 pm: Pitches of the best 3 teams & winner announcement on stage 4 Telekom Innovation Contest is an international idea contest powered by Telekom Innovation Laboratories, hub:raum, Kitchen Budapest and many international companies of Deutsche Telekom. In 2014, more than 500 teams from 46 countries registered. They submitted 326 ideas in six categories. The winning team will be elected at the Champions Pitch event in Krakow on June 27 by an expert jury of international managers. The finalists traveling to Krakow will be chosen in a series of semi-finals taking place in the capitals of partner countries or virtually in May. The national finals kick off with the German language teams competing at re:publica.  End of April a shortlist of the German finalists will be published at telekom-innovation-contest.com   Presented by Lange Nacht der Startups. Produced by Voice Republic For more podcasts visit http://voicerepublic.com

Jakob Jochmann, Beatrice Möller, Uwe Lübbermann Room: stage 2 We live in a digital age. But what does the digital age do to us and how can we adapt and help others cope with change still ongoing in a world full of networks and new forms of knowledge? Not just our environment has changed. Everyone who has been exposed to this digital experience thinks and behaves differently. "The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed" (Gibson). We'd like to take you on a tour de force of sociology and media theory and introduce you to examples of how to write the future, instead of fighting it. Jakob is a media theorist and entrepreneur who builds experiences to fall in love with, Bea Möller is a documentary film maker who found ways to go around gate keepers and unite people behind an idea to create and finance new film projects, Uwe Lübbermann is a social entrepreneur who answers to no share holders, but lots of stake holders in building a social foundation for his premiumcola. We believe that new found experience of a networked society drives and enables new strategies to create and finance cool stuff, much more so than the technology itself. Jakob will give you a quick introduction how shared experiences with new media technology eliminated barriers to engage with each other, even outside of said technology. Uwe will demonstrate how the willingness to interact with stakeholders eye to eye can lead to a whole new stream of information from which to develop business strategies and sustain a non-capitalist business in a capitalist market, hacking the economy. Bea will show you that people are really empowering themselves when they find each other and unite behind an idea to see it through, an idea that without a networked effort would have never been realized, because the gate keepers of old were not interested. Produced by Voice Republic For more podcasts visit http://voicerepublic.com

Nicolas Friederici Room: GIG lounge So, are African tech hubs successful? It is hard to find a benchmark. First, we intuitively know what a tech hub is, but clearly there is more than a single model that fits this description: hubs have assumed very different functions across local contexts. Second, a variety of stakeholders is usually involved in tech hubs (students, entrepreneurs, investors, tech companies, foundations, NGOs, government, donors, etc.), which can pull them in different directions and blur their mission. Third, tech hubs, more than other companies or development organizations, are intricately intertwined with local innovation ecosystems, which are complex and unpredictable. This makes it hard to tell what a given hub’s contribution is and what would have happened anyway. If we want to further improve tech hubs and guarantee that they continue to fuel tech innovation ecosystems across Africa, we need to tackle this difficult reality head-on. We need to identify what hubs can and can’t do, which will lead us to more realistic expectations and to allocate scarce funds for greater efficiency and effect. We need to know what difference hubs actually make and how. This short talk will give a practitioner-focused mini-guide for tech hub evaluation and lesson learning. I will first offer a categorization of potential hubgoals. Among other categories, I will highlight differences between an “ecosystem builder,” an “innovation creator,” and an “accelerator” hub model. In addition, I will highlight general features and potential tensions in tech hub governance and stakeholder incentive structures, addressing the tradeoffs in multi-stakeholder and/or public private partnership implementations. I will then discuss if and how typical approaches from organizational monitoring and evaluation (management perspective) and impact evaluation (development perspective) apply to hubs. Lastly, I will introduce the notion of “ecosystem impact” and other impact spillovers of tech hubs that are often forgotten but can be tangible. Putting it all together, I will offer a handful of general principles.   This session is part of the GLOBAL INNOVATION GATHERING programme. Produced by Voice Republic For more podcasts visit http://voicerepublic.com

Richard Gutjahr, Thorsten Hübschen, Ninia Binias, SebastianMuschter, Jennifer Beecher, Markus Herrmann Room: stage E Besserer und schnellerer Zugriff auf Informationen, einfachere Kommunikation mit Kollegen, Unabhängigkeit vom Arbeitsort sind ja eigentlich Vorteile, auch für den Angestellten. Woher kommen dann die Probleme? Die Forschung erscheint zurückhaltend. Abhängig davon, woher die Professoren kommen, beurteilen sie den Zustand. Soziologen, Informatiker und BWLer setzen sich mit dem Thema auseinander. Wir glauben, dass die technische Entwicklung den Angestellten überholt hat. Es geht darum, zu lernen, mit den neuen Tools umzugehen, die eigenen Grenzen festzulegen und die Werkzeuge zum eigenen Vorteil zu nutzen. Selbst Verantwortung zu übernehmen und einzuschätzen, wo kann ich gewinnen. Homeoffice, flexible Arbeitszeiten, flache Hierarchien will ja eigentlich jeder. Ständige Erreichbarkeit und Überlastung sind negative Folgen, die oft mit den Vorteilen einhergehen. Der Panel ist als Dialogplattform Teil der Microsoft Initiative #einfachmachen.     Präsentiert von Microsoft Deutschland.  Produced by Voice Republic For more podcasts visit http://voicerepublic.com

Martha Chumo Room: GIG lounge Produced by Voice Republic For more podcasts visit http://voicerepublic.com

Cornelia Richter Room: GIG lounge For the second year running, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in cooperation with the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the re:publica are orgqanizing the Global Innovation Gathering (GIG). GIG brings together Innovation Hub Manager, Maker, Hacker und start-ups from across the world to network and collaborate for a more sustainable development. After a brief welcome by Ms Richter the GIG lounge will be open for micro-talks, discussions, meetings and hang-outs, in particular for discussion on possible new forms of international collaboration to better respond to global challenges.   Produced by Voice Republic For more podcasts visit http://voicerepublic.com

Moushira Elamrawy Room: GIG makerspace During the session you will be guided to build your own prototype of a portable, low power laser cutter, and experience our new usability interface that enables you to use the machine, even if you are not familiar with drawing softwares or computers at all. Just bring yourself and your imagination and we will take care of the rest.    This session is part of the GLOBAL INNOVATION GATHERING programme. Produced by Voice Republic For more podcasts visit http://voicerepublic.com

Thomas Gegenhuber, Robert M. Bauer Room: stage 3 Individuals and organizations facing a task or problem can choose to handle it on their own or task someone else. In the latter case, that is, accessing outside resources, mobilizing crowds can play an important role. We refer to crowdsourcing as the usage of web-based platforms to call on large, diverse sets of ex-ante unidentified individuals (crowd) to engage in solving problems identified and defined by organizations. Crowdsourcing still seems to carry significant novelty for scholars and practitioners alike, but, arguably, it has become a buzzword. Buzzwords are over used; consequently, their meanings often get overextended, blurred and distorted. It is time to reassess and clarify the concept crowdsourcing. That is the goal of our talk. First, we define crowdsourcing and unpack the necessary conditions for successful crowdsourcing. Second, we differentiate between four different types of crowdsourcing, and, third, we examine the consequences and the ethical challenges of each type for (a digital) society. Produced by Voice Republic For more podcasts visit http://voicerepublic.com

Ben White, Bill Zimmerman Room: GIG lounge A billion people, increasing political stability, a rising middle class and rapid growth in mobile and Internet, Africa is a hot bed for innovation and growth. Of course there is a lot of debate about the quality of this economic growth and to what extent it trickles down. Certainly there are mega business tycoons like Dangote (the 24th richest man in the world), but a greater % of the population still struggling to scrape by. And with 46% of the population under the age of 14 it is by all means a race to create jobs, jobs and more jobs. So what does Africa's innovation economy look like today? There are many well educated Africans returning home to set up shop, Tayo from PagaTech and Jason from Iroko as being just two examples. They do this because they see untapped market opportunities ripe for development. Much more exciting than the slow American and/or European markets where it's hard to even get a job interview. These entrepreneurs are bringing world class management systems and practice with them to bear in an otherwise uncompromising marketplace. Think of all the employees who leave these organizations and go out to set up their own business? This knowledge transfer is HUGE. Most impressive is that these 'return home entrepreneurs' show results and present case studies that help validate Africa's market potential. A new breed of entrepreneur is coming up across the continent and the results show they are a key engine for growth.   This session is part of the GLOBAL INNOVATION GATHERING programme. Produced by Voice Republic For more podcasts visit http://voicerepublic.com

Andreas Gebhard, Markus Beckedahl, Tanja Haeusler, Johnny Haeusler Room: stage 1 Produced by Voice Republic For more podcasts visit http://voicerepublic.com