Future Innovators - Hightech Design Sprint (Spring 2025)In-Person Event

by Mr Benjamin Wang (Future Innovators - A Helmholtz Transfer Academy | DLR_Startup Factory), Timo Christian (Future Innovators- A Helmholtz Transfer Academy | DESY, ITT (STO))

Monday 3 Mar 2025, 09:00 → Friday 7 Mar 2025, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

DESY, Zeuthen

 

Future Innovators' "Hightech Design Sprint"

It's our one-week boot camp from March 3-7, 2025, at DESY Zeuthen, in person, in English.

If you are a scientist or engineer of Helmholtz (PhD, Post-Doc, Staff, Prof) who wants to experience connecting your knowledge with problems in the non-scientific world, you have found the perfect boot camp. Our structured approach lays the ideal foundation to discover opportunities, especially suitable for impactful hightech/deeptech start-ups. 

 

No prerequisites are needed, and there is no commitment afterwards; just experience innovation during the sprint and explore the viable career path of founding scientific start-ups.

 

More detail:

Future Innovators "Hightech Design Sprint" trains you in methods to identify opportunities to transfer your scientific knowledge and technologies in a case-study setting, following the structured process of "Need-Led Innovation".

As a first step, we will let you explore the busy scenarios of an industry host. You will analyse and filter the observations to get the most promising Need before you rapidly brainstorm and design what a solution might look like in the end.

 

The Need-Identification is the program's core, a fantastic foundation for efficient start-ups with high potential impact as you develop a validated understanding of a problem! 

 

Be aware we have a very high pace during the workshop!

 

What to learn: 

-Identify Problems and Needs; don't waste resources on useless solutions

-Define measurable outcome; prevent losing the need during development 

-Analyse and filter ideas; are they worth brain power and money?

-Exploit inter-disciplinary teams and diverse professional perspectives

-Rapid development of Proof-of-Concepts, MVPs or Prototypes

 

FUTURE INNOVATORS GOES DINOSAUR! 

 

Photo: (c)_Hwa Ja-Götz_MfN

 

The host for our third run will be Berlin's Museum for Natural History, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin! 
 
We can visit and observe the museums' work, what's going on at the collection analysis labs, how the collection care and management is happening, and what about the digitalisation of the exposition.

We want to question everything to understand if there are missing information, problems that occur or tools that would be immensely helpful. We are looking especially for global issues, which become visible as symptoms of problems at our host location. Archaeology, modern analysis tech, and the security or conservation of the exposition are so many paths coming together in one place. We are excited to see which innovation opportunities can be discovered in our boot camp.

 

 

Timo Christian of DESYs Start-up Office and Professor Jeroen Bergmann, Professor at Oxford and Head of the Department of Technology and Innovation at the University of Southern Denmark, will guide us through the Future Innovators' need-led innovation boot camp. This is a unique opportunity to learn from extensive experiences and gain insights on transforming your knowledge into innovation.

 

Sign up to be part of a multi-discipline workshop team and try need-led innovation yourself for one week in our Future Innovators Academy.

 

 

Future Innovators is a collaboration between DESY and DLR. More information: https://future-innovators.de/ 

Helmholtz funds our academy. Therefore, members of Helmholtz will receive preferential treatment in our open sign-up. If you and your origin institution are not part of Helmholtz, you will receive a final confirmation after the sign-up closed. Reach out to us for questions.

For PhDs and other students:

Our workshop counts for the PIER Helmholtz Graduate School Credit Point system. If you are part of another graduate school and want your workshop participation accounted for there, message us, and we will contact your organisation and figure out a rating.

Housing:

We are looking for low-cost housing opportunities. Contact me for support! (timo.christian@desy.de)