Future Innovators - Hightech Design SprintIn-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 6 Oct 2025, 09:00 → Friday 10 Oct 2025, 20:00 Europe/Berlin

DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen

 

Future Innovators' "Hightech Design Sprint"

It's our one-week boot camp from October 06-10, 2025, at DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, 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:

The Hightech Design Sprint teaches a method to identify opportunities to transfer knowledge and technologies by letting teams free-dive into busy scenarios in an industry immersion to shadow experts and observe their work at the first two workshop days to understand problems and extract valuable opportunities for innovation during the rest of the week. Learning and practising Need Identification is the program's core, the foundation for efficient start-ups with high potential impact through 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

             

Timo Christian of DESYs Start-up Office, will guide us through the Future Innovators' need-led innovation boot camp. This is a unique opportunity to learn from our academies 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.

 

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) 

 

 

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, boot camp style. If this is the major hurdle to participating in the workshop, contact me (timo.christian@desy.de)!