Event agenda

Pre-opening: Cybersecurity Breakfast

The Cybersecurity Breakfast offers company representatives the opportunity to exchange insights with cybersecurity experts on current developments and to discuss how to best prepare for present and future threats.

Opening by Karoline Edtstadler

Karoline Edtstadler - Governor of Salzburg

Key Note: The Future of AI – Key Trends Shaping What’s Next

Christoph Unterreiner - Senior Business Development Manager at NVIDIA

Opening Panel

Finance & Funding - Successful financing and scaling

Track 1 - Next Industrial Systems - Panel

Industry and software are converging: data becomes a production factor and AI a driver of efficiency. The panel explores how platform thinking, openness, and collaboration enable next industrial systems.

Successfully Protecting Ideas and Innovations – what companies should know about intellectual property rights

Know-how is a key business asset. In this workshop with H+H Systems and aws, you will learn how innovations can be strategically protected through patents, trademarks and confidentiality – and what companies should consider in practice.

Track 1 - Next Industrial Systems - Startup Pitches

Industry and software are converging: data becomes a production factor and AI a driver of efficiency. These startups show us how to navigate the next industrial systems.

Track 2 - Tech4Green - Panel

Tech4Green highlights energy as a driver of sustainable innovation. The panel discusses new technologies and materials across the energy value chain, from generation to storage and use—in sectors such as industry and buildings.

Track 2 - Tech4Green - Startup Pitches

Tech4Green highlights energy as a driver of sustainable innovation. These startups show us how innovation will help with new technologies and materials across the energy value chain.

How to solve environmental problems with satellite data and make money

Satellite imagery and digital maps are widely accessible today. The lecture shows how modern geoinformatics makes environmental challenges measurable and turns reliable geo-data into practical applications and viable business models.

SMASH – LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® WORKSHOP (Invite-only)

Track 3 - Secure & Resilient Systems - Panel

Security, resilience, and trust create stable, future-ready systems. The panel explores risk management, building trust, and enabling new markets – from cybersecurity to SpaceTech.

Track 3 - Secure & Resilient Systems - Startup Pitches

Security, resilience, and trust create stable, future-ready systems. These startups enhance stability in a connected, data-driven world and enable new markets – from cybersecurity to SpaceTech.

Track 4 - Human Tech - Panel

This panel explores how health technologies are evolving from simple tools into integrated systems. From regenerative medicine and bioprinting to personalized vaccines and data-driven life extension, humans are becoming platforms for innovation.

Track 4 - Human Tech - Startup Pitches

These startups show us future-proof innovations, which will turn humans into a new innovation system.

10 Jahre Startup Salzburg Party

10 Years of Startup Salzburg: Award ceremony for the startup pitch winners, and a look back at 10 years of the ecosystem. Afterwards, enjoy food, drinks, and DJ music.

Daten treffen KI: Wenn Industrie anfängt zu denken

From Corporate to Venture

Finance & Funding - Successful financing and scaling

Build. Scale. Repeat. Achieving Greater Success in Corporate Venturing Through Systematic Approaches

Mindset = Longevity WALK

Open Source - aber sicher!

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