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.

Welcome at SALZ

Alexander Kribus - Executive Director - Messe Salzburg Walter Haas - Managing Director - Innovation Salzburg

Opening by Governor of Salzburg Karoline Edtstadler

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

Christoph Unterreiner - Senior Business Development Manager at NVIDIA

Opening Panel

Salzburg Research – Siegfried Reich - Managing Director Salzburger Sparkasse – Claus Graggaber - Regional Managing Director Wirtschaftskammer Salzburg – Norbert Ranftler - Vizepräsident

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

In this practical one-hour workshop, we will speak with ADRESYS Adaptive Regelsysteme GmbH and an intellectual property expert from Austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws) about a possible IP strategy based on a specific company case.

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.

From Idea to Successful Funding Application: Tips from Experts

Test before Invest - Digital innovation, AI and Emerging Technologies

The Human in the Loop

This workshop presents examples of Human-in-the-Loop approaches, showing how people remain part of AI-supported processes. It highlights how human-centered design keeps users involved in both the development and operation of technology.

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.

How Companies Attract Talent - SMASH - LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® WORKSHOP

Our interactive LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® workshop helps you step outside your bubble: together with students and other companies, you explore what truly makes an employer attractive today.

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.

Meetup: Internationals in Salzburg

"Work in Salzburg" networking event for Internationals.

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.

Einlass & Welcome Coffee in Citybeats

Data meets AI: When industry starts to think

From Corporate to Venture

How companies are systematically anchoring innovation—from corporate venturing to venture building

Waterdrop – From Local Startup to Global Scale-up: How to Build a World Brand Without Losing Your Roots

Finance & Funding - Successful financing and scaling

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

Mindset = Longevity WALK

Open source—but secure!

Hike #SALZ26