Thank you to all of our participants for an amazing event! At the Innovation Days, we brought together companies, designers, engineers, and entrepreneurial students come together to turn ideas into prototypes within 48 hours. We ran the Bregenz edition in parallel to the WECON, the weareable conference that brought together thought leaders on wearables and smart devices. Join our newsletter to keep up to date on the outcomes of the Bregenz event and updates from other events.
Challenges
Construction
How might we reimagine the course of action of a construction and railway company in ways that are ecologically, economically and socially sustainable?
Smart Textiles
How might we leverage smart textiles to enable computers to understand human emotions?
How it works
Step 1. Understand
Understand the challenges of our company partners and study the context, the company, and their customers.
Step 2. Inspire
At the InnoDays you can either pitch your own idea or join a team. Please introduce yourself with an idea (if you’ll pitch) or an insight relevant for a challenge (if you’ll join a team) in a short video (max. 2 min).
Step 3. Register
Select your favorite challenge during online registration. Teams are formed based on the best ideas, mixing skills and your challenge preference.
During the event
From November 20-22 you have 48 hours to turn your idea into a prototype.
See full schedule
Day 1: Ideate
12.30 Check-in & networking
13.30 Welcome remarks
13.45 Companies present challenges
14.00 Pitch your idea
15.30 Register team & Mentoring
16:00 Identify customers & Design value proposition
18:30 Update meeting
19:00 Dinner
20:00 Define riskiest assumptions
21.00 Update meeting
Day 2: Prototype
8.15 Morning update
8.30 Verify assumptions
11.00 Update meeting
11.30 Build prototype
12.30 Lunch
13.30-15.30 Mentoring
18.30 Update meeting
19:00 Dinner
20.00 Design business model
21.00 Update meeting
Open end Improve prototype & Prepare pitch
Day 3: Validate
8.15 Morning update
8.30 Capture pitch on video
9:30-11.30 Test solution during prototype expo
11.50 Present winning solutions
13.00 Discuss implementation
Teams
Teams are built based on (1) the ideas, (2) your challenge preference (3) mix of skills as well as (4) mix of institutions. Team leaders have two minutes to pitch at the opening.
Why join?
Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team.
Tackle an important innovation challenge.
Receive mentoring by inspirational leaders.
Get the company partners’ support to make your idea happen.
Companies
Education partners
Partners
