What will happen to the innovative industries after COVID-19?. Spain, Germany and United Kindgom.

What can we learn through this experience and what is the expected future after Covid-19?

This series of webinars and podcasts brings together some of the key players of innovative hubs around the world, through interviews, the exchange of ideas and the sharing of positive experiences, which can provide new ideas and solutions to face the current situation.

Key Speakers:

Silvia Elías Bernardos - Partner at Mavens. Co-founder of Tech Spain Advocates. 

Partner at Mavens, a law firm which provides comprehensive advice to companies and entrepreneurs. Co-founder of Tech Spain Advocates, a community of entrepreneurs, investors and experts operating in the technology sector in Spain, with global presence through the international network Global Tech Advocates. Member of the Legal Committee of Alastria, the leading consortium of Blockchain in Spain. Professor at the Instituto de Empresa (IE) and the Madrid Bar Association.

Dr.-Ing. David Carlos Domingos - Head of Department - Fraunhofer institute for Production Systems and Design Technology IPK

Managing Director - Fraunhofer Project Center for Advanced Manufacturing @ ITA.

The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is the leading organization for applied research in Europe. Its research activities are conducted by 74 institutes and research units at locations throughout Germany. The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft employs a staff of more than 28,000, who work with an annual research budget of 2.6 billion euros. Of this sum, 2.2 billion euros is generated through contract research. Around 70 percent of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft’s contract research revenue is derived from contracts with industry and from publicly financed research projects. International collaborations with excellent research partners and innovative companies around the world ensure direct access to regions of the greatest importance to present and future scientific progress and economic development.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology IPK works on application-oriented system solutions covering the whole spectrum of industrial usage, including solutions and application in the scope of Industrie 4.0. This includes product development, production processes, maintenance of investment goods, and product recycling to design and management of manufacturing companies. We also transfer production technology solutions to areas of application outside of industry such as medicine, transport and security.

Mike Jackson - Entrepreneur Success Director at Tech Nation.

Mike is an Entrepreneur who built and sold his business in London and then moved to Bristol to found his own tech incubator and became an active local investor and mentor. In 2018 he took on a national role as Entrepreneur Success Director at Tech Nation responsible for rolling out a UK wide network of support for ambitious tech entrepreneurs through local activity and national growth stage and sector specific programmes.