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Bits & Pretzels Founders Festival 2027

Bits & Pretzels Founders Festival is Europe’s most unique founders conference, hosting 7,500 founders, investors, and industry leaders in Munich for three days of learning, networking, and doing business during Munich Oktoberfest. The event includes a curated speaker lineup, investor meetings, startup exhibitions, side events, and the iconic day at the real…

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44Speakers
6Sponsors
16Exhibitors
67Sessions
22Companies · in total

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Speakers

Programmed at Bits, in alphabetical order.

Antoine Nussenbaum
Balázs Nagy
Ben Wilkinson
Caoimhe Vallely
Christian Stiebner
Christoph Klink
Domenico Cipolla
Dominik Stein
Dr Alexander Hirschfeld
Dr Florian Heinemann
Dr. Ir Anne-Marije Zwerver
Dr Jan Goetz
Eli Waxman
Enrico Mellis
Filip Dames
Frederik Brammer
Fynn Kliemann
Hannah Schwär
Hubertus Bessau
Hugo Suidman
Jan Philipp Haas
Joko Winterscheidt

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

BMW
Google Cloud
Microsoft
Mistral
SAP
Telefónica

Agenda

Selected from 67 sessions.

  • 10:00AM - 10:10AM

    Startup Germany: What's Next?

    Startup Germany Stage
  • 10:00AM - 10:25AM

    Arthur Mensch (Mistral) in conversation with Sebastian Matthes (Handelsblatt)

  • 10:00AM - 11:05AM

    Golden Pretzel Award - Pre-Round I

  • 10:05AM - 10:10AM

    Welcome

  • 10:10AM - 10:35AM

    One Year of Startup Factories

  • 10:10AM - 10:50AM

    Mega seed or starve: The Bifurcation

  • 10:15AM - 11:00AM

    Create your 12 months leadership blueprint

  • 10:25AM - 10:55AM

    Who Owns Europe’s AI Future?

  • 10:35AM - 10:55AM

    From Lab to Market

Company intelligence

An audience of 22 companies, parsed from the program.

22 companies in attendance.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
6Sponsoringsponsor only
16Exhibitingexhibitor only
0Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority
  • Other roles44100%

Of 44 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1BMWSponsor-
2Google CloudSponsor-
3MicrosoftSponsor-
4MistralSponsor-
5SAPSponsor-
6TelefónicaSponsor-
71consentExhibitor-
8241.travelExhibitor-
94LATERExhibitor-
10ADGENTICAIExhibitor-
11Admin By RequestExhibitor-
12advoresExhibitor-
13aembianceExhibitor-
14AerobaseExhibitor-
Sponsors by tier
unspecified6
100% of 6
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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