ALPHAZIRKEL Delegation Trip to Boston, USA November 04th - 08th 2018

Program & Visits

Sunday, 4th November

8:00 PM - Opening Dinner at The Envoy

Monday, 5th November

09:15 AM - Departure

10:00 AM - University of Massachusetts (https://www.uml.edu)

On Site Campus Visits of:

• Fabric Discovery Center (www.iconarch.com/fabric-discovery-center-110-canal) The UMass Lowell Fabrics Discovery Center concentrates on the development, testing, and manufacturing of consumer and commercial fabrics that are blended with flexible electronics. For advanced textiles and fiber-based materials, the Fabric Discovery Center is a unique advanced manufacturing, testing, and gateway innovation facility. The facility serves the needs of organizations in Massachusetts and the region to rapidly transform textile product concepts into functional prototypes. The facility is an end-to-end fabric innovation ecosystem with capabilities ranging from resin compounding equipment, fiber extrusion lines, textile assembly (e.g., knitting, weaving), and textile finishing (e.g., coating, digital printing, bonding/seaming) equipment. Testing capabilities include mechanical and thermal properties, flammability, permeability, and durability. This pilot production and test facility enables companies to evaluate new fiber additives and fiber materials, new modifications to assembly and finishing, and new designs, allowing for the most promising technologies to be quickly identified and evaluated. The Fashion Makerspace area is used to transform materials and patterns into test products, which, in turn, are evaluated in test environments at the co-located NERVE Center.

• The New England Robotics Validation and Experimentation (NERVE) (nerve.uml.edu) The New England Robotics Validation and Experimentation (NERVE) Center, is a dedicated research, testing, and training facility. The mission of the NERVE Center is to improve the development of robotic systems by both academic researchers and corporations by facilitating evaluation throughout the design cycle. Physical Therapy researchers also help evaluate and inform product development through motion capture and gait studies.

• Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (www.uml.edu/research/M2D2/) The Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) is a lifeline for the state’s smaller medical device companies, offering inventors and executives easy, affordable, and coordinated access to world-class researchers and resources at the UMass Lowell and the UMass Medical School campuses of the University of Massachusetts.

Address: 110 Canal St, Lowell, MA 01852, USA

1:30 PM - Desktop Metal (https://www.desktopmetal.com)

Desktop Metal is reinventing the way engineering and manufacturing teams produce metal parts - from prototyping through mass production.

Address: 63 3rd Ave, Burlington, MA 01803

3:00 PM - CIC (https://cic.com)

The Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) is an office space facility for small and growing companies. CIC works with powerful, local partners to develop the critical networks that entrepreneurs need to grow effectively. For almost two decades, we have focused on strengthening vibrant communities, building collaborative work environments, and creating impactful programming to attract and support the very best entrepreneurs and their teams. Our clients provide tomorrow’s answers to today’s problems. They renew our economies, create gainful and rewarding employment opportunities, and frequently crack tough problems facing humanity.

Address: 101 Main St, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA

7:30 PM - Dinner at Row34 (http://row34.com)

Dinner Speach: Carrie Earle Allen, Executive Director "Captains of Innovation Program" (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carriefitzsimmons/)

Address: 383 Congress St, Boston, MA 02210, USA

Tuesday, 6th November

8:00 AM - Departure

8:30 AM - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (https://web.mit.edu)

Founded to accelerate the nation’s industrial revolution, MIT is profoundly American. With ingenuity and drive, our graduates have invented fundamental technologies, launched new industries, and created millions of American jobs. At the same time, and without the slightest sense of contradiction, MIT is profoundly global. Our community gains tremendous strength as a magnet for talent from around the world. Through teaching, research, and innovation, MIT’s exceptional community pursues its mission of service to the nation and the world.

08:30 - 09:00: Intro to MIT / ILP

09:00 - 10:30: Campus tour - Eastern Campus - School of Management. Local Management System

10:30 - 11:00: Discussion with MIT Innovation Initiative group

11:00 - 11:30: Discussion with Amitava "Babi" Mitra, Executive Director, New Engineering Educational Transformation. The 378 faculty members in the MIT School of Engineering have won almost every major research and teaching award you can think of, they have a strong tradition of national service, and they are prolific inventors and originators of commercial enterprises. “If it’s a breakthrough in technology and science, our faculty are probably involved.”

Visit of the MIT Startup Exchange (http://startupexchange.mit.edu) with its director Erik Vogan. MIT STARTUP EXCHANGE actively promotes collaboration and partnerships between MIT-connected startups and members of MIT’s Industrial Liaison Program (ILP). (http://startupexchange.mit.edu)

Address: 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139

11:30 AM Lunch at Commonwealth (http://commonwealthcambridge.com)

Address: 11 Broad Canal Way, Kendall Square, Cambridge MA 02142

1:30 PM - Greentown Labs (www.greentownlabs.com)

The Greentown Labs Manufacturing Initiative connects startups with manufacturers throughout Massachusetts to break down barriers and help establish working relationships. To date, the Manufacturing Initiative has helped facilitate nearly 800 connections between startups and manufacturers which has led to more than 75 contracts.

Address: 444 Somerville Ave., Somerville, MA 02143

3:45 PM - Harvard Business School (https://www.hbs.edu)

Workshop with Prof. Dr. Thomas Eisenmann about implementation of startups and new technologies into established organizations. (https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6452)

Address: Harvard Business School, Soldiers Field, Boston, MA 02163

7:30 PM - Dinner at Committee (http://committeeboston.com)

Address: 50 Northern Ave, Boston, MA 02210

Wednesday, 7th November

8:30 AM - Departure

9:00 AM - Converge Venture Partners (https://converge.vc)

CVP is a seed and early stage fund, providing capital and network connections for tech entrepreneurs. Additional visits of portfolio companies, such as:

• Rapid Miner (https://rapidminer.com) RapidMiner brings artificial intelligence to the enterprise through an open and extensible data science platform. Built for analytics teams, RapidMiner unifies the entire data science lifecycle from data prep to machine learning to predictive model deployment. 400,000 analytics professionals use RapidMiner products to drive revenue, reduce costs, and avoid risks.

• Tulip.co (https://tulip.co) People will always be the most valuable resource of your operations - Automation has done a lot for manufacturing, but the most complex tasks are still done by people. People still run the factories, people still do the most challenging assemblies and service the machines. Our goal is to help them do a better job, putting the latest technologies to work on their behalf.

"The platform’s flexible, self-serve, smart manufacturing apps enable people, processes, and machines to work together." – Frost & Sullivan

"Tulip and its fellow pioneers are front and centre in shaping the ongoing Fourth Industrial Revolution." –World Economic Forum

• Rize3D (http://www.rize3d.com) Rize is a Boston, USA-based, next-generation additive manufacturing company enabling inclusive and sustainable innovation to achieve Additive at Scale. Rize recently released its first product, Rize™ One, which is winning industry and customer accolades. Rize won a 2018 Frost & Sullivan award for ‘Best Practices in Technology Innovation in the Zero-Emission Polymer Material Additive Manufacturing industry’ and IDC name RIZE a ‘2018 Innovator in 3D Printing.’ Prestigious organizations like NASA, US Army, US Navy and Merck have chosen the product for supporting their additive manufacturing needs. Rize One, the world’s first hybrid 3D printer, is a breakthrough combining two discrete technologies, extrusion and material jetting. This is enabling companies to sustainably deliver a vast range of custom and replacement manufacturing parts with best-in-class Z-strength. The breakthrough is made possible through Rize’s patented technology called Augmented Deposition, which enables inclusive multi-material printing with minimal post processing and the sustainable use of safe, non-toxic and recyclable materials. Intelligent products increasingly require parts with variable materials, which include mechanical, electrical and chemical properties. Rize’s inclusive Augmented Deposition process fuses them into unified parts, enabling innovators

to deliver unprecedented customer experiences. Rize solutions combine strength, safety, security and speed, all at the most competitive price point in the industry.

• Smartvid.io (https://www.smartvid.io) At Smartvid.io we’re united by a common goal—building a photo and video management platform that leverages machine learning to solve industrial-grade problems. Our vision is simple to explain but hard to do. To execute on this concept, we’ve convened an experienced team of enterprise software engineers, machine learning specialists, and account managers.

• NuoDB (http://www.nuodb.com) NuoDB and its employees are motivated by a deceptively simple goal: “Build a database to power - and empower - today’s business-critical cloud applications” - With its deep roots in database innovation, NuoDB is singularly focused on delivering a smarter database that can easily adapt to the emerging requirements of software organizations as they transform their successful on-premises models to accommodate the services-based cloud applications their customers now demand. NuoDB combines the scale-out simplicity, elasticity, and continuous availability that hybrid cloud applications require, with the transactional consistency and durability that databases of record demand.

Address: 101 Main Street. Cambridge, MA 02142

6:00 PM - Dinner at Haley Henry Details (http://www.haleyhenry.com)

Reception & Dinner with startup entreprenurs.

Address: Downtown Crossing, 45 Province St, Boston Ma – 02108

Thursday, 8th November

9:30 AM - Departure

9:00 AM - Boston University (http://www.bu.edu)

Boston University is no small operation. With over 33,000 undergraduate and graduate students from more than 130 countries, nearly 10,000 faculty and staff, 17 schools and colleges, and 250 fields of study, our three campuses are always humming, always in high gear. Meet the people and places that keep the University running smoothly. Presentation of 30 Min by Peter Marton. 30 Min Campus Tour, 90 min Startup Presentations (15 min per each Team) Closing with Gerry Fine, Rana Gupta, Peter Marton.

BUild Lab (http://www.bu.edu/innovate/build-your-idea/build-lab/) - Innovate@BU’s core activities are to: Provide experiential learning programs that foster an entrepreneurial mindset by teaching innovation, communication, and collaboration skills through the BUild Lab IDG Capital Student Innovation Center, enabling students and alumni to address local and global challenges. Create a University minor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship available to undergraduates at any school at BU. Embedding innovation and entrepreneurial principles in our curricula is critical to preparing students to craft their own future opportunities. Engage faculty in focused research to identify best practices that can support the Boston innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem and establish the University as a thought-leader in these fields. Nurture, grow, and amplify the innovation and entrepreneurial activities happening across the University. Be a responsible and contributing member of the Boston innovation and entrepreneurship community.

Address: 233 Bay State Road, Boston MA 02215

11:30 AM Lunch at Chickadee (www.chickadeerestaurant.com)

Address: 21 Drydock Ave. Boston, MA 02210

12:45 PM - Legionarius Defense LLC (https://masschallenge.org)

The startup was a finalist in the Mass Challenge (https://masschallenge.org/about-impact), which is headquartered in the United States with locations in Boston, Israel, Mexico, Switzerland, Texas, and the UK. MassChallenge strengthens the global innovation ecosystem by accelerating high-potential startups across all industries, from anywhere in the world for zero-equity taken.

Address: 23 Drydock Ave, Boston, MA 02210

1:30 PM - Autodesk (www.autodesk.com/content/boston)

Autodesk makes software for people who make things. If you’ve ever driven a high- performance car, admired a towering skyscraper, used a smartphone, or watched a great film, chances are you’ve experienced what millions of Autodesk customers are doing with our software. Schwerpunkte sind: Architecture, Engineering & Construction, Product Design & Manufacturing sowie Media & Entertainment.

Address: 23 Drydock Ave, Boston, MA 02210

3:00 PM - Venture Café (https://vencaf.org)

Mix and mingle with fellow entrepreneurs, find serendipitous connections, get advice and feedback during office hours, and attend entrepreneurship- and innovation-focused events.

Address: 1 Broadway 14th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02142

6:00 PM – Departure to the Airport

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