Danube Competitiveness in Practice:
Smart Cities – Innovative Digital
Business Perspectives for SMEs
New technologies and digitisation open up new perspectives for Smart Cities and Urban Development, but they also pose challenges for small and medium-sized enterprises. How can we meet these challenges, be prepared for the new opportunities and use the results efficiently across the Danube region? The joint event of Barcamp Böblingen and Priority 8 of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) Working Groups Digital Danube (coordinated by Reutlingen University) and Innovation and Technology Transfer (coordinated by Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum/Steinbeis 2i GmbH) focuses on business models in the review of urban areas to transform degraded areas into intelligent areas and cities into smart cities.
The event offers stakeholders and SMEs from Baden-Württemberg and the Danube Region the opportunity to exchange experiences and addresses their challenges directly to the representatives from politics and administration present. The following two days of the bilingual Barcamp Böblingen are organised in the format of an “unconference” on the topics of Internet, Digitization, IT, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, (Lean) Start-ups, Social Media and Society.
Agenda 18 October 2019
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Dieter Hertweck,
Professor at Reutlingen University, Germany
Welcome Lunch
Session 1: DCP in Smart Cities – Innovative Digital Business Perspectives for SMEs
14.00 – 14.05 Official Welcome Address
Dr. Sascha Meßmer
Economic development for the district of Böblingen, Germany
14.05 – 14.10 Official Welcome Address on behalf of the EUSDR Priority Area 8
Dr. Judit Schrick-Szenczi
EUSDR Priority Area 8 Coordinator, Ministry for Economic Affairs, Labour and Housing Baden-Württemberg, Germany
14.10 – 14.30 Welcome address on behalf of the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg
Paul Nemeth
Member of the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, responsible for
EUSDR affairs
14.30 – 14.50 Introductory speech
Albena Antonova, Prof. Krassen Stafanov, Ph.D.
Scientific Research Department of the Faculty Mathematics and Informatics,
Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski", Bulgaria
14.50 – 15.10 Urban development / regeneration – involvement of SMEs in a transnational context
Mateo Ivanac
Croatian Chamber of Economy, Head of Innovation Factory at the Centre for Industrial Development (CIRAZ), Croatia
15.10 – 15.30 Smart City IoT-Networks – a chance for digital Innovations in urban environments
Prof. Dr. Vjeran Strahonja
Professor at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb, Croatia
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break
Session 2: DCP in Smart Cities – Innovative Digital Business Perspectives for SMEs
Panel Discussion
16.00 – 16.30 Panel on Smart Cities and Urban Development for SMEs
Paul Nemeth
Member of the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg, responsible for EUSDR affairs,
Germany
Matthias Holzner
Service Bureau EUSDR, State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mihai Dragomir
Associate Professor at Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Manager of the
Danube Transfer Center Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Ivan Plačko
Managing Director, Technology Innovation Centre Međimurje, Croatia
Stefan Kraus
Head of the Office for Technology, Environment, Green Affairs, Municipality of
Herrenberg, Germany
16.30 – 16.45 Questions and Answers
Open discussion with the participants
Session 3: DCP in Smart Cities – Innovative Digital Business Perspectives for SMEs
Showcases
16.45 – 17.00 Peter Kühfuß
CEO, KMPC Innovations GmbH, Germany
17.00 – 17.15 Gordan Kocijan
CEO, Telemetris d.o.o., Croatia
17.15 – 17.30 Closing remarks
Opening Session Barcamp Böblingen
19.00 – 22.00 Brauhaus Böblingen
Address: Lange Straße 20 | 71032 Böblingen
Plus Code: M2M8+QW Böblingen
