June 4-5, 2025
The #IDTX is the meeting place for the startup community. The event is an opportunity to network and exchange experiences with other founders, potential partners and contacts from science, business and politics.
Innovations | Investments | Community
Founders meet Investors meet Explorers: Around 50 start-ups and growth companies present their innovative business models in search of the next funding or the next cooperation.
On the morning of the first day of the event, selected investors and growth companies will meet at an exclusive Investors’ Breakfast at the Gartenbaum Museum in Egapark. The subsequent pitches by the growth companies will provide the basis for an exchange on pioneering technologies from Thuringia and investment opportunities in excellent teams.
The afternoon on the Petersberg is open to all innovation enthusiasts and explorers and puts the spotlight on innovative start-ups and early-stage projects.
The startups pitch their business concepts live on stage in front of investors and the assembled innovation community. Experience how founders strive for the next investment to bring their innovative business model to the market. VC investors, business angels and co. vote in the jury. Which startup has the greatest potential to shape the future with its innovation? As part of the audience, you are also in demand. The most convincing pitches will receive one of the Pitch Awards combined with prize money and other benefits that will further advance the startups. In the innovation arena, the pitchers and other start-ups with their innovations are ready to exchange ideas. Be inspired, test prototypes and discover trends and technologies.
08:30
Registration
09:00-10:30
Investors Breakfast
10:30
Opening
10:45
Pitches Scale Ups
12:30/13:00
Lunch snack
13:00 /13:30
Bus transfer to the Petersberg location
13:00
Registration
14:00
Opening
14:45
Pitch block 1
15:30
Networking & Innovation Arena
16:05
Panel discussion
16:50
Pitchblock II
17:35
Networking & Innovation Arena
18:05
Keynote: Christian Wehner
18:40
Presentation of Pitch Awards
from 19:00
Closing Party
Connect Innovative Entrepreneurs
#IDTX goes international: This year, the Investor Days Thuringia are cooperating with the Enterprise Europe Network Thuringia and Thuringia International at the State Development Corporation of Thuringia. This gives Thuringian scale-ups and companies the opportunity to drive forward their internationalization.
Network with companies from South Africa, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Germany and strengthen your position in international markets. Improve your global growth strategy with inspiring keynotes, interactive sessions and networking opportunities.
Selected start-ups can test their business models for megatrends and their impact in a future proof session.
08:30
Registration
09:00
Opening
09:15
Keynote Internationalization 101: Why, How, Where and What
Divotsna, Senior Startup Advisor at Start2 Group
09:45
Success Stories
10:15
Pitch Sessions & Match Making
13:00-17:00
Future Proof Session
17:00
Networking
The Investor Days Thuringia are an initiative of the Foundation for Technology, Innovation and Research Thuringia (STIFT) and bm-t beteiligungsmanagement thüringen gmbh.
Speaker #IDTX Tag 1:
Christian Wehner – Senior Director Innovation Strategy bei SAP und SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautor – weiß, was echte Innovation ausmacht: Fähigkeiten, die wir als Kinder selbstverständlich beherrschten: Neugier, Kreativität, echtes Staunen.
Christian Wehner ist ein Brückenbauer zwischen Welten: zwischen Kindergarten und Konferenzraum, zwischen Spieltrieb und Strategie, zwischen dem Staunen von Kindern und der Analyse von Erwachsenen.
Seine Keynote wirbelt Staub auf, kratzt am Lack unserer erwachsenen Welt und zeigt, warum das, was wir damals wussten, heute wichtiger ist denn je.
Speakerin #IDTX Tag 2:
Wenn sich neue Märkte öffnen, liegt die Challenge darin, sich an die neuen kulturellen aber auch regulatorischen Gegebenheiten anzupassen und Märkte mit hohem Potenzial zu identifizieren.
Divotsna ist erfahrene Wachstumsstrategin und Senior Advisor bei German Accelerator und Start2Group mit einem Jahrzehnt an Erfahrung in den Bereichen Vertrieb, Marketing und Startup-Expansion in Indien, Südostasien und Europa.
Mit Leidenschaft hilft sie Gründer:innen in der strategischen Marktauswahl und Skalierungsstrategien und steht für grenzüberschreitendes Unternehmertum.
Internationalization 101: Why, How, Where and What – Das und viel mehr erfahrt ihr an Tag 2 der #IDTX in der Keynote von Divotsna!
Speaker #IDTX Tag 2:
Healyan entwickelt und vertreibt ein advanced wearable für besseren Schlaf, mehr mentale Klarheit und einen ausgeglicheneren Tag – gestützt auf neurowissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse und Neuromodulation durch Licht und Ton. Als Medizinprodukt kann die Innovation zukünftig zur Behandlung von Alzheimer genutzt werden.
Bereits 2024 pitchte das Startup bei den Investor Days Thüringen. In diesem Jahr steht Gründer Philipp Caspari wieder auf der Bühne: Als Speaker am 2. Tag – dem International Day der #IDTX!
Speaker #IDTX Tag 2:
Das Startup polytives entwickelt und vertreibt in ihrem Werk in Rudolstadt innovative Verarbeitungshilfen für die Kunststoffindustrie. Diese Additive verbessern die Verarbeitung von Kunststoffen und damit Prozesse im Spritzguss oder 3D-Druck. Die erste Finanzierung konnte sich Polytives nach den #IDT2019 sichern. Danach war das Startup bei der TRIP Class 2021 dabei und pitchte als Teilnehmer der Final Class auch bei den IDT – wo sie einen der Pitch Preise gewinnen konnten. Als Speaker werden Polytives an Tag 2 der #IDTX auf der Bühne zu sehen sein und von ihrer Geschichte erzählen!
Speaker #IDTX Day 1:
Christian Wehner – Senior Director Innovation Strategy at SAP and SPIEGEL bestselling author – knows what real innovation is all about: skills that we mastered naturally as children: Curiosity, creativity, genuine wonder.
Christian Wehner is a bridge builder between worlds: between kindergarten and conference room, between play instinct and strategy, between the amazement of children and the analysis of adults.
His keynote stirs up dust, scratches the varnish of our grown-up world and shows why what we knew then is more important today than ever.
Speaker #IDTX Day 2:
Divotsna is a seasoned growth strategist and senior advisor with a decade of experience in sales, marketing, and startup expansion across India, Southeast Asia, and Europe. Having successfully built and exited her own startup, she now helps founders navigate international expansion, providing expert guidance on market selection, strategic insights, and scaling strategies.
At Start2 Group, she supports over 300 startups annually providing strategic insights on market selection, localization, and global scalability.
Her expertise lies in helping founders de-risk international expansion, adapt to new regulatory and cultural landscapes, and identify high-potential markets. Passionate about fostering cross-border entrepreneurship, she actively champions global startup ecosystems in Germany and MENA.
Internationalization 101: Why, How, Where and What – Find out this and much more in Divotsna’s keynote on day 2 of #IDTX!
Speaker #IDTX Day 2:
Healyan develops and markets an advanced wearable for better sleep, more mental clarity and a more balanced day – based on neuroscientific findings and neuromodulation through light and sound. As a medical device, the innovation can be used in the future to treat Alzheimer’s disease.
The startup already pitched at the Investor Days Thuringia in 2024. This year, founder Philipp Caspari is back on stage: as a speaker on Day 2 – the International Day of #IDTX!
Speaker #IDTX Day 2:
The startup polytives develops and distributes innovative processing aids for the plastics industry at its plant in Rudolstadt. These additives improve the processing of plastics and thus processes in injection molding or 3D printing. Polytives secured its first funding after the #IDT2019. The startup then took part in the TRIP Class 2021 and also pitched at the IDT as a participant in the final class – where they won one of the pitch prizes. Polytives will be on stage as a speaker on day 2 of #IDTX to tell their story!
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