Organised by the World Cleanup Institute for Entrepreneurship and Impact
Presented and hosted by BCBT
Venue: CIC Berlin
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The BCBT Startup Hub guest lectures are running: every Thursday, 17:00–18:00, at CIC Berlin. Proposals are welcome – see the free dates.
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The BCBT Startup Hub guest lectures take place on Thursdays, 17:00–18:00 at CIC Berlin. Afterwards everyone is welcome at the Venture Café Thursday Gathering in the same building. Pick a free date and apply with the short form below; clicking a free date fills it in. We update the calendar as soon as a date is requested or confirmed.
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Making AI practical
Hardware Startups from Science
I Don’t Know. AI, Climate and the 5 Great Turnarounds
Making AI practical: how SMEs can move from AI ideas to working solutions
Many small and medium-sized companies have AI ideas but struggle to turn them into something that works. The talk shows how SMEs get from first ideas to working AI solutions in practice.
17:00–18:00 · CIC Berlin, Checkpoint Charlie room, 4th floor, Lohmühlenstraße 65, 12435 Berlin · in English
The highlight was a live demo: Castantin built a small working web tool on the spot, followed by a lively Q&A.
- Start small: one concrete first step beats a big plan.
- Use AI where it helps today.
- Protect business data.
- Keep people in the loop: a person decides.
Hardware Startups from Science, or How to Tinker Cool Stuff for Money
How does a scientific idea become a hardware product that people actually pay for? Victor shares what it takes to turn research into hardware, and into a business: from the first prototype in the lab to building a company around it. A talk for students, founders and anyone who likes to build things.
17:00–18:00 · CIC Berlin, Checkpoint Charlie room, 4th floor, Lohmühlenstraße 65, 12435 Berlin · in English
Victor on LinkedInProfileI Don’t Know. AI, Climate and the 5 Great Turnarounds: Which Mindset Helps You Navigate Uncertainty?
AI, climate change and five great turnarounds are reshaping how we live and do business. What does this mean for your startup idea, your next job and your own entrepreneurial life design? In an interactive session, Marc challenges our assumptions about mindsets, motivations and values: from futures literacy to serious gaming, from purpose and impact entrepreneurship to new ways of measuring well-being and prosperity – with Berlin as a living example.
17:00–18:00 · CIC Berlin, Checkpoint Charlie room, 4th floor, Lohmühlenstraße 65, 12435 Berlin · in English
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Making AI Practical: How SMEs Can Move from AI Ideas to Working Solutions
Castantin Said Rakouki, CEO & Co-Founder of LumiLife Tech and Tech Lead at Innovation AI Lab, showed 22 participants how small and medium-sized enterprises can turn AI ideas into working tools. The highlight was a live demo: he built a small web tool on the spot, followed by a lively Q&A.
- Start small: one concrete first step beats a big plan.
- Use AI where it helps today: product texts, answers from approved company files, simple repetitive tasks.
- Protect business data: company-approved accounts, share only what a task needs.
- Keep people in the loop: for important decisions, a person decides.
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Format
About 40 minutes talk on your topic, followed by questions and discussion with students, Thursdays 17:00–18:00. In person at CIC Berlin, Lohmühlenstraße 65, 12435 Berlin, held in English.
Audience
Students of the Berlin College of Business and Technology (BCBT) in business, technology and entrepreneurship programmes, an international group.
Topics
Open. Examples: founding and scaling a business, innovation and AI, sustainability and the circular economy, impact measurement, careers and practice.
Who can apply
Anyone with a topic worth sharing: founders, employees, freelancers, researchers, students and alumni. A clear idea is enough.
Audience and discussion at We Create Future Stages, Venture Café Berlin · Photos: Anasteisha Ruzhanska and LuckyCaptures; Venture Café Berlin / @contentmakerberlin
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Apply online
Choose a free Thursday and fill in the application form: name, role, LinkedIn, a link to your portrait photo, talk title, a short abstract and three takeaways. It takes about five minutes.
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Review
The programme team of the World Cleanup Institute for Entrepreneurship and Impact (WCI) checks the fit and replies to every application.
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Date
Accepted lectures get a free Thursday; we confirm the date, room and format with you. Guest lectures are unpaid.
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Lecture day
You give your lecture at CIC Berlin. Afterwards you are welcome to join the BCBT community at the Venture Café Thursday Gathering in the same building.
Contact
World Cleanup Institute for Entrepreneurship and Impact (WCI) at the Berlin College of Business and Technology (BCBT) · Lohmühlenstraße 65, 12435 Berlin · [email protected]
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