Deep Tech Summit & CEE Challenge

Today is the last day to get ticket for Deep Tech CEE Summit & Challenge Here’s what you’re actually booking a ticket for. On 27 October, our business programme at Deep Tech Summit includes: ➡️Corporate–startup collaboration - the DeepTech Alliance panel on open innovation and venture clienting across Europe. ➡️Smart Manufacturing with Walter J. Buga - how AI, digital twins and autonomous mobile robots can fit into production. ➡️Making implementation happen, with Roza Szafranek - why teams struggle to turn plans into execution, and what organisations can do about it. ➡️From technical potential to a viable business, with Ian Firla - customer demand, commercial execution and what makes a technology company investable. See the full programme: https://lnkd.in/dsWRfC4U That’s a day I want business leaders to be part of. Not just listening, but challenging the ideas and bringing their own experience into the discussion. Choose the sessions that matter to your company and come to Warsaw. Deep Tech Summit takes place on 26–27 October 2026 at Norblin Factory, Warsaw. TICKET SALES CLOSE TODAY. Make the decision today. Book your ticket, and I’ll see you at the Summit. https://deeptechsummit.eu/

850+ participants 175+ startups. 100+ investors. 150+ CXOs, entrepreneurs and business professionals This was 2025. But next week, you can be part of it once again. We brought founders, scientists, investors and industry into the same rooms. From stage discussions to 1:1 meetings, our team put serious work into making that happen. See what we built last year: https://lnkd.in/dWMT_CKh And let me tell you why you should vitis Deep Tech CEE Summit & Challenge this year. For businesses and corporates: meet technology teams and explore solutions to operational problems. Let technology solve your biggest challenges For entrepreneurs: find solutions expertise and potential partners for the next product you want to build. For startups: meet investors and potential customers. For investors: explore CEE deal flow and get to know the founders behind the pre-vetted startups. For the wider ecosystem: connect research, capital and industry. Find people to work with on turning technical potential into commercial applications. That’s what we’re building Deep Tech Summit around. There’s a lot going into this edition: VC Central. 1:1 Meetings. Expert discussion panels. Corporate–startup collaboration. Industrial demos. Startup pitching. The CEE Innovators Gala. Ecosystem party. Join us on 26–27 October 2026 at Norblin Factory, Warsaw. Ticket sales close on 22 October. Book yours: https://deeptechsummit.eu/

Your R&D team doesn’t have to build everything. Before adding another project to their roadmap, I’d ask: could we develop this with someone who has already solved part of the problem? Some capabilities are worth keeping in-house. But your engineers’ time is limited. It’s worth being deliberate about where you use it. And a partnership can work both ways. A startup might have the technology you need. Your company might have the application, testing environment or manufacturing experience they’re missing. The TBC / Angel Invest report makes this point from the startup side: industrial partners can bring demand, access to supply chains and manufacturing know-how.* My takeaway for business leaders? Don’t just ask what a technology company can sell you. Ask what you could achieve together - and what each side would need to contribute. That’s a conversation I’d like you to have at Deep Tech Summit. Sit down with founders and researchers. Explain what you’re working on. Ask where their technology could fit, what still needs testing and how a collaboration would work. Including the less glamorous questions: who owns the IP, who handles integration and who supports the solution once it’s running? Those answers matter more than a polished pitch. If you’re looking for a technology partner for your next product or process, book your ticket and join us on 26–27 October 2026 at Norblin Factory, Warsaw. https://deeptechsummit.eu/ Photo: Deep Tech CEE Summit 2025. * Jonathan Karl and Jens Lapinski, Technology Briefing Center / Angel Invest, How to Cross the Valley of Death in Deep Tech (July 2025), https://lnkd.in/d-y_gcZD

What is one hour of unplanned downtime worth to your business? That is a useful starting point for a conversation about advanced technologies. So is the cost of scrap. Or the capacity you lose because one step in a process cannot keep up with the rest. Before discussing AI, digital twins or autonomous mobile robots, I would want the business problem priced and the baseline understood. A faster machine does not automatically mean a more productive factory. Integration, maintenance and the impact on the whole process belong in the business case. This is why our 27 October programme at Deep Tech Summit includes smart manufacturing with AI, digital twins and autonomous mobile robots, alongside an industrial demo day. For production leaders and entrepreneurs, these are opportunities to compare technological approaches against a real operational constraint. Bring the question your operations team needs answered: where could this improve throughput, reduce downtime or lower the cost of a good unit - and what would a pilot need to prove? Ticket prices rise tomorrow night. Current rates end on 16 October at 23:59 CEST. If you are planning to join us, secure your ticket now: https://deeptechsummit.eu/

Bring your business challenges to the people building advanced technologies. Deep Tech Summit 2026 brings together 250+ startups & scaleups and 300+ scientists, researchers & engineers. Use direct conversations to assess potential partners and discuss how their technologies could fit your business. 📅26–27 October. Norblin Factory, Warsaw, Poland. Book at current prices by 16 October, 23:59 CEST.

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