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Cup final weekend in Berlin. The players went for the game. This crew came for something else. The day before VfB Stuttgart 1893 faced FC Bayern München, the VfB Innovation Circle spent a Friday with us - and they came ready! Marie-Theres, Partner at A11, joined them on a tour through the city's sharpest innovation hubs before landing at our office - where operators shared what scaling in Germany looks like. Benedikt Kurz - Startup-Verband board member and Founder of Knowunity - gave a short status quo update on the German start up scene and shared what it looks like when you're building with AI for millions of students. Matthias from Quantum Systems shared where hardware meets defence - and how fast AI has redrawn that map in the last 12 months. Rainer on Recubation - how Germany's Mittelstand is building its own digital challengers from the inside. And why that changes everything. This is what happens when a sports organization stops watching innovation from the stands and enters the room. Thank you for joining us, VfB Stuttgart 1893, Christian Ruf, Kevin Giemza, Paul Bräuninger, Jannik Finkbohner, Anja Hendel, Lisa Währer (FC Viktoria Berlin), Tim Klopsch, Dr. Anja Koetzsch, Oliver Hanisch, Philipp Hübsch Can't wait to see you again in your hometown (the pitch) on the 30th of June for Deutscher KI Gipfel. 🏟️