Post by Simone Friese

Strategic Operations & Innovation Leadership | Bridging German Industry & Silicon Valley | Transformation, Partnerships & Ecosystem Building

Suffering from serious #InnoCampBW withdrawal after two incredible weeks with 13 inspiring innovators from #TheLรคnd in Silicon Valley ๐ŸŒŸ I already miss this group and the energy they all brought every single day. Watching you all not just absorb everything thrown at you, but actually adapt it to your own challenges back home was something special! ๐Ÿ™Œ ๐Œ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ค๐ฌ: โœจ ๐…๐š๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Ÿ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐›๐ž๐œ๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ง: You went from cautious to "let's just try it" faster than I expected (and powered through every tool Anne Cocquyt threw at you like absolute champs) โœจ ๐‚๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐›๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง over product features: I loved our collective "oh shit, we've been building for ourselves for too long" realization โœจ ๐‚๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ-๐ข๐ง๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐š๐ ๐ข๐œ: Seeing how perspectives from completely different worlds sparked new strategies for your businesses - from moonshot ideas to dashboard pivots and US-first-approaches โœจ ๐…๐ข๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ: how identifying people who'll carry this momentum forward when you're back in the thick of it, will help you implement the learnings What I'm most grateful for is the trust you all gave us. Taking two full weeks away from your businesses, diving into every session, those late-night conversations over one too many IPAs ๐Ÿป ๐Ÿ™ˆ, your genuine curiosity about everything from AI tools to networking with industry players. You made this program truly special. And these connections and moments are exactly why I love my job Can't wait to see where you take these ideas next: Philipp Christ & Johann Becker, Stephan Lochner & Bjรถrn Koschel, Rafael Baur & Volker Schnell, Patrick Gรผnther, Ph.D. & Kevin BaรŸler, Ph.D., Benito Campos, Christian Schiessel, Patrik Carus-Lacolade & Yannic Carus-Lacolade, Enrico Bossart and Maria Weber ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘ Couldn't have done it without David Zakoth, Ph.D. and the team at the GACC WEST โ€“ Representative of German Business, Baden-Wรผrttemberg International (BW_i), Ministerium fรผr Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Tourismus Baden-Wรผrttemberg and all of our amazing Silicon Valley partners and mentors (especially T. Todd Morrill) โค๏ธ #bestcrew

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