On October 6 and 7, 2026, we cordially invite you to the DBI Hydrogen Infrastructure Expert Forum – on-site in Leipzig and online.

A varied program awaits you with exciting expert presentations, intensive discussions, and diverse opportunities for personal exchange. A special highlight is the excursion to the BMW plant in Leipzig.

Among those present are:

• Lukas Karl, BDEW e.V.

• Dirk Hünlich, MITNETZ Strom

• Thomas Stiede, BMW

• Alexander Schuh, Vaillant GmbH

• Carsten Stabenau, Westnetz GmbH

V2X Public Transport Prioritization and Interoperability for C-ITS Applications

Discover your innovative potential! In this one-day workshop, you will learn the Design Thinking process step by step. In small teams, you will work on ideas using a challenge as an example to answer real user needs. You will learn to brainstorm, evaluate ideas, and present and test them as tangible prototypes. The workshop will take place on-site in Bonn between 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM. Participation is free of charge and no prior knowledge is required.

Robotics is developing into a dynamic growth field. At the same time, many companies in the automotive supply industry face the challenge of transferring existing competencies to new markets and opening up additional business perspectives. 

Awaken your innovative potential! Reflect on your individual skills that qualify you for a career as an entrepreneur. Train your entrepreneurial thinking and get to know other highly motivated PhDs and PostDocs with innovative ideas.

Join us for an online info session introducing our new funding line IBT EXPLORE.

This digital event is designed for researchers and innovators from Lower Saxony who are interested in learning more about our modular funding opportunity and how to apply. During the session, we will walk you through the details of the EXPLORE funding scheme and the application process, share insights into IBT Lower Saxony, our mission, and answer the questions you may have.



Agenda:

• Welcome & introductions

• About IBT Lower Saxony

• Presentation of IBT EXPLORE

• Q&A



The event will be held in English.

The air freight industry is currently facing diverse challenges, at the same time new opportunities are opening up through changed global supply chains, increasing requirements for logistics solutions and through the growing demand for efficient transport concepts.



In order to actively and jointly further develop the future and competitiveness of the air freight location Lower Saxony, we would like to promote the dialogue between the regions of Hanover and Osnabrück. The goal is to expand existing strengths of both regions, to use synergies and to identify joint development opportunities.



The Cargo Round Table offers a platform for open exchange between logistics service providers, Hannover Airport and other actors in the air freight industry. The focus is on the questions of how we can strengthen the competitiveness of the entire economic and air freight location Lower Saxony through cooperation, networking and coordinated strategies.



We cordially invite you to participate in this workshop and to contribute your experiences, ideas and perspectives.

Subsequently, we would like to let the joint exchange wind down in a relaxed atmosphere with finger food.

We would be very pleased to welcome you to our Cargo Round Table.



Please register firmly by email under: ww@logistikportal-niedersachsen.de



The workshop takes place on:

Date:    Wednesday, 07. October 2026 Time:           17.00 – 20.00 Uhr Location:          THE FARMHOUSE NO 50 Lengericher Landstraße 50, 49078 Osnabrück



The following agenda is planned:

17:00-17:20 Welcome by the Board of Logistics Portal Lower Saxony e.V. - Importance and significance of air freight

(Stefan Schröder, Board LPN e.V.) 

17:20 -17:40 Air freight at the HAJ location – Status quo & perspectives

(Eric Silver, Head of Passenger- & Cargo Development Hannover Airport)

17:40-18:00 Requirements for air freight from the perspective of a logistics service provider

(N.N.)

18:00 -18:00 Discussion round on the topic: 

„Together stronger: Potentials, perspectives and partnerships“ an.

18:20 -20:00 Networking with culinary finale



The "Startup-AFTER-WORK" event series offers the regional startup scene a regular platform every two months on a Wednesday for exchanging experiences, discussing problems, and networking. The next Startup-AFTER-WORK will take place on October 7, 2026, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the StartupSpace at the Historical Observatory, Geismar Landstraße 11, 37083 Göttingen.



We look forward to seeing you!



A NOTICE



Participation in this event is free and exclusively for startups . Registration is requested for better planning purposes.



The Startup After-Work event is organized by GWG Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftsförderung und Stadtentwicklung Göttingen mbH in cooperation with the Transfer & Startup Hub Universität Göttingen.

The nationwide renowned ChangeMaker50PLUS online conference brings together companies, science, politics, organizations, and committed designers from business and the voluntary sector to discuss and develop innovative solutions for an age-diverse working world.

For a whole day, inspiring keynotes, exciting panel discussions, interactive topic rooms with practical insights and best cases from companies will be offered.



The Campus Convention brings together science, business, and the public to present innovative projects and research results and to promote exchange among participants.

You can get an impression here and registration and all further information can be found here.



Developments around Artificial Intelligence (AI) are changing our working world sustainably and are posing particular challenges for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). However, there are also many opportunities. But how can the potential of AI be specifically and beneficially raised?

The IHK Lüneburg-Wolfsburg invites you together with the Niedersachsen.next Digitalagentur on October 8th from 14:00 - 18:00 to the networking event "KI is today: KI-Safari in Celle" at the new town hall in Celle. At the "KI-Safari" we take you on a discovery tour through the jungle of corporate AI and offer you a practice-oriented format on different topics around the use of AI in everyday business. The focus is on comprehensibility, application orientation and relevance. The program is explicitly aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises that are looking for an entry into the AI world or have already taken the first steps and are looking for further orientation.

Participation in the event is free of charge. Registration under:  https://www.ihklw-events.de/kisafaricelle

Business models are coming under pressure, new technologies are creating new opportunities. Companies today face the challenge not only of developing innovations, but also of successfully transforming them into new business models. To remain competitive in the long term, it is important to recognize new technologies, leverage potentials, and actively shape change.

We cordially invite you to join startups and medium-sized companies from the Osnabrück region in an exchange at this year's Innovation Meeting Point. Look forward to innovative technologies, concrete practical examples, and exciting impulses for the future.