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“Startup Meets Craft” is celebrating its anniversary: For ten years, the format has been bringing innovative founders and skilled craft businesses together. New technologies, AI solutions, and creative highlights await once again in 2026. Register now for free for the event on October 13.

At “Startup meets craft” 2025 in Munich, founders and craftspeople came together to discuss future technologies. The event showed: innovation and craftsmanship go hand in hand – and together drive progress forward.

Since 2018, “Space meets Handwerk” has been bringing together high-tech startups and Upper Bavarian craft businesses. This year, the successful event format entered its sixth round and provided space for new collaborations between aerospace and craftsmanship.

On May 9 and 10, 2025, ServusZUKUNFT #Workshop AI invites you to Benediktbeuern Monastery. In hackathon format, you can try out AI tools, develop your own ideas, and take home implementable solutions for your professional everyday life. Registration is now open.

Full house last Thursday evening at Handwerkskammer für München und Oberbayern at “Startup meets Craft”. Since 2016, startups and innovative craftspeople have met here – except for a brief Corona interruption – and pitched their future technologies and innovative business models to the audience. That the event, which is jointly organized by HWK Munich and Munich Startup, fills an important gap in both worlds is shown by the strong demand: Just a few days before the event, no more registrations could be accepted due to capacity constraints.

The Munich Startup Festival has plenty to offer beyond the main stage. Visitors to Gleisbett can expect concentrated knowledge about funding and impact entrepreneurship. The festival also makes clear how the craft industry can support tech companies and startups.

High-tech startups meet high-tech craft businesses – at ‘Space meets Handwerk’, a special format of the Handwerkskammer für München und Oberbayern, AZO Space of Innovation, and ESA BIC Bavaria. Last week it was time again to search for nothing less than the perfect match.

What do crafts and startups have in common? More than you might think! The ‘Startup meets crafts’ event, which took place last evening, demonstrated this once again.

At the ServusZukunft #Hackathon Bau on May 5 and 6 at the Fraunhofer Center in Kloster Benediktbeuern, it’s all about innovative solutions for the construction industry. Actors from the startup scene are also invited to participate.

Future technologies, innovative business models, and creative local delicacies – Startup meets craftsmanship returns for a new round on October 19. All interested parties can now register free of charge.