Berlin Digital

The European hat mir die Gelegenheit gegeben, ein paar Gedanken zu Berlin als Hauptstadt der digitalen Wirtschaft aufzuschreiben. Berlin hat im Bereich der digitalen Wirtschaft einen enormen Aufschwung während der letzten zwei bis drei Jahre erlebt und genießt derzeit viel internationale Sympathie. Wenn alles gut geht, hat Berlin in diesem Bereich eine hervorragende Zukunft. Hier kann man im European mehr lesen.

Berlin was represented at the World Mobile Congress 2011 with a community booth organised by Berlin Partner and different company booths at the exhibition floor.

The WMC Barcelona in February

The question is where will it be after 2012? Afaik there are 4 finalists, Barcelona, Milano, Paris and Munich. From the travelling perspective I vote for Munich of course, however, the blues skies and moderate temperatures of the mediteranean area are in favor of Milano and Barcelona. Anyway, the organizers did a great job and the whole week exceeded my expectations, I found many companies who want to expand to Berlin.

Berlin startup soundcloud was to be found at the google android booth

I met 2 soundclouders, helped WIRED to some pictures of the newest tablets…however, on the 3 days I hardly made it through all halls once. I hope to have more time next year. It will be worth it.

On the 11th of October 2010 this year’s ICIN conference in Berlin started. Senator Wolf opened the evening reception at the Deutsche Telekom Hauptstadtrepräsentanz with his speech.

More than 180 exhibitors from the capital region Berlin-Brandenburg exhibited at the Cebit 2010. Some of them met at the Berlin booth in hall 2. Though part of the media were discussing the necessity of this ICT exhibition, the general mood seemed good, it was well worth the trip. The Cebit being the world’s largest ICT exhibition, many times larger than the CES, offers opportunities for everybody. Although the organizers try to include the “web” through its webciety booths, the focus is still on business hard- and software and that seems a good position to me, considering the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and the IFA, the world’s largest consumer electronics fair in Berlin and numerous web 2.0 events everywhere.

[Am sitting in front row seat and trying out the iPhone's wordpress app for liveblogging:]
Full house at the Socialmediaweek’s Congress in Berlin. I love that they have chosen the Berlin-typical location Festsaal Kreuzberg – crowded and people were queuing up outside. This panel was moderated by Markus Angermeier ( @kosmar ). Alexander Korth ( @alexkorth ) (Make Customers Friends), Jodok Batlogg ( @jodok ) (Studi VZ) und Falk Lüke ( @flueke ) (Verbraucherzentrale) were discussing “Privat in Social – Platform- vs. Userresponsibility”. Am impressd by what the organizers have managed to get together in short time – an interesting programm and a lot of events in this week. The twitter hashtag is #smwberlin.