Future Tech Fest 2026: Intensive consulting and combined expertise in the new “Creative Tech Lab”
10.9.2026
How do you get complex start-up challenges across in exactly 20 minutes? That is exactly what we did at Future Tech Fest 2026.
On 17 September, concentrated technological innovation met sound consulting expertise at Future Tech Fest 2026 (FTF26) in Düsseldorf. We were on site live as an agency and, in the newly created “Creative Tech Lab” area, gave start-ups and scale-ups strategic advice on their most critical growth questions. A look back at an intense and highly successful day.
Combined expertise on 70 square metres
To offer the teams the best possible support, we set ourselves up broadly: together with my colleague Dominic Schneider from Supercoaster Digital | Performance Marketing and our partners from DAiL, SuperCode and flintery, we created a professional setting for intensive and focused exchange on a 70-square-metre area.
To make our different areas of expertise as useful as possible, we set up small consulting islands for each company. This allowed the founding teams to move flexibly between the individual stations and receive individual, tailored advice. Our aim was to provide directly applicable knowledge and to meet the start-ups exactly where their specific challenges lie.
Maximum focus in the “Quick Sessions”
For this, we created a new format: in free 20-minute “Quick Sessions”, we made our expertise available in a solution-oriented way.
Admittedly, it was quite a challenge to get to the bottom of complex business challenges in such a short time window. At the same time, that was precisely the greatest added value of the day. The limited time forced all of us to focus absolutely. We had to communicate extremely concentratedly and to the point, but were therefore able to work enormously effectively and give the teams tangible, immediately actionable pointers. It is already certain: we will definitely explore one or two topics in more depth with the start-ups afterwards.
Inspiration on both sides
But the event was extremely enlightening not only for the founding teams, but also for us as consultants. The density of innovations was impressive. Our Senior Project Manager, Christian Malling, summed it up aptly after the event:
„In initial contact, I mostly speak to companies by video call or on the phone. Here we were live on site, in absolutely direct exchange, and could get straight into the respective topics head-on and without detours. I really liked this immediacy and dynamism.“Christian Malling, Senior Project Manager at Arndtteunissen
Our conclusion is easy: a complete success!
We draw an extremely positive conclusion and look back on a thoroughly successful day, which showed how important direct, uncomplicated knowledge transfer is in the start-up scene.
A very special thank you goes to Lisa Brauer from Digihub Düsseldorf for the great cooperation. We are already looking forward to everything that is still to come!