Innovation fair at Munich Airport: "Innovation & Style" opened a showcase of the digital future for two days. Twenty major corporations and startups presented the trends of tomorrow on the topic of "Travel and Mobility of the Future."
Airport manager Dr. Michael Kerkloh is certain: Munich Airport offers exactly the right stage for a trade fair like “Innovation & Style”:
"We aspire to be a catalyst for innovative forces. At 'Innovation & Style,' we can already see what might be in store for us in the coming years."
Startups and large companies presented their innovative approaches to the topic of "travel and mobility of the future" during the two-day trade fair. Among them was the Munich-based startup Icaros with its VR fitness device. This is a hybrid of a fitness device and a flight simulator, which, when used with virtual reality glasses, creates the impression of flying through three-dimensional space. Also represented by the Munich startup scene: eluminocity, Vendl and Holo-Light.
A total of 16 startups and four large-scale technology companies presented a wide range of innovative concepts and products to airline passengers, airport employees, passengers and visitors.
“Democratization of Innovation”
Dr. Marc Wagener, Managing Director of LabCampus GmbH, a recently founded airport subsidiary, used the stage to draw attention to the planned cross-company and cross-sector idea center on the airport campus. The LabCampus, planned in the northwest of the airport area, is intended to bring together startups and global players, creative minds and experienced experts, investors, and innovators at a vibrant international air transport hub.
In his opening address, Wagener drew a connection from the classic world of innovation with AT Bell Laboratories in the 1990s to the “democratization of innovation” in the present. Knowledge, he said, Wagener, is now accessible to everyone via the Internet. What the new world of innovation needs should be reflected in the LabCampus:
"It's about close coordination and cooperation across corporate, industry, and regional boundaries. The airport, as a national and international hub with its many thousands of passengers every day, is ideally suited for this."
