Bennet Barth

Managing Director RESPOND bei RESPOND I BMW Foundation

Bennet is a deep-tech investor and venture builder. He backs the hardware-first companies — across energy, industry and materials — that European competitiveness and resilience now depend on. As Co-Founder and Managing Director of RESPOND, he built a European program that helps these companies cross from technology to commercial scale — from early-stage acceleration to a Scaleup Program he designed for companies entering commercial deployment. At the BMW Foundation he invests as an LP into European deep-tech and climate funds. For nearly a decade his focus has stayed the same: getting capital and commercial support to the technically hard companies that matter for Europe’s industrial future.

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13:15–14:00

Do., 2. Juli

When technology hits society, we get both magic but also rising energy prices, labor uncertainty, and a loss of trust in institutions. Should we try to break or accelerate?

Teil von DeepTech Ripples: Debating Europe’s Breakthrough Future

Social media set the conditions and AI is amplifying them: data centre energy demand outrunning grid capacity, learning and entry-level work hollowing out as models take over the tasks that used to build expertise, and a media environment where real and generated content are no l…

DeepTech Startups

13:00–16:00

Do., 2. Juli

DeepTech Ripples: Debating Europe’s Breakthrough Future

DeepTech Ripples bring an interactive, discussion-driven format to the Festival der Zukunft, focused on the future of European deeptech. In small, curated conversation circles, up to 25 participants – from founders and investors to corporates, policymakers, and research instituti…

DeepTech Startups

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