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"Banks are used as a transaction highway and don’t see the customer at all anymore. Banks must therefore cooperate with start-ups, otherwise they will lose their customers once and for all."
Pascal Beij, Country Manager Germany, Premier Tax Free GmbH
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"If we don’t mine the gold from the data, industry 4.0 initiatives rapidly come to a dead end. We see a lot of potential, for example, in running machines more efficiently, predictive maintenance, energy efficiency, capacity planning, increasing product quality."
Britta Hilt, Managing Partner, IS Predict
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"The use of data analytics makes it possible to proactively offer the customer services that he will typically require next."
Jörg Trouvain, CEO, 7Travel, ProSiebenSat. 1 Media
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"We will very soon be seeing 3D solutions in the car makers’ salesrooms that many still dismiss as science fiction."
Armin Pohl, CEO, Mackevision Medien Design
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"Digitization must itself be understood as a raw material, just as electrification once was."
Roberto Schettler, Board Chairman, three10 GmbH
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"To this day, the majority of households still operate everything using switches. This is why we now want to introduce digitization into living rooms. We make it possible to network all electrical devices - and control them individually."
Martin Vesper, CEO, digitalSTROM
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"The BMW Startup Garage doesn’t invest in equity, which top start-ups in their early stages neither want nor need. We are turning the BMW Group into a reference customer, i.e. into a venture client. Start-ups carry out real projects together with our engineers."
Gregor Gimmy, Founder & Manager, BMW Startup Garage
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"In the US, a business model is interesting if there is a high risk involved. In Germany, the obsession with perfection and risk appetite are often not compatible."
Georg Bauer, President & Founder, Fair.com
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"FANGs - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google - have a ton of data. My advice to you: prepare yourself. The 'Old Economy' must act with foresight, otherwise a business model can be changed quickly and disruptively before you know it."
Volker Krause, Director Sales, arago GmbH
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"When IoT, AI, Deep Learning, Big Data take off, we in Europe, with our large number of high quality industrial companies, can make history. Start-ups are not a threat! They are an opportunity for innovation in industry."
Gregor Gimmy, Founder & Manager, BMW Startup Garage
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"Germany must learn to develop physical products into the networked world."
Alexander Renz, Managing Partner, New Mobility Consulting
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"The fight for the direct end customer relationship is over for OEMs. The question is whether cars will soon only be sold to platforms such as Lyft, Uber or Zipcar, which then operate fleet management?"
Jason Radisson, VP & General Manager, Nauto Inc.
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"The trend is: away from ownership. But people still want to be fully mobile. We need a solution."
Olivier Bremer, General Manager, DACH & Italien BlaBlaCar
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"The German car industry can set the course for the future! Worldwide! Car sharing services like DriveNow and Car2Go could become the better Uber – especially with autonomous vehicles."
Axel Krieger, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Digital + Partners
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"OEMs must expand the addressable market and offer mobility services to end users 'as a service'."
Alex Koster, Partner, Strategy&
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"In transformation processes, it is important to overcome obstacles, there is no alternative. We must actively shape this future, because the markets do not wait."
Holger Ewald, CIO, KUKA AG
