The Place to be

Editorial by Sascha Kellert, chairman of SIBB e.V. and manager of software start-up ezeep

Berlin is not only a young and hip city, it is also a digital city that attracts drivers of industrial innovation like IT companies, high-skilled people, capital, and firms from all over the world. Over 60,000 people now work in digital business. Adlershof and other information technology hubs are relevant incubators that provide room for development, research, and production in many ways. The basis for successful future products is the interweaving of information technology, as a crossover technology, and manufacturing. For this reason, Adlershof is a great place for software companies to build a base. The conditions for networking digital business with the manufacturing economy couldn’t be better. These synergy effects enable innovative software solutions for industrial production and services – in the neighbourhood, and face-to-face.

Working together on future factories, testing home automation and assistance systems for future living amidst demographic change, digital communication infrastructures for smart and secure mobility on railway or road, or solutions for data integration in the health sector – Adlershof clears the way for the production technologies of the future. Industry cooperation, knowledge exchange with universities, networking between companies and organisations benefit the development of the economic landscape of Adlershof and are all part of the technology park’s diverse success story.

Smart IT solutions from Adlershof find application all over the world. Customer-oriented technology solutions are day-to-day business for knowledge-based companies – IT companies based in Adlershof benefit from the close cooperation with firms from a range of sectors and the proximity to a diverse research landscape. This leads to outstanding solutions for products that integrate seamlessly into people’s everyday life in this age of digitalisation. To me as the speaker for Digital Business at SIBB, the Technology Park in Adlershof is a place to be – the short stories in this issue impressively show the outstanding  results produced by the smart networking of IT and industry.