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SMART MINDS AND A NETWORKED ECOSYSTEM

Smart City processes require interdisciplinary ways of thinking and working. Smart City Berlin offers ideal conditions for this, as the German capital is home to many innovative players in the smart city sector. This includes companies and start-ups as well as social initiatives, foundations, NGOs, public actors and institutions from research and administration.

The key player map makes the complex interaction of the different actor groups of the Smart City Berlin - with the focus on administration, innovation, application or research - dynamically visible. Both individual collaborations and networks are highlighted.

SMART CITY PROJECTS

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Smart Minds

Clever idea generators, bold forward thinkers, innovative developers - these are the Smart Minds of Smart City Berlin. With their projects, concepts and visions, they are moving Berlin forward - on its way to becoming the smart city of tomorrow. Allow us to present you some of them. 

 

Frieder Söling

... is the managing director of NochMall. In August 2025, the BSR second-hand department store in Berlin-Reinickendorf celebrated its fifth anniversary.

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Ninett Rosenfeld and Julia Zimmermann

... coordinate the ‘Kiezbox 2.0’ as employees of TSB. The aim of the pilot project is to strengthen Berlin's resilience in the event of a power failure.

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Max Rudolph

... founded the innovation agency Form Follows You together with two friends. Their core product: a digital twin for the neighbourhood and urban planning of tomorrow.

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Dr. Anita Dame

“Climate transformation is a marathon,” says Dr. Anita Dame. She has been Managing Director of the Climate Change Center Berlin Brandenburg since 2020.

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Matthias Heskamp

...is managing director of the Reallabor Radbahn company and CEO of paper planes e. V. The association developed the idea of the Reallabor Radbahn project and is now implementing it in cooperation with the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg District Office.

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Prof. Dr. Stefanie Molthagen-Schnöring

... is Project Lead and Vice President for Research, Transfer and Science Communication at HTW Berlin.

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Rolf Mienkus

... has been developing a vision since 2013 and is actively driving forward its realisation.

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Regina Gnirss

... is, in addition to her main job at Berliner Wasserbetriebe, also vice chairperson of the InfraLab Berlin e.V.

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Prof. Dr. Florian Koch

... is an expert in the real estate industry with a focus on urban development and smart cities and teaches as a professor at the University of Technology and Economics.

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