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Buzzard

Dario Nassal: Busting out of the echo chamber

The #Profile series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Dario Nassal, founder of Buzzard.

Wasteland Rebel

Profile

Shia Su: The Waste Minimalist

The #Profile series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Zero-waste blogger Shia Su.

Anke Odrig

Profile

Anke Odrig: Revolutionising the nursery search

The #Profile series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Anke Odrig, founder of LITTLE BIRD.

Moritz Tetzlaff

Profile

Moritz Tetzlaff: The digital equal opportunities champion

The #Profile series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Moritz Tetzlaff, co-initiator of HEY, ALTER!.

Daniela Buchholz

Profile

Tobias Polsfuss: The ambassador for inclusive house sharing

The #Profile series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Tobias Polsfuss, founder of WOHN:SINN.

Maigut Fotografie

Profile

Kerstin Herter: The voice against digital stress

The #Profile series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Kerstin Herter, optometrist and founder of STRESSFREI.digital.

Innovations

Six failed inventions

From Betamax to Google Glass: The history of technology is full of failed ideas.

Profile

Kira Kastell: The networking engineer

The #Profile series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Kira Kastell, Professor of Transmission Technology in Frankfurt and chairperson of the “Women in the Engineering Professions” network.

Profile

Sandra Westermann: The jobs broker for parents

In the #explore format we’re giving a regular voice to exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene: Researchers, bloggers, start-up founders, entrepreneurs, hackers, and visionaries.

Maximilian Gödecke

Profile

Ina Remmers: The networker next door

In the #Profile series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Ina Remmers, co-founder of nebenan.de.

Ecosia

Profile

Christian Kroll: The digital reforester

The #Profile series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Christian Kroll, founder of Ecosia.

VIREED UG

Profile

Nick Wiese: The VR instructor for physicians

The #Profile series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Nick Wiese, co-founder of VIREED.

Sonja Müller

Profile

Raphael Fellmer: the scourge of food waste

The #Profile series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Raphael Fellmer, co-founder of SIRPLUS.

NautilusLog GmbH

Profile

Otto Klemke: The man behind the digitalisation of shipping

The #Profile series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Otto Klemke, co-founder of NautilusLog.

Sascha Martin

Profile

Franziska Altenrath: The fount of sustainability wisdom for hotels and restaurants

The #Profile series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Franziska Altenrath, co-founder of TUTAKA.

ReportExpress

Profile

Gabriel Brass: The trainer for robot reporters

The #Profile series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Gabriel Brass, co-founder of ReportExpress.

arbeiterKind.de

Profile

Katja Urbatsch: helping working-class children get into higher education

The #Profile series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Katja Urbatsch, founder of ArbeiterKind.de.

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YouTube

Learning in front of the digital tube - knowledge channels on YouTube

What you can learn about science and technology on YouTube.

Darius Ramazani

Profile

Paul Lunow: Internet access for the elderly

The #Profile series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Paul Lunow, founder of Nepos.

Civocracy

Profile

Chloé Pahud – the digital grassroots democrat

The #Profile series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Chloé Pahud, co-founder of Civocracy.

ESMT Berlin

Profile

Sandro Gaycken: The Cyberwar Expert

The #Profile series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Sandro Gaycken, cybersecurity expert and director of the Digital Society Institute.

Urban Zintel

Profile

Natascha Zeljko: The digital diversity ambassador

The #Profile series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Natascha Zeljko, co-founder and editor-in-chief of FemaleOneZero.

Philipp Knodel

Profile

Steffen Haschler: The hacker-teacher

The #Profile series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Steffen Haschler from “Chaos macht Schule”.

Petra Grimm

Profile

Petra Grimm: Specialist in ethics

The “Profile” series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Petra Grimm, Director of the Institute for Digital Ethics in Stuttgart.

Qunomedical

Profile

Sophie Chung, finder of medical services

The “Profile” series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Medical practitioner Dr. Sophie Chung, the founder of Qunomedical.

Ahd Zlikkha

Profile

Abdul Rahman AlAshraf: the Connector

The “Profile” series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Software Engineer Abdul Rahman AlAshraf, founder of FreeCom.

Luiza Puiu

Profile

Bettina Figl: “Data journalism is ever more important in times of Fake News allegations”

The #steckbrief series of profiles introduces exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. This time: Journalist Bettina Figl, who has carried out research on data journalism.

Marcus Richter

Profile

Patricia Cammarata: “Computer games are a hobby like any other”

The “Profile” series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Blogger and podcaster Patricia Cammarata.

Mathias Vietmeier

Profile

Richard Gutjahr: “Social media are a blessing and a curse.”

The “Profile” series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Journalist, speaker and blogger Richard Gutjahr.

Sebastian Piatza

Profile

Sebastian Piatza: “We want to bring creative technologies to rural areas”

The “Profile” series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Designer Sebastian Piatza, co-initiator of the Fabmobil.

ESA

Aerospace

Alter Technology: Big Data for space flight

Broadband demand is growing worldwide. To meet these demands, more and more young enterprises send satellites into space. In the future, they can draw on their predecessor´s wealth of experience – thanks to Gateway, a search engine for satellite components developed by Alter Technology.

Sabine Hahn

Profile

Sabine Hahn: “At one time, you rarely found women in the games industry”

The “Profile” series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Media scientist Sabine Hahn who is working on the theme of diversity in the games industry.

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Here to stay

Mobility and science podcasts

Podcasts about mobility and science – in the second part, the #explore editors feature the eight most exciting audio podcasts.

Jörg Middendorf

Profile

Björn Lengers: “I’m really curious about exploring the issues of our time through the medium of art, using today’s technologies.”

The “Profile” series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Björn Lengers, co-founder of the "CyberRäuber”.

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Here to stay

The third spring of the podcast

Podcasts are a real treasure for technophiles. #explore features the most exciting online audios.

Amac Garbe / amacgarbe.de

Profile

Ansgar Jonietz: “We want doctors and patients to be on equal terms”

The #profile series of portraits introduces exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. This time we interview Ansgar Jonietz, one of the founders of „Was hab ich“.

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Robot, chatbots & friends

Artificial Intelligence: The future is clever

Artificial Intelligence is evolving rapidly and will bring about profound changes in just a few years. TÜV NORD is already setting the course for this future development.

Manuel Dolderer

Profile

Thomas Bachem: “I taught myself programming as a kid.”

The “Profile” series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Thomas Bachem, Chancellor of the Code University.

Filmtank

Profile

Michael Grotenhoff: “The war in cyberspace worries me”

The “Profile” series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. In the spotlight this time: Filmmaker Michael Grotenhoff.

Berlin Partner – FTB-Werbefotografie

Test route

Intelligent road in the heart of Berlin

In the midst of the hurly burly of the capital’s traffic, a test route for autonomous driving and intelligent traffic management is under construction.

Kai Redmann

Profile

Kai Redmann: “I create the conditions for robots to do their work”

Kai Redmann is the master of networks: The IT specialist from Neubrandenburg in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is number one in the German rankings.

pixaby

Real or made up?

The truth about fake news

What is fake news? How do false reports spread, and how can you identify them? #explore reveals what you need to know.

Felix Schwenzel

Profile

Felix Schwenzel: “I am online for more than 1,000 minutes a day”

The “Profile” series introduces exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. This time: Blogger Felix Schwenzel from “wirres.net”.

iStock Photo

Checklist

OneDrive, iCloud, Google Drive and the rest: how to use the Cloud safely

The Cloud is becoming an ever more important storage medium. Cloud users can protect themselves from data theft by using the following tips.

Matthias Horx, Trend- und Zukunftsforscher (www.horx.com), Foto: Klaus Vyhnalek

Profile

Matthias Horx: Networking is coming up against its limits

The “Profile” series presents exciting representatives of the digital scene who are an inspiration to #explore. In the spotlight this time: Trend researcher Matthias Horx.

TÜV NORD

Aerospace

A new dimension for a laboratory

At a cost of over 850,000 euros, ALTER TECHNOLOGY TÜV NORD (ATN) has modernised its own laboratory. ATN is now once again able to compete on a level playing field and is ready for the new ESA projects.

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Online shopping

Green Window: Into a green future with Nena and Rea Garvey

The makers of the Green Window online shop want to inspire people to lead a sustainable life.

TÜV NORD

Digital training

Code girls: programming for fun

Natalie Sontopski and Julia Hoffmann are the ‘code girls’: They organise free programming workshops and talks exclusively for women.

Profile

Anja Horn: “Programming is the key skill of the future”

The “Profile” series presents exciting and inspiring people from the digital scene. First up is Anja Horn from “Coding Kids”.

iStock

Aerospace

Alter Technology: First mission Rosetta, then to Mars

Space is a hostile environment for electronics. ALTER TECHNOLOGY TÜV NORD (ATN) ensures that they function perfectly despite this, and makes spectacular missions like Rosetta possible.

IT hardware lab

Smart chips for better IT security

The IT security experts from TÜViT are among the 'good attackers': The staff of the IT hardware laboratory in Essen hack systematically into mini-format chips as found, for example, on credit cards. This they do to check whether these chips are protected from reading and manipulation.

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Additive manufacturing

3D printing: Layer by layer

3D printing offers many benefits. In this interview, Jens Groffmann explains which opportunities are being opened up by additive manufacturing.

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Autonomous Driving

Carsten Winkelbach: “We need all-round security”

Networked and autonomous driving is the future of mobility. In this interview, Carsten Winkelbach, director of the Institute for Vehicle Technology and Mobility ...

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Digitalisation

Ulf Theike: “We’re shaping our future”

In all areas of industry, digitalisation is the key theme of the future. In this interview, Ulf Theike talks about new business models and how the world of TÜV NORD is set to change in the age of Industry 4.0.