Heilbronn Slush'D 2025 - Startup Festival
Theresienwiese 8
74072 Heilbronn
Heilbronn Slush'D 2025 – Where Startups Take Off
Heilbronn Slush’D is the ultimate festival for innovative startups, visionary investors, forward-thinking companies, leading institutions, and pioneering entrepreneurs. It brings together the “who’s who” of the industry. This year’s theme, "One Driving Force," explores the question: Which people, technologies, and trends are driving the European startup ecosystem forward?
On October 23, 2025, the Campus Founders are bringing the Slush spirit from Helsinki back to Baden-Württemberg – with a clear mission: to unite people who are rethinking the future.
What can you expect at Heilbronn Slush’D?
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1,000 handpicked international participants – including startups, investors, corporates, and thought leaders – gathering in one of Germany’s most dynamic tech and startup hubs.
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Keynotes from leading industry voices, inspiring panels, hands-on workshops, 1:1 networking, and numerous side events that provide real value to all participants.
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A dedicated pitch stage for 50 startups to showcase their groundbreaking ideas – with the chance to win an investment of €100,000.
This year’s Main Stage speakers include:
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Evan Floden, CEO and co-founder of Seqera, a pioneer in biopharmaceutical R&D. Holding a PhD in Computational Biology, he also developed Nextflow, the open-source workflow platform that is now delivering groundbreaking results in genomics and life sciences worldwide.
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Fabian Veit, CEO of make.com, a visual-first no-code automation platform owned by Celonis, one of Europe’s highest-valued tech companies. As former COO of Celonis, Fabian played a key role in scaling the company from a small team to a global enterprise.
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Dr. Anita Puppe, Senior Consultant for Transformation and Innovation at IBM, is a seasoned speaker and generative AI specialist. She has held multiple leadership roles in the health and pharma sector and is co-founder of mama health, as well as Medical Director at HeliosX and BrainTrip.
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Sebastian Klaus, CEO and co-founder of Atmos Space Cargo, a European startup developing a sustainable logistics platform for returning cargo from space to Earth – from small payloads up to 100 kg to entire rocket stages weighing tons.
Whether you’re a startup, investor, or company – Heilbronn Slush’D is the perfect opportunity to dive into the fast-growing startup hotspot of Heilbronn and meet the key drivers of Europe’s startup and innovation ecosystem – all in one place.
