The tech and start-up community and investors gathered at GITEX Europe in Berlin from 21 to 23 May 2025. The trade fair, a spin-off of GITEX Global in Dubai, took place in Europe for the first time. It was expected to attract 1,400 international tech companies, 750 start-ups and smaller companies from 80 countries, and over 600 international investors. The exhibitions were accompanied by an extensive conference programme featuring Geoffrey Hinton, winner of the Turing Award and the Nobel Prize in Physics, among others.
GITEX Europe was a great opportunity to give Software Campus participants and graduates a small stage to present their start-ups and spin-off ideas. Five (prospective) founders introduced themselves at several stands, together with the AI Grid network for AI researchers, which is also funded by the BMBF.
Graduate Tilman Beck presented ‘ICU Cockpit’, an AI platform for intensive care. The platform enables transfer of clinical decision support systems from research to deployment by providing regulatory-compliant online validation. The graduate from TU Darmstadt is currently conducting research at the ICU Cockpit Research Group at ETH Zurich, and attended GITEX Europe to identify potential partners and collaborators.
Omar El Nahhas, current Software Campus participant at TU Dresden, networked with other experts and investors at the fair. The CEO and co-founder of StratifAI is working with his team to develop novel biomarkers from routinely available clinical data using multimodal AI to help oncologists with cancer treatment decisions.
The project led by graduate Aleksandr Perevalov (University of Paderborn) was presented by his teammate Jonas Wagner: ‘Materials AI Agent’. The Software Campus project is coming to an end and the team was keen to present the results to a wider audience and explore possibilities for turning the application into a product. It enables materials scientists to cut through the noise of irrelevant scientific search results by providing topic-level and paper-level insights.
Graduate Dr Arya Mazaheri (TU Darmstadt) presented his start-up ‘PanocularAI’, which enables efficient and reliable AI on low-power edge devices, cutting costs and optimizing AI for autonomous systems. Arya’s goal is to accelerate the market launch strategy, refine the product roadmap and develop new partnerships.
Hassan Nassar, current participant and doctoral candidate at KIT, presents his start-up ‘Comphey,’ a privacy-first compiler enabling secure cloud computing via homomorphic encryption. Code transformation is automated to run securely over encrypted data, enabling safe cloud computing for finance, health, and more. At GITEX Europe, Hassan aimed to get feedback from experts and colleagues and find out how the idea fits into the current cloud infrastructure landscape.
All projects presented, including those participating in AI Grid, can be found on this page.
