Workshops und Hands-on Impulse

Most pitches fail not because of the idea, but because of how they land.

In this high-energy session, Jenny Rathgeber takes you through the fundamentals of pitch presence: clarity of message, physical impact, and delivery under pressure. Expect quick inputs, live improv drills, and real-time feedback. You'll leave with a pitch that's sharp, confident, and built to stick.

Your coach: Jenny Rathgeber brings 6 years of live Teleshopping, 15 years in Sales and Improv Theater, and a successful Die Höhle der Löwen deal to the stage. She knows what it takes to deliver under pressure, and she'll show you how to own the room.

Register here: Pitching with Radical Clarity — TUM Entrepreneurship Day 2026

Andreas Schwersenz, Start-up Consultant at TUM
Magnus Baumann, Venture Manager at TUM Venture Lab Additive Manufacturing

Join this deep dive about public funding. You will master the different funding opportunities available to your venture. You’ll walk away with a proven framework. This helps map the right funding opportunities to your startup's current stage.

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Bianca Hartmann, Entrepreneurial Educator at UnternehmerTUM

At this workshop, you'll learn the core principles of rapid prototyping: how to take a rough idea and turn it into something tangible, testable and alive. No slides. No theory overload. Just a fast, hands-on session designed to get you building from minute one.

Christie Eilers & Naomi Betz, NVIDIA; tba

A PhD-level robot that makes coffee is a cool science project. A Bachelor-level robot that automates a billion-dollar logistics bottleneck is a company. Welcome to our expert panel, where we bridge the gap between deep-tech research and the brutal reality of venture capital.

Together with our diverse lineup of industry guests, we will explore how successful founders stop asking, "What can we build?" and start answering, "What MUST we build?". Join us to uncover what it actually takes to demonstrate undeniable product-market fit, secure funding, and scale robotic solutions that solve massive, painful industry bottlenecks.

Whether you are preparing for the upcoming hackathon or just want to understand the future of the physical AI space, join us to learn what it takes to build a company VCs will fight to fund. 

We are also launching the Robotic Unicon Hackathon (see below)!

WORKSHOP
Philip Prestele, Principal Program Manager GovTech, Digital Product School

Martin Unglert, TUM ForTe Patente & Lizenzen

A deep dive into intellectual property and the protection of inventions:
I made an invention … and now? By answering the question, we want to give you an insight into how you, as an inventor at TUM, can obtain a patent.
After this short introduction, Dr. Florian Grasser, patent attorney at Vossius & Partner, will take you on an exciting excursion on the possibilities of protecting an invention, the latest developments in European patent protection and will explain how products are protected by using a number of selected examples.
 

Niklas Landerer & Anian Steiner, elunic AG

Demos beeindrucken – die wirklich spannende Frage ist jedoch, was danach passiert. Hinter den Kulissen echter KI-Projekte aus Produktion und Wissensarbeit zeigt sich, was wirklich funktioniert, was scheitert, und wie aus durchdachtem Design eine nahtlose Zusammenarbeit zwischen Mensch und KI entsteht, gerade dort, wo Modelle alleine an ihre Grenzen stoßen. Von autonomen Agenten in operativen Abläufen und Wissensarbeit bis zur KI-gestützten optischen Qualitätssicherung: ein offener Blick darauf, wie sich die Lücke zwischen einem starken Modell und einer wirklich produktiven Lösung schließen lässt - konkret, aus laufenden Projekten und mit dem klaren Ziel, den produktiven KI-Einsatz in Deutschland spürbar zu beschleunigen.

Die Plätze sind begrenzt, daher gerne vorab anmelden: Last Mile AI

Teams of 3-5 students are asked to develop an innovative idea applying design thinking and rapid prototyping methodology. Using office and household devices, students develop an idea for a given challenge in a 30-minute workshop facilitated by experienced research assistants from the Entrepreneurship Research Institute. In a one-minute pitch round, students are asked to share what they have learned from enacting their entrepreneurial creativity. 

Bakir Kreso, Start-up Coach at TUM ForTe Entrepreneruship

 Impulsvortrag 

Enrico Richter, Start-up Coach at TUM ForTe Entrepreneruship

Everyone tells you storytelling is key. Nobody tells you how to actually do it.
Great founders don't just pitch — they pull their audience into a story. But which story? And how do you build one that sticks?

In this hands-on session, we'll explore the building blocks of compelling narrative:  which story structure fits your venture, how to find your hero and — crucially — which questions your story needs to answer in the minds of the audience. Using real-world examples you'll leave with a concrete framework to craft stories that create genuine emotional momentum.