Once Coal
Now Data
Hands-On-Data (HOD):
the Ruhr area as B2B data hotspot
Instead of coal, there is a new resource in the region today: data! More precisely, industrial data that has been collected over the past decades but not yet fully exploited. That's why we invite founders and innovators to the Ruhr region.
A grown ecosystem
This is the industrial core of the region and its enormous ecosystem: