The HODest Conference for B2B-Data

#HOD2023 - SAVE THE DATE: SEPTEMBER 14

Agenda

Networking for startups and corporations

We bring together startups and corporations. In our data challenges, your startup has the chance to develop valuable business solutions using real data. Meet your partner and many others at HODcon.

Exhibitors & Startups
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HOD Stage

Experience keynotes on best practices and current trends in the data community. In our talks and panels, industry experts discuss the implications of big data and AI on business and society.

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HOD Challenge Arena

The HOD Challenge Arena is all about our data challenges. Get yourself inspired by success stories from previous data challenges and discover your own challenge posed by one of our partnering companies from the Ruhr area.

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HODcon Speakers 2022

  • Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

    Oxford University

  • Katharina Schüller

    STAT-UP

  • Ana Ferreira

    Center for Health Technology and Services Research, University of Porto

  • Martin Wibbe

    Materna Information & Communications SE

See all HODcon Speakers 2022

Partner

Challenge Partner

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Exklusiv partner Hands On Data 2022

materna

Community Partner

Vivawest TÜV Nord Group TEG funke bo-i-t GF Ruhr TK Bezirksregierung Detmold Digitale Wirtschaft Ruhr Startup Week Data Science Ruhrgebiet Data Natives bryck

You would like to contribute to HODcon as a partner? Let's get in touch!

Become a partner

After-show-party in an exciting location

After a purely virtual HODcon 2021, we'll meet you live and in person. Join us on September 29, 2022 at the HODest B2B data location at Rotunde in Bochum!

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Impressions from HODcon 2022

International experts from the fields of B2B data, AI and data science met at the HODest B2B data conference in the Metropolitan Ruhr Area to talk about technological challenges and solutions of the present and future. A total of 7 new data challenges from the areas of computer vision, AI, forecasting and simulation were presented - real business cases of the corporate partners, which will be worked on by international start-ups in the following months.

Hands on Data in Numbers

  • +60 Startups
  • +30 Contributions from experts
  • +10 Data Challenges
  • +1000 Viewer
Presentation on the HOD conference stage by a middle-aged man. A group of 10 people stand lined up next to each other behind waist-high letters on which H-O-D can be read. Three very excited protagonists on the HOD stage. One holds an oversized check with the inscription "Hands on Data - 5000€". Several groups of people stand at bar tables or sit in groups of seats in a colorfully lit room. A large disco ball hangs centrally in the middle. Auf der Suche nach dem Start-up-Herzblatt auf der Hands on data Conference 2022, im Riff und in der Rotunde in Bochum. Teamwork makes the dream work: Das HOD-Con Team 2022 hat Spaß in der Fotobox. Hinten von links nach Rechts: Rubem Silva (Social Media Manager Gründerallianz Ruhr), Tobias Grün (Programmleiter Gründerallianz Ruhr, Alexander Fromm (Member of Executive Board Bryck GmbH und Co. Kg), Dr. Britta Julia Dombrowe (Programmleiterin Start-up Aktivitäten Gründerallianz Ruhr), Felix Schröder (Programmleiter Hands on Data). Unten links nach rechts: Alice Hinzmann (Interim Projektleitung Kommunikation Hands on Data), Kevin Kessler (Start-up Ökosystem Manager Gründerallianz Ruhr), Ciro Del Core (Eventmanager Gründerallianz Ruhr) und Rebekka Bracht (Start-up Ökosystem Managerin Gründerallianz Ruhr). Die HODcon 2022 war dieses Jahr "the place to be" wenn es um die Vernetzung von Expert:innen, Start-ups, Unternehmen und Wissenschaft den Bereichen künstliche Intelligenz, Data Science und Data Engineering geht. Gemeinsam Herausforderungen und mögliche Lösungen besprechen und entwickeln - das wurde in der Rotunde möglich. Spannende Panels-Diskussion zu Diversity in Data mit Stuart Cameron (Uhlala Group), Katharina Schüller (STAT-UP), Viviane Winter (Evonik) und Karim Mustaghni (culturedesign.org).