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Embarking to new horizons

The ZEISS Ventures Day gives you the opportunity to exchange with the ZEISS Ventures portfolio companies, follow exciting keynote speeches, meet internal and external stakeholders, and share experiences around innovation and business building.

Driven by the ambition to build market-shaping innovations, we are determined to expand our horizon and follow various approaches to create innovation. We are convinced, that success requires numerous capabilities and therefore is a team effort. Together, we generate customer value and solutions that make a difference tomorrow. Let us share our knowledge and aspirations!

Event location

Ostertag Events GmbH

Ostertag Events GmbH Ulmerstraße 45 D-73431 Aalen Germany

The strategic agenda of the ZEISS Group, the #agenda25, has three focus fields: shape markets, build networks and create impact for customer success. One of the aspirations is to build and scale new business models that will support ZEISS with shaping markets. To serve this goal and leverage the innovative strength of ZEISS, an innovation ecosystem has been set up consisting of ZEISS Corporate & Research Technology, ZEISS Digital Partners, ZEISS Ventures, and all the strategic business units. It is also supported by many external partners.

Dr. Karl Lamprecht President & CEO – ZEISS Group

Patrons

Dr. Karl Lamprecht, CEO Carl Zeiss AG
Dr. Karl Lamprecht President & CEO ZEISS Group
Boris Hofmann, Head of ZEISS Ventures ZEISS Group
Prof. Dr. Boris Hofmann Head of ZEISS Ventures ZEISS Group

Agenda

ZEISS Ventures Day 2024

16.00 - 16.30 | Check In & Registration

16.30 - 17.00 | Welcome Speech
Dr. Karl Lamprecht, CEO of the ZEISS Group & Prof. Dr. Boris Hofmann, Head of ZEISS Ventures

17.00 - 17.20 | Talk: Beyond Innovation Vehicle
Prof. Dr. Boris Hofmann & Dr. Marcel Röder, Senior Beyond Innovation Program Manager

17.20 - 17.50 | Talk: Spatial Biology as First Beyond Segment Market Field
Dr. Michael Albiez, Head of RMS & Dr. Florian Leiss, Head of Product Strategy & Application

17.50 - 18.20 | Pitches
ZEISS Ventures portfolio companies

18.20 - 18.30 | Closing Speech
Prof. Dr. Boris Hofmann, Head of ZEISS Ventures

18.30 - 19.00 | Drinks & Snacks

19.00 - open end | Start-up Fair & Dinner

Speakers

Dr. Karl Lamprecht, CEO Carl Zeiss AG

Dr. Karl Lamprecht

President & CEO – ZEISS Group

As President and CEO of the ZEISS Group, Dr. Karl Lamprecht oversees Strategic Development, Brand & Communications, Human Resources, Research & Technology and the Venture Board. He is also responsible for the Asia-Pacific region. Dr. Karl Lamprecht has been a Member of the Executive Board of the ZEISS Group since 2018 and its President and CEO since 2020. Prior to this, he was President and CEO of the Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH. After different steps in his career, e.g. as a consultant at McKinsey or as investment director at AdAstra Venture , he joined ZEISS in 2005 as Vice President of Strategic Business Development at the ZEISS Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology AG.

Portrait of Prof. Dr. Boris Hofmann

Prof. Dr. Boris Hofmann

Head of ZEISS Ventures – ZEISS Group

As head of ZEISS Ventures, Boris manages the ZEISS investments in technology-driven start-ups. The mission of ZEISS Ventures is to enable and accelerate the development and commercialization of market shaping innovations between, beyond, and disruptive to current ZEISS strategic business units. It also aims to increase the attractiveness for bright talents by partnering with developers, entrepreneurs, and co-investors who build technology-driven businesses relevant to ZEISS. Boris took over the lead of ZEISS Ventures in 2024 and continued to manage the Beyond Innovation Vehicle. Previously, he worked as Senior Vice President of B. Braun's Innovation Hub & Digital Innovation where be built and managed a corporate venture portfolio.

Portrait of Dr. Marcel Röder

Dr. Marcel Röder

Senior Beyond Innovation Manager – ZEISS Group Beyond Innovation

As a Senior Beyond Innovation Manager, Marcel supports the identification and preparation of upcoming Beyond Fields and is sparring partner for ongoing fields. He drives the development of the Beyond Innovation concept to establish it as a major innovation pillar at ZEISS and to ensure continuity. In his previous role at ZEISS Corporate Development, Marcel was responsible for the development of the Beyond Innovation concept and the preparation of the Executive Board approval to establish the Beyond Innovation Vehicle. Prior to ZEISS, Marcel worked at McKinsey as a management consultant focusing on innovation strategy, pricing, and portfolio optimization.

Portrait of Dr. Michael Albiez

Dr. Michael Albiez

Head of ZEISS Research Microscopy Solutions

ZEISS Research Microscopy Solutions (RMS) provides microscope systems and software and offers application solutions to leading scientists and industrial customers.
Sponsored by Michael Albiez, RMS and Ventures defined Spatial Biology as a potential future strategic field for the ZEISS Group. Over the next three years, the team aims to demonstrate that ZEISS can develop and market a competitive solution for spatial biology comprising reagents, devices, and software in this growth market to contribute to revolutionize cancer treatment based on scientific knowledge. Michael joined ZEISS in 2005, as a development engineer in Strategic Business Unit Nano Technology Solutions. In 2016 Micheal became Head of the Electron Microscopy Product Center. In 2018, he assumed responsibility for Operations at ZEISS Research Microscopy Solutions as Chief Operations Officer and member of the Management Board of Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH.
Since 2019, he has been Head of ZEISS Research Microscopy Solutions.

Portrait of Dr. Dr. Florian Leiß

Dr. Dr. Florian Leiß

Head of Product & Applications, Spatial Biology – ZEISS Group

Florian heads the product & application team in the Beyond Segment Market Field ‘Spatial Biology for Biopharma’. The mission of this initiative is to develop application-centric workflow offerings for tissue multiplexing and for the analysis of 3D human tissue models. To that end, expertise across reagents, instruments, and analytics is combined to develop novel ZEISS offerings for biopharma customers. Previously, Florian held VP roles at Ultivue and Smart Reporting and was Director for Digital Tissue Diagnostics at AstraZeneca.

Exhibitors / ZEISS portfolio ventures

ZEISS Ventures Day 2024
ZEISS Ventures Day 2023

ZEISS Ventures Day 2024

Embarking to new horizons

On October 8, 2024 we welcomed over 190 innovators, business representatives from the ZEISS Group as well as external investors and partners to the ZEISS Ventures Day 2024. It was an inspiring event with exciting keynotes about innovation at ZEISS, and pitches by the ZEISS Ventures portfolio companies.

ZEISS Ventures team

ZEISS Ventures team

Many thanks to everyone who joined and made the ZEISS Ventures Day 2024 a great success. We are looking forward to the ZEISS Ventures Day 2025!


Best regards,
Prof. Dr. Boris Hofmann and the ZEISS Ventures team