{"title": "HEIPowered Startup Pitch Competition", "start": "2026-11-08T10:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T12:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House, Tsukamoto Café", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/business/entrepreneurship/startups", "science/science-policy"], "description": "At the HEIPowered Startup Pitch Competition, five promising startups pitch their innovative solutions to real-world challenges to a jury. The event is run by the EIT Higher Education Initiative and EIT Urban Mobility. The winners can take home a prize of up to €15,000 – five startups, three winners, one stage. 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The session on this date deals with idea validation — testing what is really needed — with Dr. Katharina Feldmann as the speaker.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/entrepreneurinnenbht-13015/", "official_url": "https://www.bht-berlin.de/item/cal/event/detail/2026/10/13/515", "image": ""}, {"title": "Accelerating Translation: Innovations to Patients", "start": "2026-11-07T10:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T11:30:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/biomedicine"], "description": "\"Accelerating Translation: Innovations to Patients\" is an event of the Falling Walls series at the Falling Walls Science House, by invitation only. Behind it is the M1 - Munich Medicine Alliance; it is about how biomedical innovations can reach patients faster. Leaders from science, healthcare, industry and policy explore models, partnerships and infrastructures that accelerate translation and strengthen patient impact at scale. The event takes place as an Executive Table in the Newton Room and is held in English.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/accelerating-translation-innovations-to-patients-72440/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/accelerating-translation-innovations-patients-invitation-only", "image": ""}]}