Germany doesn't have an innovation problem. It has a visibility problem.
“Why don't we hear about any AI models coming out of Germany?”
A friend in the US asked me that while I was travelling. My first instinct was to defend Germany — this has been my home for 15 years, and I know what's being built here. Then it clicked. He wasn't wrong. He just had no way of hearing about any of it. It's all in German.
The founders, researchers, investors and industrial leaders doing the serious work tell their stories in German — on German podcasts, in regional media, at industry events. The world hears that America innovates, China scales and Europe regulates. It doesn't hear this.
So the conversations happen in English.
An honest hour with the people building Germany's future — starting with AI, because that's where the gap is loudest right now. Not a pitch, not a panel, not a press release. What they're building, what's holding it back, and where they came from.
Who's in the room
AI and deep-tech founders, researchers, investors, policymakers, industry and business leaders.
Not just AI people. Anyone shaping what Germany builds next.
Who it's for
An English-speaking audience of entrepreneurs, investors, business leaders and people following the German economy — the people who would never find these stories in German.
Who's asking
Saurabh Sharma. Fifteen years in Germany, a background in data analytics and fund management, one company built and sold, three more running. Indian origin, German home, and a habit of asking the question everyone in the room is thinking. Recording from Bonn.
Or point me to someone who should.