screenshot taken from: https://www.waku-robotics.com/de
When
Tuesday, 17th February 2026, 8:30pm to 11:30pm
Where
Bärenzwinger, Brühlscher Garten 1, Dresden, Germany
Hosting Organization
Dresden DeepTech Connect
Participation Fee
Free Entrance
Agenda
Host Intro, Initial Pitch, Open Microphone for Other Pitches, Socializing
Topics Covered
DeepTech Connect Meetup Series For Professionals With Economics And Engineering Backgrounds (Host Intro), The Journey & Evolution Of A Serial Founder In Tech (Initial Pitch), No Volunteers At This Meetup (Open Microphone for Other Pitches)
I’ve learned something today
- Street smartness is essential to entrepreneurship because building a company requires both sharp instinct and grittiness in uncertain markets. It means understanding what customers truly value, validating it directly instead of building in a vacuum, and being able to sell a product that is not fully built yet.
- For anyone building a startup where sales determines survival, Demand-Side Sales 101: Stop Selling and Help Your Customers Make Progress (2020) by Bob Moesta and Greg Engle is a must read. The book reframes sales as helping customers make meaningful progress rather than pushing features, making it both more effective and far more human.
- The Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) theory proposes that customers do not simply purchase products or services. They hire them to accomplish specific goals in particular circumstances. At its core, the theory shifts the focus away from demographics or product features and toward the progress a person is trying to make in their lives.
- SQDC stands for Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost, and is a visual management framework used to track daily performance across these four critical dimensions. It is especially relevant to long infrastructure projects because it provides continuous visibility into operational health, helping teams detect issues early, maintain safety and quality standards, control timelines, and manage costs over extended project lifecycles.
- According to a 2016 SPIEGEL article, authorities raided 16 private apartments and the offices of the dating app company Lovoo in Dresden, resulting in two arrests. The suspects were accused of commercial fraud for allegedly using fake profiles to deceive users.
- In an online article by Industriemagazin, Viktor Splittgerber of Waku Robotics describes 2025 as a turning point in robotics driven by physical AI and Vision-Language-Action models that enable robots to generalize behavior beyond rigid, rule-based automation. He argues that this technological shift is transforming logistics by moving the industry toward adaptive, context-aware systems capable of interpreting situations and dynamically adjusting their actions.
- Although Dresden’s city center was stunningly beautiful, marching through the snowstorm and having snow blown straight into the face was quite a challenge:
picture taken close to venue
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