MSC Startup Hub

For the very first time, the world’s leading forum for security policy comes along with a dedicated stage for technology and innovation: The MSC Startup Hub.

As official MSC partners, UnternehmerTUM and TUM Venture Labs welcome global decision-makers and leading innovators, together with cutting-edge start-ups, to address technological solutions for the geopolitical challenges in these pivotal times.

Dedicated Platform

Sessions

50+

Top Speakers

The MSC Startup Hub will take place on Saturday, February 14, 2026. In walking distance from the Bayerischer Hof, and with kind support of IHK München and Oberbayern, we are introducing a new platform.

In our concept of Europe’s Leading Startup Hub and Innovation Center, we gather a curated selection of top speakers and guests. High-level thought leaders from politics, industry, academia, and the international deep tech and startup ecosystem will shed light on technologies shaping global independence.

Our two days program features ten sessions, and a series of exclusive roundtable talks on the key topics such as autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, energy security, health and biotechnology, critical raw materials, New Space, and semiconductors.

By launching the MSC Startup Hub, UnternehmerTUM and TUM Venture Labs are bringing together todays’ crucial ingredients; transatlantic forces are uniquely pooled to promote independence, resilience, and long-term competitiveness worldwide.

Key Topics

Agenda

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At MSC Startup Hub, we bring founders, investors, and industry leaders together to tackle mission‑critical challenges. By turning Europe’s deep‑tech strengths into scalable solutions, we strengthen resilience, prosperity, and freedom.

Deep dives into …

Cybersecurity

Autonomous Systems

Artificial Intelligence

New Space

Defense Innovation

Security Innovation

Critical Raw Materials

HighTech Agenda

Semiconductors

Energy Resilience

Health & Biotech

In the TUM Venture Labs we enable our NextGen to have an impact in this world through building and scaling deeptech-based entities. We form the 'machine room' of European (Tech) Sovereignty. At the MSC Startup Hub we forge and harden the crucial alliances required to reach this goal.

Agenda

10 Sessions, 90 min each ...*

9:00 am - Opening
9:30 am - Autonomous Systems
9:30 am - Critical Raw Materials
11:30 am - Artificial Intelligence
11:30 am - HighTech Agenda
1:30 pm - New Space
1:30 pm - Energy Resilience
3:00 pm - Semiconductors
3:30 pm - Defense Innovation
3:30 pm - Energy Resilience
5:30 pm - Security Innovation
5:30 pm - Health & Biotech

*Preliminary schedule

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Diplomacy and entrepreneurship share much common ground. Both are enabling professions at the heart of global prosperity and stability and both depend on individual performance and functioning networks. As global security dynamics and rapid technological change push both professions even closer together, we have teamed up with Europe's most successful start up incubator UnternehmerTUM to host a unique platform for policymakers and innovators at the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference 2026. We believe that this addition to our existing high-level formats will help to advance crucial debates on many key issues such as resilience, economic security, and defence technology.

Already part of the very first MSC Startup Hub ...

Francesco Sciortino

Co-Founder and CEO of the European fusion energy startup Proxima Fusion

“The MSC Startup Hub creates a necessary space where security, technology, and entrepreneurship meet at eye level. At a time of accelerating geopolitical competition and technological disruption, Europe’s ability to translate scientific excellence into scalable industrial solutions is becoming a core security issue. Bringing policymakers and founders together in this setting helps ensure that innovation is not an afterthought of security policy, but one of its central pillars.”

Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg

German politician, entrepreneur, and advisor

“Europe needs technological sovereignty — one of the central drivers of our economic strength and societal progress. To secure its future, Europe must become digitally more independent, invest boldly, and advance innovation with clear strategic intent.”

Peter Leibinger

President of the Federation of German Industries (BDI)

"Germany’s industrial strength will increasingly be defined by how fast we translate DeepTech innovation into strategic capability. The MSC Startup Hub aligns startups, industry, and political leaders to turn innovation into real capacity - at speed and at scale."

The MSC Startup Hub shows how closely economic strength, technological innovation, and resilience are linked. At the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Munich, innovation meets entrepreneurial spirit. By bringing together startups, investors, established companies, and policymakers we join forces. The MSC Startup Hub turns Europe’s deep-tech excellence into scalable business models and sends a clear signal for competitiveness and economic security.