MSC Startup Hub

Im Rahmen der Munich Security Conference (MSC) 2026 launchen Europas führendes Gründer- und Innovationszentrum UnternehmerTUM und die TUM Venture Labs das MSC Startup Hub.

In Gehweite des Bayerischen Hofs kommen eineinhalb Tage lang globale Entscheider, führende Innovatoren, Cutting-Edge-Startups und Top Investoren zusammen.

Hochkarätige Speaker und Gäste diskutieren erstmalig und exklusiv, wie Deep Tech Europa strategisch nützen kann, und wie sich die Kräfte jetzt hierfür bündeln lassen.

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The MSC Startup Hub will take place on Friday and Saturday, February 13–14 2026. In walking distance from the Bayerischer Hof, at the Munich Chamber of Commerce (IHK München), we are introducing a new dedicated platform.

As 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 eleven 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.

Accredited guests of the MSC are cordially invited to participate in the MSC Startup Hub. Please bring your badge with you.

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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.

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Cybersecurity

Autonomous Systems & Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

New Space

Defense Innovation

Security Innovation

Critical Raw Materials

Quantum & Semicon

Infrastructure

Energy & Supply Chain 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.

90' Sessions at IHK with top speakers*

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

Speakers

Francesco Sciortino

CEO and co-founder of Proxima Fusion

Francesco has spent nearly a decade working at the cutting edge of fusion, spanning groundbreaking work on tokamaks during his PhD in plasma physics and fusion energy at MIT and later at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), where he also acted as one of the European coordinators for tokamak research. It was at IPP that Francesco progressively shifted his focus from tokamaks to stellarators, recognizing breakthroughs in stellarator research in 2022 and defining a new path to faster commercialization of fusion energy.

Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg

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

"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.