Bridge Hub connects.
Celebrating Circular Champions.

Welcome to BridgeHub – the networking event series for future-proof workspaces. No lecturing, no pitch. We bring workspace shapers, digital pragmatists, and circular pioneers to one table to figure out together how to work more sustainably with what we already have. Learn how to make your physical assets digitally visible so you can make smarter, resource-saving decisions every day. Look forward to real exchange among peers – at our Dresden office or regionally on tour.

What it’s about:

Optimized space usage Digitalization in workspace & facility Visibility into your asset base Automating inventory processes Extending usage cycles ROI assessment & measurement setup Steering transformation in companies

Who you’ll meet:

Digitalization pragmatists Workplace shapers Circular pioneers Resource owners Finance jugglers Visionaries Shapers

Grab your spot → Attendance is free of charge.

On Tour

What is Bridge Hub?

A place where thinking happens differently.

Bridge Hub is an independent community that brings together people who rarely meet: research and industry, design and economics, science and practice. We create connection — and we celebrate everyone who uses resources more wisely instead of wasting them.

Connection, not lecture

We don’t put what we know on a stage. We bring people into small groups where real exchange happens.

Contradictions as material

Kitchen robot and cuisine. Double bass and electronica. Research and everyday business. The most exciting idea grows out of the apparent opposite.

Together, not alone

No one solves the circular economy alone. Bridge Hub is the space where champions find each other, learn from one another, and move forward together.

The Bridge Hub principle

We create connection where no one expects it.

The strongest moments emerge where two worlds collide. That is exactly the identity of Bridge Hub.

Robotics meets Plate

What does lunch have to do with automation? Everything.

Bass meets Beats

Someone who usually performs at the Elbphilharmonie plays for us tonight — double bass meets electronica.

Research meets Everyday

What happens when a university and a company try to solve the same problem?

Mission

Together against resource waste.

We believe the most important answers emerge in conversation — not in presentation. Three questions carry through the day and structure the discourse. Not theory, but figuring it out together.

What we have

How do we work more sustainably with what we already have?

Making a piece of furniture more than an object. Who takes responsibility for the next life cycle — and how does what already exists move again?

Shared language

What emerges when research, industry, and designers speak the same language?

When science and everyday business sit in the same room, what’s possible shifts. That encounter is exactly what we want.

Decisions

Why does the circular economy need no new objects — but better decisions?

The circular economy doesn’t begin in a sustainability report, but in the many small decisions about what is already here.

Bridge Hub Dresden is open to everyone who wants to advance workplace, circular economy, and a better way of handling resources.

Contrasts, live

Where two worlds collide.

Across the day, four moments make the Bridge Hub principle tangible: out of every apparent contradiction grows a conversation that would never happen without it.

What does lunch have to do with automation? Everything.

Lunch from the kitchen robot

Mana Robotics

Automation isn’t explained, it’s served — robotics meets plate, in the middle of the day.

What happens when a university and a company try to solve the same problem?

recAIcle: AI-driven circular economy

TU Dresden · Institute of Machine Engineering

A joint research project as a bridge between science and application.

What does the room where we think differently look like?

Innovative workspace design

FH Dresden · Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marius Brade

The scientific view on the place where encounter happens in the first place.

Double bass meets electronica. Someone who usually performs at the Elbphilharmonie plays for us tonight.

Bass meets beats

Evening program · Live

Classical and electronic beats merge — the contrast becomes the finale of the day.

The exchange

Small groups, real conversations.

In the waves, no one sits in the audience. Everyone brings experience from their own working day — and that is the material of the day. In small groups, conversations form around real objects, where partners aren’t speakers but voices in the discourse.

Wave 1

Working with what is already here

For everyone who deals with spaces, furniture, and fittings: how do we keep what we have in value and in circulation for longer?

1

Spaces in motion
What we have

Ljnk · Martin Fiedler

How dormant stock moves again — and who benefits from it.
2

Furniture across the life cycle
Responsibility

Vitra · Michael Hermann

When does a piece of furniture become more than an object? A voice from design in conversation.
3

The circular economy, concretely
Circularity

CIRI · Thilo Weinland

How resources stay actively in circulation — beyond the sustainability report.

Wave 2

Making better decisions

For everyone with economic responsibility: what foundations do we need to decide more wisely about what we have?

1

Data you can trust
Trust

Telekom

Why sound decisions need an infrastructure you can rely on.
2

What a CFO really looks at
Value

OptiThinQ · Yves Bruchner

The metrics that decide whether stock becomes value again.
3

From gut feeling to decision
Decision

seventhings

How many individual objects become a foundation for good decisions.

Program

Run of Show — June 25, 2026

From midday into the evening: opening, two waves, impulses, a wine tasting, and a musical finale where classical and electronic beats merge.

11:00 – 11:50

Arrival & opening

Welcome, welcome package, and an easy start to the conversation.
12:00 – 13:30

Wave 1

Working with what is already here. With Vitra, Ljnk, and CIRI.
13:30

Lunch by Mana

Automation isn’t explained, it’s served — robotics meets plate.
14:30 – 16:00

Wave 2

Making better decisions. With Telekom, OptiThinQ, and seventhings on AI topics.
from 16:00

Deep dive & conversation formats

Open topic tables and relaxed togetherness.
from 18:00

Evening: dinner & musical finale

Double bass meets electronica — electronic music with live accompaniment. Open ending.

Voices in the discourse

Who shapes the day with us.

Our partners aren’t on a stage but in the middle of the conversation. They bring perspectives from design, economics, research, and practice — and make the exchange possible in the first place.

Vitra

Design & life cycle

Ljnk

Spaces & workplace

CIRI

Circular economy

Telekom

Data & infrastructure

OptiThinQ

Economics & KPIs

Mana Robotics

Robotics & cuisine

TU Dresden

Topic spot · recAIcle

FH Dresden

Topic spot · workspace design

Schreiner Group

Smart labels & solutions

The dates

One core event & regional after-work events.

Bridge Hub Dresden is the heart of it. In cities like Dortmund, Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, and Frankfurt we bring the spirit to the metro regions as smaller after-work events — same stance, same questions, compact format.

The core event

Bridge Hub Dresden

June 25, 2026

The full day: two waves, impulses at the intersection of research, robotics, and design, a wine tasting, and a musical finale. This is where the community comes together.

The after-work format for future-proof workspaces

For everyone who takes resources seriously.

Stations

Hours

Workplace & facility leads

Enough vague theory. Bridge Hub On Tour is the regional after-work event for every workplace and facility lead who wants to make things happen. Learn hands-on how the digital twin lets you digitalize all asset-related processes, maximize the ROI of your asset base, optimize space usage, and extend usage cycles. Together we cut resource waste and create workspaces with a future. Share your experience and meet inspiring people and initiatives.

Digitalization pragmatists Workplace shapers Circular pioneers Resource owners

Three stations, two hours, 20 leads – a compact format, the same stance.

Time

How do processes that take days today shrink to minutes? From the damage report to the handover – live on the object, not on a slide.

Depth

How detailed does object data have to be for the circular economy to work day to day? Not in the sustainability report. In real operations.

Value

Where are the 5–10% of idle fixed assets in your company – and how do you turn them back into value? We run the numbers.

Bridge Hub on Tour is part of the community around ciri.green.

On Tour

Meet us in your region

Dortmund, Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt – we’re coming to the metro regions. Tell us where you’d like to join, and we’ll be in touch as soon as a date near you is set.

Dortmund Munich Hamburg Berlin Frankfurt

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