Connection, not lecture
We don’t put what we know on a stage. We bring people into small groups where real exchange happens.
Bridge Hub connects.
Celebrating Circular Champions.
Together we build the bridge between the real and the digital world. With Bridge Hub we create a space where innovation, sustainability, and genuine togetherness aren’t buzzwords — but lived practice.
Digitalization pragmatists Workplace shapers Circular pioneers Resource owners Finance jugglers Visionaries Shapers
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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.
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.
01
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.
02
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.
03
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.
04
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 haveLjnk · Martin Fiedler
How dormant stock moves again — and who benefits from it.
- 2
Furniture across the life cycle
ResponsibilityVitra · Michael Hermann
When does a piece of furniture become more than an object? A voice from design in conversation.
- 3
The circular economy, concretely
CircularityCIRI · 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
TrustTelekom
Why sound decisions need an infrastructure you can rely on.
- 2
What a CFO really looks at
ValueOptiThinQ · Yves Bruchner
The metrics that decide whether stock becomes value again.
- 3
From gut feeling to decision
Decisionseventhings
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, two satellites.
Bridge Hub Dresden is the heart of it. In Dortmund and Munich we bring the spirit to the metro regions as smaller evenings — 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.
Bridge Hub on Tour
For everyone who takes resources seriously.
3
Stations
2
Hours
20
Workplace & facility leads
Three stations, two hours, 20 workplace and facility leads – no slides, no pitch, just the questions that really matter day to day.
Digitalization pragmatists Workplace shapers Circular pioneers Resource owners
Smaller satellite evenings in the metro regions. Three stations, 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.
Evening event
Bridge Hub on Tour · Dortmund
June 10, 2026 · from 5:30 pm
Showroom projekt//partner storeR
Schmiedingstraße 29, 44137 Dortmund
Evening event
Bridge Hub on Tour · Munich
June 11, 2026 · from 5:30 pm
Showroom projekt//partner storeR
Hirschgartenallee 27, 80639 München
Bridge Hub on Tour is part of the community around ciri.green.
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