It’s coming back to town! The Asia Pacific Week returns back to Berlin this year. It is the 6^th edition of the Asia Pacific Week in Berlin. Every year there are a lot of interesting topics for startups, investors, SMEs, and industries., but several topics will be coming back every year to discuss the newest developments of them. This year is no exception, as Smart Cities, Startup Ecosystems, Innovation, and Digitalization are the main topics that will be discussed during this week. The exact program will follow below, with the exact locations. As like every year there are several different locations with an array of different speakers.

23rd of April – Opening / Embassy Day

ESMT European School of Management and Technology, Schloβplatz 1. 10178 Berlin

The opening will be on the evening of 23^rd April. Various high-ranking representatives from Asia and Germany will be attending the opening event, which will be hosted by artists from all over the world.

Before the opening, the Embassy Day will have already taken place. The embassies will host their own events, mostly business seminars. They will be cooperated by delegations from Asia. All of those seminars will center around the main theme of the Asia Pacific Week.

24^th April Conferences on Digitalization

ESMT European School of Management and Technology, Schloβplatz 1. 10178 Berlin

The second day is the theme Conferences on Digitalization. It’s a very broad topic, that can be categorized into other sub-topics. Different companies will host different subjects. Every company will host the subject they specialize in. We will also be presenting a topic, by giving a presentation about AiRelo with the subject ‘Chatbots and AI making the services of cities smarter’. The AiRelo presentation will take place at 15.00 – 15.15 pm. 

25^th & 26^th April Connecting Startup Cities

Haus Ungarn, Karl-Liebknecht-Straβe 9, 10178 Berlin

Those two days will be themed for the Startup Connecting Cities. The startup audience and speakers will discuss topics like Virtual Reality, FinTech, Internationalization, Hardware, IoT and many other subjects. These days are also very associated with the StartUp AsiaBerlin project.

27^th April Satellite Events

Various locations in Berlin

There will be many satellite events organized on the topics of digitalization and startups. Those events will be hosted by the partner institutions across Berlin.

23^rd – 29^th April Culture Program

Various locations in Berlin

Throughout the whole week, there will be a lot of cultural institutions who are presenting the specific aspects of the culture and society of the Asia Pacific region.

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You are young full of passion and you want to chase your dreams. You want to make your passion your job, you are going to start your own company. But which place is the right place to start your own company? Of course, you need to start in a metropolis but, why don’t you choose a city which is number one in development and innovation? Like Berlin. Berlin is a city with a lot of history and at the same time is a future-oriented city. Berlin is also called ‘Smart City’. If you want to know more about how Berlin earned this title, you can read our blog post ‘Smart City Berlin’.

After the choice is made, you are going to start your company in Berlin. And now? Where do you need to start? How are you going to get a network? and How can you grow as a company? In Berlin, there are plenty of possibilities! I will tell you some suggestions that you can use as a newborn entrepreneur.

Enter to AiRelo

AiRelo is a system that makes easy to register in a new city. It is a multi-language Facebook chatbot which through some next step questions will send you the main files fulfilled in the local language to your mailbox. Start chatting here.

When you are going to Berlin as an entrepreneur, the first challenge you might find is the language barrier, but AiRelo has the solution. Without the need of downloading an App or signing up, you can use AiRelo in your mother tongue and receive all the files in German. Easy! AiRelo helps you with the first steps to settle in Berlin.

If you want more information about it you can find it at airelo.me.

Berlin as the location for your passion

Berlin is a city that had grown a lot in innovation and development. Some places and cities are famous for it and they are popular among new entrepreneurs. For example, Silicon Valley in San Francisco. This is a place with a lot of tech genius. But Berlin is also a growing city, you can even say Berlin is the European Silicon Valley. Berlin has a lot of talent. Most of them are programmers, designers, and community managers. To connect with these talents is important to have a good location with your company.

Kreuzberg is a district in Berlin which is popular for its culture and a lot of young entrepreneurs start their company here. So it’s an advantage for the young entrepreneurs that they can network with and influence each other.

But if your company has still no sufficient budget you can use coworking spaces, famous for their many advantages. If you want to know more about coworking and where to find them in Berlin, this blog will interest you!

Connecting is everything

To start a successful company in a new city and new country is it important to create a trustworthy network. You can read a hundred blogs about Berlin, but you only know how it is really is when you experience it in practice. But then the next question, how do you connect with someone who is an expert? We from Club GLOBALS had thought about that. We connect entrepreneurs. We also try to make the world easier by connecting people with each other. We do that in many ways. Organizing startup events are one of them. In these events we gather different people, from entrepreneurs to investors or business advisors. If you want to take part in these events, join our community!

When you follow these suggestions you are already a step closer to your dream, to make this dream a success. Every beginning is hard, but you have to get through that, as many others did. To never give up is the most important thing to remember as an entrepreneur. Keep going for your passion. And from the hard beginning, you can look to the future. A look to the future where entrepreneurs stand there for each other and help each other grow. Entrepreneurs who stand together for a bigger success.

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