Service User:
Digital Know-how
& Contacts to
Solution Providers
The digitalHUB Aachen service portfolio consists of three basic pillars – Working areas, Matching, as well as Consulting and Training.
CoWorking
User Space – Workplaces in the digitalCHURCH
Make contacts with creative start-ups and IT SMEs (enablers) as well as other solution providers in the digitalCHURCH User Space. Develop your business model further in the inspiring environment of a nave. Hone your ideas or strategies together with digitalisation players. More than 80 flexible computer workstations (flex desks) as well as meeting and conference rooms are waiting for you.
Matching service
More value creation with digital business models
The active matching of users of digital technologies in industry, SMEs and administration on the one hand and suitable young digital companies and IT SMEs on the other is one of our key concerns. Among other things, we promote the further development of your business model with regard to customer centricity and digital value creation. The result is the best possible collaborations, joint ventures, digital start-ups and digital business models in the Aachen Area. In the course of our first year in the digitalCHURCH, we have already been able to initiate over 100 successful matches.
digitalHUB Platform
This central working platform of the digitalHUB Aachen consists of a public and a closed area, which is only accessible to HUB members (“Member Space”). On it you will find all offers, the portfolio and project exchanges, possible cooperation partners for your projects as well as a marketplace with the latest innovations of our members.
Consulting & Training
Our Digital Consulting offers you individual consulting and workshop services to support the digital transformation of your company. This includes conducting potential analyses, developing project ideas and supporting the introduction of digital technologies.
The interactive workshops with impulse lectures, best practice examples and practical exercises convey concrete methods and tools of customer-centred innovation work and digital transformation. You will learn how to further develop your business model and thus master the challenges posed by digitalisation. Workshop topics are:
- #1 Basics of Automation & Digitalisation
- #2 Digital Ways of Working
- #3 Design Thinking Basics
- #4 Digital Value Creation – What Customers Really Want
- #5 Digital Business Model Basics
- #6 Validation of Digital Business Models
These workshops are free of charge for our members (users and enablers from the IT SME sector).
Further information and current dates here.
Workshop series for managing directors and project managers. Together with the Medien-Akademie Ruhr, the digitalHUB Aachen is organising a series of events to provide strategies and practical tips for dealing with the challenges of digitalisation. Our workshops are part of the event series:
- #1 Digital Transformation
- #2 Social Media Marketing
- #3 Agile Working Methods
- #4 Change Management
These workshops are free of charge for our members (users and enablers from the IT SME sector).
Further information and current dates here.
The digitalHUB Aachen, together with GFIU, Dr. Anna Lea Dyckhoff and Thomas Gerstmann, is offering a series of events, some of which are aimed at managing directors and some at marketing managers.
The events will provide up-to-date best practice knowledge on various (strategic and operational) topics of online marketing and sales.
The events have an interactive character. After a lecture on the current fundamentals of the respective topic, we will be happy to discuss participants’ questions. The topics presented are explained and illustrated using concrete examples. The events are designed to provide participants with knowledge about current best practice topics.
Overview of all workshops in the series “The Online Marketing and Sales Essentials – Everything Your Digital Growth Needs”:
- #1 The 1×1 of Online Marketing and Sales for Decision Makers – – what every Managing Director needs to know
- #2 B2B Online Marketing and Sales – Successfully convincing other companies online
- #3 Basics of Search Engine Optimisation – – How new prospects and customers find us on the Internet
- #4 Basics of Google Ads – Generating profitable traffic, leads and sales online
- #5 UX Strategies and Data-driven Decision Making – Understanding and reaching customers and prospects in the digital age
- #6 Usability Optimisation – How to design my mobile web presence
- #7 Online Marketing Tools – How do I build a smart “Online Marketing Tech Stack” and which tools can I use?
These workshops are free of charge for our members (users and enablers from the IT SME sector).
Further information and current dates here.
Event formats
Our diverse event formats offer you the opportunity to talk to creative solution providers for your current challenges, to make contacts, to find possible collaboration partners or to inform yourself about current developments. Check our Event calendar regularly or subscribe to our Newsletter to ensure that you don’t miss anything!
Meet the Start-ups!
SMEs meet start-ups for exchange and networking. Selected start-ups presented their business models. This way you can learn first-hand about concrete new business ideas, products as well as disruptive and digital innovations in your industry and discuss them with entrepreneurs, start-ups and experts. The event is organised in cooperation with the Aachen Entrepreneurship Team.
Executive Fireside Chats
Informal meetings in a small circle on a specific topic in a particularly personal atmosphere. They facilitate a particularly fruitful dialogue. Are you a member company? Suggest “your” topic!
atec the digital conference
The atec is an interdisciplinary innovation conference that the RWTH Innovation GmbH (formerly the Transfer- und Gründerzentrum [Transfer and Business Incubation Centre] of RWTH Aachen University) has been organising together with the digitalHUB since 2017.
ComeTogether of the members
Informal meetings in a small circle on a specific topic in a particularly personal atmosphere. They facilitate a particularly fruitful dialogue. Are you a member company? Suggest “your” topic!
Pitch Stages
Regularly organised pitch stages give enablers (start-ups and IT SMEs) the opportunity to present their ideas, products and concepts to investors and users in an open format.
Specialised lectures
The digitalHUB organises various lectures and discussion forums on current trends and issues ranging from artificial intelligence to blockchain technology and digital culture. Check our Event calendar regularly or subscribe to our Newsletter to ensure that you don’t miss anything!
Job portal
Find the right talent for your projects!
The central Job Portal is part of the digitalHUB platform. The Job Portal contains job offers from members of the digitalHUB Aachen as well as job and expert applications that are only accessible to our members.
