- More than 3,000 senior leaders from industry-leading corporates, start-ups, as well as the investment and policy sectors expected in Berlin on 20–21 May 2026.
- The event focuses on key European Deep Tech sectors including advanced materials, energy, defence, manufacturing & robotics, space, and high-performance computing.
- Partners include NATO Innovation Fund,, Vsquared Ventures, Lakestar, BCG, McKinsey, Siemens, SAP, Deutsche Telekom, Airbus Group,, Aumovio, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs, and Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space.
Berlin, 16 April 2026 – Deep Tech Momentum (DTM) 2026 will once again bring together Europe’s leading decision-makers in deep tech and AI in Berlin. As Europe’s largest deep tech and AI innovation marketplace, DTM convenes the key players shaping Europe’s technological future: founders, investors, industry leaders, and policymakers. The focus goes beyond exchange to the concrete execution of financing, partnerships, and the scaling of deep tech innovation across AI, energy, defence, manufacturing & robotics, space, high-performance computing, and advanced materials.
DTM26 puts the operational questions of Europe’s future competitiveness at the centre: from protecting critical underwater infrastructure and cost-efficient drone defence, to space-based situational awareness and humanoid robotics, to the development of a European semiconductor stack, AI-driven digital twins in industry, and the question of why many deep tech start-ups fail.Not because of technology, but because of go-to-market challenges.
With more than 3,000 participants and a highly selective audience DTM is designed for senior decision-makers including C-level executives, leading investors, and Europe’s most promising deep tech start-ups, scale-ups, and unicorns.
DTM26 brings together leading voices from business, policy, and deep tech, including Karsten Wildberger(Federal Minister for Digital Affairs), Dorothee Bär (Federal Minister for Research, Technology and Space), Ben Wallace (Former Minister of State for Security, United Kingdom), Roberto Viola (European Commission), Frank Appel (Deutsche Telekom), Hermann Hauser (Amadeus Capital Partners, co-founder of ARM), Hélène Huby (The Exploration Company), David Reger (Neura Robotics), Markus Pflitsch (Terra Quantum), and Jan Oberhauser (n8n).
The objective is to close the gap between research, capital, and industrial application In doing so DTM26, strengthen Europe’s competitiveness, resilience, and technological sovereignty. This structure has already facilitated more than €500 million in investments and 500+ partnerships in recent years.
At the core of DTM26 are six flagship programmes:
- Guardian Connect — Europe’s Largest Deep Tech & AI Customer Network: 300 senior corporate innovation leaders with active budgets meet Europe’s most promising deep tech builders in a structured, deal-making matchmaking programme.
- Titans of Europe: A curated speaker series showcasing Europe’s leading innovators across key industrial value chains.
- CXO Sovereignty Summit: 50 senior policymakers, founders, and C-suite leaders shaping regulation for faster deep tech commercialisation in Europe, co-hosted with BCG.
- AI Productivity Summit: Enterprise leaders meet Europe’s top AI start-ups to launch collaborations with near-term P&L impact.
- Signals from the Frontline: An invite-only operational forum bringing together NATO armed forces members and Europe’s leading defence primes and neo-primes to translate frontline capability gaps into next-generation defence solutions.
- DTM100 Pitch Competition: Europe’s top 100 early-stage deep tech founders compete before a jury of Tier-1 investors.
Underpinning all of this is DTM’s AI-powered matchmaking programme, which will facilitate 20,000 curated one-to-one meetings over two days — connecting founders with the investors, corporates, and customers most relevant to their growth stage and sector.
“We measure success in contracts signed, pilots launched, and rounds closed — not in panels held or keynotes delivered,” says Isabelle Simon, Co-Founder of Deep Tech Momentum.
“Europe will not achieve sovereignty by publishing strategy papers. It will achieve it when its best Deep Tech & AI founders are in the room with customers with courage and budgets to deploy their technology at scale,”adds Martin Schilling, Co-Founder and CEO of Deep Tech Momentum.
About Deep Tech Momentum
Deep Tech Momentum is Europe’s leading deep tech and AI innovation marketplace, accelerating the commercialisation of breakthrough technologies in Europe. DTM26 takes place on 20–21 May 2026 at Wilhelm Studios Berlin. For more information: www.deeptech.build
