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                                   NEW REALITIES - FUTURE OF WORK, FUTURE OF LIFE

     Handelsblatt and McKinsey award top innovators and bring them together with renowned business leaders.
     The Spark provides drivers of the digital revolution with the chance to present themselves on the big stage.
    The perfect award for startups, whose ideas have the potential to cause ground-breaking changes within the
industry. You will not only have the chance to present your ideas to a prominent jury and high-caliber guests, but also
                               get in touch with other proponents of the digital revolution.

 This year we focus on concepts within the field of new realities, which focus on humans, their work and their daily
   environment: from virtual and augmented reality to voice and gesture control as well as innovative and virtual
 training solutions. Business ideas which offer an innovative, scalable concept and have already been successfully
                                              tested in a business context.

                                               Our evaluation criteria:                                             jury session
                                                                                                                  September 30th
                                                                                                    application
                                                                                                      period
                                                                                                  April 1st until
                                                                                                 June 30th 2019

                               FIND OUT WHAT THE SPARK OFFERS                                                award ceremony
                                                                                                             November 21st
                                              … on the following pages.
INFORMATION FOR APPLICANTS 2019 - APPLY NOW - Handelsblatt
YOUR BENEFITS
                                                  AS THE SPARK FINALIST

                Finalist ad                                                                 Networking with
             in Handelsblatt                                                               The Spark Alumni

Presentation on                                                                                              Coaching for the
the-spark.de                                                                                                 jury session

                                        Personal contact and
                                          exchange with this                                                     Integration at an
Press coverage of     Finalist icon      year‘s experts of The                             Presentation at      exclusive McKinsey
 The Spark – The        for own               Spark Jury           Presentation of your       The Spark          Conference with
 German Digital     marketing efforts                              business idea at the      Roadshow             more than 1.000
      Award                                                      award ceremony in front                              guests.
                                                                    of 300 high-caliber
                                                                     decision makers
INFORMATION FOR APPLICANTS 2019 - APPLY NOW - Handelsblatt
YOUR BENEFITS
                                      AS THE SPARK WINNER

                                                            Recognition at the award
                                                             ceremony in front of
                                                               300 high-caliber guests
Eye-catching congratulation
   ad in the Handelsblatt                                                         Animated clip featuring the
                                                                                      winner company

               Trophy – The Spark
                                                                   Winner icon for own
                                                                   marketing efforts
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SELECTION PANEL
                                                              NOMINATION COMMITTEE 2019

In the nomination stage the applications are evaluated by external subject experts, the Handelsblatt editorial team
  and a representative of McKinsey. Our three evaluation criteria also form the basis of the evaluation at this stage.
                 At the end of the nomination, the ten finalists for The Spark 2019 are determined.

                                                     The experts for the nomination in 2019 are:

 MICHAEL DOWLING                      ALOIS KNOLL                     ANDREA REXER            NIKO MOHR     ULI ERXLEBEN
Professor for Innovation and    Director of the An-Institut of the   HANDELSBLATT - Head of    Partner at      Founder
 Technology Management,          Technischen Universität Fortiss     department company &      McKinsey     SMACC & Hypatos
University of Regensburg and      GmbH and of the Graduate                  markets
Chairman of the Board of the   School of Information Science in
      Münchener Kreis                    Health (GSISH)
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SELECTION PANEL
                                                        THE JURY 2019

All finalists will be invited to the jury session in Düsseldorf on September 30th. There, the finalists personally present their
              innovation to the jury members and are judged by them on the basis of the evaluation criteria.

CHRISTIAN SCHLÖGEL            SVEN AFHÜPPE              CORNELIUS BAUR       ANN-KRISTIN ACHLEITNER                FREDERIK BRANTNER
   Chief Digital Officer        Editor-in-chief                Head of         Scientific Director of the Center       CEO Magazino
         Körber                 Handelsblatt              McKinsey Germany         for Entrepreneurial and         Winner of The Spark 2018
                                                                                   Financial Studies (CEFS),
                                                                               Technische Universität München

                                                        more to follow
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AWARD CEREMONY 2019
                                               FOCUS ON NEW REALITIES

     On November 21st, the winners will be announced at the glamorous award ceremony in Berlin in front of a
knowledgeable audience of decision makers from business, media and politics. In addition to the winners, the finalists,
                        as well as relevant new realities topics will be presented on stage.

                                                                                           November 21st
                                                                                              BERLIN
                                                                                                    Station Berlin
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THE SPARK 2018
    REVIEW
INFORMATION FOR APPLICANTS 2019 - APPLY NOW - Handelsblatt
10 FASCINATING FINALISTS

ENWAY                        FAIRFLEET            KEWAZO            MAGAZINO            MEDINEERING             METRALABS

„A great opportunity to
  present ourselves to
such a high-class jury.“
        Ekaterina Grib
    Co-Founder KEWAZO
 and finalist of The Spark 2018
                                          MICROPSI
                                                           QUANTUM SYSTEMS     REACTIVE ROBOTICS      VINCENT SYSTEMS
                                         INDUSTRIES
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1 HIGH-QUALITY JURY SESSION
3 OUTSTANDING WINNERS

MAGAZINO                               VINCENT SYSTEMS                              QUANTUM-SYSTEMS

       „The Spark enables us to follow up with the next round of financing!“
                Florian Seibel – CEO Quantum Systems and winner of The Spark 2018
1 AWARD CEREMONY WITH 300 GUESTS
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                                        NEW REALITIES - FUTURE OF WORK, FUTURE OF LIFE

            Apply now and complete our online form until the 30th of June, you can find it on the-spark.de.
                             The application will not take more than 10-12 minutes.

                                                          Conditions of Participation:

Those eligible to participate are young companies from the DACH region (Germany, Austria & Switzerland), which have established business
models on the market, and which employ the potential of “New realities – future of work, future of life”. The innovation should fulfill the three
        evaluation criteria of disruptiveness, scalability and impact. The number of employees in the company may not exceed 500.

 The nomination as a finalist will involve the personal participation of a member of your management at the jury session on September 30th,
                including a pre-coaching from an expert and the participation at the award ceremony on November 21st.
                                       Applicants who are not able to attend in person will be disqualified.

                  WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR APPLICATION
SUCCESS-STORIES
LATEST SUCCESS STORIES OF PREVIOUS THE SPARK WINNERS AND FINALISTS

                      KONUX, The Spark winner 2016
               In February 2019, KONUX raised further USD 13 million
                   in an extension of its Series B financing round,
                   bringing the total amount raised in its Series B
                         financing round to USD 33 million.

        Octimine, The Spark finalist 2017
     In November 2018 the innovative provider of
   semantic patent search services was acquired by
                Dennemeyer Group.

                   relayr, The Spark winner 2016
                   In September 2018, the company,
                     valued at USD 300 million, was
                        acquired by Munich Re.
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                     Your contact for questions
                          Antonia Kummer
                     project lead Handelsblatt
telephone 0211 8 87-1769 | e-Mail a.kummer@handelsblattgroup.com
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