August Ortmeyer

WIK Wissenschaftliches Institut für Infrastruktur is a scientific research institute based in Bad Honnef, Germany, with subsidiaries in Germany. WIK conducts research projects in the field of network industries, particularly telecommunications, post, and energy markets. The German company provides consulting services to regulatory authorities, ministries, and organizations at home and abroad. The private company's competencies include economics, regulation, monitoring, technology, and strategy. WIK's work areas include telecommunications markets and infrastructure, digitization and digital transformation, internet and data economics, postal and delivery markets, smart energy and green IT, and digitization in medium-sized companies and municipalities. The company also publishs studies, reports, and a newsletter related to their research areas. WIK is constantly looking for motivated colleagues who are enthusiastic about digital topics and want to face the challenges and opportunities of digital transformation together with them. The company was founded in 1982, and the CEO is Cara Schwarz-Schilling.

Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH (ZEW) is an independent investment research firm headquartered in Mannheim, Germany. Founded in 1990, the firm conducts research in the field of applied and policy-oriented economics and provides national and international research with important data sets via its research data center. They support politicians, companies and administrations at national and European level in overcoming economic policy challenges through in-depth advice. ZEW pursues the economic analysis of functioning markets and institutions in Europe as an overarching research guiding principle. Their main research interests are in the areas of competition and regulation. Methodologically, research at ZEW is based in particular on microeconomic and micro econometric approaches.

Futurium gGmbH is a German company that focuses on the question of how we want to live. The private company is based in Berlin, Germany. Visitors can discover many possible futures, discuss them together in the forum, and try out their own ideas in the Futurium Lab. The CEOs are Stefan Brandt, Nicole Schneider. The company was founded in 2014.