Recently, I was honored and excited to be invited to the ZENIT “Innovationspreis 2025 / 2026” awards ceremony at ZENIT in Mülheim, NRW. It was an interesting opportunity to check out what else is going on when it comes to innovation outside that of startups in our state.

And the winners were…
1. Studio 47 Stadtfernsehen Duisburg GmbH & Co KG, for their product(s) BotCast & ClipSense for AI supported media production.
2. IANUS Simulation GmbH, for their product ECOTWIN (Dortmund et al)
3. Petanux GmbH, for their product Retail AI System (Bonn)
And the event was graced by the presence and introductory speech of the current minister of innovation and a partridge in a pear tree in NRW – Mona Neubaur.
