Digital Week Dortmund International 2025 | Wirtschaftsförderung Dortmund

#diwodo is the Digital Week Dortmund which took place for the 9th time from September 1st to 6th, 2025.

As a decentralized digital festival, it attracts thousands of visitors each year to Dortmund companies, institutions, networks, and scientific institutions to jointly talk about digitalization, technologies and innovations.

The Digital Week Dortmund is an offer of the Economic Development Agency Dortmund which provides a platform for the exchange of knowledge and experience, the promotion of innovations and thus the strengthening of the local economy.The event covers a wide range of topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, Smart Cities and much more.

As part of this prestigious event, international delegations from the European Digital Innovation Hubs, visited the city. The distinguished guests used the event for their international working sessions and arrived from:

Albania - NEST (- ADF)

Bulgaria- InnovationAmp

Czech Republic - EDIH-DIGIMAT

Finland - Location Innovation Hub

Kosovo - DIG-4K

Netherlands - EDIH-NN

Poland - Pomeranian Digital Innovation Hub

Poland - WAMA EDIH

Romania - FIT EDIH

Serbia - S4AI_HUB

Spain - PCUV (Parc Científic de la Universitat de València)

Ukraine - WIN2EDIH

In addition, Digital Week Dortmund was proud to welcome a delegation from South Korea as Dortmund is part of the esteemed Global Innopolis Network Initiative.

Furthermore, we were happy to once again welcome guests from Dortmund's twin cities, this year from Kumasi (Ghana), Netanya (Israel)and Xi'an (China).

The University of Applied Sciences and Art also invited their international partner universities to extend their stay after having taken part in an International Summer Convention the week before. Thank you for your time: UDEM from Colombia, Universidad de Antioquia Colombia, Universidad de Medellín, National Institute of Engineering, Mysore, Indien.

International Startups at DIWODO 2025
This year’s event also featured innovative international start-ups from both our DOaccelerate program and a cooperation with GIZ Ghana:

O Games Studio (Ghana)

STEMAIDE Africa (Ghana)

Solis Finance (Ghana)

Naa Sika (Ghana)

MyFig (Ghana)

Rootkey (Portugal)

Peerbie (Turkey)

Patika Robotics (Turkey): our most recent settlement in Dortmund

Acknowledgments
A special thank you goes to all partners who contributed to the event’s success:

Fraunhofer IML

EMC Testlabor

Lamarr