Dr. Matthias Brendel – Your speaker for market-changing innovations
Discover how inspiration, practical relevance and genuine impetus for change can enrich your event:
When you book Dr Matthias Brendel as a speaker, your audience can expect far more than a traditional talk. They will embark on a captivating journey through the world of innovation, sustainability and technology – well-founded, easy to understand and immediately applicable. Dr Brendel brings 18 years of experience to the stage as an innovator within the automotive group, as the founder of the multi-award-winning Audi Denkwerkstatt, and as a successful AI entrepreneur. His talks are tailor-made, practical and full of energy.
Dr. Matthias Brendel Lecture topics
- Sustainable Innovation:
The future will be sustainable or not at all. How to transform markets and future-proof your business through digital and sustainable innovation.
- Innovation in large corporations and start-ups:
What you can learn from one another – and how to unleash innovative potential in a targeted way.
- AI in the footwear industry: Measuring feet, making shoes fit:
An entertaining and practical insight into how artificial intelligence ensures greater sustainability and comfort.
What your audience will experience and take away:
- Exclusive insights and real-world examples:
Dr. Brendel takes your guests behind the scenes of market-changing projects – from revolutionising engine technology within a major corporation to the digital transformation of the footwear industry through artificial intelligence.
- Sustainable inspiration for the future:
He demonstrates how technology can make a tangible contribution to solving current challenges and how companies and individuals can successfully implement sustainable innovations.
- Interactive inspiration:
Complex topics are conveyed in a tangible and motivating way through storytelling, vivid demonstrations and dialogue with the audience.
- Motivation for change:
Your guests will leave the talk with new perspectives, a fresh drive to take action and concrete ideas on how they themselves can drive innovation and sustainability.
Your added value as an organiser:
- Tailor-made content for your target audience and your event
- First-hand experience: 18 years of practical innovation – from large corporations to start-ups
- Inspiration that makes a difference: Proven success factors and tools for sustainable transformation
- Long-term inspiration: Talks that provide lasting impetus for thought and action beyond the moment
What people say about Dr Matthias Brendel:
“Dr. Brendel manages to convey even complex concepts in a way that is both understandable and inspiring. Our audience was enthusiastic and motivated to explore new avenues.”
– Event organiser
“His innovative drive and experience are impressive. The ideas from his talk continue to resonate long afterwards.”
– Participant feedback
Awards & media coverage:
- “Young Elite – Top 40 under 40” (Capital, 2019)
- Appointment to the Senate of Economy Europe (2022)
- Media: brand eins, Business Punk, Capital, Stern, Berliner Morgenpost and many more
Who is Dr. Matthias Brendel?
Dr Matthias Brendel studied environmental engineering at the University of Bayreuth and obtained his PhD from the Technical University of Munich with a thesis on CO₂ reduction in petrol engines. At MIT, he earned an Executive Certificate in “Strategy and Innovation”.
His goal: to use technology to create a more sustainable world.
Early in his career, he used AI to optimise a 130-year-old efficiency concept for internal combustion engines and brought it to market – one of the largest engine projects in the German automotive industry. Following the establishment of the Audi Denkwerkstatt in 2016, he was responsible for developing digital and sustainable business models within the group.
As the founder of Footprint Technologies, he developed AI-based solutions for foot measurement and shoe recommendations that reduce return rates in online retail and make the equipment of large organisations such as the police and military more efficient. His latest start-up produces customised, sustainable trainers for B2B clients – once again setting new standards in innovation and sustainability.
Make your event a catalyst for sustainable innovation!
Book Dr. Matthias Brendel and offer your audience an experience that inspires, motivates and leaves a lasting impact.