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A series of short interviews with

Dirk Lueth | Founder of Upland.me

on the beauty of Metaverse(s), and applications for NFT and Blockchain in the Entertainment Industry

https://www.upland.me

Nils Wollny | Founder holoride

SXSW 2021 Pitch Finalists

on turning vehicles into moving theme parks

holoride takes everyday journeys and transforms them into hyper-immersive experiences by combining navigational and car data with XR.

https://www.holoride.com

Lutz Leichsenring | Founder Nighttime.org & Vibelab

On a Global Nightime Recovery Plan for cities and communities exploring strategies for the reopening of creative industries & night-time economies.

https://www.nighttime.org/recoveryplan/

https://vibe-lab.org

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This interview series is part of the 2021 Digital Edition of Lufthansa FlyingLab in cooperation with german.innovation.

https://www.flyinglab.aero/en/sxsw2021/

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The Lufthansa FlyingLab Team is delighted to partner with german.innovation at this year’s SXSW Online festival. Together we will present talks and companies that are exploring the new ways emerging in Sustainability, Data, and Smart Travel.

Primarily a music and film venue in its early years, SXSW has grown to encompass society’s digital evolution. It is the place where creative minds gather to visualize the future. Lufthansa Innovations has shared in that vision since 2012. In 2017, the first Lufthansa FlyingLab flight dedicated to SXSW took place, bringing together people from the spheres of art, music, and technology.

In March 2020, the now annual SXSW FlyingLab flight was cancelled just days before take-off because of the growing COVID-19 pandemic. Our connected world suddenly felt very disconnected.

Over the past year, the FlyingLab Team has been able to regroup at the FlyingLab Factory, a space designed for collaborative work. We have rethought existing projects, leading to new perspectives on how we can reconnect.

What have we learned? The pandemic has taught us that the isolation necessary to protect everyone’s health does not mean that we stop expressing ourselves. It has proven that creative collaboration flourishes and big ideas are born even at a distance. It has thrown us headfirst into the opportunities that digitalization opens up.

But perhaps most importantly, the pandemic made us aware of something taken for granted in the past: that creativity is carved and polished into a tangible experience only when we gather together in one place.

On behalf of the FlyingLab Team, we look forward to the day when our collaboration is shared in person again: at cruising altitude and on the ground in Austin at SXSW, the global event most receptive to new ways of experiencing the world.

You will receive the link for the online event in time.