Agenda & Setup
MBA World Summit 2026 – Heilbronn, Germany X TUM
A two-day experience designed to inspire, challenge, and connect the world’s most exceptional MBA students. The Summit blends cultural immersion, high-impact student-led sessions, real-world corporate challenges, and extraordinary networking opportunities. All in one of Europe’s most historic innovation hotspots.
Fundamental Elements
Summit Laboratory Session (SLS)
All attending MBAs get the opportunity to host their own 45-minute experimental lab session — fully self-designed and creatively open. Whether it’s a workshop, lecture, debate, or interactive prototype exercise, the SLS is your platform to share your passion, expertise, and vision.
Participants vote live for the most inspiring SLS, granting one speaker the distinguished Tim Eisenmann Award.
The SLS platform empowers you to spark thought, shift perspectives, and develop concrete ideas that positively impact our world.
Message to the World
The signature highlight is the joint creation of a collective closing statement. All attending MBA students define shared values, ambitions, and actionable proposals. A message disseminated through global education, innovation, and corporate networks.
It stands as a visible commitment by all participants to drive positive change.
Networking
From cultural expeditions to dinners, coffee breaks, lab sessions and after-hours gatherings, the Summit cultivates a family-like atmosphere where genuine friendships and long-term professional partnerships emerge naturally.
Career
The Summit connects you directly with visionary companies. From industry leaders and technology innovators to family-run hidden champions. You’ll meet them not at recruitment booths, but in open, collaborative settings, case sessions, and hands-on workshops.
Case Day
MBAs, entrepreneurs, tech talents, and family businesses collaborate to solve a real corporate challenge.
The objective: deliver immediate value and ideally open long-term opportunities, such as follow-up projects.
Why Heilbronn & IPAI?
Heilbronn is one of Europe’s fastest-growing hubs for applied artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship, and digital innovation. Driven by the vision and investment of the Schwarz Group and the rapidly expanding IPAI (Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence).
The region combines:
– Cutting-edge AI ecosystem
IPAI is becoming one of Europe’s leading AI innovation districts, bringing together startups, corporates, researchers, and tech talent in one collaborative campus.
– Direct access to industry leaders
Heilbronn is home to Schwarz Digital, key partners of the Summit, offering unique behind-the-scenes insights into the digital transformation of Europe’s largest retail group.
– Vibrant, future-driven atmosphere
Rather than historic charm, Heilbronn stands for future readiness: Modern architecture, experimental tech spaces, and an entrepreneurial community focused on real-world impact.
This makes Heilbronn & IPAI the ideal place for the MBA World Summit:
A modern, innovation-first environment where technology, business, and global leadership meet.
What You Take Away
– A powerful international network of inspiring peers and industry leaders
– Hands-on experience solving real challenges with real companies
– Visibility for your ideas through the SLS and Message to the World
– A memorable cultural, intellectual, and entrepreneurial experience in Heilbronn
Suzuki Serina
University of Hong Kong ´22
SLS Topic:
“Empowering Women in Leadership”
Milan 2022
Chloe Burles
London Buinsess School ´21
SLS Topic:
“46 Days in the Desert”
Frankfurt 2021
Jessica C. Harmer
IE Business School ´19
SLS Topic:
„Design Thinking for social innovation“
Sydney 2019
Kasper Hellberg
London Business School ´18
SLS Topic:
“Personal Relationships: Success outside the office”
Cape Town 2018
University of Oxford: Saïd ´17
SLS Topic:
“Dating the Media: the guide to getting your company noticed.”
Berlin 2017
Stanford GSB ´17
SLS Topic:
“The most important discussion you never had in college.”
Miami 2016
Stanford GSB ´15
SLS Topic:
“Learnings from a failed attempt to buy an NBA team: Understanding public-private partnerships through the lens of game theory.”
Barcelona 2015
Stanford GSB ´14
SLS Topic:”
Shaping the World – Start Up or big Business?”
Hong Kong 2014
Message to the World
A highlight of the MBA World Summit is the adoption of a joint closing statement, the “Message to the World.” In this statement, participants express their shared values, visions, and proposed solutions, making a visible commitment to making a positive contribution to the world. This closing statement is not only disseminated to leading education and innovation hubs, but also shared on social media and other communication channels. It serves as a testament to the participants’ commitment to driving positive change in the world.
Networking
During numerous session, lunches, dinners and social events you´ll have the opportunity to meet your peers in a family-like atmosphere, make new friendships and foster life long connections.
Career
Take the opportunity to meet representatives of some of the most inspirational companies in a casual setting with space for open conversations.
Silicon Valley | Stanford
Silicon Valley, located in the heart of California’s bay area, is home to influential tech companies such as Apple, Google, Facebook, and Tesla. Known for its audacious visionaries and groundbreaking innovators who push the boundaries of what is possible Stanford is the perfect place to bring together the 100 most inspiring MBA students from all over the globe.
Surrounded by a stunning landscape and entrepreneurial vibe where creativity and innovation thrive, the symbiotic relationship, with Stanford providing intellectual capital and Silicon Valley offering resources and networks to turn ideas into reality we are forming the “Vision ahead” during our two-day summit.
